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2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 35 - Removals From Office.

§ 35. Removals  from  office.    Every removal of an officer by one or
  more state officers, shall be in written duplicate orders, signed by the
  officer, or by all or a majority of the officers, making the removal, or
  if made by a body or  board  of  state  officers  may  be  evidenced  by
  duplicate certified copies of the resolution or order of removal, signed
  either by all or by a majority of the officers making the removal, or by
  the  president  and  clerk  of  such  body or board. Both such duplicate
  orders or certified copies shall be delivered to the secretary of state,
  who shall record in his office one of such duplicates, and shall, if the
  officer removed is a state officer, deliver the other to such officer by
  messenger, if required by the governor, and otherwise by mail or as  the
  secretary  of  state shall deem advisable, and shall, if directed by the
  governor, cause a copy thereof to be published in the state paper.    If
  the  officer removed be a local officer, he shall send the other of such
  duplicates to the county clerk  of  the  county  in  which  the  officer
  removed  shall have resided at the time he was chosen to the office, and
  such clerk shall file the same in his office, and forthwith  notify  the
  officer removed of his removal.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 35-A - Removal for Treasonable or Seditious Acts or Utterances.

§ 35-a. Removal  for  treasonable  or seditious acts or utterances.  A
  person holding any public office shall be removable  therefrom,  in  the
  manner  provided  by  law,  for  the  utterance  of  any  treasonable or
  seditious word or words or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act
  or acts during his term.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 36 - Removal of Town, Village, Improvement District or Fire District Officer by Court.

§ 36. Removal  of town, village, improvement district or fire district
  officer by court.  Any  town,  village,  improvement  district  or  fire
  district  officer,  except  a  justice of the peace, may be removed from
  office by the  supreme  court  for  any  misconduct,  maladministration,
  malfeasance  or  malversation in office. An application for such removal
  may be made by any citizen resident of such town,  village,  improvement
  district  or  fire district or by the district attorney of the county in
  which such town, village or district is located, and shall  be  made  to
  the  appellate  division  of  the supreme court held within the judicial
  department embracing such town, village, improvement  district  or  fire
  district.  Such application shall be made upon notice to such officer of
  not less than eight days, and a copy  of  the  charges  upon  which  the
  application will be made must be served with such notice.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 37 - Notice of Existence of Vacancy.

§ 37. Notice  of  existence  of  vacancy.  When  a  judgment  shall be
  rendered by any court convicting an officer of a felony, or of  a  crime
  involving  a  violation of his oath of office, or declaring the election
  or appointment of any officer to be void, or  that  the  office  of  any
  officer  has  been  forfeited  or become vacant, the clerk of such court
  shall give notice thereof to the governor, stating  the  cause  of  such
  conviction or judgment.
Whenever  a public officer shall die before the expiration of his term
  of office, or shall cease to be a resident of the political  subdivision
  of  the state or a municipal corporation in which he is required to be a
  resident as a condition of continuing in the office, the county clerk of
  the county in which such officer shall have resided immediately prior to
  such death or removal, shall immediately give notice of  such  death  or
  removal  to  the governor. If the governor is not authorized to fill any
  vacancy of which he shall have notice, he shall forthwith give notice of
  the existence of such vacancy to the officer or officers, or to the body
  or board of officers authorized to fill the vacancy, or if such  vacancy
  may  be filled by an election, to the officers authorized to give notice
  of such election.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 38 - Terms of Officers Chosen to Fill Vacancies.

§ 38. Terms of officers chosen to fill vacancies. If an appointment of
  a  person  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  an appointive office be made by the
  officer, or by the officers, body or board of  officers,  authorized  to
  make  appointment  to  the  office  for  the  full  term,  the person so
  appointed to such vacancy shall hold  office  for  the  balance  of  the
  unexpired  term.  The  term  of office of an officer appointed to fill a
  vacancy in an elective office, shall be until the  commencement  of  the
  political  year  next  succeeding  the  first  annual election after the
  happening of the  vacancy,  if  the  office  be  made  elective  by  the
  constitution,  or at which the vacancy can be filled by election, if the
  office be otherwise made elective.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 39 - Filling Vacancies in Office of Officer Appointed by Governor and Senate.

§ 39. Filling vacancies in office of officer appointed by governor and
  senate. A vacancy which shall occur during the session of the senate, in
  the  office  of  an  officer  appointed  by the governor by and with the
  advice and consent of the senate, shall be filled in the same manner  as
  an  original appointment. Such a vacancy occurring or existing while the
  senate is not in  session,  including  offices  in  which  officers  are
  holding  over pursuant to the provisions of section five of this chapter
  or any other law, and offices vacant during the session of  the  senate,
  shall  be  filled by the governor for a term which shall expire upon the
  appointment and qualification of a successor but in any event such  term
  shall expire at the end of twenty days from the commencement of the next
  meeting of the senate.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 40 - Vacancy Occurring in Office of Legislative Appointee, During Legislative Recess.

§ 40. Vacancy  occurring  in  office  of legislative appointee, during
  legislative recess. When a vacancy shall occur or exist, otherwise  than
  by  expiration  of  term,  during  the recess of the legislature, in the
  office of any officer appointed by the legislature, the  governor  shall
  appoint  a  person  to fill the vacancy for a term which shall expire at
  the end of twenty days from the commencement of the next meeting of  the
  legislature.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 41 - Vacancies Filled by Legislature.

§ 41. Vacancies  filled  by  legislature.  When  a  vacancy  occurs or
  exists,  other  than  by  removal,  in  the  office  of  comptroller  or
  attorney-general, or a resignation of either such officer to take effect
  at  any  future  day  shall  have  been made while the legislature is in
  session, the two houses thereof, by joint ballot, shall appoint a person
  to fill such actual or prospective vacancy.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 3 - Creation and Filling of Vacancies › 43 - Filling Other Vacancies.

§ 43. Filling  other  vacancies.  If  a vacancy shall occur, otherwise
  than by expiration of term, with no provision of  law  for  filling  the
  same,  if the office be elective, the governor shall appoint a person to
  execute the duties thereof until the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  an
  election. But if the term of such officer shall expire with the calendar
  year  in  which  the  appointment  shall  be  made,  or if the office be
  appointive, the appointee shall hold for the residue of the term.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 60 - Official Seals of Court of Appeals, Governor and State Departments, Divisions and Bureaus.

§ 60. Official   seals   of  court  of  appeals,  governor  and  state
  departments, divisions and bureaus. 1. Each of the civil departments  in
  the  state  government  shall  have an official seal. In addition to the
  divisions or bureaus required by law  to  have  an  official  seal,  any
  division  or  bureau  of  any  department  shall have such a seal, if so
  required by rules of the department.  The official seal shall be used in
  the cases prescribed by law. Such rules also may prescribe  other  cases
  in  which it shall or may be used. For the purposes of any provisions of
  the law requiring the use of the official seal of the  officer  or  body
  who  or  which is the head of a department, division or bureau, the seal
  of such department, division or bureau shall be deemed the official seal
  of such officer or body.
2. The seal of the court of appeals, the privy seal  of  the  governor
  and  the  official seal of each civil department of the state government
  shall be of metal with the device of the arms of  the  state  surrounded
  with the inscription, State of New York, and the official designation of
  the  court,  official  or department. Each civil department of the state
  government may affix a facsimile seal, engraved or printed or reproduced
  in any manner from such metal seal, to any instrument or writing  to  be
  sealed  by  such  civil  department.  The  official  seal,  if any, of a
  division or bureau  of  a  department  shall  have  thereon  the  matter
  required for the official seal of the department and in addition thereto
  words or initials, or both, describing the division or bureau.  The seal
  of  such court, the privy seal of the governor, and the official seal of
  such a department shall be two and one-quarter inches in  diameter.  The
  official  seal,  if  any,  of such a division or bureau shall be one and
  three-quarters inches in diameter.  Each metal seal provided for  herein
  shall  be  provided by the department of state. The seal of the court of
  appeals and privy seal  of  the  governor  heretofore  provided  by  the
  secretary  of  state shall continue to be used by such court and officer
  until defective from wear or otherwise. Whenever any seal  provided  for
  in  this  section  becomes defective from wear or otherwise, it shall be
  delivered to the department of state which shall cause it to be repaired
  and returned, or to be defaced with a suitable mark, or  deposited  with
  the  ancient  seals  in  the  state  library, and new seals, in the form
  prescribed by this section, to be provided for use instead.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 61 - Investigations by State Officers.

§ 61. Investigations  by  state  officers. Every state officer, in any
  proceeding held before him, or in any investigation held by him for  the
  purpose  of making inquiry as to the official conduct of any subordinate
  officer or employee, shall have the power to  issue  subpoenas  for  and
  require  the attendance of witnesses and the production of all books and
  papers relating to any matter under inquiry. All such subpoenas shall be
  issued under the hand  and  seal  of  the  state  officer  holding  such
  proceeding.  A  subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by
  the civil practice law and rules. The testimony of witnesses in any such
  proceeding shall be under oath and the  state  officer  instituting  the
  proceeding shall have power to administer oaths. In case of state boards
  or  commissions,  any  member  of  the same, or, when duly authorized by
  resolution, the secretary of such board or commission, shall have  power
  to  issue  subpoenas  and  administer  oaths  for  the  purposes of this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 62 - Business in Public Offices on Public Holidays.

§ 62. Business  in public offices on public holidays. 1.  Holidays and
  half holidays shall be considered as Sunday for all purposes relating to
  the transaction of business in the public offices of each county. On all
  other days and half days, excepting Sundays, such offices shall be  kept
  open  for  the  transaction of business.  This subdivision is subject to
  the provisions of section two  hundred  six-a  of  the  county  law  and
  sections  1032-14.0 and 1052-22.0 of the administrative code of the city
  of New York.
2. Holidays and Saturdays  shall  be  considered  as  Sunday  for  all
  purposes  relating  to the transaction of business in the public offices
  of the state. On all other days, excepting Sundays, such  offices  shall
  be  kept  open for the transaction of business. Whenever the last day on
  which any paper shall be filed or act done  or  performed  in  any  such
  office  expires  on  a Saturday, the time therefor is hereby extended to
  and including the next business day.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 62-A - Leave of Absence for Certain Appointive State Officers; Temporary Vacancy.

§ 62-a. Leave  of  absence  for  certain  appointive  state  officers;
  temporary vacancy. A person holding a state office by appointment of the
  governor, or of the governor by and with the consent of the senate,  may
  be  granted  by the governor, on the application of such person, a leave
  of absence from such office, without pay, for a stated period less  than
  the  remainder  of the unexpired term. The office shall be deemed vacant
  for the purpose only of filling it, in the manner provided by law, for a
  term expiring at the end of such period. At or after  the  end  of  such
  period,  the  person  who  is granted such leave of absence, if not then
  disqualified, may resume such office, its title, duties and  salary  for
  the  unexpired  regular  term,  without  reappointment,  and the interim
  incumbent, if any, shall cease to hold it. On or after the beginning  of
  such period, such person, if otherwise eligible, may be appointed to and
  hold  any  other  appointive  office  in the state service; but he shall
  resign therefrom before resuming such former office under the  foregoing
  provisions.  A  person  resuming such office shall file in the office of
  the department of state his statement in writing that he elects  to  and
  does resume it pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 64-A - Patent Policy.

§ 64-a. Patent  policy.  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section
  one hundred thirty-five of the civil service law, the  participation  in
  royalty  or  other  arrangements  may  be  extended  or  the  payment of
  additional compensation may be made to an employee of a state department
  or of an agency, in addition  to  such  employee's  definite  salary  or
  compensation,  provided such participation or additional compensation is
  pursuant to a patent policy approved for such department  or  agency  by
  the director of the budget and the state comptroller. Such participation
  or  additional  compensation  shall  not  affect  the entitlement of the
  employee to any regular pay, annuity or award to  which  he  or  she  is
  otherwise  entitled  or  for which he or she is otherwise eligible under
  the civil service law or any  other  applicable  statute  shall  not  be
  included  as  compensation for the purposes of computing overtime pay or
  for retirement purposes.
2. The  department  and  agency  patent  policies  in  effect  on  the
  effective  date  of  this  section  shall  be continued.   Such existing
  policies, unless promulgated pursuant to article eight of the  education
  law,  shall be subject to the approval of the director of the budget and
  the state comptroller.
3. A state department or agency may, after the effective date of  this
  section,  adopt  a  patent  policy,  or amend a patent policy previously
  approved by the director of the budget for such agency, subject  to  the
  approval  of  the  director of the budget, the state comptroller and the
  director of the office of  employee  relations.  Where  such  policy  or
  amendment  affects  a  term  or  condition of employment, such policy or
  amendment shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of  article
  fourteen of the civil service law.
4. Any such patent policy shall contain an express provision requiring
  the   comptroller's  approval  of  any  transfer  of  patents  or  other
  technologies by, or for the benefit of, the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 66 - Interchangeable Use of Gender Neutral and Gender Specific Titles of Public Offices.

§ 66. Interchangeable use of gender neutral and gender specific titles
of  public  offices.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, local
law, charter, code or ordinance,  a  public  officer  may,  in  official
documents or otherwise, refer to the name of her or his public office:
(a)  by  its  official  title  as specified in the statute, local law,
charter, code or ordinance creating such public office, or,
(b) by  any  other  gender  neutral  or  gender  indicative  suffixes,
prefixes  or  words which reconstruct the official name or title of such
public office, provided that the form of reconstruction readily  permits
the  unmistakable identification of the particular public office held by
such public officer.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 66-A - Accident Reports Kept by Police Authorities to Be Open to the Inspection of Persons Interested.

§ 66-a. Accident  reports kept by police authorities to be open to the
  inspection of persons interested. 1.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent
  provisions  of  law,  general,  special  or  local,  or  any  limitation
  contained in the provision of any city charter, all reports and  records
  of any accident, kept or maintained by the state police or by the police
  department or force of any county, city, town, village or other district
  of  the  state,  shall be open to the inspection of any person having an
  interest therein, or of such person's attorney or agent, even though the
  state or a municipal corporation or other subdivision thereof  may  have
  been  involved  in  the  accident;  except  that  the authorities having
  custody of such reports or records may prescribe  reasonable  rules  and
  regulations in regard to the time and manner of such inspection, and may
  withhold  from inspection any reports or records the disclosure of which
  would  interfere  with  the  investigation  or   prosecution   by   such
  authorities of a crime involved in or connected with the accident.
2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section twenty-three hundred
  seven of the civil practice law and rules, the public officers  law,  or
  any other law to the contrary, the division of state police shall charge
  fees  for  the  search  and  copy of accident reports and photographs. A
  search fee of fifteen dollars per accident report shall be charged, with
  no additional fee for a photocopy. An additional fee of fifteen  dollars
  shall  be  charged for a certified copy of any accident report. A fee of
  twenty-five dollars per photograph or contact sheet  shall  be  charged.
  The  fees  for  investigative  reports  shall  be  the same as those for
  accident reports.
* 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of  section  twenty-three  hundred
  seven  of  the  civil practice law and rules, this chapter, or any other
  law to the contrary, the county of Nassau, upon adoption of a local law,
  is hereby authorized to require the police department of the  county  of
  Nassau  to  charge  fees for the search and copy of accident reports and
  photographs. A search fee of ten dollars per accident  report  shall  be
  charged,  with  no  additional fee for a photocopy. An additional fee of
  ten dollars shall be charged  for  a  certified  copy  of  any  accident
  report.  A  fee of fifteen dollars per photograph or contact sheet shall
  be charged. The fees for investigative reports  shall  be  the  same  as
  those for accident reports.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2025
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 67 - Fees of Public Officers.

§ 67. Fees of public officers. 1. Each public officer upon whom a duty
  is  expressly  imposed  by  law,  must  execute  the same without fee or
  reward, except where a fee or other compensation therefor  is  expressly
  allowed by law.
2.  An officer or other person, to whom a fee or other compensation is
  allowed by law, for any service, shall not charge or receive  a  greater
  fee or reward, for that service, than is so allowed.
3. An officer, or other person, shall not demand or receive any fee or
  compensation,  allowed to him by law for any service, unless the service
  was actually rendered by him; except  that  an  officer  may  demand  in
  advance his fee, where he is, by law, expressly directed or permitted to
  require payment thereof, before rendering the service.
4.  Money  received  by a public officer, or which shall come into his
  possession or custody, in the performance of his official duties  or  in
  connection  therewith  or  incidental  thereto,  shall be held by him in
  trust for the person or persons entitled thereto  or  for  the  purposes
  provided  by  law  and  all interest or increments which shall accrue or
  attach to such money while in his possession or custody shall  be  added
  to, and become a part of, the money so held and no part of such interest
  or  increments  shall be retained by such officer to his personal use or
  benefit, except legal fees allowed by law for receiving  and  disbursing
  the same, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law.
An  officer  or  other  person,  who violates either of the provisions
  contained in this section, is liable,  in  addition  to  the  punishment
  prescribed  by  law  for the criminal offense, to an action in behalf of
  the person aggrieved, in which  the  plaintiff  is  entitled  to  treble
  damages.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 67-A - Fees for Certification or Exemplification.

§ 67-a. Fees  for  certification  or  exemplification.  Whenever there
  shall  be  presented  to  any  public  officer  for   certification   or
  exemplification,  a  previously  prepared legibly typewritten or printed
  copy of any document, paper, book or record in such  officer's  custody,
  the fees in such case, for certification or exemplification, shall be at
  the rate of three cents for each folio; but the minimum total charge for
  certification  or  exemplification  in  all  cases  shall be twenty-five
  cents.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 68 - Allowance of Additional Fees and Expenses.

§ 68. Allowance  of additional fees and expenses.  Where an officer or
  other person is required, in the course of a duty imposed  upon  him  by
  law,  to  take  an  oath,  to  acknowledge  an  instrument,  to cause an
  instrument to be filed or recorded, or to transmit a  paper  to  another
  officer,  he is entitled, in addition to the fees, or other compensation
  for the service, prescribed by law, to the fees necessarily paid by him,
  to the officer who administered the oath, or took the acknowledgment, or
  filed or recorded the instrument; and to the expense of transmitting the
  paper, including  postage,  where  the  transmission  is  lawfully  made
  through the post-office.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 68-A - Fees for Oath or Acknowledgment.

§ 68-a. Fees  for  oath  or acknowledgment. Any officer, authorized to
  perform the services specified in this  section,  and  to  receive  fees
  therefor, is entitled to the following fees:
1.  For  administering an oath or affirmation, and certifying the same
  when required, except where  another  fee  is  specially  prescribed  by
  statute, two dollars.
2.  For  taking  and  certifying  the  acknowledgment  or proof of the
  execution of a written instrument; by one person, two  dollars;  and  by
  each  additional person, two dollars; for swearing each witness thereto,
  two dollars.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 69 - Fee for Administering Certain Official Oaths Prohibited.

§ 69. Fee  for  administering  certain official oaths prohibited.   An
  officer is not entitled to a fee, for administering the oath  of  office
  to a member of the legislature, to any military officer, to an inspector
  of election, clerk of the poll, or to any other public officer or public
  employee.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 69-A - Interest to Be Paid and Collected on All Deposits of Public Moneys Amounting to One Thousand Dollars or More.

§ 69-a. Interest  to  be  paid and collected on all deposits of public
  moneys amounting to one thousand dollars or more. Within twenty days  of
  the  taking  effect  of  this  section, interest shall be required to be
  paid, if not already so provided by  law,  on  all  deposits  of  public
  moneys  amounting to one thousand dollars or more made by a state, local
  or other public officer or employee for or on behalf of the state or the
  county,  city,  town,  village,  school   district   or   other   public
  instrumentality  or  for  or  on  behalf  of  any pension system or fund
  maintained by law for any of the employees of the state,  county,  city,
  town,  village,  school district or other public instrumentality, as the
  case may be, to which such moneys belong. Within twenty days after  this
  section  takes  effect  and, in the case of public officers or employees
  hereafter elected or appointed within twenty days  after  entering  upon
  the duties of his office or employment, every public officer or employee
  charged  with  the  care  and  custody of public moneys and/or of moneys
  entrusted to his care and custody by virtue of his office or  employment
  shall  agree with the depositary thereof upon the rate of interest to be
  paid thereon and such rate of interest shall thereupon and thereafter be
  paid by said depositary at such time or times as shall be  agreed  upon.
  All  interest  on such deposits shall be accounted for by the depositing
  officer or employee in the same manner as other moneys received by  such
  officer or employee by virtue of his office or employment.
Nothing  contained  in this section or in any other general or special
  law shall authorize, enable or require any state, local or other  public
  officer  or employee, to demand or require of any banking corporation or
  private banker, any agreement to pay, or payment of, interest  upon  any
  deposit  of  public  moneys  or any deposit made for or on behalf of the
  state or the county, city,  town,  village,  school  district  or  other
  public  instrumentality, board, agency or authority, or for or on behalf
  of any pension system or fund maintained by law for any of the employees
  of the state, county, city, town,  village,  school  district  or  other
  public  board, agency, instrumentality or authority, as the case may be,
  if payment of interest upon any such deposit is at the  time  prohibited
  by   state   or   federal  law  or  by  any  regulation  of  either  the
  superintendent of financial services of this state, or of the  board  of
  governors of the federal reserve system, or of the board of directors of
  the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 70 - Accounting for Fees.

§ 70. Accounting  for  fees.    Where a public officer is required, by
  law, to keep an account of, or to pay over, the fees  or  other  moneys,
  received by him for official services, he must include therein all sums,
  received  by  him,  to  which  he  was  entitled,  by reason of any act,
  performed by him in his official capacity; whether the act  did  or  did
  not pertain to his office, or to the business thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 70-B - Certificate on Printed Copies of Laws.

§ 70-b. Certificate  on  printed  copies  of  laws.  1. A published or
printed copy of a law shall be entitled to be read into evidence  if  it
is:
(a) Contained in a book or pamphlet published under the direction
of the temporary president of the senate and  speaker  of  the  assembly
pursuant to the provisions of section forty-four of the legislative law;
or
(b)  Certified  to  be  a slip copy of a session law printed under the
direction of the temporary president of the senate and  speaker  of  the
assembly; or
(c)  Contained  in  a  book  or  pamphlet,  or supplement thereto, and
certified by the temporary president of the senate and  speaker  of  the
assembly  to  be  a  correct  transcript of the text of such law as last
amended; or
(d) Certified as a correct transcript of the text of such law  by  the
secretary of state.
2.  A published or printed copy of the administrative code of the city
of New York shall be  entitled  to  be  read  into  evidence  if  it  is
contained  in a book or pamphlet, or supplement thereto and certified by
the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly to
be a correct transcript of the  text  of  such  code  as  last  amended;
provided,  however,  that  whenever  the provisions of such code contain
amendments, additions or repeals effected by passage of  local  laws  by
the city council of the city of New York, certification by the temporary
president  of  the  senate  and the speaker of the assembly shall not be
made unless prior thereto certified or official  copies  of  such  local
laws  have been transmitted by the city clerk of the city of New York to
the New York state legislative bill drafting commission at its office in
Albany.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 71 - Vacations for Employees of the State.

§ 71. Vacations  for employees of the state. The executive officers of
  every public department, bureau, commission, or board of the  state  are
  authorized  and  empowered  to  grant  to  every  employee  under  their
  supervision, who shall have been in such employ for at least one year, a
  vacation of not less than two weeks in each year, and for  such  further
  period of time as in the opinion and judgment of the executive officers,
  the  duties,  position,  length  of  service and other circumstances may
  warrant, at such time as the executive officers may fix and during  such
  vacation  the said employee shall be allowed the same compensation as if
  actually employed. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
  employee who is subject to the rules governing sick leave, vacation  and
  other  time  allowances  adopted  by  the state civil service commission
  pursuant to law.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 72 - Notices and Reports of Claims, Suits or Causes of Action to Be Given to the Attorney-General.

§ 72. Notices  and  reports of claims, suits or causes of action to be
  given to  the  attorney-general.  1.  Every  officer,  clerk,  agent  or
  employee  of  any  department  of  the  state government, who shall have
  knowledge of any accident or injury to the person  or  property  of  any
  person  or  corporation, on account of which there arises or may arise a
  claim, suit or cause of action against the state, or of any accident  or
  injury  to property owned by the state, on account of which there arises
  or may arise a claim, suit or cause of action in  favor  of  the  state,
  shall  immediately  give  notice  thereof  to the officer or employee in
  charge of his bureau or department.
2. Every department, commission, board or officer, or  the  person  in
  charge  thereof,  who has knowledge that a claim has accrued or may have
  accrued or made either against, or in favor of, the  state,  or  of  any
  accident  or  injury  to  the  person  or  property  of  any  person  or
  corporation, or of the state on account of which  there  arises  or  may
  arise  a  claim,  suit  or  cause of action against, or in favor of, the
  state, or an officer thereof,  shall  immediately  give  notice  to  the
  attorney-general,  stating  the  time  when,  and  the place where, such
  claim, suit or cause of action may have arisen, and the  nature  of  the
  same,  and  such  other information and evidence as the attorney-general
  may direct or deem  necessary.  The  attorney-general  shall  make  such
  investigation  of  the  facts, relating to any matter so reported, as he
  may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 72-A - Penalty of Officer for Failure to Execute Mandate and Make Return.

§ 72-a. Penalty  of  officer  for  failure to execute mandate and make
  return. An officer who fails to  execute  a  mandate  according  to  its
  command  and  make  a return thereon of his proceedings is liable to the
  party aggrieved for the damages sustained by him,  in  addition  to  any
  other punishment or proceeding authorized by law.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 73-B - Advertisements by Elected Government Officials and Candidates Made With Public Funds; Prohibited.

§  73-b. Advertisements by elected government officials and candidates
made with public funds; prohibited. 1. As used in this section:
(a) "Political subdivision" shall mean a county, city,  town,  village
or district within the state.
(b) "Public authority" shall mean a public authority or public benefit
corporation  created by or existing under any law of the state, at least
one of whose  members  is  appointed  by  the  governor  (including  any
subsidiaries  of  such  public authority or public benefit corporation),
other than an interstate or international authority  or  public  benefit
corporation.
(c) "Appear" or "appears" shall mean to appear by likeness, picture or
voice.
(d)  "Candidate" shall have the meaning set forth in section 14-100 of
the election law.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, (a)  no
elected  government  official  or  candidate for elected local, state or
federal office shall knowingly appear in any advertisement or promotion,
including  public  or  community  service  announcements,  published  or
broadcast  through  any print or electronic media (including television,
radio and internet) by any private or commercial  entity  or  any  other
entity that publishes such advertisement for a fee, if the advertisement
or  promotion  is paid for or produced in whole or in part with funds of
the state, a political subdivision thereof or a public authority.
(b) No person shall knowingly use the funds of the state, a  political
subdivision  thereof or public authority to pay for or produce, in whole
or in part,  any  advertisement  or  promotion  that  is  prohibited  by
paragraph  (a)  of this subdivision. This prohibition shall not apply to
otherwise lawful expenditures  of  public  campaign  funds  specifically
provided for under state, federal or local law.
3.  Any  person  who  violates the provisions of this section shall be
liable for a civil penalty of not less than  one  thousand  dollars  nor
more  than  five  thousand  dollars.  The  penalties  prescribed by this
subdivision may be recovered in a civil action brought by  the  attorney
general.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 74-A - Duty of Public Officers Regarding the Physically Handicapped.

§ 74-a. Duty  of public officers regarding the physically handicapped.
  It shall be  the  duty  of  each  public  officer  responsible  for  the
  scheduling or siting of any public hearing to make reasonable efforts to
  ensure   that   such   hearings  are  held  in  facilities  that  permit
  barrier-free physical access to the physically handicapped,  as  defined
  in subdivision five of section fifty of the public buildings law.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 75 - Bribery of Members of the Legislature.

§ 75. Bribery  of  members  of the legislature.  A person who gives or
  offers, or causes to be  given  or  offered,  a  bribe,  or  any  money,
  property, or value of any kind, or any promise or agreement therefor, to
  a  member  of  the  legislature,  or  to a person who has been elected a
  member of the legislature,  or  attempts,  directly  or  indirectly,  by
  menace,  deceit,  suppression  of  truth,  or  other  corrupt  means, to
  influence such a member or person to give or withhold his  vote,  or  to
  absent himself from the house of which he is, or is to become, a member,
  or  from  any  committee  thereof, is punishable by imprisonment for not
  more than ten years, or by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  five  thousand
  dollars, or by both.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 75-A - Appearance by a Person Convicted of the Crime of Corruption.

§  75-a.  Appearance  by  a person convicted of a crime of corruption.
  Upon conviction for any of the following crimes: bribery  in  the  first
  degree,  bribery  in  the  second  degree,  bribery in the third degree,
  rewarding official misconduct in the first  degree,  rewarding  official
  misconduct  in  the  second degree, giving unlawful gratuities, and when
  any such crime is committed for  the  purpose  of  corrupting  a  public
  office,  agency  or  public  official  of  the  state,  or any political
  subdivision, public authority, or  public  benefit  corporation  of  the
  state,  in the performance of public duty, such public office, agency or
  public official of the state, or any  political  subdivision  or  public
  authority  may  bar  that  person or entity convicted of such enumerated
  crimes from appearing before  the  affected  public  office,  agency  or
  public  official  of  the  state,  or  any such political subdivision or
  public authority in any professional or  representative  capacity.  Such
  bar  shall   be for a period of five years from the date of judgment for
  such conviction.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 76 - Receiving Bribes by Members of Legislature.

§ 76. Receiving  bribes  by members of legislature. A member of either
  of the houses composing the legislature  of  this  state,  or  a  person
  elected  to  become  a  member thereof, who asks, receives, or agrees to
  receive any  bribe  upon  any  understanding  that  his  official  vote,
  opinion,  judgment  or  action  shall be influenced thereby, or shall be
  given in any particular manner  or  upon  any  particular  side  of  any
  question  or matter upon which he may be required to act in his official
  capacity, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 77 - Unlawful Fees and Payments.

§ 77. Unlawful  fees  and payments. A member of the legislature or any
  officer or employee of the legislature who asks or receives or  consents
  or agrees to receive any emolument, gratuity or reward or any promise of
  emolument,  gratuity  or reward or any money, property or thing of value
  or of personal advantage, except such as may be authorized by  law,  for
  doing  or omitting to do any official act, or for performing or omitting
  to perform any act whatsoever directly  or  indirectly  related  to  any
  matter  in respect to which any duty or discretion is by or in pursuance
  of law imposed upon or vested in him, or may  be  exercised  by  him  by
  virtue  of  his  office,  or  appointment  or  employment  or his actual
  relation to the matter including, without limiting the generality of the
  foregoing,  approving  or  promoting  the  passage  of  legislation   or
  resolutions  or  the  confirmation  of  appointees,  or  the  conduct of
  investigations, and a person who shall directly or indirectly  offer  or
  make  such a transfer to any member of the legislature or any officer or
  employee of the legislature shall be guilty of a  felony  punishable  by
  imprisonment  for  not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than
  five thousand dollars, or both.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 77-A - Members of the Legislature Liable to Forfeiture of Office.

§ 77-a. Members of the legislature liable to forfeiture of office. The
  conviction  of a member of the legislature or any officer or employee of
  the legislature of any of the crimes defined in  sections  seventy-five,
  seventy-six  or  seventy-seven  of  this  chapter,  shall  involve  as a
  consequence in addition to the punishment provided in any such section a
  forfeiture of his office; and shall disqualify him from ever  afterwards
  holding any office under this state.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 78 - Certification of Members, Officers and Employees.

§ 78. Certification  of  members, officers and employees. On or before
  the tenth day after  any  member,  officer  or  employee  commences  the
  performance  of his duties as such, he shall file, with the secretary of
  the senate, if a member, officer or employee of that house, or with  the
  clerk  of  the assembly, if a member, officer or employee of that house,
  or with the secretary of state if an officer  or  employee  of  a  state
  agency,  a  certificate  acknowledging  receipt  of  a  copy of sections
  seventy-three, seventy-three-a, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six,
  seventy-seven and seventy-eight of this chapter together with such other
  material as the secretary of the senate, the clerk of  the  assembly  or
  the secretary of state may prepare related thereto, that he has read the
  same  and  undertakes  to conform to the provisions, purposes and intent
  thereof and to the norms of conduct for members, officers and  employees
  of the legislature and state agencies.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers › 79 - Fine in Certain Cases.

§ 79. Fine  in  certain cases. Where an officer or a member of a board
  or other body has without just cause refused or neglected to  perform  a
  public duty enjoined upon him by a special provision of law, a court may
  impose a fine, not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars, upon the officer
  or  member who has so refused or neglected, to be paid into the treasury
  of the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 5 - Delivery of Public Books › 80 - Delivery of Books and Papers, Money and Property.

§ 80. Delivery  of  books  and  papers,  money  and property. A public
  officer shall demand from his predecessor in office  or  any  person  in
  whose  possession  they  may be, a delivery to such officer of all books
  and papers, money and property belonging or appertaining to such office.
  If such demand is refused, such officer may make  complaint  thereof  to
  any justice of the supreme court of the district, or to the county judge
  of  the  county in which the person refusing resides. If such justice or
  judge be satisfied that such books or papers,  money  and  property  are
  withheld,  he shall grant an order directing the person refusing to show
  cause before him at a time specified therein, why he should not  deliver
  the  same.  At  such  time,  or  at  any time to which the matter may be
  adjourned, on proof of the due service of the  order,  such  justice  or
  judge  shall  proceed  to  inquire into the circumstances. If the person
  charged with withholding such books or papers, money and property  makes
  affidavit  before  such  justice  or  judge that he has delivered to the
  officer all books and papers, money and property in his  custody  which,
  within his knowledge, or to his belief belong or appertain thereto, such
  proceedings before such justice or judge shall cease, and such person be
  discharged.  If  the person complained against shall not make such oath,
  and it appears that any such books or papers,  money  and  property  are
  withheld  by  him,  such justice or judge shall commit him to the county
  jail until he delivers such books and papers, money and property, or  is
  otherwise  discharged according to law. On such commitment, such justice
  or judge, if required by the complainant, shall also issue  his  warrant
  directed  to  any sheriff or constable, commanding him to search, in the
  daytime, the places designated therein, for such books and papers, money
  and property, and to bring them before such justice  or  judge.  If  any
  such  books  and  papers,  money and property, are brought before him by
  virtue of such warrant, he shall determine  whether  they  appertain  to
  such  office,  and  if  so  shall  cause  them  to  be  delivered to the
  complainant.
2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 6 - Freedom of Information Law › 84 - Legislative Declaration.

§ 84. Legislative  declaration.  The  legislature  hereby finds that a
  free society is maintained when government is responsive and responsible
  to the public, and when the public is aware of governmental actions. The
  more  open  a  government  is  with  its  citizenry,  the  greater   the
  understanding and participation of the public in government.
As  state  and  local government services increase and public problems
  become more sophisticated and complex and therefore harder to solve, and
  with  the  resultant  increase  in  revenues  and  expenditures,  it  is
  incumbent   upon   the   state  and  its  localities  to  extend  public
  accountability wherever and whenever feasible.
The people's right to know the process of governmental decision-making
  and to review the documents and statistics leading to determinations  is
  basic  to our society. Access to such information should not be thwarted
  by shrouding it with the cloak of secrecy or confidentiality.
The legislature therefore declares that  government  is  the  public's
  business   and  that  the  public,  individually  and  collectively  and
  represented by a free press,  should  have  access  to  the  records  of
  government in accordance with the provisions of this article.