Section 54-K. Assistance to counties

There shall be apportioned and paid to
  the  several  counties  outside  the  city  of  New  York,  from  moneys
  appropriated, the amount of seventeen million dollars  ($17,000,000)  on
  or before July thirty-first, two thousand three. Each county outside the
  city of New York shall receive an amount that is in direct proportion to
  each  county's  percentage  of  the population, as determined by the two
  thousand decennial federal census, as such county  bears  to  the  total
  population of all counties outside the city of New York.