New York State Finance Law Section 83-A - Habitat conservation and access account.

  83-a.  Habitat conservation and access account. (a) There is hereby
  created an account within the miscellaneous capital projects  fund,  the
  habitat  conservation  and  access account. The habitat conservation and
  access account shall consist of up to one million five hundred  thousand
  dollars  annually  from  moneys  received  by the state from the sale of
  lifetime licenses for  hunting,  trapping,  and  fishing,  and  lifetime
  privileges for archery and muzzle-loading pursuant to section 11-0702 of
  the environmental conservation law and all moneys, revenues and interest
  thereon received as a result of the application of subdivision seventeen
  of section 11-0305 of the environmental conservation law authorizing the
  issuance  and  sale  of  voluntary habitat stamps, other than the amount
  retained by the issuing agent or officer. The habitat  conservation  and
  access account shall be subject to the same restrictions and protections
  as the conservation fund.
(b)  These  moneys, after appropriation by the legislature, and within
  the amounts set forth and for the several purposes specified,  shall  be
  available  to  the  department  of  environmental  conservation  for the
  capital expenses associated with management, protection, and restoration
  of fish and wildlife habitats, and improvement and development of public
  access for fish and wildlife related recreation.
(c) All payments made from the habitat conservation and access account
  shall be made by the department of taxation and finance after audit  and
  upon warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner
  of  environmental conservation. After appropriations made available from
  the habitat conservation and access account shall cease  to  have  force
  and  effect,  any balances remaining unexpended and not required to meet
  the proper and necessary expenses of the division of fish  and  wildlife
  shall  revert  to  the  state  fish  and  game trust account established
  pursuant to paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eighty-three of
  this article.
(d) No funds may be transferred or used in any way which would  result
  in  the  loss  of  eligibility  for  federal  benefits  or federal funds
  pursuant to federal law, rule, or regulation as assented to  in  chapter
  six  hundred  eighty-three  of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-eight
  and chapter seven hundred of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty-one.

Last modified: February 3, 2019