§ 97-i. New York state local government records management improvement
fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state
comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund
to be known as the New York state local government records management
improvement fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of revenues derived from the imposition of
the additional fee authorized pursuant to the third undesignated
paragraph of subdivision (a) of section eight thousand eighteen,
subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eight
thousand twenty-one, subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of subdivision
(b) of section eight thousand twenty-one of the civil practice law and
rules, and subdivision one of section 7-614 of the administrative code
of the city of New York, all monies required by section 57.35 of the
arts and cultural affairs law to be paid into or credited to the fund,
any advances hereafter made by the state to the fund in anticipation of
being reimbursed by such fund, and any other monies credited or
transferred thereto from any other fund or sources pursuant to law.

3. The monies in such fund, when allocated, shall be available as
follows: (i) two million three hundred thousand dollars per year
adjusted annually to reflect the direct and indirect charges resulting
from negotiated salary increases may be used for payment of necessary
and reasonable expenses incurred by the commissioner of education in
carrying out the advisory services required in subdivision one of
section 57.23 of the arts and cultural affairs law and to implement
sections 57.21, 57.35 and 57.37 of the arts and cultural affairs law;
(ii) not less than five hundred thousand dollars per year shall be made
available to the Documentary Heritage program as provided in section 140
of the education law; (iii) not less than three hundred thousand dollars
per year shall be made available to the New York state archives
partnership trust established in chapter 758 of the laws of 1992; and
(iv) the remainder of the monies in the fund shall be used for the award
of grants to individual local governments or groups of cooperating local
governments as provided in section 57.35 of the arts and cultural
affairs law.

4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of education or
by an officer or employee of the commissioner of education designated by
the commissioner of education.