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2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-G - Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund › 160-CCC - Contributions to the Fund.

§  160-ccc.  Contributions  to  the fund. Each independent livery base
  shall be assessed an annual payment to the fund, to be set by the  board
  of  directors  no later than January first of each calendar year or such
  other date as the board of directors may set  consistent  with,  and  as
  necessary  to  effectuate, this article. The total amount of the payment
  shall be determined by the fund as sufficient to provide it  with  total
  assets  equal  to  one hundred fifty percent of the cost of an insurance
  policy issued under section one hundred sixty-ddd of this  article,  and
  to  provide for any administrative expense of the fund. Each independent
  livery base's own share of  such  payments  shall  be  determined  by  a
  formula  set  by  the  board  of directors, to be based on the number of
  liveries affiliated with each livery base at the time the  payments  are
  calculated,  or  such  other  measure  set  by the chair of the workers'
  compensation board. Each independent livery base shall make the payments
  assessed against it annually within thirty days of assessment. If it  is
  determined  by  the board of directors that there may be an insufficient
  amount of money in the fund to purchase the requisite coverage or to pay
  administrative expenses in a given year,  the  board  of  directors  may
  require  each  independent  livery base to make an additional payment to
  the fund based on the amount of its affiliated drivers on an  annualized
  basis or such other criteria as shall be established by the chair of the
  workers'  compensation  board,  except  that  no  such payments shall be
  assessed, such that the fund will have funds greater than  necessary  to
  provide  compensation under the workers' compensation law, to the extent
  set forth in section one hundred sixty-ddd of this article for  eighteen
  months.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-G - Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund › 160-DDD - Use of the Fund.

§  160-ddd.  Use  of the fund. Moneys deposited into the fund shall be
  used to  provide  benefits  under  the  workers'  compensation  law,  by
  purchase  of  a  policy from the state insurance fund, or from a carrier
  licensed  to  write  workers'  compensation  insurance  to  the   extent
  permitted  by  section  three  thousand  four  hundred  fifty-one of the
  insurance law, for  livery  drivers  dispatched  by  independent  livery
  bases,  to  provide  benefits  under  the  workers' compensation law for
  deaths of livery drivers arising out of and in the course  of  providing
  covered  services,  and all injuries arising out of and in the course of
  providing covered services either:  (1) resulting from a  crime  against
  such  livery  driver  as  evidenced  by  a  police report or (2) for the
  following conditions: (a) the amputation or loss of an arm,  leg,  hand,
  foot,  multiple  fingers, index finger, multiple toes, ear, or nose, (b)
  paraplegia or quadriplegia, or (c)  total  and  permanent  blindness  or
  deafness.  The  provisions of the workers' compensation law shall govern
  any application for and the receipt of such benefits.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-G - Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund › 160-FFF - Membership in the Fund.

§ 160-fff. Membership in the fund. 1. The membership of the fund shall
  be   comprised   of  all  independent  livery  bases.  If  the  workers'
  compensation board or local taxi  and  limousine  commission  revokes  a
  livery  base's  authorization  to  act as an independent livery base, it
  shall cease to be  a  member  of  the  fund  within  thirty  days.  Such
  revocation shall not entitle the livery base to the return of any moneys
  deposited into the fund.
2.  Each livery base shall be required, as a condition of obtaining or
  retaining any license it receives to operate as a  livery  base  from  a
  local  taxi  and  limousine commission either: (a) to be a member of the
  fund, to submit to the local taxi and limousine commission proof of such
  membership and to maintain such records  as  the  workers'  compensation
  board,  state  department  of motor vehicles or local taxi and limousine
  commission  may  direct  in  order  to  carry  out  the  livery   base's
  responsibilities  under  this article, and as necessary to determine the
  appropriate cost  of  compensation  the  fund  must  provide  under  the
  workers' compensation law; or (b) to present proof to the local taxi and
  limousine commission that it has secured compensation under the workers'
  compensation  law,  to  the extent required of employers, for all livery
  drivers it dispatches.
3. Each local taxi and limousine commission shall supply the fund  and
  the  workers'  compensation  board,  at  any  such  time  as the fund or
  workers' compensation board requests, a list of all liveries  affiliated
  with each livery base licensed by the commission.
4.  The fund shall, within seventy-five days of the appointment of the
  fund's board of directors, provide to its members a copy of the proposed
  plan of operation filed with the workers'  compensation  board  and  all
  local  taxi  and  limousine  commissions and shall inform its members of
  their rights and duties pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-G - Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund › 160-GGG - Plan of Operation.

§  160-ggg.  Plan  of  operation.  1.  Within seventy-five days of the
appointment of the fund's board of directors, the fund shall  file  with
the workers' compensation board and local taxi and limousine commissions
its  plan  of  operation,  which  shall  be designed to assure the fair,
reasonable and  equitable  administration  of  the  fund.  The  plan  of
operation  and  any subsequent amendments thereto shall become effective
upon being filed with the workers' compensation board and all  taxi  and
limousine commissions.
2.  The plan of operation shall constitute the by-laws of the fund and
shall, in addition to the  requirements  enumerated  elsewhere  in  this
article:
(a) establish procedures for collecting and managing the assets of the
fund;
(b)  establish  regular  places  and  times for meetings of the fund's
board of directors;
(c)  establish  accounting  and  record-keeping  procedures  for   all
financial  transactions  of  the  fund,  its  agents  and  the  board of
directors;
(d)  establish  a  procedure  for  determining  and   collecting   the
appropriate amount of assessments under this article; and
(e)  contain  such  additional provisions as the board of directors of
the fund may deem necessary or proper for the execution  of  the  powers
and duties of the fund.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-G - Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund › 160-III - Insurance Premiums.

§  160-iii.  Insurance  premiums.  Nothing  in  this article or in the
  provisions of the workers' compensation law pertaining  to  coverage  of
  livery  drivers  under  this  article shall be construed as limiting the
  discretion of the state insurance fund, in providing coverage to the New
  York independent livery driver benefit fund, inc., in choosing a premium
  basis, rating plan or setting a rate to cover the risk posed by insuring
  such fund.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-BBBB - Registration Required.

§  160-bbbb.  Registration required. It shall be unlawful for a person
  to, directly or indirectly, engage or attempt to engage in  business  as
  an  appraisal management company, or to advertise or hold oneself out as
  engaging in or conducting business as an  appraisal  management  company
  without  first  obtaining  a  certificate  of registration issued by the
  department under the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-CCCC - Exemptions.

§ 160-cccc. Exemptions. The provisions of this article shall not apply
  to any person that exclusively employs appraisers for the performance of
  appraisals or to any appraisal management company that is a wholly-owned
  subsidiary of a financial institution, which is regulated by the federal
  financial  institution regulatory agency. The registration provisions of
  this article  shall  not  apply  to  the  state,  any  state  agency  or
  authority,  or  any  political  subdivision  of  the  state that employs
  appraisers.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-EEEE - Denial of Registration.

§ 160-eeee. Denial of registration. The department may investigate the
  good  character  of  applicants  for a certificate of registration under
  this  article  and  may  deny  the  issuance  of  such  certificate   of
  registration  based upon lack of good moral character which may include,
  but is not limited to, any of the grounds enumerated  in  this  article.
  For  the  purposes of this article, a non-substantive ground for denial,
  revocation, or  surrender  of  an  appraiser's  license  should  not  be
  construed as an automatic prohibition.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-GGGG - Fees.

§ 160-gggg. Fees. 1. The department shall collect a fee of two hundred
  fifty dollars for a certificate of registration issued or reissued under
  the  provisions  of  this  article.  Additionally,  the department shall
  assess twenty-five dollars for each  appraiser  added  to  an  appraisal
  management company's appraiser panel.
2. The department shall collect from each appraisal management company
  seeking  to  be  registered,  the  amount  determined  by  the appraisal
  subcommittee to be a national registry  fee  for  each  appraiser,  that
  performs appraisal services within New York on the appraiser panel of an
  appraisal  management  company  pursuant  to  Section  1109(a)(4) of the
  federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act  of
  1989  as  amended  by  the  Dodd-Frank  Wall  Street Reform and Consumer
  Protection Act of 2010. The department may transmit the annual  registry
  fee  to  the  appraisal  subcommittee.  The department shall provide its
  roster of appraisal management companies to the appraisal  subcommittee.
  These transmittals shall occur at least annually.
3.  Except  for  changes  made  on  a  renewal  application, appraisal
  management companies shall provide  the  department  with  notice  of  a
  change  in  the  appraisal  management's  principal  address.  Change of
  address notifications shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars.
4. Except for changes made on a renewal  application,  the  department
  shall  collect a fee of ten dollars for changing a name on a certificate
  of registration.
5. In lieu of the fee set forth in subdivision one  of  this  section,
  the  department  shall  collect  a fee of three hundred fifty dollars to
  reissue a certificate of  registration  under  this  article  which  was
  submitted after the expiration of the immediately preceding registration
  term.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-HHHH - Owner Requirements.

§  160-hhhh.  Owner  requirements.  An  appraisal  management  company
  applying for a certificate of registration shall not be owned  in  whole
  or  in  part, directly or indirectly, by a person who has had a license,
  registration or certificate to act as a real  estate  appraiser  denied,
  revoked, or surrendered in lieu of pending discipline in any state or by
  a  person  holding  ten percent or more of the company where that person
  has had a license, registration or certificate to act as a  real  estate
  appraiser denied, revoked, or surrendered in lieu of possible discipline
  in any state.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-IIII - Controlling Persons.

§  160-iiii. Controlling persons. 1. Each appraisal management company
  applying  for  a  certificate  of  registration  shall   designate   one
  controlling  person  who shall be the main contact for all communication
  between the  department  and  the  appraisal  management  company.  Such
  designated  controlling  person  shall  never  have  had  a  license  or
  certificate to act as an appraiser denied, revoked,  or  surrendered  in
  lieu  of  possible  discipline  in  any state and shall be of good moral
  character, as determined by the department. Applicants  shall  cooperate
  with any such background investigation conducted by the department.
2.  Each  person  that  owns  more  than  ten  percent of an appraisal
  management company shall be of good moral character,  as  determined  by
  the  department.  Applicants  shall  cooperate  with any such background
  investigation conducted by the department.
3. Each appraisal management company applying  for  a  certificate  of
  registration  shall  certify to the department that it has reviewed each
  entity that owns more than  ten  percent  of  the  appraisal  management
  company  and  that  no  entity  that  owns  more than ten percent of the
  appraisal management company is more  than  ten  percent  owned  by  any
  person  that  has  had  a  license or certificate to act as an appraiser
  denied, revoked, or surrendered in lieu of a pending revocation.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-JJJJ - Employee Requirements.

§  160-jjjj. Employee requirements. 1. An appraisal management company
  that applies for a  certificate  of  registration  shall  not  knowingly
  employ,  utilize,  or  engage,  for any real estate appraisal, valuation
  service or appraisal review assignment, a person who has had  a  license
  or  certificate  to  act  as  an appraiser in this state or in any other
  state denied, revoked, or surrendered in lieu  of  possible  discipline,
  unless such license has been reinstated.
2.  Prior  to  placing  an  assignment  for  an appraisal or valuation
  service with an  appraiser  on  the  appraiser  panel  of  an  appraisal
  management  company,  the appraisal management company shall verify that
  the appraiser receiving the  assignment  is  a  competent  appraiser  as
  defined by the USPAP Competency Rule with regards to geographic area and
  the  type of property being appraised. An appraiser is deemed part of an
  appraisal management company panel as of the earliest date on which: (a)
  the appraisal management company accepts the appraiser for consideration
  for  future  appraisal  assignments  in  covered  transactions  or   for
  secondary  mortgage  market  participants  in  connection  with  covered
  transactions; or (b) engages  the  appraiser  to  perform  one  or  more
  appraisals  on  behalf  of  a  creditor  for  a  covered  transaction or
  secondary  mortgage  market  participant  in  connection  with   covered
  transactions.
3.  An appraisal management company may not hire, employ or engage, or
  in any way contract with  or  pay  a  person  who  is  not  licensed  or
  certified  as  a  real  estate  appraiser  by the department pursuant to
  article six-E  of  this  chapter  for  the  purposes  of  performing  an
  appraisal  as  defined  in  this  article. Nothing in this section shall
  prohibit  an  appraisal  management  company  from  hiring,   employing,
  engaging  or  contracting  with or paying a person to perform a property
  inspection, or property evaluation if they are licensed as an appraiser,
  a real estate broker including associate real estate  brokers  and  real
  estate  salespersons  pursuant  to article twelve-A of the real property
  law or a home  inspector  pursuant  to  article  twelve-B  of  the  real
  property  law, or a person to perform a broker price opinion if they are
  licensed as a real estate broker including associate real estate brokers
  and real estate salespersons pursuant to article twelve-A  of  the  real
  property law.
4.  An  appraiser  shall be considered part of an appraisal management
  company's appraiser panel until: (a) the  appraisal  management  company
  sends a written notice to such appraiser removing such appraiser with an
  explanation; or (b) receives a written notice from such appraiser asking
  to be removed or of the death or incapacity of such appraiser.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-KKKK - Restrictions.

§ 160-kkkk. Restrictions. An appraisal management company that applies
  for a certificate of registration shall not knowingly:
1.  Employ  any  person  in  a  position  in  which the person has the
  responsibility to order appraisals or valuation services  or  to  review
  completed  appraisals who has had a license, registration or certificate
  to act as an appraiser in this state or  in  any  other  state,  denied,
  revoked,  or  surrendered  in  lieu of a pending revocation, unless such
  license has been reinstated;
2. Enter into  any  independent  contractor  arrangement,  whether  in
  verbal,  written,  or  by  other  form,  with  any  person who has had a
  license, registration or certificate to act  as  an  appraiser  in  this
  state  or in any other state, denied, revoked, or surrendered in lieu of
  a pending revocation, unless such license has been reinstated; and
3. Enter into any contract, agreement, or other business relationship,
  whether in verbal, written, or other form, with any entity that employs,
  has entered into an independent contract  arrangement,  or  has  entered
  into any contract, agreement, or other business relationship, whether in
  verbal,  written,  or any other form, with any person who has ever had a
  license, registration or certificate to act  as  an  appraiser  in  this
  state  or in any other state, denied, revoked, or surrendered in lieu of
  a pending revocation, unless such license has been reinstated.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-LLLL - Recordkeeping.

§  160-llll.  Recordkeeping.  Each  appraisal management company shall
  maintain a detailed record of each service request that it receives  and
  the real estate appraiser that performs such appraisal for the appraisal
  management company. Records shall be maintained for a period of at least
  five  years  after  such appraisal is completed or two years after final
  disposition  of  a  judicial  proceeding  related  to  such  assignment,
  whichever  period  expires  later.  Appraisal management companies shall
  make  records  available  to  the  department  upon  request.  Appraisal
  management  companies  shall  also  allow  the department to examine the
  books and records of the appraisal management company and require it  to
  submit  reports,  information  and  documents  upon  request.  Appraisal
  management companies shall also allow the department to verify that  the
  appraisers on such panel hold a valid license or certification.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-NNNN - Mandatory Reporting.

§  160-nnnn. Mandatory reporting. An appraisal management company that
  has a reasonable basis to believe  an  appraiser  within  the  appraisal
  management  company's  appraisal  panel  is  failing  to comply with the
  uniform standards  of  professional  appraisal  practice,  is  violating
  applicable laws, or is otherwise engaging in unethical or unprofessional
  conduct shall immediately refer such matter to the department.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-PPPP - Alteration of Appraisal Reports.

§  160-pppp.  Alteration of appraisal reports. An appraisal management
  company shall  not  alter,  modify,  or  otherwise  change  a  completed
  appraisal  or  valuation  service  report  submitted  by an appraiser by
  removing such appraiser's signature or seal or by adding information to,
  or removing information from such  report  with  intent  to  change  the
  valuation  conclusion. An appraisal management company shall not require
  an appraiser to provide such  appraisal  management  company  with  such
  appraiser's digital signature or seal.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-QQQQ - Enforcement.

§  160-qqqq.  Enforcement.  The  department  may revoke or suspend the
  license of an appraisal management  company,  or  in  lieu  thereof  may
  impose a fine, per violation, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars
  if   the  department  finds  that  the  licensee  has  made  a  material
  misstatement in the application for such license, or  if  such  licensee
  has been found guilty of fraud or fraudulent practices, or for dishonest
  or  misleading  advertising,  or  has  demonstrated untrustworthiness or
  incompetency to act as an appraisal management company, or has  violated
  any  provision  of  this article or a regulation promulgated thereunder.
  The department shall report any such violations by appraisal  management
  companies to the appraisal subcommittee.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-RRRR - Disciplinary Hearing.

§  160-rrrr.  Disciplinary  hearings.  The  department  shall,  before
  revoking or suspending any license or imposing any fine or reprimand  on
  the  holder  thereof, and at least twenty days prior to the date set for
  the hearing, notify, in writing, the  holder  of  such  license  of  any
  charges  made  and shall afford such licensee an opportunity to be heard
  in person or by counsel in reference thereto. Such written notice may be
  served by personal delivery to the licensee, or by certified mail to the
  last known business address of such licensee or unlicensed person, or by
  any method authorized by the civil practice law and rules.  The  hearing
  on  such charges shall be at such time and place as the department shall
  prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-SSSS - Power to Suspend a License.

§  160-ssss.  Power  to  suspend a license. In cases where the health,
  safety, or welfare of the public is  endangered,  the  department  shall
  have  the  authority  to immediately suspend a license pending a hearing
  before an administrative law judge.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-TTTT - Investigation.

§  160-tttt.  Investigation.  The  department  shall have the power to
  enforce the provisions of this article and upon complaint of any person,
  or on its own initiative, to investigate any  violation  thereof  or  to
  investigate  the business, business practices and business methods of an
  appraisal management company, if in the opinion of the  department  such
  investigation  is  warranted.  Each  such applicant or licensee shall be
  obliged, on request of the department, to supply such information as may
  be required concerning  his  or  its  business,  business  practices  or
  business methods, or proposed business practices or methods.
For  the  purpose  of enforcing the provisions of this article, and in
  making investigations relating to any violation  thereof,  and  for  the
  purpose  of investigating the character, competency and integrity of the
  applicants or licensees hereunder, and for the purpose of  investigating
  the  business,  business practices and business methods of any applicant
  or licensee, or of the  officers  or  agents  thereof,  the  department,
  acting  by  such officer or person in the department as the secretary of
  state may designate, shall have the power to subpoena and  bring  before
  the officer or person so designated any person in this state and require
  the  production  of any books, records or papers which he deems relevant
  to the inquiry and administer an oath  to  and  take  testimony  of  any
  person  or  cause  his  or  her  deposition to be taken, except that any
  applicant or licensee or officer or agent thereof shall not be  entitled
  to  fees  and/or  mileage. A subpoena issued under this section shall be
  regulated by the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-VVVV - Violations.

§ 160-vvvv. Violations. 1. Any person or company who fails to obtain a
  certificate  of  registration required pursuant to this article shall be
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2.  Criminal  actions  for  failure  to  obtain   a   certificate   of
  registration  may  also be prosecuted by the attorney general, or his or
  her deputy, in the name of the people of the  state,  and  in  any  such
  prosecution the attorney general, or his or her deputy, may exercise all
  the powers and perform all the duties the district attorney is otherwise
  authorized to exercise or to perform therein.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-WWWW - Severability.

§  160-wwww. Severability. Should the courts of this state declare any
  provision of this  article  unconstitutional,  or  unauthorized,  or  in
  conflict  with  any  other  section  or  provision of this article, such
  decision shall affect only such section or provision so declared  to  be
  unconstitutional  or unauthorized and shall not affect any other section
  or part of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6-H - Real Estate Appraisal Management Companies › 160-XXXX - Judicial Review.

§ 160-xxxx. Judicial review. The actions of the department in granting
  or  refusing  to  grant  or  to renew a license under this article or in
  revoking or suspending such a license or imposing any fine or  reprimand
  on the holder thereof or refusing to revoke or suspend such a license or
  impose  any fine or reprimand shall be subject to review by a proceeding
  brought under  and  pursuant  to  article  seventy-eight  of  the  civil
  practice  law  and  rules  at  the  instance  of  the applicant for such
  license, the holder of  a  license  so  revoked,  suspended,  fined,  or
  reprimanded or the person aggrieved.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 161 - Certain Searches, the Filing of Papers, and Certified Copies, Ordered by State Officers to Be Gratuitous.

§ 161. Certain  searches,  the filing of papers, and certified copies,
  ordered by state officers to be gratuitous. 1.  Each  of  the  following
  officers,   to  wit:  the  secretary  of  state,  the  comptroller,  the
  commissioner of taxation and finance, the attorney general,  the  public
  service  commission,  the  commissioner  of agriculture and markets, the
  commissioner  of  transportation,  the  industrial   commissioner,   the
  chairman  of  the state labor relations board, the chairman of the state
  liquor authority, the superintendent of financial  services,  the  state
  commissioner  of  human rights, the commissioner of general services and
  the commissioner of housing and community renewal may require search  to
  be  made, in the office of any of the others, or of a county clerk or of
  the clerk of a court of record, for  any  record,  document,  or  paper,
  where  he  or  she  deems  it  necessary for the discharge of his or her
  official duties, and a copy thereof, or extracts therefrom, to  be  made
  and  officially certified or exemplified, without the payment of any fee
  or charge.
2. No salaried officer of any city, county, or court, of  this  state,
  or  any  public  officer  who  is  required  by  law to deposit the fees
  collected in his office into any  city  or  county  treasury,  shall  be
  entitled  to  receive  from  said  state officers, or from a division or
  bureau of said state officers, any fee for entering, filing,  docketing,
  registering  or  recording any paper, record or document required by law
  to be filed in the office of any such city,  county,  court,  or  public
  officer,  or  for  a certified copy, transcript or extract of any paper,
  document or record on file in such office which he deems  necessary  for
  the  discharge of his official duties, and every such officer must, upon
  application therefor, furnish to said state officers, or a  division  or
  bureau  of said state officers, for such official use, a certified copy,
  extract or transcript of any paper, record or document on file  in  such
  office  without  the  payment of the fee prescribed by law therefor; nor
  shall any court clerk demand or receive from any of said state officers,
  or from a division or bureau of said state officers, any trial  or  jury
  fee upon filing in any court in this state a note of issue or demand for
  a jury trial.
3.  Such  salaried  officer  shall  also  furnish  the services herein
  specified to any state department or a bureau or agency  thereof  acting
  as  an  agent  of the state in the acquisition of real property, without
  the payment of any fee or charge.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 162 - Contracts for Professional Services of State and Municipal Employees.

§ 162. Contracts  for  professional  services  of  state and municipal
  employees.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,  general,
  special  or  local,  the state and any municipal subdivision thereof and
  any department, bureau, board, commission, authority or any other agency
  or instrumentality of the state or any  municipal  subdivision  thereof,
  are hereby severally authorized and empowered to enter into any contract
  or  arrangement  with  the  United  States  of  America  or  any office,
  department, agency or instrumentality thereof  for  the  performance  at
  cost  by  engineers,  architects, draftsmen and chemists employed by the
  state or such municipal subdivision, upon such terms and  conditions  as
  may  be  mutually  agreed  upon, of any project or work authorized by or
  pursuant to any act of congress or the cost of which has  been  provided
  for  by  an  appropriation  or contract authorization made by any act of
  congress which involves or requires the professional  services  of  such
  employees. The making or performance of any such contract or arrangement
  shall  in  no  wise  be  deemed  to  affect or result in the impairment,
  diminution or abridgment of  the  compensation,  or  any  of  the  civil
  service,  retirement  and other rights, privileges and immunities of any
  employee engaged in the performance of any service thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 163-A - Contracts With Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated.

§  163-a.  Contracts  with  Green  Thumb Environmental Beautification,
  Incorporated. Each state department, agency, board,  bureau,  commission
  or  other  unit  performing governmental functions for the state, within
  amounts  appropriated  therefor,   may   contract   with   Green   Thumb
  Environmental  Beautification,  Incorporated,  a  nonprofit organization
  that is organized for the purpose of  environmental  beautification  and
  employs  persons  fifty-five  years  of age or older whose annual income
  does not exceed: (1) two hundred fifty percent of the  non-farm  federal
  poverty  level  applicable to a family of one (as defined and updated by
  the federal department of health and human services) for  an  individual
  living alone or in another person's home; or (2) four hundred percent of
  the  non-farm  federal  poverty  level applicable to a family of one (as
  defined and updated by  the  federal  department  of  health  and  human
  services)  for  a  couple  living alone or in another person's home. The
  contract shall name the organization, the amount and manner of  payments
  for the service to be rendered, nature of such service, the rendering of
  a  verified  account  of  the  disbursements  with verified or certified
  vouchers therefor attached, a refund of  any  unused  amount,  and  such
  other conditions upon the use thereof as may be deemed proper.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 164 - Reports by and to the Department.

§ 164. Reports  by and to the department.  Each department, other than
  the executive department, shall make an annual report  to  the  governor
  and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding
  calendar   year.  It  shall  contain  such  information  concerning  the
  department and its several divisions,  bureaus,  offices,  agencies  and
  institutions,    and    their   activities   and   affairs,   and   such
  recommendations, as the head of the department shall deem  necessary  or
  proper,  and  any  matters  required  by  express provision of law to be
  included in such report. A department also shall  make  such  other  and
  special  reports  as the governor or either house of the legislature may
  require. From time to time, the head of a department  may  require  from
  any  board,  commission  or  other  body  in  the department or from any
  subordinate officer or employee, division or bureau of  the  department,
  or from any institution subject to the supervision of the department, or
  from  any  agency of the department, such reports or information as such
  head may deem necessary. Unless expressly authorized by the head of  the
  department,  there  shall  be  hereafter  no  separate report, annual or
  otherwise, directly to the legislature or governor by  any  such  board,
  commission,  body,  officer,  division,  bureau,  institution  or agency
  notwithstanding any existing provision of law authorizing  or  requiring
  such report.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 164-A - Report and Publication Economy Regulations.

§ 164-a. Report   and   publication   economy   regulations.   1.  The
commissioner of the office of general services, in consultation with the
state  comptroller,  shall  establish  regulations  providing  for  cost
savings   in   the  printing  and  distribution  of  reports  and  other
publications by agencies, departments and authorities of the  state.  To
the  extent  that  such  reports  and  publications do not relate to the
marketing or  advertising  of  a  service  or  product  of  the  agency,
department  or  authority,  such  regulations shall at a minimum provide
that such reports and other publications:
(a) be as brief as may be practicable;
(b) utilize uncoated recyclable paper, of a size  that  will  minimize
paper use and waste, for printing of text and cover;
(c) make limited use of photographs;
(d)   be  printed  in  no  more  than  two  colors,  unless  otherwise
specifically permitted by law, rule or regulation of the commissioner;
(e) not use covers unless such covers are  necessary  and  appropriate
for the protection of the document;
(f)  be  distributed pursuant to a distribution list which is reviewed
at least  annually  to  eliminate  duplicate,  excessive,  unwanted  and
obsolete mailings;
(g)  be  mailed  in  combination,  to  the extent practicable and when
possible, with mailing of other reports and publications;
(h) be eliminated or combined, to  the  extent  practicable  and  when
possible, with other reports and publications.
2.  Each  agency  or department shall, with its annual report, provide
the state comptroller with a list of printing cost  estimates  from  all
sources,  including  in-house facilities, the office of general services
central reproduction unit, private printers and such other printing cost
information as may be required by the state comptroller.
3. Subdivision one of this section shall be implemented  in  a  manner
that  is  consistent with the provisions of subdivisions five and six of
section three hundred fifty-five of the education law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 164-C - Printing Cost Reduction Notices.

§ 164-c. Printing  cost  reduction  notices. There shall be printed on
  the cover or cover page  of  every  annual  report,  report  or  similar
  publication  issued  by  any department, division, commission, agency or
  any other entity of the state, a notice which states the following words
  or words to the effect of the following: "In an  effort  to  reduce  the
  costs  of  printing,  please notify the producer of this document if you
  wish your name to be deleted from our mailing list or  if  your  address
  has changed."
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 164-D - Availability of Application Forms.

§  164-d.  Availability  of  application forms. 1. The state and every
  state agency, department, bureau, board, authority, office,  commission,
  or  any  other  instrumentality  of  the  state  shall  make the various
  application  forms  developed  and  distributed  by   such   agency   or
  instrumentality  for public use that are readily convertible to internet
  form and are  intended  to  be  commonly  used  by  the  general  public
  available on the internet.
2. Nothing in this section shall require that an agency or other state
  entity  or instrumentality accept or process application forms submitted
  through the internet, or post application forms including  user-specific
  data on the internet.
3.  The  office  of  information  technology services shall promulgate
  rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this section.  Such
  rules  shall  at  least  provide  for  the prioritization and timing for
  making application forms available on the internet.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 165 - Commission on Uniform State Laws; Object; Membership; Term of Office; Expenses.

§ 165. Commission  on  uniform state laws; object; membership; term of
  office; expenses.  The commission on uniform state laws is continued. It
  shall be the object of the commission to examine  various  statutes  and
  fields  of  law and to consult and cooperate with similar commissions in
  other states with a view to promoting uniform legislation throughout the
  United States whenever practicable. The commission  may  recommend  such
  legislation  as  may  accomplish its objective. It shall consist of five
  members appointed by the governor. The members shall hold office and may
  be removed at the pleasure of the governor. The commission  shall  serve
  without compensation, but each commissioner shall be entitled to receive
  his  actual  disbursements  for his expenses in performing the duties of
  his office. The commission  may  employ  such  persons  and  incur  such
  expenses  as  may  be necessary for the performance of its duties within
  the amounts appropriated therefor. The commission shall  report  to  the
  legislature  whenever the commission deems it necessary and shall report
  to the legislature upon its request. Such reports shall  consist  of  an
  account  of  the  transactions  of  the  commission  and  its advice and
  recommendations.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 166 - Record of Appearances.

§ 166. Record  of  appearances.  Every  regulatory agency of the state
  shall keep  a  record  of  appearances  before  it  or  its  appropriate
  divisions  or bureaus of attorneys, agents and representatives appearing
  on behalf of any person, firm, corporation or association subject to its
  regulatory jurisdiction, for which they  receive  a  fee,  which  record
  shall  be  open  to public inspection. Each regulatory agency shall file
  the record with the New York temporary state commission on  lobbying  on
  forms  prescribed by the commission. The record shall be filed quarterly
  on the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the quarter.  The
  term  "regulatory  agency"  as  used  in  this  section  shall  mean the
  department of financial  services,  department  of  financial  services,
  state   liquor   authority,   department  of  agriculture  and  markets,
  department  of  education,  department  of  environmental  conservation,
  department  of  health,  division  of  housing  and  community  renewal,
  department of state, other than the division of corporations  and  state
  records,  department  of public service, the industrial board of appeals
  in the department of labor and the department of law,  other  than  when
  the  attorney  general  or his agents or employees are performing duties
  specified in section sixty-three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 167 - Advertising and Publicizing Summer Camps Cited as Subversive.

§ 167. Advertising  and  publicizing summer camps cited as subversive.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general  or  special,
  no  department,  bureau,  board,  commission, authority, agency or other
  instrumentality of  the  state  shall  knowingly  advertise,  publicize,
  assist,  support  or advise, or in any manner promote in any publication
  or otherwise, any summer camp cited  by  the  attorney  general  of  the
  United  States,  the attorney general of the state of New York, any duly
  authorized state  agency  or  any  legislative  investigating  body  for
  teaching,  advocating  or  embracing the doctrine that the government of
  the United States or of any state or any political  subdivision  thereof
  shall  be  overthrown  or  overturned by force, violence or any unlawful
  means,  or  advocating,  advising,  teaching  or  embracing  the   duty,
  necessity or propriety of adopting any such doctrine.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 168 - Notices to Attorneys at Law by State Bodies or Officers.

§ 168. Notices  to  attorneys  at law by state bodies or officers.  1.
Whenever a person is involved as a party in a proceeding before any body
or officer exercising quasi-judicial or administrative functions, and an
attorney at law has filed a notice of appearance in such  proceeding  on
behalf  of  such person, a copy of all subsequent written communications
or notices to such person in  such  proceeding  (other  than  subpoenas)
shall  be  sent  to  such  attorney  at  law, and if any such subsequent
written communication or notice is sent to the party in the  proceeding,
a  copy  of  the  same  shall be sent to the attorney at law at the same
time. Every such body or officer is authorized to  provide  by  rule  or
regulation  for  the manner in which compliance with the requirements of
this section shall be effected, including, but not limited to, the  form
and content of notices of appearance, the manner in which an attorney at
law  shall file his notice of appearance in a proceeding, and the manner
in which written communications or notices shall be sent to the attorney
at law.
2. For the purpose of this section:
(a)  "person"  shall  mean  one  or  more  individuals,  partnerships,
corporations or associations;
(b)  "proceeding"  shall  mean  any  quasi-judicial  or administrative
procedure instituted by a written application by a person to a  body  or
officer,  by  a  notice  of  assessment  given by a body or officer to a
person, by a written  complaint  addressed  by  a  body  or  officer  or
transmitted  by  a  body  or  officer to a person, or by a notice of any
hearing before a  body  or  officer  whether  or  not  such  hearing  is
prescribed by statute.
3. This section shall not apply to preliminary investigations.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 170 - Audit of Agencies by the State Comptroller; Reports of Corrective Action.

§ 170. Audit   of  agencies  by  the  state  comptroller;  reports  of
  corrective action. Whenever the state comptroller shall conduct an audit
  of the activities and  operations  of  any  department,  bureau,  board,
  commission,  authority or any other agency or instrumentality, he or she
  shall submit a tentative copy of a report of such audit to the  head  of
  the  entity  audited.  The  head  of  such  entity  may submit a written
  response to such tentative report within  thirty  days  of  the  receipt
  thereof. The state comptroller shall thereafter submit a final report of
  such  audit which shall contain a complete copy of the response, if any,
  submitted  to  the  tentative  report.  If  the   final   report   makes
  recommendations  for  corrective  action, the head of the entity audited
  shall report within one hundred eighty days after receipt thereof to the
  governor, the state comptroller, the president, president  pro  tem  and
  minority  leader  of  the  senate,  the  speaker,  majority and minority
  leaders of the assembly, and the chairman and ranking  minority  members
  of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  assembly  ways  and means
  committees of the state legislature what steps were taken  to  implement
  such  recommendations,  and, where recommendations were not implemented,
  the reasons therefor.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 170-A - Celebration of Rosa Parks; Bus Companies.

§  170-a. Celebration of Rosa Parks; bus companies. 1. For purposes of
  this section, the terms "bus company" and "bus line" shall have the same
  meanings as set forth in subdivisions two and three of  section  two  of
  the transportation law.
2.  On  February  fourth, two thousand eight and every February fourth
  thereafter, a day  of  commemoration  designated  as  "Rosa  Parks  Day"
  pursuant to section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this article, every bus
  company  operating  a  bus line in this state may reserve and keep empty
  one seat on each bus placed in service by such bus company in  honor  of
  civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
3.  Compliance with the provisions of this section shall be voluntary,
  and no bus company operating a bus line in this state shall  be  subject
  to  any  liability,  either civil or criminal, solely for the failure to
  comply with the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 170-B - Employee Loans.

* §  170-b. Employee loans. 1. No state agency shall make available to
  employees a loan of any amount of money. Provided, however, that nothing
  in this section shall be construed to impede any person  from  receiving
  any aid for which he or she is eligible pursuant to any state or federal
  statute or regulation.
2.  For  purposes  of this section, the term "state agency" shall mean
  any state department, state university of New York, city  university  of
  New  York,  authority,  board,  bureau, division, commission, committee,
  council, office or other governmental entity performing  a  governmental
  or proprietary function for the state.
* NB There are 2 § 170-b's