Section 97-Y. Business and licensing services account

1. There is hereby
  established within the miscellaneous special revenue fund in  the  joint
  custody  of  the  state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and
  finance an account to be known as the "business and  licensing  services
  account".
    2.  The  business  and licensing services account shall consist of all
  monies collected by the department of state from: (a) fees paid to it in
  conjunction with its activities pursuant  to  the  business  corporation
  law,  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law, or other corporate law, the
  partnership law, the limited  liability  company  law,  and  correlative
  provisions  of the executive law, the general business law and any other
  law, consolidated or unconsolidated; (b) fees paid to it in  conjunction
  with  its  activities pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-six-a
  of the executive law or pursuant to any  other  provision  of  law,  for
  services  rendered  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of the uniform
  commercial code or article ten-A of the lien law; (c) fees  charged  for
  the  regulation, licensing, examination, certification, registration and
  discipline activities of the department of state;  (d)  monies  received
  from  licenses  granted  under  section four hundred thirty-eight of the
  judiciary law; and (e) fees collected pursuant to section three  hundred
  ninety-nine-pp of the general business law.
    3.  Monies  within  the  business and licensing services account, upon
  appropriation by the legislature, shall be available to  the  department
  of  state for the operation of the department in relation to (a) uniform
  commercial code and related tax lien requirements, (b) corporations  and
  state  records  functions  and  services,  including  but not limited to
  reviewing,  filing,  searching,  certifying  or  copying  of  documents,
  instruments  and  records  rendered  by  the  department  in conjunction
  therewith, (c) the regulation,  licensing,  examination,  certification,
  registration  and  discipline activities of the department of state, and
  (d) implementation,  operation  and  enforcement  of  articles  seven-A,
  eight-B and eight-C of the general business law.
    4.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of  this  section  to the
  contrary, moneys  deposited  pursuant  to  sections  ninety-seven-r  and
  ninety-seven-nn  of this article shall be available to the department of
  state for the purposes set forth in such sections.