Section 1313. Deposit and disposition of revenues


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  • (a) All revenue collected
      by  the commissioner from the taxes imposed pursuant to the authority of
      this article or former article two-E of the general city  law  shall  be
      deposited  daily  with  such  responsible banks, banking houses or trust
      companies, as may be designated by the state comptroller, to the  credit
      of  the  comptroller,  in trust for the city of New York or the New York
      city transitional finance  authority,  as  their  interests  may  appear
      pursuant  to  this  section.  Such  deposits  shall be kept in trust and
      separate and apart from all  other  moneys  in  the  possession  of  the
      comptroller.  The  comptroller  shall require adequate security from all
      such depositories of such revenue collected by the commissioner.
        (b) The comptroller shall  retain  in  the  comptroller's  hands  such
      amount  as the commissioner may determine to be necessary for refunds in
      respect to the taxes imposed pursuant to the authority of  this  article
      or former article two-E of the general city law and for reasonable costs
      of  the  commissioner in administering, collecting and distributing such
      taxes, out of which the comptroller shall pay any refunds of such  taxes
      to  which  taxpayers shall be entitled under any law enacted pursuant to
      the authority of this article or former article  two-E  of  the  general
      city law.
        (c)  Subject  to the provisions of subsection (g) of this section, the
      comptroller, after reserving such refund  fund  and  such  costs  shall,
      commencing  on or before the fifteenth day of each month, pay to the New
      York city transitional finance authority on a daily basis the balance of
      taxes imposed pursuant to  the  authority  of  this  article  or  former
      article two-E of the general city law to be applied by the authority, in
      the  following  order  of  priority:  first  pursuant to the authority's
      contracts with  bondholders,  then  to  pay  the  authority's  operating
      expenses   not   otherwise  provided  for,  and  then  pursuant  to  the
      authority's agreements with the city, which agreements shall require the
      authority to transfer the balance of such taxes  not  required  to  meet
      contractual  or  other  obligations  of  the  authority  to  the city as
      frequently as practicable; except that the comptroller shall:
        (1) pay to the state department of  social  services  that  amount  of
      overpayments  of  the  taxes  imposed  pursuant to the authority of this
      article or former article two-E of the general city law and the interest
      on such amount which is certified to the comptroller by the commissioner
      as the amount to  be  credited  against  past-due  support  pursuant  to
      subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one-c of this chapter;
        (2)  pay  to  the New York state higher education services corporation
      that amount of  overpayments  of  the  taxes  imposed  pursuant  to  the
      authority  of  this  article or former article two-E of the general city
      law  and  the  interest  on  such  amount  which  is  certified  to  the
      comptroller by the commissioner as the amount to be credited against the
      amount  of defaults in repayment of guaranteed student loans pursuant to
      subdivision five of section one hundred seventy-one-d of this chapter;
        (3) pay to the state university of New York or the city university  of
      New  York  respectively that amount of overpayments of the taxes imposed
      pursuant to the authority of this article or former article two-E of the
      general city law and the interest on such amount which is  certified  to
      the comptroller by the commissioner as the amount to be credited against
      the  amount  of  defaults in repayment of state or city university loans
      pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one-e of this
      chapter;
        (4) notwithstanding any  provision  of  law,  credit  to  the  revenue
      arrearage account, pursuant to section ninety-one-a of the state finance
      law,  that  amount  of overpayments of the taxes imposed pursuant to the
      authority of this article or former article two-E of  the  general  city
    
      law  and  the  interest  on  such  amount  which  is  certified  to  the
      comptroller by the commissioner as the amount to be credited  against  a
      past-due  legally  enforceable  debt  owed to a state agency pursuant to
      paragraph (a) of subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one-f of
      this  chapter,  provided,  however,  the comptroller shall credit to the
      special offset fiduciary account, pursuant to  section  ninety-one-c  of
      the  state finance law, any such amount creditable as a liability as set
      forth in paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  six  of  section  one  hundred
      seventy-one-f of this chapter;
        (5)  pay  to  the  city of New York that amount of overpayments of tax
      imposed pursuant to the authority of this article and  the  interest  on
      such amount which is certified to the comptroller by the commissioner as
      the  amount to be credited against city of New York tax warrant judgment
      debt pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-l of this chapter; and
        (6) pay to a non-obligated spouse that amount of  overpayment  of  tax
      imposed  pursuant  to  the  authority  of this article or former article
      two-E of the general city law and the interest on such amount which  has
      been credited pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-c, one hundred
      seventy-one-d,  one  hundred seventy-one-e, one hundred seventy-one-f or
      one hundred seventy-one-l of this chapter and which is certified to  the
      comptroller  by  the  commissioner  as the amount due such non-obligated
      spouse pursuant to paragraph  six  of  subsection  (b)  of  section  six
      hundred  fifty-one  of  this chapter, and the comptroller shall deduct a
      like amount which, the comptroller shall pay into the  treasury  to  the
      credit  of  the  general  fund, from amounts subsequently payable to the
      office of temporary and disability assistance, the state  university  of
      New York, the city university of New York, the higher education services
      corporation,   or  the  revenue  arrearage  account  or  special  offset
      fiduciary account pursuant to section ninety-one-a  or  ninety-one-c  of
      the  state  finance law, as the case may be, whichever had been credited
      the amount originally withheld from such overpayment.
        (d) The amount deducted under  subsection  (b)  of  this  section  for
      administering,  collecting  and  distributing  such  taxes  during  such
      monthly period shall be paid by the comptroller into the general fund of
      the state treasury to the credit of the state purposes account therein.
        (e) The first payment to such chief fiscal officer shall be made on or
      before March fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-six,  which  payment
      shall  represent  the  balance of revenue after provision for refund and
      such reasonable costs, with respect  to  taxes  collected  from  January
      first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-six  through  February  twenty-ninth,
      nineteen hundred seventy-six. Subsequent payments shall be  made  on  or
      before  April  fifteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-six, and on or before
      the fifteenth  day  of  each  succeeding  month  thereafter,  and  shall
      represent  the  balance  of  revenue with respect to taxes collected the
      preceding calendar months.
        (f) The amounts so payable under this section shall  be  certified  to
      the  comptroller  by  the  commissioner  or the commissioner's delegate,
      either of whom shall not be held  liable  for  any  inaccuracy  in  such
      certificate.  Where the amount so paid over to such chief fiscal officer
      is  more  or  less  than  the  amount  then due such city, the amount of
      overpayment or underpayment shall be certified to the comptroller by the
      commissioner or the commissioner's delegate, either of whom shall not be
      held liable for any  inaccuracy  in  such  certificate.  The  amount  of
      overpayment  or underpayment shall be so certified to the comptroller as
      soon  after  the  discovery  of  the  overpayment  or  underpayment   as
      reasonably  possible  and subsequent payments by the comptroller to such
      chief fiscal officer shall be adjusted by subtracting the amount of  any
      such  overpayment from, or by adding the amount of any such underpayment
    
      to  such  number  of  subsequent  payments  and  distributions  as   the
      comptroller  and  the  commissioner shall consider reasonable in view of
      the amount of the overpayment or underpayment and all  other  facts  and
      circumstances.
        (g)  The  balance  payable  to  the New York city transitional finance
      authority pursuant to this section shall instead be paid  to  the  chief
      fiscal  officer of the city of New York unless and until the comptroller
      has received from such authority a notice, which shall be conclusive and
      upon which the comptroller may rely without further inquiry,  that  such
      authority  has  incurred obligations payable by it, whether for borrowed
      money, operating expenses or otherwise. On and after the  date  of  such
      notice  and  until  such date as the authority shall have no obligations
      outstanding, the city shall have no right, title or interest  in  or  to
      the  taxes,  except  as  provided in the authority's agreements with the
      city.
        (h) Notwithstanding any provision of state or local law, ordinance  or
      resolution  to  the  contrary,  if  the  commissioner  of  health timely
      certifies to the commissioner that a city having  a  population  of  one
      million  or  more  which  imposes  tax pursuant to the authority of this
      article properly exercised its option pursuant to  section  two  of  the
      chapter  of  the  laws of two thousand five which added this subdivision
      that such city be reimbursed  for  medical  assistance  expenditures  as
      provided  in  such  section  two of such chapter, the commissioner shall
      make and certify the calculations and  the  comptroller  shall,  on  the
      fifteenth  day  of  each month, starting in January, two thousand eight,
      intercept and pay monthly amounts of revenue from taxes imposed in  such
      a  city  pursuant  to  the  authority  of  this  article, as provided in
      subdivision (g) of section twelve hundred sixty-one of this chapter.