§ 99-n. Highway construction and maintenance safety education fund. 1.
There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state
comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special
revenue fund to be known as the "highway construction and maintenance
safety education fund".

2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its purpose,
all monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be
paid into or credited to such fund, collected by the mandatory
surcharges imposed pursuant to subdivision one of section eighteen
hundred nine-d of the vehicle and traffic law. Nothing contained in this
section shall prevent the department of motor vehicles from receiving
grants or other appropriations for the purposes of the fund as defined
in this section and depositing them into the fund according to law.

3. Monies of the fund, when allocated, shall be disbursed to provide
education, advocacy and increased awareness of the laws pertaining to
maximum speed limits in highway construction and maintenance work areas
and may be used to execute contracts with private organizations for such
purposes. Such contracts shall be awarded upon competitive bids after
the issuance of requests for proposals.