Section 88. Administration expenses

The entire expense of administering
  the state insurance fund shall be paid out of such fund. The portion  of
  such  expenses applicable and chargeable to the disability benefits fund
  and the medical and hospital malpractice fund shall be determined on  an
  equitable  basis  with  due  allowance  for  the  division  of  overhead
  expenses. Not later than the  first  day  of  November  there  shall  be
  submitted  to  the  director of the budget for his approval an estimated
  budget of expenditures for  the  succeeding  calendar  year  having  due
  regard  to  the business interests and contract obligations of the fund.
  There may not be expended for the state insurance fund for  purposes  of
  administration  more  than the amounts specified in such budget for each
  item of expenditure, except as authorized by the director of the budget.
  In no case shall the amount of expenditures so authorized for an  entire
  year  for  workers' compensation insurance exceed twenty-five per centum
  of the earned premiums for such insurance for  that  year.  In  no  case
  shall  the amount of expenditures authorized for the disability benefits
  fund for an entire year exceed twenty-five per centum  of  the  premiums
  earned  by  that  fund.  In  no  case  shall  the amount of expenditures
  authorized for the medical and hospital malpractice fund for  an  entire
  year  exceed twenty-five per centum of the premiums earned by that fund.
  If there be officers or employees of the department whose duties  relate
  partly  to  the general work of the department and partly to the work of
  the state insurance fund, and in case there is other  expense  which  is
  incurred jointly on behalf of the general work of the department and the
  state insurance fund, an equitable apportionment of the expense shall be
  made  and  the  part  thereof which is applicable to the state insurance
  fund shall be chargeable thereto. The  expenses  of  the  department  of
  audit   and  control  incurred  in  connection  with  the  pre-audit  of
  expenditures of the state insurance fund, as  required  by  section  one
  hundred  eleven  of the state finance law, shall be a charge against and
  be paid out of the moneys of the state insurance fund and there shall be
  included in the annual estimate submitted pursuant to  this  section  an
  amount  sufficient  to  pay such expenses for the period covered by such
  estimate. Notwithstanding section four of the  state  finance  law,  the
  state  comptroller  is authorized to process or approve payments related
  to business taxes, various workers' compensation board  assessments  and
  assessments  related  to the workers' compensation rating board directly
  from the fund's accounts without explicit appropriation  authority.  The
  commissioner  of  labor  shall  include  in  his  annual  report  to the
  legislature a statement of the  commissioners  showing  the  expense  of
  administering the state fund for the preceding year. All appointments to
  positions  in  the  state  insurance fund shall be made subject to civil
  service requirements.
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