Section 92-W. Missing and exploited children clearinghouse fund  


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  • 1. A
      special fund  to  be  known  as  the  "missing  and  exploited  children
      clearinghouse  fund"  is  hereby established in the custody of the state
      comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
        2. The fund shall consist of  all  monies  transferred  to  such  fund
      pursuant  to law, all monies required by any provision of law to be paid
      into or credited to the fund, all moneys from gifts pursuant to  section
      six  hundred twenty-eight of the tax law and any interest earnings which
      may accrue from the investment of monies in the fund. Nothing  contained
      herein  shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
      for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section  and  depositing
      them into the fund according to law.
        3.  Monies  of  the  fund,  when  allocated, shall be available to the
      division of criminal justice services  for  the  enhancement  of  public
      information  and  prevention  education  efforts including production of
      print, video and radio advertising materials, brochures,  pamphlets  and
      outdoor  advertising, or for any other activity or purpose that will aid
      in the prevention of the exploitation of children or in the recovery  of
      missing  and  exploited children, as deemed necessary by the missing and
      exploited children  clearinghouse  created  pursuant  to  section  eight
      hundred thirty-seven-f of the executive law.
        4.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
      the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  director  of
      the division of criminal justice services.
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