Section 99-N. Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund

1.   There is hereby established in  the  joint  custody  of  the  state
  comptroller  and  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and finance a special
  revenue fund to be known as the "highway  construction  and  maintenance
  safety education 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,  collected  by  the  mandatory
  surcharges imposed pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  section  eighteen
  hundred nine-d of the vehicle and traffic law. Nothing contained in this
  section  shall  prevent  the department of motor vehicles from receiving
  grants or other appropriations 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 disbursed to provide
  education, advocacy and increased awareness of the  laws  pertaining  to
  maximum  speed limits in highway construction and maintenance work areas
  and may be used to execute contracts with private organizations for such
  purposes. Such contracts shall be awarded upon  competitive  bids  after
  the issuance of requests for proposals.
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