§ 97-xx. Animal population control fund. 1. There is hereby
established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "animal
population control fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to
subdivision three of section one hundred ten of the agriculture and
markets law, and section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture and
markets law, and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from
any other fund or source pursuant to law.

3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of carrying
out the provisions of section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture
and markets law. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and
warrant of the state comptroller pursuant to subdivision four of this
section. Any interest received by the comptroller on moneys on deposit
in the animal population control fund shall be retained in and become
part of such fund.

4. The comptroller shall disperse the full balance of funds accrued
pursuant to subdivision two of this section to the administering entity
selected pursuant to subdivision one of section one hundred seventeen-a
of the agriculture and markets law on a quarterly basis for the purposes
of administering the animal population control program established
pursuant to such section.