* § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo, the city of Buffalo shall receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision four of this section, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. 4. (a) Monies which are appropriated and received each year by the state as a portion of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives in relation to the operation of a gaming facility in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara which subdivision three of this section requires to be a minimum of twenty-five percent, shall be budgeted and disbursed by the city of Niagara Falls in the following manner: (i) seventy-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be available for expenditure by the city of Niagara Falls for such public purposes as are determined, by the city, to be necessary and desirable to accommodate and enhance economic development, neighborhood revitalization, public health and safety, and infrastructure improvement in the city, shall be deposited into the tribal revenue account of the city and any and all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of such monies shall be deposited into the general operating fund of the city; and(ii) the remaining twenty-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be allocated for the city of Niagara Falls to be available for expenditure in the following manner: (1) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to Niagara Falls memorial medical center to be used for capital construction projects; and (2) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls city school district for capital construction projects; and (3) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, six percent in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara tourism and convention center corporation for marketing and tourism promotion in the county of Niagara including the city of Niagara Falls; and (4) an amount equal to the lesser of one million dollars or seven percent of the total amount in each year shall be transferred to the city of Niagara Falls and held in an escrow account maintained by the city of Niagara Falls and, if additional funding has been secured by the Niagara frontier transportation authority to finance construction of a new terminal at Niagara Falls, such amount held in escrow shall be transferred to the Niagara frontier transportation authority for such purpose provided however that if such additional funding has not been secured or construction of a new terminal has not commenced within two years of the date which such monies were received by the city of Niagara Falls such amounts held in escrow by the city of Niagara Falls shall be distributed pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph; and (5) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, one percent or three hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is greater, of the total annual amount received in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission, established pursuant to article forty-three of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law to be used for, but not limited to, development, capital improvements, acquisition of real property, and acquisition of personal property within the heritage area in the city of Niagara Falls as established pursuant to the commission; and (iii) all other monies appropriated or received for distribution pursuant to this subdivision after the transfer of money pursuant to this subparagraph and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph in each year shall be allocated to the city of Niagara Falls for infrastructure and road improvement projects. (b) On or before the first of April, each entity receiving moneys pursuant to subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, shall annually submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, mayor of the city of Niagara Falls and leader of the city council of the city of Niagara Falls. Each such report shall include an accounting of all moneys received by such entity pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and the expenditure of any such moneys. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, failure by the city of Niagara Falls to disburse funds as such city is required pursuant to clauses one, two, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision within thirty-five days of the actual receipt of the funds or the submission of the subentity expenditure report due by April first of each year, which ever is later, shall result in an additional payment by the city of Niagara Falls ofone-half percent per week not to exceed eighteen percent of the amount which was to have been disbursed pursuant to such clauses. Any such additional payment required to be made by the city shall be disbursed from the city's seventy-five percent share described in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision. (d) In the event that any monies to be distributed pursuant to clauses one, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision cannot, for any reason, be received or utilized, such monies shall be distributed to the city of Niagara Falls for economic development projects within such city. * NB Effective until December 31, 2016 * § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. * NB Effective December 31, 2016 * NB There are 2 § 99-h's
* § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo, the city of Buffalo shall receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision four of this section, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. 4. (a) Monies which are appropriated and received each year by the state as a portion of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives in relation to the operation of a gaming facility in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara which subdivision three of this section requires to be a minimum of twenty-five percent, shall be budgeted and disbursed by the city of Niagara Falls in the following manner: (i) seventy-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be available for expenditure by the city of Niagara Falls for such public purposes as are determined, by the city, to be necessary and desirable to accommodate and enhance economic development, neighborhood revitalization, public health and safety, and infrastructure improvement in the city, shall be deposited into the tribal revenue account of the city and any and all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of such monies shall be deposited into the general operating fund of the city; and(ii) the remaining twenty-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be allocated for the city of Niagara Falls to be available for expenditure in the following manner: (1) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to Niagara Falls memorial medical center to be used for capital construction projects; and (2) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls city school district for capital construction projects; and (3) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, six percent in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara tourism and convention center corporation for marketing and tourism promotion in the county of Niagara including the city of Niagara Falls; and (4) an amount equal to the lesser of one million dollars or seven percent of the total amount in each year shall be transferred to the city of Niagara Falls and held in an escrow account maintained by the city of Niagara Falls and, if additional funding has been secured by the Niagara frontier transportation authority to finance construction of a new terminal at Niagara Falls, such amount held in escrow shall be transferred to the Niagara frontier transportation authority for such purpose provided however that if such additional funding has not been secured or construction of a new terminal has not commenced within two years of the date which such monies were received by the city of Niagara Falls such amounts held in escrow by the city of Niagara Falls shall be distributed pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph; and (5) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, one percent or three hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is greater, of the total annual amount received in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission, established pursuant to article forty-three of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law to be used for, but not limited to, development, capital improvements, acquisition of real property, and acquisition of personal property within the heritage area in the city of Niagara Falls as established pursuant to the commission; and (iii) all other monies appropriated or received for distribution pursuant to this subdivision after the transfer of money pursuant to this subparagraph and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph in each year shall be allocated to the city of Niagara Falls for infrastructure and road improvement projects. (b) On or before the first of April, each entity receiving moneys pursuant to subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, shall annually submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, mayor of the city of Niagara Falls and leader of the city council of the city of Niagara Falls. Each such report shall include an accounting of all moneys received by such entity pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and the expenditure of any such moneys. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, failure by the city of Niagara Falls to disburse funds as such city is required pursuant to clauses one, two, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision within thirty-five days of the actual receipt of the funds or the submission of the subentity expenditure report due by April first of each year, which ever is later, shall result in an additional payment by the city of Niagara Falls ofone-half percent per week not to exceed eighteen percent of the amount which was to have been disbursed pursuant to such clauses. Any such additional payment required to be made by the city shall be disbursed from the city's seventy-five percent share described in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision. (d) In the event that any monies to be distributed pursuant to clauses one, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision cannot, for any reason, be received or utilized, such monies shall be distributed to the city of Niagara Falls for economic development projects within such city. * NB Effective until December 31, 2016 * § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. * NB Effective December 31, 2016 * NB There are 2 § 99-h's
* § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo, the city of Buffalo shall receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision four of this section, and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. 4. (a) Monies which are appropriated and received each year by the state as a portion of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives in relation to the operation of a gaming facility in the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara which subdivision three of this section requires to be a minimum of twenty-five percent, shall be budgeted and disbursed by the city of Niagara Falls in the following manner: (i) seventy-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be available for expenditure by the city of Niagara Falls for such public purposes as are determined, by the city, to be necessary and desirable to accommodate and enhance economic development, neighborhood revitalization, public health and safety, and infrastructure improvement in the city, shall be deposited into the tribal revenue account of the city and any and all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of such monies shall be deposited into the general operating fund of the city; and(ii) the remaining twenty-five percent of the total annual amount received shall be allocated for the city of Niagara Falls to be available for expenditure in the following manner: (1) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to Niagara Falls memorial medical center to be used for capital construction projects; and (2) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, five and one-half percent of the total annual amount received in each year, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars annually, shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls city school district for capital construction projects; and (3) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, six percent in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara tourism and convention center corporation for marketing and tourism promotion in the county of Niagara including the city of Niagara Falls; and (4) an amount equal to the lesser of one million dollars or seven percent of the total amount in each year shall be transferred to the city of Niagara Falls and held in an escrow account maintained by the city of Niagara Falls and, if additional funding has been secured by the Niagara frontier transportation authority to finance construction of a new terminal at Niagara Falls, such amount held in escrow shall be transferred to the Niagara frontier transportation authority for such purpose provided however that if such additional funding has not been secured or construction of a new terminal has not commenced within two years of the date which such monies were received by the city of Niagara Falls such amounts held in escrow by the city of Niagara Falls shall be distributed pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph; and (5) within thirty-five days upon receipt of such funds by such city, one percent or three hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is greater, of the total annual amount received in each year shall be transferred to the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission, established pursuant to article forty-three of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law to be used for, but not limited to, development, capital improvements, acquisition of real property, and acquisition of personal property within the heritage area in the city of Niagara Falls as established pursuant to the commission; and (iii) all other monies appropriated or received for distribution pursuant to this subdivision after the transfer of money pursuant to this subparagraph and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph in each year shall be allocated to the city of Niagara Falls for infrastructure and road improvement projects. (b) On or before the first of April, each entity receiving moneys pursuant to subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, shall annually submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, mayor of the city of Niagara Falls and leader of the city council of the city of Niagara Falls. Each such report shall include an accounting of all moneys received by such entity pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and the expenditure of any such moneys. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, failure by the city of Niagara Falls to disburse funds as such city is required pursuant to clauses one, two, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision within thirty-five days of the actual receipt of the funds or the submission of the subentity expenditure report due by April first of each year, which ever is later, shall result in an additional payment by the city of Niagara Falls ofone-half percent per week not to exceed eighteen percent of the amount which was to have been disbursed pursuant to such clauses. Any such additional payment required to be made by the city shall be disbursed from the city's seventy-five percent share described in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision. (d) In the event that any monies to be distributed pursuant to clauses one, three and four of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision cannot, for any reason, be received or utilized, such monies shall be distributed to the city of Niagara Falls for economic development projects within such city. * NB Effective until December 31, 2016 * § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account". 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four. 3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal governments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, however, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and (b) support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. Moneys not appropriated for such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in which they are received. * NB Effective December 31, 2016 * NB There are 2 § 99-h's
