2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 5 - Drivers' Licenses › Article 19 - Licensing of Drivers › 508 - Administrative Procedures.

§ 508. Administrative  procedures.  1.  The commissioner shall appoint
  agents  to  act  in  his  behalf  with  respect  to  the  acceptance  of
  applications and the issuance of licenses and permits prescribed in this
  article,  and he may prescribe the internal procedures to be followed by
  such agents with respect to such matters.
2. Any application required to be filed under this article shall be in
  a manner and on a form or forms  prescribed  by  the  commissioner.  The
  applicant  shall furnish all information required by statute and, except
  as otherwise provided in this  title,  such  other  information  as  the
  commissioner shall deem appropriate.
3.  License  record.  The  commissioner  shall  keep a record of every
  license issued which record shall be open to  public  inspection  during
  reasonable   business  hours.  Provided,  however,  that  the  following
  information whenever  contained  within  the  record  of  non-commercial
  drivers'  licenses  and  learners'  permits  shall not be open to public
  inspection:  the   photo   image,   social   security   number,   client
  identification  number, name, address, telephone number, place of birth,
  country  of  origin,  place  of  employment,   school   or   educational
  institution  attended, source of income, status as a recipient of public
  benefits, the customer identification number associated  with  a  public
  utilities  account, medical information or disability information of any
  holders of, or applicants for, such licenses and  permits,  and  whether
  such licenses or permits meet federal standards for identification or do
  not  meet federal standards for identification. Neither the commissioner
  nor  his  agent  shall  be  required  to  allow  the  inspection  of  an
  application,  or  to  furnish  a copy thereof, or information therefrom,
  until a license has been issued thereon.
4. The commissioner may promulgate regulations  with  respect  to  the
  administration of the provisions of this article.
5.  The  commissioner  is  directed to develop license application and
  renewal forms which shall solicit a voluntary one dollar  donation  from
  persons  applying for or renewing a driver's license at the time of such
  application  or  renewal.  Of  monies   collected   pursuant   to   this
  subdivision,  the  first  one  hundred  fifty  thousand dollars shall be
  retained  by  the  department  to  offset  its  initial  program  costs.
  Subsequently,  five  percent  of  any  monies collected pursuant to this
  subdivision  shall  be  retained  by  the  department   for   continuing
  administrative costs. The remainder of such monies collected pursuant to
  this  subdivision  shall  be deposited in the life pass it on trust fund
  established pursuant to section ninety-five-d of the state finance  law,
  as  added  by  chapter  four hundred fifteen of the laws of two thousand
  three.
6. The commissioner, in consultation with the director of the division
  of veterans' services, is directed to establish a process by  which  the
  department  shall  refer  driver's license and non-driver identification
  card applicants requesting and obtaining a notation upon such license or
  non-driver identification card that he or she is a veteran of the United
  States armed forces  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  of  section  four
  hundred  ninety  of  this  chapter  or  subdivision  one of section five
  hundred two of this article, upon his or her request, to the division of
  veterans' services, consistent with  the  provisions  of  section  three
  hundred fifty-four-a of the executive law.