§ 87. Payments for animals killed. The commissioner shall determine
all claims which may be presented to him for indemnity to owners of
animals killed by the state under the provisions of this article, and
shall file in his office a certificate of his determination and,
provided the claim is determined complete, shall within five days of
having received the claim, issue his order for the amount due to the
comptroller for payment. All claims allowed shall bear interest computed
as provided in section one hundred seventy-nine-g of the state finance
law. A claim shall be considered an invoice within the meaning of the
provisions of article eleven-A of the state finance law. Anyone having a
right of reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this article shall
be deemed to be a "contractor" having a "contract" with a "state agency"
as such terms are defined in section one hundred seventy-nine-e of the
state finance law. The commissioner shall issue his order for the amount
due as determined by the certificate, which amount shall be paid from
the treasury, on the warrant of the comptroller, out of moneys
appropriated therefor.