Section 13.31. Disposition of moneys and securities

(a)  The  commissioner,  or  the  officer  or  employee  of the office
  designated by him, shall:
    1. Receive and turn over to the comptroller for liquidation all bonds,
  notes, mortgages, trust funds,  and  other  securities  and  obligations
  belonging   to  the  office  of  mental  retardation  and  developmental
  disabilities or any subdivision thereof, except such as  may  have  come
  into  the  possession  of  the said office or any subdivision thereof on
  account of or for the payment of charges for the care, maintenance,  and
  treatment  after  January first, nineteen hundred sixty-four of patients
  at those mental hygiene facilities as defined in section  three  of  the
  facilities development corporation act which are under his jurisdiction,
  in  which  case  the  same  shall  be turned over to the commissioner of
  taxation and finance as agent for the facilities development corporation
  for liquidation, and he shall have the authority to  transfer  all  such
  securities and evidences of indebtedness and to execute on behalf of the
  office  of  mental  retardation and developmental disabilities or any of
  its facilities or the facilities development corporation a  satisfaction
  and release thereof.
    2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred six and one
  hundred twenty-one of  the  state  finance  law,  pay  over  all  moneys
  received  for  the care, maintenance, and treatment after January first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four  of  patients  at  those  mental   hygiene
  facilities  as  defined  in  section three of the facilities development
  corporation act which are under his jurisdiction, less refunds  made  on
  account  thereof  pursuant  to  section  43.11  of  this chapter, to the
  commissioner of  taxation  and  finance  as  agent  for  the  facilities
  development corporation, for the corporate purposes of such corporation,
  and  deposit  all  other  moneys  received  in  a bank designated by the
  comptroller. He shall submit a statement each month to  the  comptroller
  and  to  the directors of the facilities development corporation showing
  the amounts so received for the  care,  maintenance,  and  treatment  of
  patients  at  such  facilities,  the  refunds  made  on  account thereof
  pursuant to section 43.11 of this chapter, and the dates when  any  such
  payments  were  made  to  the commissioner of taxation and finance. Such
  statement shall be certified to by  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and
  finance.  He  shall  also  submit  each month to the comptroller and the
  directors of the facilities development corporation a separate statement
  showing the amount of all other moneys received and deposited in a  bank
  designated  by  the  comptroller as aforesaid, the persons from whom and
  for what purposes received, and the dates  when  any  deposits  of  such
  moneys were made. All statements of deposit shall be certified to by the
  proper  officer of the bank receiving the deposits therein specified. He
  shall make an affidavit each month that the sums so  paid  over  to  the
  commissioner  of taxation and finance and deposited in such bank are all
  the moneys received by him from any source of  institutional  income  to
  the  date of the last payment, or deposit, appearing on either statement
  and such affidavit shall be filed with the comptroller and the directors
  of the facilities development corporation.  A  bank  designated  by  the
  comptroller  to receive the aforesaid deposits shall, before any deposit
  is made, execute a bond to the people of the state, in a sum approved by
  the comptroller, for the safekeeping of the funds deposited.
    (b) The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  applicable  to
  community  mental  health  and  retardation  facilities,  as  defined in
  section three of the facilities  development  corporation  act,  nor  to
  payments  made  for  the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients at
  such community mental health and retardation facilities.