§ 89-d. Motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud prevention fund. 1. There is hereby established in the custody of the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud prevention fund".

Terms Used In N.Y. State Finance Law 89-D

  • 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
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.

2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys received by the state pursuant to subsection (b) of § 9110 of the insurance law that are transferred to the fund pursuant to paragraph one of subsection (e) of § 9110 of the insurance law and all other grants, bequests or other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.

3. Moneys in the motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud prevention fund shall be kept separate and apart and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the comptroller and shall only be expended herein and in such amounts as approved by the division of the budget.

4. The moneys received by such fund shall be expended pursuant to appropriation only to fund provider agencies which have been awarded grants by the motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud prevention board established pursuant to § 846-l of the executive law. All moneys expended pursuant to this subdivision shall be for the reimbursement of costs incurred by provider agencies.