Section 99-F. Spinal cord injury research trust fund

1. There is hereby
  established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
  commissioner  of  taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "spinal
  cord injury research trust fund".
    2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its  purpose,
  all  monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be
  paid into or credited to such fund, and  monies  in  an  amount  not  to
  exceed  eight  million  five  hundred  thousand dollars collected by the
  mandatory surcharges imposed pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  section
  eighteen  hundred nine of the vehicle and traffic law. Nothing contained
  herein shall prevent the department of  health  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  for
  administrative   costs   of   the  spinal  cord  injury  research  board
  established pursuant to title four of article two of the  public  health
  law and for funding spinal cord injury research projects administered by
  such board.
    4.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
  the  state  comptroller  on  vouchers  approved  and  certified  by  the
  commissioner of health.