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NY Pub Off L § 10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 10 - Official Oaths.

§ 10. Official  oaths.   Every officer shall take and file the oath of   office required by law, and every judicial officer of the unified  court   system,  in  addition,  shall  file a copy of said oath in the office of   court administration, before he shall be  entitled  to  enter  upon  the   discharge  of  any  of  his  official  duties.  An oath of office may be   administered by a judge of the court of appeals, the  attorney  general,   or   by   any   officer  authorized  to  take,  within  the  state,  the   acknowledgment of the execution of a deed of real  property,  or  by  an   officer  in whose office the oath is required to be filed or by his duly   designated assistant, or may be administered to any member of a body  of   officers, by a presiding officer or clerk, thereof, who shall have taken   an oath of office. An oath of office may be administered to any state or   local  officer  who is a member of the armed forces of the United States   by any commissioned officer, in active service, of the armed  forces  of   the United States. In addition to the requirements of any other law, the   certificate of the officer in the armed forces administering the oath of   office  under  this  section  shall  state  (a)  the rank of the officer   administering the oath, and (b) that the person taking the oath  was  at   the  time,  enlisted,  inducted,  ordered  or commissioned in or serving   with, attached to or accompanying the armed forces of the United States.   The fact that the officer administering the oath was at  the  time  duly   commissioned  and  in  active  service  with  the armed forces, shall be   certified by the secretary of the army, secretary of the air force or by   the secretary of the navy, as the case may be, of the United States,  or   by a person designated by him to make such certifications, but the place   where  such  oath  was  administered  need not be disclosed. The oath of   office of a notary public or commissioner of deeds shall be filed in the   office of the clerk of the county in which he shall reside. The oath  of   office  of  every  state  officer  shall  be  filed in the office of the   secretary of  state;  of  every  officer  of  a  municipal  corporation,   including  a school district, with the clerk thereof; and of every other   officer, including the trustees and officers of a public library and the   officers of boards of cooperative educational services, in the office of   the clerk of the county in  which  he  shall  reside,  if  no  place  be   otherwise provided by law for the filing thereof.
NY Pub Off L § 12 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 12 - Force and Effect of Official Undertaking.

§ 12. Force  and effect of official undertaking. An officer of whom an   official undertaking  is  required,  shall  not  receive  any  money  or   property as such officer, or do any act affecting the disposition of any   money  or property which such officer is entitled to receive or have the   custody of, before he shall have filed such undertaking; and any  person   having  the  custody  or control of any such money or property shall not   deliver the same to any officer of whom an undertaking is required until   such undertaking shall have been given. If a public officer required  to   give  an  official  undertaking, enters upon the discharge of any of his   official duties before giving such undertaking, the  sureties  upon  his   undertaking  subsequently given for or during his official term shall be   liable for all his acts and defaults done or suffered and for all moneys   and property received during such term prior to the  execution  of  such   undertaking,  or  if a new undertaking is given, from the time notice to   give such new undertaking is served upon him. Every official undertaking   shall be obligatory and in force so long as the officer  shall  continue   to  act  as  such  and  until  his successor shall be appointed and duly   qualified, and until the conditions of the undertaking shall  have  been   fully performed. When an official undertaking is renewed pursuant to law   the  sureties  upon  the  former undertaking shall not be liable for any   official act done or moneys received after the due  execution,  approval   and filing of the new undertaking.
NY Pub Off L § 13 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 13 - Notice of Neglect to File Oath or Undertaking.

§ 13. Notice  of  neglect  to file oath or undertaking. The officer or   body making the appointment or  certificate  of  election  of  a  public   officer   shall,  if  the  officer  be  required  to  give  an  official   undertaking to be filed in an  office  other  than  that  in  which  the   written appointment or certificate of election is to be filed, forthwith   give  written  notice  of such appointment or election to the officer in   whose office the undertaking is  to  be  filed.  If  any  officer  shall   neglect,  within  the time required by law, to take and file an official   oath, or execute and file an official  undertaking,  the  officer,  with   whom  or  in  whose  office  such  oath or undertaking is required to be   filed, shall forthwith give notice of such neglect, if of an  appointive   officer,  to  the  authority  appointing such officer; if of an elective   officer, to the officer, board or body authorized to fill a  vacancy  in   such  office,  if  any,  or  if  none and a vacancy in the office may be   filled by a special election, to the officer, board or  body  authorized   to  call  or  give  notice  of  a special election to fill such vacancy;   except that the notice of failure of a justice of the peace to file  his   official  oath,  shall  be given to the town clerk of the town for which   the justice was elected.
NY Pub Off L § 14 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 14 - Effect of Consolidation on Terms of Office.

§ 14. Effect  of  consolidation  on terms of office.   If an office be   continued by the consolidated laws  constituting  the  consolidation  of   which this chapter is a part, the person lawfully holding such office at   the  time  of the taking effect of such consolidated laws shall, subject   to the provisions of such consolidated laws, continue  therein  for  the   term for which he was chosen, or if holding over after the expiration of   his term, until his successor shall be chosen and shall have qualified.
NY Pub Off L § 15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 15 - Validation of Official Acts Performed Before Filing Official Oath or Undertaking.

§ 15. Validation  of  official  acts  performed before filing official   oath or undertaking. If a public officer, duly  chosen,  has  heretofore   entered,  or  shall  hereafter enter on the performance of the duties of   his or her office,  without  taking  or  filing  an  official  oath,  or   executing  or  filing  an  official  undertaking,  as  required  by  the   constitution, section ten of this article, section  twenty-five  of  the   town  law  or section one hundred four of the uniform justice court act,   or by any general or special law, his or her acts as  such  officer,  so   performed,  shall be as valid and of as full force and effect as if such   oath had been duly taken and filed, and as if such undertaking had  been   duly  executed  and filed, notwithstanding the provisions of any general   or special law declaring any such office vacant, or authorizing it to be   declared vacant, or to be filled as in case of vacancy, or imposing  any   other  forfeiture or penalty for omission to take or file any such oath,   or to execute or file any such undertaking; but this section  shall  not   otherwise  affect any provision of any general or special law, declaring   any such office vacant, or authorizing it to be declared vacant,  or  to   be  filled  as  in  case of vacancy, or imposing any other forfeiture or   penalty, by reason of the failure to take or file any such  oath  or  to   execute or file any such undertaking; and this section shall not relieve   any  such  officer from criminal liability for entering on the discharge   of his or her official duties without taking  or  filing  such  oath  or   executing or filing such undertaking in accordance with such provisions.
NY Pub Off L § 16 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 16 - Qualifications of Certain Judicial Officers in Cities of the First Class.

§ 16. Qualifications  of  certain  judicial  officers in cities of the   first class.  A person shall be eligible for appointment to  the  office   of  magistrate,  judge  or  justice  of  an  inferior  court of criminal   jurisdiction in a city of the first class, who shall at the time of such   appointment be of full age, a citizen of the United States,  a  resident   of  the  city, an attorney and counselor-at-law admitted to practice for   the period prescribed by special law, or in lieu thereof shall have been   a member of the legislature of the state for at least twelve consecutive   years, notwithstanding the provisions of  any  general  or  special  law   inconsistent herewith.
NY Pub Off L § 17-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 17-A - Reimbursement of Funds Paid by State Agencies and State Entities for the Payment of Awards Adjudicated in Sexual Harassment Claims.

§  17-a.  Reimbursement  of  funds  paid  by  state agencies and state   entities for the payment of  awards  adjudicated  in  sexual  harassment   claims.  1.  As used in this section, the term "employee" shall mean any   person holding a position by election, appointment, or employment in the   service of the state of New York, whether or not compensated.  The  term   "employee"  shall  include  a  former  employee  or judicially appointed   personal representative.2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any employee who has  been   subject  to  a  final  judgment  of  personal  liability for intentional   wrongdoing related to a claim of sexual harassment, shall reimburse  any   state  agency  or  entity  that  makes  a  payment to a plaintiff for an   adjudicated award based on a claim of sexual harassment resulting  in  a   judgment,  for  his  or  her  proportionate share of such judgment. Such   employee shall personally reimburse such state agency or  entity  within   ninety days of the state agency or entity's payment of such award.3.  If  such  employee  fails to reimburse such state agency or entity   pursuant to subdivision two of this section within ninety days from  the   date  such  state  agency  or  entity  makes a payment for the financial   award, the comptroller shall, upon obtaining a money judgment,  withhold   from  such  employee's  compensation  the  amounts allowable pursuant to   section fifty-two hundred thirty-one  of  the  civil  practice  law  and   rules.4.  If  such  employee  is  no longer employed by such state agency or   entity such state agency or entity  shall  have  the  right  to  receive   reimbursement  through  the  enforcement of a money judgment pursuant to   article fifty-two of the civil practice law and rules.
NY Pub Off L § 18-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers 18-A - Reimbursement of Funds Paid by a Public Entity for the Payment of Awards Adjudicated in Sexual Harassment Claims.

§ 18-a. Reimbursement of funds paid by a public entity for the payment of  awards  adjudicated  in sexual harassment claims. 1. As used in this section:  (a) The term "public entity" shall mean  (i)  a  county,  city,  town, village  or  any  other  political  subdivision or civil division of the state;  (ii)  a  school  district,  board  of  cooperative   educational services, or any other governmental entity or combination or association of  governmental  entities operating a public school, college, community college or university; (iii) a public improvement or  special  district; (iv)   a   public   authority,  commission,  agency  or  public  benefit corporation; or (v) any other separate corporate instrumentality or unit of government; but shall not include the state of New York or any  other public  entity the employees of which are covered by section seventeen-a of this article.  (b) The term "employee" shall  mean  any  commissioner,  member  of  a public board or commission, trustee, director, officer, employee, or any other  person  holding a position by election, appointment or employment in the service of a public entity, whether or not compensated. The  term "employee"  shall  include  a  former  employee  or judicially appointed personal representative.   2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any employee who has  been subject  to  a  final  judgment  of  personal  liability for intentional wrongdoing related to a claim of sexual harassment, shall reimburse  any public  entity  that  makes  a payment to a plaintiff for an adjudicated award based on a claim of sexual harassment resulting in a judgment, for his or her proportionate share of such  judgment.  Such  employee  shall personally reimburse such public entity within ninety days of the public entity's payment of such award.   3.  If such employee fails to reimburse such public entity pursuant to subdivision two of this section within ninety days from  the  date  such public  entity makes a payment for the financial award, the chief fiscal officer of such public entity shall, upon obtaining  a  money  judgment, withhold   from  such  employee's  compensation  the  amounts  allowable pursuant to section fifty-two hundred thirty-one of the  civil  practice law and rules.   4.  If such employee is no longer employed by such public entity, such public entity shall have the right to receive reimbursement through  the enforcement  of  a  money  judgment pursuant to article fifty-two of the civil practice law and rules.
NY Pub Off L § 20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 20 - Action Upon Official Bond or Undertaking.

§ 20. Action  upon  official  bond  or  undertaking.    Where a public   officer is required to give an official bond or undertaking, and special   provision is not made  by  law  for  the  prosecution  of  the  bond  or   undertaking,  by or for the benefit of a person who has sustained by his   default, delinquency or misconduct, an injury, for  which  the  sureties   upon  the  bond  or  undertaking are liable, such a person may apply for   leave to prosecute such official bond or undertaking.  Such  application   shall  be made to the supreme court except as otherwise provided in this   article.
NY Pub Off L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 21 - Application May Be Made Ex Parte.

§ 21. Application  may be made ex parte.  Such application may be made   without notice; but in that case the officer, or either of his sureties,   may apply upon notice, to vacate an order permitting  the  applicant  to   maintain  an  action,  upon any ground showing that it ought not to have   been granted.
NY Pub Off L § 22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 22 - Proof to Accompany Application.

§ 22. Proof  to  accompany  application.    The  application  must  be   accompanied with1. A certified copy of the official bond or undertaking;2. Proof by affidavit of the default or misconduct complained of,  and   that satisfaction of the same has not been received.3.  If  the  default  consists  of  the  non-payment of money, and the   applicant has not recovered judgment against  the  officer,  or  special   provision  is not otherwise made by law, proof of a demand for the money   from the officer, or that a demand cannot be made with due diligence.
NY Pub Off L § 23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 23 - Order Granting Leave; Action Thereupon.

§ 23. Order   granting   leave;  action  thereupon.     Upon  such  an   application, the court must grant an order, permitting the applicant  to   maintain  an  action  upon  the  bond or undertaking. The action must be   brought, in the court which granted  the  order,  by  the  applicant  as   plaintiff; and it may be maintained, as if the applicant was the obligee   named  in  the  bond  or  undertaking,  except  as  otherwise  expressly   prescribed in this article.
NY Pub Off L § 24 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 24 - Successive Actions.

§ 24. Successive  actions.   The same, or any other applicant, may, in   like manner, either before or after judgment in the first action, obtain   an order, permitting him to maintain another action, in the same  court,   upon  the  same  bond or undertaking, for another default or misconduct.   Any number of such orders may be successively made; and neither  of  the   actions  authorized  thereby  is  affected  by  the  pendency of, or the   recovery of judgment  in,  any  other,  except  as  otherwise  expressly   prescribed in this article.
NY Pub Off L § 25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 25 - Indorsement Upon Execution.

§ 25. Indorsement upon execution.  Where an execution is issued upon a   judgment,  recovered against the public officer and any of his sureties,   in an action, brought pursuant to this article, the plaintiff's attorney   must indorse thereon a direction to collect the same, in the first place   out of the property of the public officer, and, if  sufficient  property   cannot  be  found, then to collect the deficiency out of the property of   the surety or sureties.
NY Pub Off L § 26 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 26 - Collection of Execution; When a Defence to Subsequent Action.

§ 26. Collection of execution; when a defence to subsequent action. It   is  a  defence  by  a  surety, against whom an action is brought upon an   official bond or undertaking, that he, or any other surety or  sureties,   have  been  or will be compelled, for want of sufficient property of the   public officer to pay, upon one or more judgments recovered against  him   or  them,  upon  the  same  bond  or  undertaking,  an aggregate amount,   exclusive of costs, officers' fees, and expenses, equal to the  sum  for   which  the defendant is liable, by reason of the bond or undertaking. It   is a partial defence, that the difference between the aggregate  amount,   so  paid,  or  to  be  paid, and the sum for which the defendant is thus   liable, is less than the amount of the plaintiff's demand.
NY Pub Off L § 27 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 27 - When Claimants Entitled to Ratable Distribution.

§ 27. When  claimants  entitled  to  ratable  distribution.    If  the   aggregate amount of the liabilities, which might be recovered by actions   upon an official bond or undertaking, as  prescribed  in  this  article,   exceeds  the sum for which the sureties are liable, the court must, upon   the application of a person who has obtained leave to prosecute the bond   or undertaking, made upon notice to the plaintiff's  attorney,  in  each   action  then  pending  upon  such  bond  or  undertaking,  and  in  each   uncollected judgment recovered thereupon, direct  and  provide  for  the   distribution  of  the  money,  collected  out  of  the  property  of the   sureties, among the persons  in  favor  of  whom  the  liabilities  have   accrued,  in  proportion  to  the  amount  which each one is entitled to   recover; to be ascertained by a reference, or in such  other  manner  as   the  court  directs. For the purposes of the motion an order may be made   by a judge, forbidding the payment to the plaintiff in  any  action,  of   the  sum  collected  or to be collected by virtue of a judgment therein.   But this section does not authorize the court to compel a  plaintiff  to   refund  any  money, collected and received by him, in good faith, before   service of notice of such an order.
NY Pub Off L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 2-A - Actions on Official Bonds or Undertakings 28 - Receivers, Assignees and Trustees Deemed Public Officers.

§ 28. Receivers,  assignees  and  trustees  deemed  public officers. A   receiver, an assignee of an insolvent debtor,  or  a  trustee  or  other   officer,  appointed  by  a court or a judge, is a public officer, within   the meaning of this article; but where he was appointed by  or  pursuant   to  the  order  of a court, or in proceedings supplementary to execution   against property, the application for leave to  prosecute  his  official   bond  or  undertaking must be made to the court by which, or pursuant to   whose order, he was appointed, or in which the judgment was rendered, as   the case may be.
NY Pub Off L § 32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies 32 - Removals by Senate.

§ 32. Removals  by senate. The governor before making a recommendation   to the senate for the removal of any officer may in his discretion  take   proofs, for the purpose of determining whether such recommendation shall   be made.The  comptroller  or attorney-general may be removed by the senate, on   the recommendation of the governor, for misconduct  or  malversation  in   office,  if  two-thirds  of  all the members elected to the senate shall   concur therein. No such removal shall be made unless the person  who  is   sought  to  be removed shall have been served with a copy of the charges   against him and have an opportunity of being heard. On the  question  of   removal, the yeas and nays shall be entered on the journal. The governor   may  convene  the  senate in extra session for the investigation of such   charges. The senate shall have power to make such rules as  it  may  see   fit  for  the  practice  before  it.  At  the  time  appointed  for  the   investigation, the senate shall proceed to  hear  and  try  the  charges   against such officer, and may take proofs in relation thereto.The  governor  may appoint any suitable person to conduct the trial of   such charges before the senate.An officer appointed by the  governor  by  and  with  the  advice  and   consent  of the senate, except an officer who is or any or either of the   officers who are the head of  a  department,  and  except  as  otherwise   provided  by  special provision of law may be removed by the senate upon   the recommendation of the governor.If the senate shall reject a recommendation of removal  the  secretary   of  the senate shall, by a writing signed by him and by the president of   the senate, communicate the fact of such rejection to the governor.   If   the  senate shall concur in such a recommendation the removal shall take   effect upon the passage of the resolution of concurrence, and  duplicate   copies  of  such resolution, certified by the secretary and president of   the senate, shall be executed and delivered by  such  secretary  to  the   secretary of state.