1. There is hereby created in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the 'arts fund'. 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. For each state fiscal year, there shall be appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition to all other moneys required to be deposited into such fund, an amount equal to the amounts of moneys collected and deposited into the fund pursuant to section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law during the preceding calendar year, as certified by the comptroller. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to law. 3. Moneys of the fund may be invested by the state comptroller, and income from the investments of moneys deposited to this fund pursuant to section six hundred thirty-g of the fund according to law. 3. Moneys of the fund may be invested by the state comptroller, and income from the investments of moneys deposited to this fund pursuant to section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law shall be credited solely to this fund.
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