N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 357-a

§ 357-a. State police and state payment for services. 1. Enforcement\nassistance shall be provided by the division of state police at a level\nconsistent with historical precedents, as a matter of state interest, on\nall sections of the thruway. The authority shall provide goods and\nservices to the division of state police in connection with its\nenforcement activity on the thruway. The division of state police and\nthe authority shall enter into an agreement identifying those goods and\nservices that the authority will provide to the division of state police\nand determine reporting and other requirements related thereto. Any\ncosts borne by the state police outside of such agreement shall not be\nreimbursed by the authority nor shall they be deemed costs of the\nauthority.\n 2. The state shall be responsible for additional goods and services\nprovided by the authority equal to twenty-one million five hundred\nthousand dollars in each calendar year. Such goods and services shall be\ndeemed to be costs to the state and not operating costs of the\nauthority. The authority and the director of the division of the budget\nshall enter into an agreement identifying any such state costs and\ndetermine reporting and other requirements related thereto.\n Such agreement and any amendments thereto shall be transmitted by the\nauthority, within ten business days of the execution of such agreement\nand amendments thereto, to the chair of the senate finance committee,\nthe chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of the\nsenate transportation committee and the chair of the assembly\ntransportation committee. By February first of each year, a report\nidentifying all state costs paid pursuant to such agreement in the\npreceding calendar year will be transmitted by the authority to the\ndirector of the budget, the chair of the senate finance committee, the\nchair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of the senate\ntransportation committee and the chair of the assembly transportation\ncommittee.\n 3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the authority shall not\nconstitute a public benefit corporation within the meaning of section\ntwenty-nine hundred seventy-five of this chapter and shall not be\nassessed an annual cost recovery charge under said section.\n