§ 43-a. Payment of judgments of the court of claims in certain cases arising out of the appropriation of property by the state. Whenever a judgment of the court of claims is rendered against the state for damages arising out of the appropriation by the state of property pursuant to § 27 of the agriculture and markets law, § 40 of the canal law, sections thirteen and six hundred seventy-six-a of the conservation law, § 21 of the correction law, sections three hundred seven and three hundred fifty-five of the education law or either of said last-mentioned sections, § 213 of the executive law, sections twenty-nine and thirty of the highway law, § 30 of the highway law for any of the purposes authorized by section twelve of said law, Article seventy-one of the mental hygiene law, § 177 of the military law, § 401 of the public health law, § 40 of the social welfare law, chapter six hundred seventy-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-eight constituting the grade crossing elimination act, as amended, or chapter eight hundred sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-six, as amended, the amount, if any, of such judgment, inclusive of interest thereon as allowed by law, which exceeds the amount of moneys otherwise appropriated and available for the payment thereof shall be paid out of the state treasury from moneys appropriated to the court of claims for general state charges.

Terms Used In N.Y. State Finance Law 43-A

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.