179-Z - Not-for-profit short-term revolving loans.

§  179-z.  Not-for-profit  short-term  revolving  loans.  1. The state  comptroller is authorized  to  provide  loans  from  the  not-for-profit  short-term revolving loan fund established by section ninety-seven-jj of  this  chapter to any not-for-profit organization in receipt of a written  directive from a state agency. The state comptroller may provide such  a  loan  to  a  not-for-profit  organization  upon  receipt  of  a  written  agreement  providing  reasonable  assurances  of   repayment   that   is  satisfactory  to  the comptroller. Such loan shall not bear interest and  repayment of such loan may be prorated over the term of the expected  or  renewal  contract,  provided  the  term  of the loan does not exceed one  year. The amount of each such loan shall  not  exceed  one-half  of  the  first quarter payment of the subject contract.    2.  The state comptroller shall only make loans after finding that the  not-for-profit organization has a written directive from a state  agency  and  cannot  provide or continue to provide services without a loan from  the not-for-profit short-term revolving loan fund.    3. The state comptroller shall promulgate rules and regulations within  ninety days of the enactment date of this act for the operation  of  the  not-for-profit  short-term  revolving loan fund which shall include, but  not be limited to, the criteria to be used in determining not-for-profit  organizations eligible for assistance; a  procedure  and  any  necessary  information   that   not-for-profit   organizations   need   to   submit  applications for a loan from  the  not-for-profit  short-term  revolving  loan  fund;  a  schedule  for reviewing such applications, not to exceed  thirty days, and notification to an applicant of approval or disapproval  of such application for interim  funding,  and  any  other  requirements  deemed necessary by the state comptroller.    4.   Any   not-for-profit  organization  receiving  a  loan  from  the  not-for-profit short-term revolving loan fund  shall  be  ineligible  to  receive  interest from a state agency, notwithstanding the provisions of  section  one  hundred  seventy-nine-v  of  this  article  and  shall  be  ineligible  to  receive  advance  payments,  notwithstanding section one  hundred seventy-nine-u of this article.