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2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title S - Enacted Without Title Heading › Article 54 - Executive Mansion Trust › 54.17 - Members and Employees Not to Profit.

§ 54.17. Members  and  employees  not to profit. No officer, member or
  employee of the trust shall receive  or  may  be  lawfully  entitled  to
  receive   any   pecuniary  profit  from  the  operation  thereof  except
  reasonable compensation for services in effecting one  or  more  of  its
  purposes as set forth in this title.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.03 - Definitions.

§ 55.03. Definitions.  As  used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. The term "trust" shall mean  the  corporation  created  by  section
  55.05 of this article.
2. The term "board" shall mean the members of the corporation.
3.  The  term "real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises
  and interest in lands and any and all things usually included within the
  said term, and includes not only fees simple and absolute but  also  any
  and  all  lesser  interests,  such  as  easements,  rights of way, uses,
  leases, licenses, and all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments  and  every
  estate,  interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms of years
  and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and  also
  claims for damage to real property.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.05 - Natural Heritage Trust.

§ 55.05. Natural  Heritage  Trust.  The  board  known  as the "Natural
  Heritage Trust" is hereby continued.  Such  a  board  shall  be  a  body
  corporate  and politic constituting a public benefit corporation and its
  existence shall commence upon the appointment of the members  as  herein
  provided.  Such  board  shall  consist  of  the chairperson of the state
  council  of  parks  and  outdoor   recreation,   the   commissioner   of
  environmental  conservation, the secretary of state and the commissioner
  of parks, recreation and historic preservation. The powers of the  board
  shall be vested in and exercised by the majority of the members thereof.
  The  members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be
  entitled  to  reimbursement  of  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses
  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  official duties. At the first
  meeting of the board and the first meeting thereof in each  fiscal  year
  thereafter,  the  members of the board shall choose from their number, a
  chairperson and vice-chairperson.
The trust and its corporate existence shall continue until  terminated
  by law, provided, however, that no such law shall take effect so long as
  the  trust  shall  have  bonds, notes and other obligations outstanding,
  unless adequate provision has been made for the payment thereof  in  the
  documents  securing  the  same. Upon termination of the existence of the
  trust, all its rights and properties shall vest in the state.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.09 - Temporary Assignment and Transfer of Employees.

§ 55.09. Temporary  assignment  and transfer of employees. Whenever in
  the opinion of the trust it would be in the  public  interest,  it  may,
  after  prior  approval  of  the  director  of  the  budget,  request the
  temporary assignment and transfer of certain  employees  of  any  board,
  commission,   agency  or  department  of  the  state  or  its  political
  subdivisions, and said board, commission, agency or  department,  if  in
  its opinion such transfer will not interfere with the performance of its
  duties  and  functions  may  make  such  assignment and transfer of said
  employees to the  trust.  Such  assignment  and  transfer  or  extension
  thereof shall not in any way affect the civil service status, continuity
  of  service,  retirement  plan  status,  right to compensation, grade or
  compensation  or  other  rights  or  privileges  of  any   employee   so
  transferred.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.11 - Examination of Title.

§ 55.11. Examination of title. The title to all real property proposed
  to  be  acquired  by  the  trust  shall  be examined and approved by the
  attorney general of the  state  who  shall  also  furnish  any  and  all
  necessary  legal  services  and  advice  required to assist the trust in
  accomplishing its corporate purposes.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.13 - Moneys of the Corporation.

§ 55.13. Moneys  of  the corporation. 1. The moneys of the trust shall
  be retained by it and deposited in a  general  account  and  such  other
  accounts  as  the  trust  may  deem necessary for the transaction of its
  business and shall be paid out on checks signed by  the  chairperson  of
  the  corporation  or  by such other member or officer as the corporation
  may authorize.
2.  The  comptroller  of  the  state  and   his   legally   authorized
  representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to
  examine  the  accounts  and  books  of the trust including its receipts,
  disbursements, contracts, investments and any other matters relating  to
  its financial standing.
3.  The  trust  shall  submit  to the governor, the chairperson of the
  senate finance committee, the chairperson of the assembly ways and means
  committee and the state comptroller, within ninety days after the end of
  its fiscal year, a complete and detailed report of  its  operations  and
  accomplishments,  its  receipts  and  disbursements  and  its assets and
  liabilities.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.15 - Creation of Trust a Public Purpose.

§ 55.15. Creation  of  trust  a  public  purpose.  It is hereby found,
  determined and declared that the creation of the trust and the  carrying
  out  of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the
  people of the state of New York, for the preservation and improvement of
  the  natural,  historic  and  waterfront  resources  constituting  their
  natural heritage and in furtherance of their welfare and prosperity, and
  is  a  public purpose, in that the trust will be performing an essential
  governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by
  this title and  the  trust  shall  not  be  required  to  pay  taxes  or
  assessments  upon  any  of  the  property  acquired  by  it or under its
  jurisdiction and control, or upon its activities in  the  operation  and
  maintenance  of  such properties or use of any moneys, revenues or other
  income received  by  the  corporation.  All  contributions  of  real  or
  personal  property  made to the trust whether by gift, devise or bequest
  shall qualify as deductions in computing the net taxable income  of  the
  donor  for  the  purposes  of any income tax imposed by the state or any
  political subdivision thereof.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.17 - Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

§ 55.17. Payments  in  lieu  of  taxes.  The trust may, when funds are
  available and with the approval of the governor, enter into an agreement
  with a municipality or district within  which  real  property  has  been
  acquired  by  the  trust  providing for the payment of moneys in lieu of
  anticipated tax revenues for a period not to exceed five years  whenever
  the  trust shall determine that undue hardship justifying such financial
  relief has been created by such acquisition.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.19 - Members and Employees Not to Profit.

§ 55.19. Members  and  employees  not to profit. No officer, member or
  employee of the trust shall receive  or  may  be  lawfully  entitled  to
  receive   any   pecuniary  profit  from  the  operation  thereof  except
  reasonable compensation for services in effecting one  or  more  of  its
  purposes herein set forth.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.21 - Application of Law.

§ 55.21. Application  of  law.  All  of  the general provisions of the
  public authorities law or of any other law shall apply  to  the  natural
  heritage trust herein continued in the same manner as if the language of
  such  law had been incorporated in full into this article, except to the
  extent that such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title T - Natural Heritage Trust › Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust › 55.23 - Actions Against the Trust.

§ 55.23. Actions  against  the trust. Except in an action for wrongful
  death, an action  against  the  trust  founded  on  tort  shall  not  be
  commenced  more  than one year and ninety days after the cause of action
  therefor shall have accrued, nor unless a notice  of  claim  shall  have
  been  served  on the trust within the time limited by, and in compliance
  with all the requirements of section fifty-e of  the  general  municipal
  law.  An  action against the trust for wrongful death shall be commenced
  in accordance with the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of
  title eleven of article nine of the public authorities law.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records › 57.02 - New York State History Month.

§  57.02.  New  York  state  history  month.  1. Each month of October
  following the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two  thousand
  nineteen  that  amended this subdivision shall be designated as New York
  state history month.
2. The purpose of this month shall be to celebrate the history of  New
  York   state   and  recognize  the  contributions  of  state  and  local
  historians.
3. The commissioner of education, through the office of state  history
  is  hereby  authorized to undertake projects to recognize New York state
  history month. Such projects  may  include  the  creation  of  an  essay
  contest  for  state  residents  who  are  enrolled  in any elementary or
  secondary education program which shall reflect upon the  importance  of
  New York state history. Any project or projects created pursuant to this
  subdivision  may,  in  the  discretion of the commissioner of education,
  authorize non-monetary awards to be given  to  project  participants  or
  project winners as such commissioner may deem appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records › 57.03 - Functions of the Office of State History.

§ 57.03. Functions  of  the  office  of state history. It shall be the
  function of the office of state history:
1. To collect, edit and publish, with the approval of the commissioner
  of education, any archives, records,  papers  or  manuscripts  that  are
  deemed  essential  or  desirable  for  the  preservation  of the state's
  history.
2. To prepare and publish, with the approval of  the  commissioner  of
  education,  or  assist  in  the  preparation  and  publication of, works
  relating to the history of the colony and state of New York.
3. To acquire,  administer,  preserve,  exhibit,  interpret,  and,  in
  conformity  with  the  regulations  of the commissioner of education, to
  loan, exchange or dispose of historical  objects  of  personal  property
  relating  to  the  history  of  the colony and state of New York; and to
  advise any state agency, board, commission, office,  civil  subdivision,
  institution,   organization,   or   individual   on   the   acquisition,
  administration,   preservation,    exhibition,    interpretation,    and
  disposition of historical objects.
4.  To  perform  the  functions  of the state education department set
  forth  in  section  19.11  of  the  parks,   recreation   and   historic
  preservation  law  with respect to historic sites under the jurisdiction
  of the office of parks, recreation and  historic  preservation;  and  to
  advise  and  assist  any  political  subdivision  of  the  state and any
  institution, organization  or  individual  concerning  the  designation,
  acquisition,  administration, interpretation, use and disposition of any
  historic site, property or place relative to the history of  the  colony
  and  state  of  New  York,  and  to  coordinate educational programs and
  projects at such historic sites or properties.
5. To advise and assist any state agency, board,  commission,  office,
  civil  subdivision,  institution  or  organization  in  the planning and
  execution of any commemorative event relating  to  the  history  of  the
  colony   and   state   of  New  York  or  New  York's  participation  in
  commemorative events outside of the state.
6. To perform other functions or duties assigned  the  office  by  the
  commissioner of education.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records › 57.09 - Duties of Local Historian.

§ 57.09. Duties of local historian. It shall be the duty of each local
  historian,  appointed  as  provided  in the last section, in cooperation
  with the state historian, to collect and preserve material  relating  to
  the  history  of  the  political  subdivision  for  which  he  or she is
  appointed, and to file such material in fireproof safes or vaults in the
  county, city, town or village offices. Such historian shall examine into
  the condition, classification and safety from fire of the public records
  of the public offices of such county, city, town or village,  and  shall
  call  to  the attention of the local authorities and the state historian
  any material of local  historic  value  which  should  be  acquired  for
  preservation.  He  or  she  shall make an annual report, in the month of
  January, to the local appointing officer or officers and  to  the  state
  historian  of  the work which has been accomplished during the preceding
  year. He or she shall, upon retirement or removal from office, turn over
  to the local county, city, town or village authorities, or to his or her
  successor in office, if one  has  been  then  appointed,  all  materials
  gathered  during  his  or her incumbency and all correspondence relating
  thereto. It shall be the duty of the county historian to  supervise  the
  activities  of  the  local  historians  in towns and villages within the
  county in performing  the  historical  work  recommended  by  the  state
  historian,  and  also  to  prepare  and  to  present  to  the  board  of
  supervisors a report of the important occurrences within the county  for
  each  calendar year. The state historian, at regular intervals, not less
  than once a year, shall indicate to the  local  historians  the  general
  lines along which local history material is to be collected.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records › 57.11 - Penalty.

§ 57.11. Penalty.  A public officer who refuses or neglects to perform
  any  duty  required  of  him  by  this  article  or  to  comply  with  a
  recommendation  of  the commissioner of education under the authority of
  this article, shall for each  month  of  such  neglect  or  refusal,  be
  punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.13 - Statement of Legislative Intent.

§ 57.13. Statement  of  legislative intent. The legislature finds that
  public records are essential to the administration of local  government.
  Public  records  contain information which allows government programs to
  function, provides officials with a  basis  for  making  decisions,  and
  ensures  continuity  with  past  operations. Public records document the
  legal responsibility of government, protect the rights of citizens,  and
  provide  citizens  with  a  means  of monitoring government programs and
  measuring the performance of public officials. Local government  records
  also  reflect  the  historical  development of the government and of the
  community it serves. Such records need to be systematically  managed  to
  ensure  ready  access  to vital information and to promote the efficient
  and economical operation of government.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.17 - Definitions.

§ 57.17. Definitions.  Wherever  used  in  this article, the following
  terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth:
1. "Local government" means any county, city,  town,  village,  school
  district,   board   of   cooperative   educational   services,  district
  corporation, public benefit corporation, public  corporation,  or  other
  government  created  under  state  law  that  is not a state department,
  division, board, bureau,  commission  or  other  agency,  heretofore  or
  hereafter established by law.
2.  "Governing  body" means the town board, village board of trustees,
  city council, county legislature  or  board  of  supervisors,  board  of
  education  or  board  of  trustees  of  a  school  district  or board of
  cooperative educational services, board of fire commissioners  or  other
  body authorized by law to govern the affairs of a local government.
3.  "Local  officer" shall mean and include a local officer as defined
  in section two of the public officers law and any officer  of  a  public
  benefit corporation.
4.   "Record"  means  any  book,  paper,  map,  photograph,  or  other
  information-recording   device,   regardless   of   physical   form   or
  characteristic,  that  is  made,  produced, executed, or received by any
  local government or officer thereof pursuant to  law  or  in  connection
  with the transaction of public business. Record as used herein shall not
  be  deemed  to  include  library  materials,  extra  copies of documents
  created only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications.
5. "Retention period" means the  minimum  length  of  time  that  must
  elapse before a record is eligible for disposition.
6.  "Records retention and disposition schedule" means a list or other
  instrument describing records  and  their  retention  periods  which  is
  issued by the commissioner of education.
7.  "Disposition" means the disposal of a record by destruction, sale,
  gift, transfer to the local government archives, or by other  authorized
  means.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.19 - Local Government Records Management Program.

§ 57.19. Local  government  records  management program. The governing
  body, and the chief executive official where one exists,  shall  promote
  and  support  a  program  for  the  orderly  and efficient management of
  records, including the identification and appropriate administration  of
  records  with  enduring  value  for historical or other research.   Each
  local government shall have one officer who  is  designated  as  records
  management officer. This officer shall coordinate the development of and
  oversee  such  program and shall coordinate legal disposition, including
  destruction of obsolete records. In towns, the town clerk shall  be  the
  records  management  officer.  In fire districts, the district secretary
  shall be the records management officer. In villages, the village  clerk
  shall  be the records management officer.  In other units of government,
  except where the governing body  shall  have  enacted  a  local  law  or
  ordinance  establishing  a  records management program and designating a
  records management officer prior to the date  that  this  article  shall
  take  effect,  the  chief  executive  official  shall  designate a local
  officer to be records management officer, subject to the approval of the
  governing body.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.21 - Local Government Records Advisory Council.

§ 57.21. Local  government  records advisory council. The commissioner
  of education shall appoint a local government records  advisory  council
  consisting   of   representatives   of  local  government  associations,
  historians, the chief administrative  judge,  the  commissioner  of  the
  department  of  records and information services of the city of New York
  or its successor agency, other users of local  government  records,  and
  other  citizens.  The  city  clerk  of  the  city of New York shall be a
  non-voting members of such advisory council.  The council  shall  advise
  the  commissioner  of  education  concerning  local  government  records
  policies and procedures, state services and financial support needed  to
  assist  or  advise  local officials, and regulations pertaining to local
  government records, and grants for local government  records  management
  improvement  pursuant  to  section  57.35  of this chapter. The advisory
  council shall prepare an initial report on the above matters by December
  first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven to be provided to the  commissioner
  of   education,   the   governor,  and  appropriate  committees  of  the
  legislature.    The  commissioner  of  education  shall  not  promulgate
  regulations  for  the administration and maintenance of local government
  records before July first, nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight  except  with
  prior consultation with and review by the advisory council.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.23 - Oversight and Advisory Services.

§ 57.23. Oversight  and  advisory  services.  1.    It  shall  be  the
  responsibility  of  the  commissioner  of  education  to  advise   local
  governments  on  planning  and  administering programs for the creation,
  maintenance, preservation, reproduction, retention, and  disposition  of
  their  records;  to  advise  local  governments  on  the  development of
  micrographics systems, automated  data  processing  systems,  and  other
  systems  that rely on technology to create, store, manage, and reproduce
  information  or  records;  and  to  advise  local  governments  on   the
  preservation  and  use  of vital records and records with enduring value
  for historical or other research purposes.
2.  The  commissioner  of  education  is   authorized   to   establish
  requirements  for  the  proper  creation,  preservation,  management and
  protection of records, and  shall  develop  statewide  plans  to  ensure
  preservation  of  adequate documentation of the functions, services, and
  historical development of local governments.
3.  The  commissioner  of  education  is  authorized   to   promulgate
  regulations to implement the provisions of this article with advice from
  the local government records advisory council.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.25 - Records Retention and Disposition.

§ 57.25. Records  retention  and  disposition.  1.  It  shall  be  the
  responsibility of every local officer to maintain records to  adequately
  document  the  transaction  of  public  business  and  the  services and
  programs for which such officer  is  responsible;  to  retain  and  have
  custody  of  such  records for so long as the records are needed for the
  conduct of the business  of  the  office;  to  adequately  protect  such
  records;  to  cooperate  with  the local government's records management
  officer on programs for the orderly and efficient management of  records
  including   identification   and  management  of  inactive  records  and
  identification and preservation of records of enduring value; to dispose
  of records in accordance with legal requirements; and to pass on to  his
  successor  records  needed for the continuing conduct of business of the
  office. In towns, records no  longer  needed  for  the  conduct  of  the
  business  of  the office shall be transferred to the custody of the town
  clerk for their safekeeping and ultimate disposal.
2. No local officer shall destroy, sell or otherwise  dispose  of  any
  public  record without the consent of the commissioner of education. The
  commissioner of education shall, after  consultation  with  other  state
  agencies  and  with  local  government  officers,  determine the minimum
  length of time that records need to be retained.  Such  commissioner  is
  authorized  to  develop,  adopt  by  regulation, issue and distribute to
  local  governments   records   retention   and   disposition   schedules
  establishing  minimum  legal  retention  periods.   The issuance of such
  schedules  shall  constitute  formal  consent  by  the  commissioner  of
  education  to  the  disposition  of records that have been maintained in
  excess of the  retention  periods  set  forth  in  the  schedules.  Such
  schedules  shall  be  reviewed  and  adopted by formal resolution of the
  governing body of a local government prior to  the  disposition  of  any
  records. If any law specifically provides a retention period longer than
  that  established  by  the  records  retention  and disposition schedule
  established herein the retention period established by  such  law  shall
  govern.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.27 - Records With Statewide Significance.

§ 57.27. Records  with  statewide  significance.  The  commissioner of
  education is authorized to designate particular local government records
  for  permanent   retention   because   of   their   enduring   statewide
  significance.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.29 - Reproduction of Records and Disposition of the Originals.

§ 57.29. Reproduction  of  records  and  disposition of the originals.
  Any  local  officer  may  reproduce  any  record  in  his   custody   by
  microphotography   or   other   means  that  accurately  and  completely
  reproduces all the information in the record.  Such  official  may  then
  dispose of the original record even though it has not met the prescribed
  minimum   legal   retention   period,  provided  that  the  process  for
  reproduction and the provisions made for preserving  and  examining  the
  copy  meet  requirements  established  by the commissioner of education.
  Such copy shall be deemed to be an original  record  for  all  purposes,
  including  introduction as evidence in proceedings before all courts and
  administrative agencies.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.31 - Cooperative Records Storage and Management.

§ 57.31. Cooperative   records   storage  and  management.  All  local
  government records shall be kept in secure facilities maintained by  the
  local  government unless the consent of the commissioner of education is
  obtained to their transfer and storage elsewhere. Any  local  government
  may  cooperate  with  another  local  government  or governments for the
  improved management and preservation of records, and may  enter  into  a
  contractual arrangement for such purposes.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.33 - Exclusions.

§ 57.33. Exclusions.  The  provisions  of this article shall not apply
  to:
1. The records of any court, except as provided in  section  57.35  of
  this article.
2.  The  records of any city with a population of one million or more,
  and the records  of  any  county  contained  therein,  so  long  as  the
  destruction  of  the records of such city or county shall be carried out
  in  accordance  with  the  procedure  prescribed  by  any  existing  law
  exclusively applicable to the destruction of the records of such city or
  county,  provided  that  section  57.35  of  this article shall apply to
  grants for local government records management for supreme court records
  in the custody of the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond  and
  Bronx,  and  records under the jurisdiction of the department of records
  and information services of the  city  of  New  York  or  its  successor
  agency, and records under the jurisdiction of the city clerk of the city
  of  New  York.  If  any such law shall be amended by local law after the
  first day of July, nineteen hundred fifty-one, the  provisions  of  this
  section  shall  not  apply  to  the  destruction  of such records if the
  procedures therefor established by such law, as amended  by  local  law,
  shall be acceptable to the commissioner of education.
3.  The  records  of  any  state  department, division, board, bureau,
  commission or other agency.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.37 - Regional Records Offices.

§ 57.37. Regional records offices. 1. The commissioner of education is
  authorized to establish in each judicial district, except New York city,
  a  regional  records  office.  In  New  York  city,  the commissioner of
  education is authorized to establish a single regional records office to
  oversee records management programs for entities within the city of  New
  York  whose  records are not under the jurisdiction of the department of
  records and information services or its successor agency  and  the  city
  clerk of the city of New York.
2.   The   regional   records   offices  shall  provide  advisory  and
  consultative services and technical assistance to local  governments  on
  records  management  and  the  administration  of  archival  records and
  address recommendations of the New York state local  government  records
  advisory council.
3.  The  commissioner of education is authorized to employ specialists
  in records management, archives  administration  and  other  specialists
  necessary  to provide advisory, consultative and technical assistance to
  local governments from monies available for this purpose in the New York
  state local government records management improvement fund,  established
  pursuant to section ninety-seven-i of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law › 57.39 - Reporting Requirements.

§ 57.39. Reporting  requirements.  The commissioner of education, with
  the advice of the New  York  state  local  government  records  advisory
  council,  shall report annually on or before March first to the governor
  and  the  legislature  on  the  status  of  local   government   records
  management, including a report of revenues and expenditures from the New
  York  state local government records management improvement fund for the
  previous calendar year and appropriate recommendations.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-B - The Amistad Commission › 57.53 - The Amistad Commission; Duties and Responsibilities.

§  57.53.  The  Amistad  commission;  duties and responsibilities. The
  Amistad commission shall have the following responsibilities and duties:
1.  to  survey  and  catalog  the  extent  and  breadth  of  education
  concerning  the African slave trade, slavery in America, the vestiges of
  slavery in this country and the contributions  of  African-Americans  to
  our   society  presently  being  incorporated  into  the  curricula  and
  textbooks and taught in  the  school  systems  of  the  state;  and,  to
  inventory  those  African  slave  trade,  American  slavery, or relevant
  African-American history memorials, exhibits and resources which  should
  be  incorporated  into  courses of study at educational institutions and
  schools throughout the state.
2. to compile a roster of individual volunteers  who  are  willing  to
  share  their  knowledge  and  experience  in  classrooms,  seminars  and
  workshops with students and teachers on the subject of the African slave
  trade, American slavery and the impact of slavery on our society  today,
  and the contributions of African-Americans to our country; and
3.  to  prepare reports for the governor and the legislature regarding
  its findings and recommendations on facilitating the  inclusion  of  the
  African  slave trade, American slavery studies, African-American history
  and special programs in the educational system of the state.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records › Article 57-B - The Amistad Commission › 57.54 - Authorization.

§  57.54.  Authorization.  1.  The Amistad commission is authorized to
  call upon any department, office, division or agency of the state, or of
  any county, municipality or school district of the state, to supply such
  data, program reports and other information, as it  deems  necessary  to
  discharge its responsibilities under this article.
2.  These  departments,  offices, divisions and agencies shall, to the
  extent possible and not inconsistent with any other law of  this  state,
  cooperate with the commission and shall furnish it with such information
  and assistance as may be necessary or helpful to accomplish the purposes
  of this article.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.03 - Definitions.

§ 59.03. Definitions.  As  used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context,
1. The term "Planetarium Authority" shall mean the corporation created
  by section 59.05 of this chapter;
2. The term "planetarium" shall mean the planetarium herein authorized
  and shall include the building  housing  the  same  and  all  machinery,
  equipment, facilities and educational material incidental thereto;
3.  The term "bonds" shall mean bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title;
4. The term "board" shall mean the members of the board  of  directors
  of the Planetarium Authority.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.07 - Powers of the Planetarium Authority.

§ 59.07. Powers   of   the   Planetarium  Authority.  The  Planetarium
  Authority shall have power:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate
  purposes;
4. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs;
5. To use the agents, employees and facilities of The American  Museum
  of  Natural History, paying its proper proportion of the compensation or
  cost;
6. To appoint officers and agents;
7. To make contracts and  to  execute  all  instruments  necessary  or
  convenient;
8. By contract or contracts or by its own employees, to construct such
  planetarium  building, together with incidental machinery, equipment and
  facilities;
9. To purchase or construct, or acquire by  gift,  loan  or  otherwise
  from  The  American  Museum  of  Natural  History  or  other  persons or
  corporations, and install in such planetarium  building,  a  planetarium
  instrument  or  instruments  and such other astronomical instruments and
  exhibits as to such board  shall  seem  best  adapted  for  astronomical
  instruction;
10. To maintain, reconstruct and operate the planetarium;
11.  To  charge  or grant to the American Museum of Natural History in
  the lease  the  right  to  charge  admission  fees  for  exhibiting  the
  planetarium  or some part or parts thereof, subject to and in accordance
  with section 59.09 of this title and such agreements with bondholders as
  may be made as hereinafter provided;
12. To issue negotiable bonds and to provide for  the  rights  of  the
  holders thereof; and
13.  To  do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
  expressly given by this title.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.09 - Admission Fees.

§ 59.09. Admission  fees.  In  order that the educational influence of
  the planetarium shall reach as many persons as possible, the board shall
  not fix admission fees, at rates higher than are necessary  to  pay  the
  cost   of   construction,  operation,  maintenance  and  repair  of  the
  planetarium  and  instruction  in  connection  therewith,  and  reserves
  therefor,  and  to pay the principal of and interest on any bonds issued
  hereunder, and to meet the reserves and sinking funds  provided  for  in
  any  resolution  authorizing such bonds. Classes from the public schools
  and colleges  of  the  city  of  New  York  shall  be  admitted  to  the
  planetarium  at such times and upon such days of the week and under such
  reasonable rules and regulations as the board shall prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.11 - Moneys of the Planetarium Authority.

§ 59.11. Moneys  of  the  Planetarium  Authority.  The  moneys  in the
  deposit account of the Planetarium Authority shall be paid out on checks
  signed by the executive director of the Planetarium Authority or by such
  other person or persons as the Planetarium Authority may authorize.  All
  deposits of such moneys shall, if required by the Planetarium Authority,
  be secured by obligations of the United States or the state of New York,
  of  a  market  value equal at all times to the amount of the deposit and
  all banks and trust companies are authorized to give such  security  for
  such  deposits.  The comptroller of the city of New York and his legally
  authorized representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time
  to time to examine the accounts and books of the Planetarium  Authority,
  including   its   receipts,  disbursements,  contracts,  sinking  funds,
  investments and any other matters relating to its financial standing.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.15 - State and City Not Liable on Bonds.

§ 59.15. State  and  city  not  liable  on  bonds. The bonds and other
  obligations of the Planetarium Authority shall not  be  a  debt  of  the
  state  of  New  York  or city of New York and neither the state nor such
  city shall be liable thereon, nor shall they be payable out of any funds
  other than those of the Planetarium Authority.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.17 - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§ 59.17. Bonds legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds are hereby
  made  securities  in  which all public officers and bodies of this state
  and  all  municipalities  and  municipal  subdivisions,  all   insurance
  companies  and associations, all savings banks and savings institutions,
  including savings  and  loan  associations,  administrators,  guardians,
  executors,  trustees and other fiduciaries in the state may properly and
  legally invest funds in their control.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.23 - Members of the Board of the Planetarium Authority and Employees Not to Profit.

§ 59.23. Members  of  the  board  of  the  Planetarium  Authority  and
  employees not to profit. No officer, member of the board or employee  of
  the corporation shall receive or may be lawfully entitled to receive any
  pecuniary profit from the operation thereof.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.25 - Visitation by Regents.

§ 59.25. Visitation  by  regents.  The regents, or the commissioner of
  education,  or  their  representatives,  may  visit,  examine  into  and
  inspect,   the   Planetarium  Authority  as  an  institution  under  the
  educational supervision of the state,  and  may  require,  as  often  as
  desired,  duly verified reports therefrom giving such information and in
  such form  as  the  regents  or  the  commissioner  of  education  shall
  prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › Article 59 - American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority › 59.27 - Application of Law.

§ 59.27. Application  of  law.  All  of  the general provisions of the
  public  authorities  law  or  of  any  other  law  shall  apply  to  the
  Planetarium  Authority  herein  continued  in  the same manner as if the
  language of such law had been incorporated in full  into  this  article,
  except  to  the  extent  that  such provisions are inconsistent with the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title V-1 - Sale of Autographed Sports Collectibles › Article 60 - Sale of Autographed Sports Collectibles › 60.01 - Definitions.

§ 60.01. Definitions.  As  used  in  this article, the following terms
  shall have the following meanings:
1. "Autographed" means  bearing  the  actual  signature  of  a  sports
  personality, signed by such individual's own hand.
2.  "Collectible"  means an autographed sports item including, but not
  limited to, a photograph, book, ticket, plaque, sports program,  trading
  card,  item of sports equipment or clothing, or other sports memorabilia
  sold or offered for sale in or from this state by a dealer to a consumer
  for twenty-five dollars or more.
3. "Consumer" means any natural person who  purchases  an  autographed
  sports  collectible  from  a  dealer  for  personal, family or household
  purposes.
4. "Dealer" means a person who  is  in  the  business  of  selling  or
  offering for sale in or from this state, exclusively or non-exclusively,
  autographed  sports collectibles or a person who by his occupation holds
  himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to such  collectibles,
  or  to  whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment
  of an agent or other intermediary who by his  occupation  holds  himself
  out  as  having  such  knowledge or skill. The term "dealer" includes an
  auctioneer who sells such collectibles at public auction,  and  includes
  persons who are consignors or principals of auctioneers.
5.  "Description"  means  any representation in writing, including but
  not limited to a representation contained in an advertisement,  invoice,
  catalog,  flyer,  sign,  brochure,  or  other  commercial or promotional
  material. Such term shall also include a representation contained  in  a
  prepared  script  and  made  for  the  purpose of selling an autographed
  sports collectible in a radio or television broadcast to the  public  in
  or from this state.
6.  "Person"  means  any  natural  person,  partnership,  corporation,
  company, trust, association or other entity, however organized.
7. "Supplier" means any person who provides collectibles to  a  dealer
  specifically for the purposes of re-sale.