Section 97-ZZZ. Cultural education account

1. There is hereby established
  in the joint custody of the state comptroller and  the  commissioner  of
  taxation  and finance an account of the miscellaneous special fund to be
  known as the cultural education account.
    2. The comptroller is authorized and directed to receive  for  deposit
  to  the credit of the cultural education account revenues designated for
  such  deposit  by  law  including  those  derived  from  the   surcharge
  authorized  by  the  third  undesignated paragraph of subdivision (a) of
  section eight thousand eighteen of the civil practice and law and rules,
  subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision  (a)  of  section  eight
  thousand  twenty-one  of such law, subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of
  subdivision (b) of section eight thousand twenty-one of  such  law,  and
  subdivision  a  of  section 7-604, subdivision 1 of section 7-614 of the
  administrative code of the city of New York.
    3. Moneys of this account, following appropriation by the legislature,
  shall be available to support the following agencies and  programs:  (a)
  the state education department for services and expenses of the cultural
  education  program including operating expenses and capital projects and
  the New York state summer school of the arts subject to a plan  approved
  by the commissioner of education and the director of the budget; (b) the
  New  York  state  theatre  institute  subject  to a plan approved by the
  director of the budget; and (c) the  Nelson  A.  Rockefeller  performing
  arts  center  corporation  subject to a plan approved by the director of
  the budget.