N.Y. Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act § 2
Promptly after the effective date of this act, the mayor of each city having a population of one million or more shall transmit to the governor, in such form and detail as the governor may prescribe, his request, if any, for an appropriation from the state treasury to defray the reasonable and necessary expenses of such city for personal service and for maintenance and operation in respect of the regulation and control of residential rents within such city pursuant to this act. Any such request shall be in sufficient detail to justify the reasonableness and necessity of the amount requested.
If a request is received from the mayor of any such city after the final adjournment of the regular session of the legislature in nineteen hundred sixty-two, the state director of the budget is authorized to transfer to such city from time to time a portion of any outstanding appropriation made to the temporary state housing rent commission after filing a certificate of such transfer with the state comptroller, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee. Any amount so transferred shall be paid from the general fund to the credit of the local assistance fund on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers requisitioned by the mayor of such city or by an official of such city designated by the mayor.
N.Y. Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act Law § 2