Section 2616. Appropriations by the state

1. Notwithstanding the provisions
  of any general or special law, the director of the budget shall transfer
  to   the   authority  from  funds  appropriated  to  the  department  of
  environmental conservation for the fiscal year  beginning  April  first,
  nineteen  hundred  eighty-one,  the amount necessary including an amount
  for general state charges to provide for the operation of  participating
  olympic  facilities  pursuant  to agreements made with state agencies in
  accordance with section twenty-six hundred fourteen of this title.
    2. On or before August fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and  on
  each  August  fifteenth  thereafter  the chairman of the authority shall
  make and deliver to the director of the budget for his approval and  for
  submission  to  the  legislature  a  budget  for  the  operation  of the
  authority for the forthcoming fiscal year of the state. The chairman  of
  the authority shall deliver a copy of such budget to the chairman of the
  senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means
  committee  at the same time that the budget is delivered to the director
  of the budget. The budget shall delineate the total  amount  needed  for
  authority  purposes,  including  the funds required by the authority for
  operation of the olympic facilities and the  Gore  Mountain  ski  center
  pursuant  to  agreements  made  in  accordance  with sections twenty-six
  hundred twelve and twenty-six hundred fourteen of this title, the source
  of all funds that the  authority  expects  to  receive  and  such  other
  information  as  the director of the budget shall require.  The director
  of the budget  shall  approve  the  budget  for  the  operation  of  the
  authority  and  the  governor  shall  recommend  in  his  annual  budget
  appropriations to the authority if the director of the budget determines
  that the budget demonstrates that the authority, without operating at  a
  deficit,  can  continue  in the forthcoming fiscal year of the state, in
  the exercise of its corporate purposes,  powers,  duties  and  functions
  with  the appropriations from the state and park district in the amounts
  determined in accordance with sections  twenty-six  hundred  twelve  and
  twenty-six  hundred  fourteen  of  this title and income received by the
  authority from other sources. The director of the  budget  shall  notify
  the  park district, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the
  chairman of the assembly ways and means committee not later than October
  first of each year whether or not he has approved the budget.
    3. The state may appropriate and provide to the authority an amount of
  money determined in accordance with paragraph (g) of subdivision two and
  with subdivision three of section twenty-six hundred  fourteen  of  this
  title.
    4.  To  further  assist  the  authority  in carrying out its corporate
  purposes, the governor shall recommend to the legislature in his  annual
  budget appropriation of such funds as may be available for such purposes
  from  the  earnings  and  accumulated  income  upon the principal of the
  winter sports education trust fund,  pursuant  to  subdivision  four  of
  section four hundred ninety-five-a of the education law.
    5.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general or special law, no
  part  of  such  appropriations  shall  be  available  for  the  purposes
  designated  until  a  certificate of approval of availability shall have
  been issued by the director of the budget and a copy of such certificate
  is filed with the state comptroller, the chairman of the senate  finance
  committee  and  the  chairman  of the assembly ways and means committee.
  Such certificate may be amended  from  time  to  time,  subject  to  the
  approval  of  the  director  of  the  budget,  and  a  copy of each such
  amendment shall be filed with the state comptroller, the chairman of the
  senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means
  committee.

    6.  Notwithstanding   the   provisions   of   section   four   hundred
  ninety-five-a  of  the  education  law,  the  sum of seven hundred fifty
  thousand dollars ($750,000), is hereby  appropriated  to  the  authority
  from  the  accumulated  earnings upon the principal of the winter sports
  education trust fund.