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2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 160 - Regulations Governing the Health Benefit Plan; Advisory Committee.

§ 160. Regulations   governing   the  health  benefit  plan;  advisory
committee. 1. The president, subject to the provisions of this  article,
is hereby empowered to establish regulations relating to:
(1)  the  eligibility  of  (a)  active  and  (b)  retired employees to
participate in the health benefit plan authorized by this article,
(2)  the  terms  and  conditions  of   the   insurance   and/or   plan
administrator  contract or contracts, as applied to (a) active employees
and (b) retired employees, and
(3) the purchase of such insurance and/or plan administrator  contract
or contracts and the administration of such health benefit plan.
The  president shall adopt such further regulations as may be required
for the effective administration of this article, including the right to
require advance payments of any portion of the  amount  required  to  be
paid  by  any participating employer as its share in connection with the
operation of the health benefit plan hereunder.
2. The president, in his discretion,  is  hereby  empowered  to  make,
amend  and rescind, from time to time, regulations establishing a dental
insurance plan which shall be  a  part  of  the  health  insurance  plan
authorized by this article. Such regulations may provide for negotiating
unit, employee and employer participation or nonparticipation, employee,
dependent   and   retiree   eligibility   or   noneligibility  and  such
contribution rates as the  president  may  determine  even  though  such
regulations  establish  standards  which differ from those applicable by
law to other parts of such  health  insurance  plan.  The  president  is
hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  provide  in  such regulations for
participation in  the  dental  insurance  plan  by  retirees;  provided,
however,  that  the  claims  experience for retirees shall be separately
rated and premiums established separate from other participants  in  the
plan  and  provided further that the full costs of participation in such
plan, including  all  administrative  costs,  shall  be  borne  by  such
retirees.   Considering  the  dental  insurance  plan  as  a  whole,  no
regulation enacted pursuant to this subdivision shall provide or  permit
a  benefit structure inconsistent with the most efficient and economical
administration of such plan.
3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, no rule
or regulation shall be adopted, repealed or amended, and no other action
taken  with  respect  to  state  employees  affecting  the  rate  of  or
eligibility for benefits under this article, without the approval of the
director of employee relations.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 161-A - Implementation of Negotiated Agreements.

§ 161-a. Implementation of negotiated agreements. 1. Where, and to the
  extent that, an agreement between the state and an employee organization
  entered  into  pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter provides for
  health benefits, the president, after receipt of written directions from
  the director of employee relations, shall implement  the  provisions  of
  such  agreement  consistent  with  the  terms  thereof and to the extent
  necessary shall adopt regulations  providing  for  the  benefits  to  be
  thereunder provided. The president, with the approval of the director of
  the  budget, may extend such benefits, in whole or in part, to employees
  not subject to the provisions of such agreement.
2. Insofar as the provisions of this section are inconsistent with any
  other act, general  or  special,  or  any  rule  or  regulation  adopted
  thereunder,  the  provisions  of  this  section shall be controlling and
  insofar as the regulations promulgated  by  the  president  pursuant  to
  subdivision  one  of  this  section  are  inconsistent  with any rule or
  regulation, the provisions of such regulations shall be controlling.
3. There is hereby created a council on employee health  insurance  to
  supervise  the  administration  of  changes  to  the health benefit plan
  negotiated in collective negotiations and to provide  continuing  policy
  direction to insurance plans administered by the state the provisions of
  any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. The council shall consist
  of  the  president,  the director of the division of the budget, and the
  director of employee relations.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 163-A - Supplementary Plan.

§ 163-a. Supplementary  plan. 1. For the purposes of this section, the
  term "supplementary  plan"  shall  mean  a  health  benefit  plan  which
  provides an adjustment to the deductible or co-insurance liability or to
  the  benefits  provided  by  the statewide health benefit plan purchased
  pursuant to section one hundred sixty-two of this article.
2. The president may require the insurer of a  supplementary  plan  to
  the   statewide   health  benefit  plan,  provided  as  a  result  of  a
  collectively negotiated agreement pursuant to article fourteen  of  this
  chapter,   to   make   a  comparable  supplementary  plan  available  to
  participating employers as of  the  implementation  date  of  the  state
  employees'  supplementary  plan. The comparable supplementary plan shall
  be experience rated as to those  participating  employers  electing  it,
  with the costs thereof allocated equitably among them.
3.  Every  participating  employer  which,  on  or  before July first,
  nineteen hundred eighty-five, entered  into  a  collectively  negotiated
  agreement  pursuant  to  article  fourteen of this chapter with employee
  organizations representing its employees to provide the statewide health
  benefit plan shall provide such comparable  supplementary  plan  on  the
  date   established  by  the  president  until  the  expiration  of  such
  negotiated agreement.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 164 - Coverage for Dependents.

§ 164. Coverage  for dependents. 1. Each employee shall be entitled to
have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of
the president, included  in  the  coverage  upon  agreeing  to  pay  his
contribution,  if any, to the cost of such coverage for such dependents.
The president shall adopt regulations governing the  discontinuance  and
resumption by employees of coverage for dependents.
2.  During  the  fiscal  year  ending March thirty-first, two thousand
sixteen, the president may establish an amnesty  period  not  to  exceed
sixty days. During this amnesty period when any employee enrolled in the
plan voluntarily identifies any ineligible dependent:
(a)  the  termination of the ineligible dependent's coverage resulting
from such employee's timely compliance shall be made on a current basis;
(b) the plan shall not seek recovery of any claims paid based  on  the
coverage of the ineligible dependent;
(c)  the  employee shall not be entitled to any refund of premium paid
on behalf of any such ineligible dependent; and
(d) the employee shall not be subject to any  disciplinary,  civil  or
criminal  action, directly as a result of the coverage of the ineligible
dependent.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 165 - Termination of Active Employment.

§ 165. Termination   of  active  employment.  1.  The  health  benefit
  coverage of any employee and his or her dependents, if any, shall  cease
  upon  the  discontinuance  of  his  or her term of office or employment,
  subject to regulations which may be  prescribed  by  the  president  for
  extension  of  coverage  and  for  conversion  to an individual contract
  providing for such of the benefits provided under this article as may be
  provided under such individual contracts, under terms  approved  by  the
  president,  the  total  cost  of  any  such  contract to be borne by the
  employee.
2. In the event of death of an employee having coverage at the time of
  death for himself or herself and his or her dependents,  and  where  the
  circumstances of death are such that beneficiaries or dependents of such
  deceased employee are entitled to an accidental death benefit payable by
  a retirement system or pension plan administered by the state or a civil
  division  thereof  on  account  of  death  resulting  from  an  accident
  sustained in the performance of his or her duties or to  death  benefits
  provided for under the workers' compensation law, the unremarried spouse
  of  such employee covered at the time of his or her death and his or her
  covered dependents, for so long  as  they  would  otherwise  qualify  as
  dependents eligible for coverage under the regulations of the president,
  shall  be  eligible  to  continue full coverage under the health benefit
  plan upon payment at intervals determined by the president of  the  full
  cost  of  such coverage; provided, however, that the state shall pay and
  any participating employer may elect  to  pay  the  full  cost  of  such
  coverage,  except  that  in  the  case  of those enrolled in an optional
  benefit plan, the employer shall  contribute  not  more  than  the  same
  dollar  amount  which  would  be  paid  if  such  unremarried spouse and
  dependents were enrolled in the basic statewide health benefit plan. The
  president shall adopt such regulations as may be required to  carry  out
  the  provisions of this subdivision which shall include, but need not be
  limited to, provisions for filing application  for  continued  coverage,
  including  reasonable time limits therefor, and provisions for continued
  coverage  of  spouse  and  dependents  pending   determination   of   an
  application  for  accidental  death benefits from a retirement system or
  pension plan administered by the state or a civil  division  thereof  or
  pending  determination  of a claim for death benefits under the workers'
  compensation law.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 166 - Payment of Benefits.

§ 166. Payment  of benefits.   Any benefits payable under the plan may
  be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals,  medical
  groups,  or  others furnishing the services upon which a claim is based,
  or to the covered employee, upon presentation of valid  bills  for  such
  services,  subject  to  such  provisions to facilitate payment as may be
  made by the president.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 167-A - Reimbursement for Medicare Premium Charges.

§ 167-a. Reimbursement  for  medicare  premium charges. Upon exclusion
  from the coverage of the health benefit plan  of  supplementary  medical
  insurance  benefits  for  which  an  active  or  retired  employee  or a
  dependent covered by the health benefit plan is  or  would  be  eligible
  under  the  federal old-age, survivors and disability insurance program,
  an amount equal to the premium charge  for  such  supplementary  medical
  insurance  benefits  for  such active or retired employee and his or her
  dependents, if any, shall be paid monthly or at other intervals to  such
  active  or  retired  employee  from  the  health  insurance  fund. Where
  appropriate, such amount may be deducted from contributions  payable  by
  the  employee or retired employee; or where appropriate in the case of a
  retired employee receiving a retirement allowance, such  amount  may  be
  included  with  payments  of  his or her retirement allowance. All state
  employer, employee, retired employee and dependent contributions to  the
  health  insurance fund, including contributions from public authorities,
  public benefit corporations or other quasi-public organizations  of  the
  state   eligible  for  participation  in  the  health  benefit  plan  as
  authorized by subdivision two of section one hundred sixty-three of this
  article, shall be adjusted as necessary to cover the cost of reimbursing
  federal old-age, survivors  and  disability  insurance  program  premium
  charges  under  this  section.  This  cost  shall  be  included  in  the
  calculation of premium  or  subscription  charges  for  health  coverage
  provided  to  employees  and  retired  employees  of  the  state, public
  authorities,  public  benefit   corporations   or   other   quasi-public
  organizations  of  the  state;  provided,  however,  the  state,  public
  authorities,  public  benefit   corporations   or   other   quasi-public
  organizations  of  the  state shall remain obligated to pay no less than
  its share of such increased cost consistent with its share of premium or
  subscription charges provided for by this article.  All  other  employer
  contributions  to  the  health  insurance  fund  shall  be  adjusted  as
  necessary to provide for such payments.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11 - Health Benefits for State and Retired State Employees › 170 - Separability.

§ 170. Separability.   If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision
  or section or part of this article shall  be  adjudged  by  a  court  of
  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
  impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
  operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section  or
  part  of this article directly involved in the controversy in which such
  judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 171 - Regulations Governing the Long Term Care Insurance Plan.

§  171.  Regulations  governing the long term care insurance plan.  1.
  The president, subject to the provisions  of  this  article,  is  hereby
  empowered  to  establish  such  regulations  as  may be required for the
  effective administration of this article.
2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, no rule
  or regulation shall be adopted, repealed or amended, and no other action
  taken with respect to state employees affecting the rate or  eligibility
  for benefits under this article, without the approval of the director of
  employee relations.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 172 - Long Term Care Insurance.

§ 172. Long term care insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized
  and  directed  to  establish  a  long term care insurance plan for state
  officers and employees and their dependents and officers  and  employees
  of  the  state colleges of agriculture, home economics, industrial labor
  relations and veterinary medicine, the  state  agricultural  station  at
  Geneva,  and  any  other  institution or agency under the management and
  control of Cornell University as the  representative  of  the  board  of
  trustees  of  the state university of New York, and the state college of
  ceramics under the management and control of Alfred  University  as  the
  representative  of  the board of trustees of the state university of New
  York and their dependents, and for the employees and  retired  employees
  of  public  authorities,  public benefit corporations, school districts,
  special  districts,  district   corporations,   municipal   corporations
  excluding  active  employees  and  retired  employees of cities having a
  population of one million or more inhabitants whose compensation  is  or
  was   before  retirement  paid  out  of  the  city  treasury,  or  other
  appropriate agencies, subdivisions or quasi-public organizations of  the
  state  and  their  dependents  as  defined  by  the  regulations  of the
  president, which, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in
  this article, and in the regulations of the president, will provide  for
  insurance against the financial costs of long term care.
2.  Participation in the long term care insurance plan shall be at the
  option of the employee and shall be paid for solely by the  employee  in
  accordance with this article.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 173 - Contract for Long Term Care Insurance.

§  173.  Contract  for  long  term care insurance. 1. The president is
  hereby authorized and directed to purchase a contract  or  contracts  to
  provide  long term care benefits under the long term care insurance plan
  established in accordance with the provisions of this article. Such long
  term care contract or contracts shall be  purchased  from  one  or  more
  corporations authorized under section one thousand one hundred seventeen
  of the insurance law to issue long term care insurance contracts in this
  state.
2. A reasonable time before entering into any long term care insurance
  contract  or  contracts  hereunder, the president shall invite proposals
  from such qualified insurers as in his or her opinion  would  desire  to
  accept  any  part of the long term care insurance coverage authorized by
  this article.
3. The president may designate one or more  of  such  corporations  as
  insurers  from  which  employees  may  select  to provide long term care
  insurance.
4. Each employee  who  is  covered  under  any  such  long  term  care
  insurance  contract  or  contracts  shall  receive a certificate setting
  forth the benefits to which the employee and his or her  dependents  are
  entitled  thereunder,  to  whom  such benefits shall be payable, to whom
  claims should be  submitted,  and  summarizing  the  provisions  of  the
  contract principally affecting the employee and his or her dependents.
5.  The  president may, at the end of any fiscal year, discontinue any
  long term care insurance contract or contracts he or she  has  purchased
  from any corporation or corporations; provided, however, nothing in this
  article  nor  in  any  regulations promulgated hereunder shall affect or
  impair any employees' continuation of coverage or conversion rights with
  respect to long term care insurance as defined in the regulations of the
  New York state department of financial services.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 174 - Eligibility for Participation.

§  174.  Eligibility  for participation. 1. All persons who, as of the
  effective date  of  this  article,  are  or  shall  become  eligible  to
  participate  in  the state health benefit plan established under article
  eleven of this chapter, shall be eligible to  participate  in  the  long
  term  care  insurance plan established under this article. The president
  shall adopt  regulations  prescribing  the  conditions  under  which  an
  eligible  individual  may  elect  to  participate  in the long term care
  insurance plan.
2. The president shall adopt regulations  prescribing  the  conditions
  under  which an individual participating in the long term care insurance
  plan may elect to withdraw from the plan.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 175 - Termination of Active Employment.

§  175.  Termination  of  active employment. The president shall adopt
  regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which an employee
  may continue coverage under the long term care insurance plan  following
  termination   of   active   employment;  provided,  however,  that  such
  regulations are consistent with any regulations established by  the  New
  York  state  department of financial services concerning an individual's
  continuation of coverage or conversion rights with respect to long  term
  care insurance.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 176 - Contributions.

§  176.  Contributions.  1.  The  full cost of premium or subscription
  charges for the long term care insurance plan  established  pursuant  to
  this article shall be paid by the employee.
2.  The  chief  fiscal  officer  of  a participating employer shall be
  authorized to deduct from the wages or salary paid to its employees  who
  are participants in such long term care insurance plan the sums required
  to be paid by them under such plan.
3.  The  president  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  make  such
  inspection of the employment and payroll records  of  any  participating
  employer  concerning  any  of its employees who are participants in such
  long term care insurance plan, as he or she may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 11-A - Long Term Care Insurance for State and Retired State Employees › 177 - Severability.

§  177. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
  section or part of  this  article  shall  be  adjudged  by  a  court  of
  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
  impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
  operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section  or
  part  of this article directly involved in the controversy in which such
  judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 13 - Saving Clause; Construction; Separability › 186 - Separability.

§ 186. Separability. If  any  clause,  sentence, paragraph, section or
  part  of  this  act  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of   competent
  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  thereof  directly
  involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such judgment shall have been
  rendered.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 200 - Statement of Policy.

§ 200. Statement  of  policy. The legislature of the state of New York
  declares that it is the public policy of the state and  the  purpose  of
  this  act  to  promote  harmonious and cooperative relationships between
  government and its employees and to protect the public by  assuring,  at
  all  times,  the  orderly  and uninterrupted operations and functions of
  government.   These policies are best effectuated  by  (a)  granting  to
  public  employees  the  right  of  organization  and representation, (b)
  requiring the state, local governments and other political  subdivisions
  to  negotiate  with,  and  enter  into  written agreements with employee
  organizations representing public employees which have been certified or
  recognized, (c) encouraging such  public  employers  and  such  employee
  organizations  to  agree  upon  procedures  for  resolving disputes, (d)
  creating a public employment relations  board  to  assist  in  resolving
  disputes   between  public  employees  and  public  employers,  and  (e)
  continuing the prohibition  against  strikes  by  public  employees  and
  providing remedies for violations of such prohibition.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 203 - Right of Representation.

§ 203. Right  of representation. Public employees shall have the right
  to be represented by employee organizations, to  negotiate  collectively
  with  their  public  employers  in  the determination of their terms and
  conditions of employment, and the administration of  grievances  arising
  thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 204 - Recognition and Certification of Employee Organizations.

§ 204. Recognition  and  certification  of  employee organizations. 1.
  Public  employers   are   hereby   empowered   to   recognize   employee
  organizations  for  the  purpose  of  negotiating  collectively  in  the
  determination of, and administration of grievances  arising  under,  the
  terms and conditions of employment of their public employees as provided
  in this article, and to negotiate and enter into written agreements with
  such  employee organizations in determining such terms and conditions of
  employment.
2. Where an employee organization has  been  certified  or  recognized
  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this article, it shall be the exclusive
  representative, for the purposes of this article, of all  the  employees
  in the appropriate negotiating unit, and the appropriate public employer
  shall  be,  and  hereby is, required to negotiate collectively with such
  employee organization in the determination  of,  and  administration  of
  grievances  arising under, the terms and conditions of employment of the
  public employees as provided in this article, and to negotiate and enter
  into written agreements with such employee organizations in  determining
  such terms and conditions of employment.
3.  For  the purpose of this article, to negotiate collectively is the
  performance of the mutual  obligation  of  the  public  employer  and  a
  recognized  or  certified  employee  organization  to meet at reasonable
  times and confer in good faith with respect to wages, hours,  and  other
  terms  and conditions of employment, or the negotiation of an agreement,
  or any question arising thereunder,  and  the  execution  of  a  written
  agreement  incorporating  any  agreement  reached if requested by either
  party, but such obligation does not compel either party to  agree  to  a
  proposal or require the making of a concession.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 204-A - Agreements Between Public Employers and Employee Organizations.

§ 204-a. Agreements    between    public    employers   and   employee
  organizations.  1. Any written agreement between a public  employer  and
  an  employee  organization  determining  the  terms  and  conditions  of
  employment of public employees shall contain  the  following  notice  in
  type not smaller than the largest type used elsewhere in such agreement:
"It  is  agreed  by and between the parties that any provision of this
  agreement requiring legislative action to permit its  implementation  by
  amendment  of  law  or by providing the additional funds therefor, shall
  not become effective until the appropriate legislative  body  has  given
  approval."
2.  Every employee organization submitting such a written agreement to
  its members for ratification shall publish  such  notice,  include  such
  notice  in  the documents accompanying such submission and shall read it
  aloud at any membership meeting called to consider such ratification.
3. Within sixty days after the effective date of this act, a  copy  of
  this  section  shall  be  furnished  by the chief fiscal officer of each
  public employer to each public employee. Each public  employee  employed
  thereafter  shall, upon such employment, be furnished with a copy of the
  provisions of this section.
4.  The  terms  of  any  current  or  expired  agreement  or  interest
  arbitration  award  between  any public employer and any public employee
  organization representing firefighters relating to the discipline of any
  firefighters shall be deemed valid and enforceable  from  the  effective
  date of this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 206 - Procedures for Determination of Representation Status of Local Employees.

§ 206. Procedures  for determination of representation status of local
  employees. 1. Every government (other than the state or a  state  public
  authority),  acting through its legislative body, is hereby empowered to
  establish procedures, not inconsistent with the  provisions  of  section
  two hundred seven of this article and after consultation with interested
  employee organizations and administrators of public services, to resolve
  disputes  concerning the representation status of employee organizations
  of employees of such government.
2. In the absence of such procedures, such disputes shall be submitted
  to the board in  accordance  with  section  two  hundred  five  of  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 207 - Determination of Representation Status.

§ 207. Determination   of   representation  status.  For  purposes  of
resolving disputes concerning representation status, pursuant to section
two hundred five or two hundred  six  of  this  article,  the  board  or
government, as the case may be, shall
1.  define  the appropriate employer-employee negotiating units taking
into account the following standards:
(a) the definition of the unit shall  correspond  to  a  community  of
interest among the employees to be included in the unit;
(b)  the  officials  of government at the level of the unit shall have
the power to agree,  or  to  make  effective  recommendations  to  other
administrative  authority  or  the legislative body with respect to, the
terms and conditions of employment upon which the  employees  desire  to
negotiate; and
(c)  the  unit  shall be compatible with the joint responsibilities of
the public employer and public employees to serve the public.
2. ascertain the public employees' choice of employee organization  as
their  representative  (in cases where the parties to a dispute have not
agreed on the means to ascertain the choice, if any, of the employees in
the unit) on  the  basis  of  dues  deduction  authorization  and  other
evidences, or, if necessary, by conducting an election.
3.  certify  or  recognize  an  employee  organization  upon  (a)  the
determination that such organization represents  that  group  of  public
employees  it  claims  to  represent,  and  (b)  the affirmation by such
organization that it does not assert the right  to  strike  against  any
government, to assist or participate in any such strike, or to impose an
obligation to conduct, assist or participate in such a strike.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 211 - Application for Injunctive Relief.

§ 211. Application    for   injunctive   relief. Notwithstanding   the
  provisions of section eight hundred seven of the  labor  law,  where  it
  appears  that  public  employees or an employee organization threaten or
  are about to do, or are doing,  an  act  in  violation  of  section  two
  hundred  ten  of  this  article,  the  chief  executive  officer  of the
  government involved shall (a) forthwith notify the chief  legal  officer
  of  the  government  involved,  and (b) provide such chief legal officer
  with such facilities, assistance and data as will enable the chief legal
  officer to carry out his duties under this section, and, notwithstanding
  the failure or  refusal  of  the  chief  executive  officer  to  act  as
  aforesaid,  the  chief  legal  officer  of the government involved shall
  forthwith apply to the supreme court  for  an  injunction  against  such
  violation.    If  an  order  of  the court enjoining or restraining such
  violation does not receive compliance, such chief  legal  officer  shall
  forthwith  apply  to  the  supreme  court to punish such violation under
  section seven hundred fifty of the judiciary law.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 212 - Local Government Procedures.

§ 212. Local  government  procedures. 1. This article, except sections
  two hundred one, two hundred two, two hundred three, two  hundred  four,
  paragraph  b  of subdivision four and paragraph d of subdivision five of
  section two hundred five, paragraph b of subdivision  three  of  section
  two  hundred  seven,  section  two  hundred  eight,  section two hundred
  nine-a, subdivisions one and two of section two hundred ten, section two
  hundred eleven, two hundred thirteen and two hundred fourteen, shall  be
  inapplicable  to  any government (other than the state or a state public
  authority) which, acting through its legislative body,  has  adopted  by
  local  law,  ordinance  or resolution, its own provisions and procedures
  which have been submitted to the board by  such  government  and  as  to
  which  there  is  in  effect  a  determination  by  the  board that such
  provisions and procedures and the continuing implementation thereof  are
  substantially  equivalent  to the provisions and procedures set forth in
  this article with respect to the state.
2. With  respect  to  the  city  of  New  York,  such  provisions  and
  procedures  need  not be related to the end of its fiscal year; and with
  respect to provisions and procedures adopted by local law by the city of
  New York no such submission to or determination by the  board  shall  be
  required,  but such provisions and procedures shall be of full force and
  effect  unless  and  until  such  provisions  and  procedures,  or   the
  continuing  implementation  thereof,  are  found by a court of competent
  jurisdiction, in an action brought by the board in  the  county  of  New
  York  for  a declaratory judgment, not to be substantially equivalent to
  the provisions and procedures set forth in this article.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  the
  resolution  of  disputes  in  the  course  of collective negotiations as
  provided by section two hundred nine of this article shall apply to  any
  organized  fire  department,  police  force, or police department of any
  government  and  detective-investigators,   or   rackets   investigators
  employed  in  the  office  of a district attorney of a county subject to
  either subdivision one or two of this section. Provided, however, that a
  recognized or certified employee  organization  may  elect  to  continue
  dispute  resolution  procedures  which  existed  on the day prior to the
  effective date of this subdivision by notifying the  appropriate  public
  employment relations board in writing.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 214 - Management and Confidential Employees; Membership and Office in Employee Organizations.

§ 214. Management and confidential employees; membership and office in
  employee  organizations.    No  managerial  or confidential employee, as
  determined pursuant to subdivision seven of section two hundred  one  of
  this  article,  shall  hold  office  in  or  be a member of any employee
  organization which is or seeks to become pursuant to  this  article  the
  certified  or recognized representative of the public employees employed
  by the public employer of such managerial or confidential employee.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 14 - Public Employees' Fair Employment Act › 215 - Dues or Agency Shop Fee Deductions.

§  215.  Dues  or  agency  shop fee deductions. 1. Notwithstanding any
  other  law  to  the  contrary,  any  public   employer,   any   employee
  organization,  the  comptroller and the board, or any of their employees
  or agents, shall not be liable for, and shall have  a  complete  defense
  to,  any  claims  or actions under the laws of this state for requiring,
  deducting, receiving, or retaining dues or agency  shop  fee  deductions
  from  public employees, and current or former public employees shall not
  have standing to pursue these claims or actions, if  the  dues  or  fees
  were permitted or mandated at the time under the laws of this state then
  in force and paid, through payroll deduction or otherwise, prior to June
  twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.
2.  This section shall apply to claims and actions pending or filed on
  or after June twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.
3. The enactment of this section shall not be  interpreted  to  create
  the  inference  that  any  relief made unavailable by this section would
  otherwise be available.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 1 - Short Title; Policy; Definitions › 2 - Declaration of Policy.

§  2.  Declaration of policy. It is the declared policy of this state,
  as  one  means  of  improving  the  economic  welfare  of  its   people,
  particularly  those  who  are  producers, marketers or consumers of food
  products, to  encourage  their  effective  organization  in  cooperative
  associations for the rendering of mutual help and service.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 1 - Short Title; Policy; Definitions › 4 - Applicability.

§  4.  Applicability.  This  chapter  applies to (a) every corporation
  heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or  under  any  other
  general statute or special act of this state, which would, if it were to
  be  formed  currently under the laws of this state, be formed under this
  chapter, and (b) every corporation formed  under  laws  other  than  the
  statutes  of  this  state  to  the  extent  provided in section five and
  section seventy-six of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 10 - Classes of Corporations.

§  10.  Classes  of  corporations.  A cooperative corporation shall be
  either stock or non-stock. A stock cooperative shall  issue  to  members
  shares  of  stock  evidencing  membership  and  may issue, to members or
  others, shares of stock of a different class or classes  not  evidencing
  membership.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 11 - Five or More Persons May Form a Corporation, Under This Chapter, by Making, Acknowledging and Filing a Certificate of Incorporation Which Shall State:

§ 11. Five or more persons may form a corporation, under this chapter,
  by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation which
  shall state:
1. Its name. The name shall include the word "Cooperative."
2. Its purposes, as permitted by this chapter.
3. Its duration.
4. The  city, village or town and the county in which its office is to
  be located.
5. The names and post office addresses of its incorporators.
6. The number of its directors, or that the number of directors  shall
  be  within  a stated minimum and maximum as the by-laws may from time to
  time provide.  In either case, the number shall be not less than five.
7. The names and post office addresses  of  the  directors  until  the
  first annual meeting.
8. Whether  organized with or without capital stock. If organized with
  stock, the total amount thereof, the total number, if any, of the shares
  without par value, and the total number and  par  value  of  any  shares
  having  a  par value.  If the shares are to be classified, the number of
  shares to be included  in  each  class  and  all  of  the  designations,
  preferences,   privileges,   and   voting  rights  or  restrictions  and
  qualifications of the shares of each class.
9. That all of  the  subscribers  are  of  full  age;  that  at  least
  two-thirds  of them are citizens of the United States; that at least one
  of them is a resident of the state of New York; and that of the  persons
  named  as directors at least one is a citizen of the United States and a
  resident of the state of New York.
10. A  designation  of  the  secretary  of  state  as  agent  of   the
  corporation  upon  whom  process  against  it may be served and the post
  office address within or without this state to which  the  secretary  of
  state shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him.
11. If  the  corporation  is  to have a registered agent, his name and
  address within this state and a statement that the registered  agent  is
  to  be  the agent of the corporation upon whom process against it may be
  served.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 12 - Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation.

§  12.  Amendments to certificate of incorporation. The certificate of
  incorporation of any cooperative corporation may be amended as  approved
  by  the  affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members voting thereon at
  any regular or special meeting,  or,  if  the  corporation  permits  its
  members  to vote on the basis of patronage, by the affirmative vote of a
  majority of the members and  of  two-thirds  of  the  patronage,  voting
  thereon,  provided  that the certificate as amended be authorized by the
  provisions of this chapter applicable to such corporation. A written  or
  printed  notice  of  the proposed amendment and of the time and place of
  the meeting to vote thereon shall be delivered to each member, or mailed
  to his last known address as shown by the books of the  corporation,  or
  published  in  a  periodical issued by the corporation and mailed to all
  members, at least  twenty  days  prior  to  any  such  meeting.  If  the
  amendment  adversely  affects the preferential rights of any outstanding
  shares, any holder of such shares not voting in favor of such change may
  object to it at or before such meeting by filing his  written  objection
  with  the  secretary  of  the  corporation and demanding payment for his
  shares of stock at their fair value as provided in section  six  hundred
  twenty-three of the business corporation law. No amendment affecting the
  preferential   rights  of  any  member  or  class  of  members,  or  any
  shareholder or class of shareholders, as set forth in the certificate of
  incorporation, shall be adopted until the written consent of the holders
  of two-thirds of such preferential rights has been  obtained  and  filed
  with the corporation. In the case of a cooperative corporation which has
  adopted  the  delegate  plan  of  voting at a convention, the vote to be
  taken as provided herein may be taken at a convention  meeting  and  the
  required  vote  shall be two-thirds of the delegates present and voting.
  The amended certificate shall be  subscribed  and  acknowledged  by  the
  president  or  a  vice-president  and  the  secretary  or  an  assistant
  secretary, who shall annex an affidavit  stating  that  they  have  been
  authorized to execute and file such certificate by the votes required by
  this section and in the manner herein prescribed.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 13 - Purposes for Which General Cooperative Corporations May Be Formed.

§  13.  Purposes  for  which  general  cooperative corporations may be
  formed.  A cooperative corporation may be  created  under  this  chapter
  primarily for mutual help, not conducted for profit, for the purposes of
  assisting  its  members,  including  other cooperatives with which it is
  affiliated,  by  performing  services  connected  with   the   purchase,
  financing,    production,    manufacture,    warehousing,   cultivating,
  harvesting,  preservation,  drying,  processing,   cleansing,   canning,
  blending,  packing,  grading,  storing, handling, utilization, shipping,
  marketing, merchandising, selling, financing or otherwise  disposing  of
  the  agricultural and food products of its members or of any by-products
  thereof, including livestock waste or other organic agricultural  wastes
  and the capture of methane and other gases for the generation and use or
  sale  of  energy,  as  defined  in  section  1-103 of the energy law, or
  connected with the acquisition for its members of  labor,  supplies  and
  articles  of common use, including livestock, equipment, machinery, food
  products, family or other household and personal supplies, to be used or
  consumed by the members, their families or guests, or  for  carrying  on
  any  other household operation or educational work in home economics and
  cooperation by or for its members, or for  buying,  selling  or  leasing
  homes  or  farms  for  its members, or building or conducting housing or
  eating  places  cooperatively,  or  for   furnishing   medical   expense
  indemnity, dental expense indemnity, or hospital services to persons who
  become  subscribers under contracts with such corporations in the manner
  provided in article forty-three of the insurance law, or for the purpose
  of organizing agency or credit corporations as provided in article seven
  of this chapter, but a corporation so organized as a credit  corporation
  shall not have power to engage in any other activities. A certificate of
  incorporation,  which  includes  the  purpose of carrying on educational
  work, shall have attached thereto the consent  of  the  commissioner  of
  education.  A  worker  cooperative may be formed for any lawful business
  purpose and may be conducted for profit.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 15 - Filing Certificate.

§  15.  Filing  certificate.   No certificate of incorporation, and no
  amendment thereof, and no certificate of merger or  consolidation  shall
  take  effect  until  it has been filed with the secretary of state.  The
  secretary  of  state  shall  provide  copies  of  such  certificates  or
  amendments  to the commissioner of agriculture and markets or his or her
  designee upon request by corporation name.
2023 New York Laws › CCO - Cooperative Corporations › Article 2 - Formation and Dissolution of Cooperative Corporations; Classes; Powers; By-Laws › 16 - By-Laws.

§  16.  By-laws.  The  by-laws  may provide for their amendment by the
  board of directors; but any amendment adopted  by  the  board  shall  be
  reported   to  the  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation  and,  if  not
  affirmatively approved thereat, shall cease to be in effect. By-laws may
  be adopted, repealed or amended on the affirmative vote of two-thirds of
  the members, stockholders or delegates voting thereon at a meeting  held
  after  due  written  notice  setting  forth  the proposed action and the
  purpose of the meeting.