§ 97-y. Business and licensing services account. 1. There is hereby
established within the miscellaneous special revenue fund in the joint
custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and
finance an account to be known as the "business and licensing services
account".

2. The business and licensing services account shall consist of all
monies collected by the department of state from: (a) fees paid to it in
conjunction with its activities pursuant to the business corporation
law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or other corporate law, the
partnership law, the limited liability company law, and correlative
provisions of the executive law, the general business law and any other
law, consolidated or unconsolidated; (b) fees paid to it in conjunction
with its activities pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-six-a
of the executive law or pursuant to any other provision of law, for
services rendered in accordance with the provisions of the uniform
commercial code or article ten-A of the lien law; (c) fees charged for
the regulation, licensing, examination, certification, registration and
discipline activities of the department of state; (d) monies received
from licenses granted under section four hundred thirty-eight of the
judiciary law; and (e) fees collected pursuant to section three hundred
ninety-nine-pp of the general business law.

3. Monies within the business and licensing services account, upon
appropriation by the legislature, shall be available to the department
of state for the operation of the department in relation to (a) uniform
commercial code and related tax lien requirements, (b) corporations and
state records functions and services, including but not limited to
reviewing, filing, searching, certifying or copying of documents,
instruments and records rendered by the department in conjunction
therewith, (c) the regulation, licensing, examination, certification,
registration and discipline activities of the department of state, and
(d) implementation, operation and enforcement of articles seven-A,
eight-B and eight-C of the general business law.

4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the
contrary, moneys deposited pursuant to sections ninety-seven-r and
ninety-seven-nn of this article shall be available to the department of
state for the purposes set forth in such sections.