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2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 62 - Assistants.

§ 62. Assistants.  1.  The attorney-general may appoint such assistant
  attorneys-general, deputy assistant attorneys-general and  attorneys  as
  he  may  deem  necessary  and  fix their compensation within the amounts
  appropriated therefor. Whenever deputy  or  deputy  attorney-general  is
  referred  to  or  designated  in  any  law,  contract  or  document such
  references or designations shall be  deemed  to  refer  to  and  include
  assistant   attorneys-general,  deputy  assistant  attorneys-general  or
  attorneys appointed by the attorney-general.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 63-A - Action by Attorney-General for Forfeiture of Public Office.

§ 63-a. Action  by  attorney-general  for forfeiture of public office.
  The attorney-general may maintain an action, upon his own information or
  upon the complaint of a private person, against a public officer,  civil
  or  military,  who  has  done  or  suffered  an act which by law works a
  forfeiture of his office.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 63-B - Action by Attorney-General Against Usurper of Office or Franchise.

§ 63-b. Action  by  attorney-general  against  usurper  of  office  or
  franchise. 1. The attorney-general may maintain an action, upon his  own
  information  or upon the complaint of a private person, against a person
  who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises  within  the
  state a franchise or a public office, civil or military, or an office in
  a  domestic  corporation.  The  attorney-general  may  set  forth in the
  complaint, in his discretion, the name of the person rightfully entitled
  to the office and facts showing  his  right  thereto.  Judgment  may  be
  rendered  upon the right of the defendant and of the party so alleged to
  be entitled, or only  upon  the  right  of  the  defendant,  as  justice
  requires.    Where  two or more persons claim to be entitled to the same
  office or franchise, the attorney-general may bring the  action  against
  all to determine their respective rights thereto.
2.  If  the  complaint  sets  forth  the name of the person rightfully
  entitled to the office and  the  facts  showing  his  right  thereto,  a
  provisional order to arrest the defendant may be granted by the court if
  the  defendant  by means of his usurpation or intrusion has received any
  fees or emoluments belonging to the office.
3. Where a defendant is adjudged to be guilty of usurping or intruding
  into or  unlawfully  holding  or  exercising  an  office,  franchise  or
  privilege,  final  judgment shall be rendered, ousting and excluding him
  therefrom, and in favor of  the  state  or  the  relator,  as  the  case
  requires,  for  the costs of the action. As a part of the final judgment
  in an action for usurping or intruding into  or  unlawfully  holding  or
  exercising  an  office,  franchise  or  privilege,  the  court,  in  its
  discretion, also may award that the defendant, or, where there  are  two
  or  more  defendants,  that one or more of them, pay to the state a fine
  not exceeding two thousand dollars.  The judgment for the  fine  may  be
  docketed and execution may be issued thereupon in favor of the state, as
  if it had been rendered in an action to recover the fine.
4.  Where final judgment has been rendered upon the right and in favor
  of the person alleged in the complaint to be entitled to an  office,  he
  may  recover,  by action against the defendant, the damages which he has
  sustained in consequence of the defendant's usurpation, intrusion  into,
  unlawful holding or exercise of the office.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 63-D - Attorney-General; Death Penalty Prosecutions.

§ 63-d. Attorney-general;   death   penalty  prosecutions.     1.  The
attorney-general  shall,  whenever  required  by  the  governor  or  his
designee  after a request of the governor by a district attorney, direct
that the resources and personnel of the department of  law  be  used  to
provide  assistance  relating  to  the prosecution or appeal of any case
where the defendant may  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  death.  Such
assistance shall include the use of any department resource or services,
which  the  attorney-general  deems  proper,  and  may  be  performed or
provided by the attorney-general or any employee of  the  department  of
law.    Assistance  pursuant  to  this section may only be provided with
respect to proceedings where:
(i) the defendant is represented by counsel appointed pursuant to  the
provisions  of  section  thirty-five-b  of  the  judiciary  law  or  the
defendant is receiving expert, investigative or other services  pursuant
to such section, or
(ii)   the  defendant,  through  counsel  retained  privately  by  the
defendant through his or her own means or through the means of a  person
other than the defendant, or through representation by pro bono counsel,
is  able  to  marshal  substantially  greater  legal  and  investigatory
resources than those reasonably available to the district attorney.
2. A  request  of  the  governor  made  by  a  district  attorney  for
assistance in a death penalty case shall be accompanied by a certificate
of  need  stating  that  as a result of cases where the defendant may be
subject to the penalty of death additional resources  or  personnel  are
needed  to  supplement  the  district  attorney's  staff  and  available
resources in order to fulfill such district attorney's responsibilities.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 64 - Costs Recovered.

§ 64. Costs  recovered. Costs recovered by the attorney-general may be
  applied by him in payment of the expenses incurred by him in the  action
  or proceeding in which they are received, or of any expenditure which he
  is  authorized  to  incur  not  otherwise provided for. He shall, at the
  close of each fiscal year, render to the comptroller an account of  such
  costs  received,  with  vouchers of such expenditures. During the fiscal
  year, the comptroller is authorized to  transfer  any  amount  available
  within  the account dedicated for this purpose to the general fund, upon
  the request of the director of the budget.  In  the  event  insufficient
  cash  remains  in  such  account  to meet expenditures against available
  appropriations from such  account,  the  comptroller  is  authorized  to
  transfer  the  amounts  necessary  to  meet  such  expenditures from the
  general fund; provided however that in no  event  shall  the  cumulative
  value  of  any such transfers from the general fund made to such account
  within a single fiscal year exceed ten  percent  of  the  value  of  the
  appropriations  made  in  such  fiscal  year  from  such  account or the
  cumulative balance of transfers from the account to  the  general  fund.
  The  comptroller  shall  establish  such  accounts  and  records  as are
  necessary to  provide  an  accurate  accounting  and  reporting  of  the
  transfers to or from the general fund.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 66 - Destruction of Certain Records, Books and Other Data by the Attorney-General.

§ 66.  Destruction  of  certain  records,  books and other data by the
  attorney-general. In any action or proceeding or  by  other  process  of
  law,  in  which  a  money  judgment or award shall have been procured in
  favor of the people of the state of New  York,  any  department  of  the
  state  of  New  York,  or  duly  constituted  division,  bureau or board
  thereof, and which judgment or award has been duly paid  and  satisfied,
  the department of law, with the consent of the commissioner of education
  as provided by section one hundred forty-seven of the education law, may
  after  the  expiration  of  six  years  from the time of payment of said
  judgment or award destroy all statistics,  documents  and  papers  filed
  with  or  used  by  the  department of law in procuring said judgment or
  award.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 67 - Additional Counsel.

§ 67. Additional  counsel.    The  governor  or  attorney-general  may
  designate and employ such additional attorneys  or  counsel  as  may  be
  necessary  to  assist  in  the  transaction of any of the legal business
  mentioned in section sixty-three of this chapter and such  attorneys  or
  counsel  shall  be  paid  a  reasonable  fee upon the certificate of the
  governor and attorney-general, the amount  thereof  to  be  audited  and
  allowed  by  them  or  to  be paid by the attorney-general out of costs,
  penalties and judgments collected by him, prior to the  payment  thereof
  into the state treasury as required by section one hundred twenty-one of
  the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 70 - Deputy Attorney-General to Act as Special District Attorney.

§ 70. Deputy attorney-general to act as special district attorney.
Whenever  the  governor  shall advise the attorney-general that he has
  reason to doubt whether in any county the law relating to crimes against
  the elective franchise is properly enforced, the attorney-general  shall
  require  from  the district attorney of such county, and it shall be the
  duty of such district attorney forthwith to make to the attorney-general
  a report of all prosecutions and complaints within his county during the
  year then last past for offenses under  the  election  law  and  of  the
  action had thereon.
The  attorney-general shall assign one or more of his deputies to take
  charge of  prosecutions  under  the  election  law.  Such  deputy  shall
  represent  the  people of this state in all such prosecutions before all
  magistrates  and  in  all  courts  and  before  any  grand  jury  having
  cognizance thereof. The deputies so assigned shall be appointed pursuant
  to  section  sixty-two of this chapter. They may be especially appointed
  thereunder for the purpose of such assignment and for the performance of
  the duties herein described.
Whenever the attorney-general shall advise the governor that there  is
  occasion  for  an  extraordinary term in any such county to inquire into
  and try cases arising under article sixteen of  the  election  law,  the
  governor  may  appoint  an extraordinary term of the supreme court to be
  constituted and held for the trial of criminal  cases  in  such  county,
  pursuant  to  section one hundred forty-nine of the judiciary law. Grand
  and petit juries shall be drawn and summoned for said term in the manner
  provided by law, and such cases shall be brought before such inquest and
  court as the  attorney-general  shall  direct.  All  the  provisions  of
  sections sixty-three and sixty-seven of this chapter shall apply to such
  extraordinary term.
It  shall  be  the duty of the district attorney of the county, and of
  the assistants, clerks and employees in his office, and  of  all  police
  authorities,  officers  and men within any such county, to render to the
  attorney-general  and  his  deputy  whenever  requested,  all  aid   and
  assistance within their power in such prosecutions and in the conduct of
  such  cases. The jurisdiction conferred upon the attorney-general herein
  to prosecute crimes, is concurrent in  each  county  with  that  of  the
  district  attorney;  but  whichever  of such officers shall first assume
  jurisdiction of a particular offense shall have  exclusive  jurisdiction
  to prosecute for the same unless or until the governor shall, by written
  order  filed  with  both  such  officers,  give such jurisdiction to the
  other.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 71 - Attorney-General Authorized to Appear in Cases Involving the Constitutionality of an Act of the Legislature, or a Rule or Regulation Adopted Pursuant

§ 71. Attorney-general  authorized  to  appear  in cases involving the
  constitutionality of an act of the legislature, or a rule or  regulation
  adopted  pursuant  thereto.  1.  Whenever  the  constitutionality  of  a
  statute, or a rule or regulation adopted  pursuant  thereto  is  brought
  into  question  upon  the  trial,  hearing  or  appeal  of any action or
  proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of  record  of  original  or
  appellate  jurisdiction,  and proof of the notice of such constitutional
  challenge, as required by paragraph one of subdivision  (b)  of  section
  one  thousand  twelve  of the civil practice law and rules, has not been
  filed, the court or justice before whom such  action  or  proceeding  is
  pending, shall make an order, directing the party desiring to raise such
  question, to serve notice thereof on the attorney-general, and providing
  that  the  attorney-general  be permitted to appear at any such trial or
  hearing in support of the constitutionality of such statute, or rule  or
  regulation  adopted  pursuant  thereto. The court or justice before whom
  any such action or proceeding is pending may also make such  order  upon
  the  application  of  any  party  thereto, and the court shall make such
  order  in  any  such  action  or   proceeding   upon   motion   of   the
  attorney-general.  When such order has been made in any manner mentioned
  in this section and notice pursuant to such order has  been  given,  the
  attorney-general  shall  be  permitted  to  appear  in  such  action  or
  proceeding in support of the constitutionality of  such  statute,  or  a
  rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto.
2.  In  the  event  the  constitutionality  of  a  statute, or rule or
  regulation adopted pursuant thereto is brought  into  question  and  the
  party  questioning  such  constitutionality,  or  any other party to the
  action or proceeding serves the attorney-general pursuant  to  paragraph
  one  of  subdivision  (b)  of  section  one thousand twelve of the civil
  practice law and rules, proof of such service upon the  attorney-general
  shall  be  accepted  by  the  court in satisfaction of the provisions of
  subdivision one of this section.
3. The court having jurisdiction in an action or proceeding  in  which
  the  constitutionality  of  a statute, rule or regulation is challenged,
  shall not consider  any  challenge  to  the  constitutionality  of  such
  statute,  rule  or  regulation  unless  proof  of  service of the notice
  required by this section or required by subdivision (b) of  section  one
  thousand  twelve  of the civil practice law and rules is filed with such
  court.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 72 - When Costs Payable to Relator.

§ 72. When  costs  payable  to  relator.  Where  security  is given by
  relator in an action brought by the attorney-general on the relation  or
  information  of a person having an interest, all costs and disbursements
  taxed in favor of the plaintiff shall be payable to the relator.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 5 - Department of Law › 73 - Power to Administer Oaths and Take Acknowledgments.

§ 73. Power   to   administer  oaths  and  take  acknowledgments.  The
  attorney-general  of  the  state  of  New  York  and  all  deputies  and
  assistants  appointed  by  him  pursuant  to  section  sixty-two  of the
  executive law, who have duly qualified,  shall  have  the  power,  while
  acting   as   such,   to   administer  oaths  and  take  affidavits  and
  acknowledgments  and  proofs  of  written  instruments  to  be  read  in
  evidence, anywhere within the state of New York, except such instruments
  as  now are required by law to be recorded to create constructive notice
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 90 - Department of State; Secretary of State.

§ 90. Department  of  state; secretary of state. There shall be in the
  state government a department of state. The head of the department shall
  be the secretary of state who shall be appointed by the governor by  and
  with  the advice and consent of the senate and hold office until the end
  of the term of the governor by whom  he  was  appointed  and  until  his
  successor  is  appointed and has qualified. The secretary of state shall
  receive an annual salary within the amount appropriated therefor and his
  reasonable  expenses  when  necessarily  absent   on   public   business
  pertaining to the duties of his office.
In  addition  to  those  divisions  created  and  continued within the
  Department of State by  other  statutes,  the  secretary  of  state  may
  establish such other divisions and bureaus in the department of state as
  he  may  deem  necessary. He may prescribe the duties and powers of such
  divisions and bureaus which shall be exercised and performed  under  his
  supervision.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 91 - Rules.

§ 91. Rules.  Subject  to and in conformity with the provisions of the
  constitution and laws of the state, the secretary of state may adopt and
  promulgate such rules which shall regulate and control the  exercise  of
  the  powers of the department of state and the performance of the duties
  of officers, agents and other employees thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 92 - Deputies.

§ 92. Deputies. The secretary of state shall appoint a deputy, who may
  perform  all the duties of the secretary of state. Any such deputy shall
  receive an annual salary to be fixed by the secretary  of  state  within
  the  amount  appropriated  therefor.  The  secretary  of  state may also
  appoint and fix the compensation of such other deputies, assistants  and
  employees  as  he  shall  deem  necessary within the amount appropriated
  therefor and prescribe their powers and duties.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 93 - Custody of Records.

§ 93. Custody  of  records.  1.  The secretary of state shall have the
  custody of all laws and concurrent resolutions of the  legislature,  all
  documents  issued  under  the  great  seal,  all  books, records, deeds,
  parchments, maps and papers deposited or kept in his or her office,  and
  shall properly arrange and preserve them.
2.  The  records  in the custody of the secretary of state need not be
  retained in the form in which the record is  received  so  long  as  the
  technology  used  to  retain  such  record results in a permanent record
  which may be accurately reproduced  during  the  period  for  which  the
  record is required to be retained. The secretary of state may promulgate
  rules  and regulations relating to the use by the department of state of
  automatic data  processing,  telecommunications  and  other  information
  technologies  for  the  processing  of  records  for  retention  by  the
  department of state.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 93-A - Examination of Reports.

§  93-a.  Examination of reports. The secretary of state shall examine
  all reports required to be filed with the department of  state  pursuant
  to  article seven-A of this chapter in order to determine the nature and
  extent of the in-kind support provided by any covered entity to  one  or
  more  recipient  entities,  as  such  terms  are  defined in section one
  hundred seventy-two-e of this chapter, and  the  nature  and  extent  of
  covered  communications by any covered entity, as such terms are defined
  in section one hundred seventy-two-f of  this  chapter.  Notwithstanding
  any  inconsistent  provision of law, whenever the secretary of state, in
  consultation  with  the  department  of  taxation  and  finance  or  the
  department  of  law,  determines that the nature and extent of a covered
  entity's in-kind support to other entities or the nature and extent of a
  covered entity's spending on covered communications is inconsistent with
  the charitable purposes of such  covered  entity,  the  secretary  shall
  cause  the  reports required by article seven-A of this chapter filed by
  such entity to be published on the website of the  department  of  state
  upon  such  finding.  Provided,  however, that such publishing shall not
  include the names and addresses of individual donors to covered entities
  nor shall such publishing include the covered entity's Internal  Revenue
  Service Form 990 Schedule B. The secretary shall report to the governor,
  the  temporary  president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly,
  by  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  twenty-two,   and   annually
  thereafter,  on  topics  including  but  not  limited to: the nature and
  extent of in-kind support provided  by  covered  entities  to  recipient
  entities, as such terms are defined in section one hundred seventy-two-e
  of  this  chapter  and the nature and extent of expenditures for covered
  communications.  The  secretary  may  request  the  assistance  of   the
  department  of taxation and finance or the department of law in order to
  complete this report.  Provided  however  that  such  report  shall  not
  include the names and addresses of individual donors to covered entities
  nor  shall  such  report  include  the covered entity's Internal Revenue
  Service Form 990 Schedule B.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 95 - Legislative Manual.

§ 95. Legislative  manual.  The  secretary of state, at the expense of
  the state, may  in  each  odd-numbered  year  prepare  and  publish  the
  legislative  manual.  The  manual  shall contain the constitution of the
  United States and of the state of New York, diagrams of the  senate  and
  assembly  chambers,  and such other information of the nature heretofore
  published therein, as the secretary may consider useful,  and  shall  be
  printed and bound in substantially the same style as heretofore. As soon
  as  printed,  the  secretary  shall deliver a copy of the manual to each
  member and officer  of  the  legislature,  and  to  each  state  officer
  entitled to the session laws.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 96-A - Fees for Services Rendered Pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code.

§  96-a. Fees for services rendered pursuant to the uniform commercial
  code. 1. In  case  of  conflict  between  this  section  and  any  other
  provision of law, this section shall control.
2.  The  secretary of state shall determine the type and amount of all
  fees to be collected by the department of state and other filing offices
  for services rendered by said  department  or  office  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of the uniform commercial code and article ten-A of the lien
  law. Such fees, referred to as processing fees, shall be  non-refundable
  fees  paid  to  the  department  of  state  or  office  at the time that
  documents are presented to the department of state or office for filing,
  and will be paid whether or not the documents are accepted  for  filing.
  Such fees shall be subject to the approval of the director of the budget
  and  shall  be  promulgated in the official rules and regulations of the
  department of state in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  state
  administrative  procedure  act.  Nothing  contained  in this subdivision
  shall preclude the secretary of state from  periodically  changing  such
  fees,  subject  to  the approval of the director of the budget, and from
  periodically  amending  the  official  rules  and  regulations  of   the
  department  of  state  in  accordance  with  the provisions of the state
  administrative procedure act.
3. Consistent with the provisions  of  article  nine  of  the  uniform
  commercial  code  and  article  ten-A of the lien law, the department of
  state and other filing offices shall produce or reproduce the content of
  any  informational  systems  maintained  pursuant  to  such  laws.   The
  secretary  of  state and other filing offices shall establish reasonable
  fees for information so  produced  or  reproduced.  Notwithstanding  any
  other  provisions  of law, the availability of such information shall be
  determined solely by the provisions of the uniform commercial code.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 97 - Completing Unfinished Papers.

§ 97. Completing  unfinished papers. The secretary of state shall have
  power to complete and sign and certify in his own name,  adding  to  his
  signature  the date of so doing, all records of incorporation papers and
  other papers left incomplete or unsigned by  any  of  his  predecessors,
  with  the  same  force  and  effect as though said records had been duly
  signed by such predecessors.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 97-A - Affirmation in Lieu of Oath.

§  97-a. Affirmation in lieu of oath. Any application for a license or
  registration required by law to be filed with the  department  of  state
  may, in lieu of being acknowledged or sworn under oath, be subscribed by
  the  applicant  and  affirmed  by  him or her as true under penalties of
  perjury.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 98 - Copies of Amendments to Rules for Admission of Attorneys.

§ 98. Copies  of  amendments to rules for admission of attorneys.  The
  secretary of state must cause to be published in the next ensuing volume
  of the session laws each amendment of the rules established by the court
  of appeals for the admission of attorneys and counselors, filed with him
  pursuant to the judiciary law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 100 - Central State Registry of Armored Car Guards.

§  100. Central state registry of armored car guards. 1. The secretary
  of state shall maintain a computerized registry of all  individuals  who
  apply for a registration card or have been issued a registration card as
  an  armored  car  guard pursuant to the provisions of article eight-C of
  the general business law. An  armored  car  carrier,  as  that  term  is
  defined  in  subdivision  six  of section eighty-nine-bbb of the general
  business law, shall obtain only the name, address and armored car  guard
  registration  status of an employee or potential employee listed in such
  registry.
2. The secretary of state shall maintain  all  records  collected  for
  applicants  pursuant  to  the armored car guard act for a period of five
  years after  the  applicant's  termination  as  an  armored  car  guard,
  retirement, resignation, death, failure to be rehired, or non-renewal of
  the  applicant's registration card. Every armored car carrier shall file
  with the secretary, on a monthly basis, a report,  stating  all  armored
  car  guards  in  their  employ  who  have  retired, resigned, died, been
  terminated, have not been rehired, or have otherwise been  removed  from
  active duty, in such form and on such media as approved for such purpose
  by the secretary.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 100-A - Information on State Agencies Pertaining to Persons Subjected to Section Seventy-Three-a of the Public Officers Law and Who Hold Policy-Making Positions.

§ 100-a. Information on state agencies pertaining to persons subjected
to  section  seventy-three-a  of  the  public  officers law and who hold
policy-making positions. 1. As used in this section "agency" means:
(a) any state department, board, bureau, division, council, committee,
commission, or office;
(b) any other similar state public organization  established  pursuant
to  state  statutes,  executive order, or other executive action for the
exercise of any function of state government and to  which  members  are
appointed or elected; and
(c)  any  public authority or public benefit corporation a majority of
whose members are appointed by the  governor  or  serve  as  members  by
virtue  of  holding  state  offices  to which they were appointed by the
governor, or any combination thereof.
2. "Agency" does not include:
(a) any informal advisory organization established  exclusively  by  a
state  agency  to advise a commissioner, secretary, or other director of
that agency on an informal basis;
(b) the state legislature; and
(c) any local government or subdivision or entity thereof.
3. The secretary of state shall  maintain  a  compilation  of  persons
subjected  to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who
hold policy-making positions at  all  state  agencies,  including  state
agencies  established  after  the  effective  date of this section. Such
compilation shall identify by agency the persons  subjected  to  section
seventy-three-a  of  the  public officers law and who hold policy-making
positions, the length of time such  positions  have  been  held,  and  a
representation  of  policy-making positions at such agency held by women
compared to policy-making positions held by men. The secretary of  state
shall  keep  such inventory in a public record available for inspection,
and updated annually on the department of state website.
4. Each agency shall annually on or before January  first,  submit  to
the secretary of state all information required pursuant to this section
in  a  manner  specified  by  the  secretary  of state to facilitate the
publication requirements of this section.
5. For the purposes of this section,  "persons  subjected  to  section
seventy-three-a  of  the  public officers law and who hold policy-making
decisions" shall include, but not  be  limited  to,  a  commissioner,  a
superintendent,   an  executive  director,  and  other  chief  executive
officers,  positions  appointed  by  the  governor,  as  well   as   the
appointments  of  the  aforementioned whose function is essential to the
policy-making processes of such agency, and  any  other  position  whose
function is essential to the policy-making processes of such agency.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 101 - Accessibility, Rules and Regulations.

§  101.  Accessibility,  rules  and  regulations.  1. The secretary of
  state, in consultation with any other  state  agency  he  or  she  deems
  necessary,  shall  promulgate  any  rules  and  regulations necessary to
  remove  the  word  "handicapped"  from  any  signs  or  other  means  of
  communication where such word appears.
2. The secretary of state, in consultation with any other state agency
  he  or  she  deems  necessary,  shall  promulgate  rules and regulations
  necessary to require that  wherever  the  current  universal  symbol  of
  access  of  a  figure in a wheelchair appears, such symbol shall instead
  depict a logo with a dynamic character leaning forward with a  sense  of
  movement.  Such logo shall be readily identifiable, simply designed with
  no secondary  meaning,  and  provide  for  equivalent  facilitation  and
  accessibility  as the current universal symbol of access. The provisions
  of this subdivision shall only apply to any new signs being installed or
  replaced on and after the effective date of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 101-B - Application by Municipal Corporations for the Suspension of Certain Rules.

§ 101-b. Application  by  municipal corporations for the suspension of
certain rules.
1. Definitions. As used in this section,
a. "Agency" means any state  board,  bureau,  commission,  department,
division or officer authorized by law to adopt rules.
b.  "Rule" means the whole or part of each agency statement of general
applicability or regulation or code  that  implements  or  applies  law,
including the amendment, suspension or repeal thereof.
c.  "Municipal  corporation"  means  a  county outside the city of New
York, a city, a town, a village or a school district.
d. "Governing body" means:
(1) In a county, a board of supervisors, county legislature  or  other
body  vested  by  its  charter,  other law or other valid enactment with
jurisdiction to enact local laws;
(2) In a city, the board of aldermen, a common council, commission  or
other body vested by its charter or other law with jurisdiction to enact
ordinances or local laws;
(3) In a town, the town board;
(4) In a village, the board of trustees; and
(5) In a school district, the board of education, board of trustees or
sole trustee.
2. A municipal corporation may, by resolution adopted by its governing
body,  apply  to  the  agency which has adopted a rule for the mandatory
suspension of such rule for the balance of the  municipal  corporation's
current  fiscal  year,  provided the rule was filed in the office of the
secretary of state after the commencement of the municipal corporation's
current fiscal year.
3. Upon the receipt of such an application, the agency  which  adopted
the  rule  shall  forthwith  by  order  suspend its applicability to the
petitioning municipal corporation for the balance of such  corporation's
current  fiscal  year,  unless  the  agency  determines by order, within
thirty  days  of  receipt  of  such  application,  that  the   immediate
implementation  of  the  rule  is necessary for public health, safety or
welfare, or that its postponement would be contrary to express provision
of law. A copy of any order issued pursuant to  this  section  shall  be
sent  to  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate, the speaker of the
assembly and the administrative regulations review commission.
4. This  section  shall  not  relieve  a  municipal  corporation  from
complying  with a rule until such time that the agency which has adopted
the rule shall issue an order pursuant to this  section  suspending  its
applicability to such corporation.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 103 - Future Editions and Supplements of Official Compilations.

§ 103. Future  editions  and  supplements of official compilations. 1.
  In any year the secretary of state may, whenever he shall  believe  that
  the  public interest will be served thereby, cause a new edition of such
  official compilation or  any  volume  thereof  to  be  published,  which
  compilation  shall  be  published  as soon as practicable, and shall set
  forth the codes, rules and regulations except such as relate  solely  to
  the  organization or internal management of a department, board, bureau,
  authority, commission or other agency of the state on file in the office
  of the department of state on the date as of which such new  edition  is
  published.
2.  The  secretary of state may, whenever he deems it to be necessary,
  cause  to  be  published  an  official  supplement   to   the   official
  compilation,  showing  all  new and all changes in existing codes, rules
  and regulations adopted since the effective date of the codes, rules and
  regulations embraced in the latest edition of the  official  compilation
  or since the end of the period covered by the preceding supplement.
3.  Any  new  edition  of  such  compilation  published  as heretofore
  provided,  and   any   supplementation   thereof   or   thereto,   shall
  presumptively  establish that the codes, rules and regulations contained
  therein are on file in the  department  of  state,  and  are  effective,
  unless  otherwise  stated,  on the date as of which such new edition, or
  any volume thereof, or a supplementation thereto, is published.
4. Any code, rule or regulation contained in any new  edition  of  the
  official  compilation,  or  any  volume  thereof, or any supplementation
  thereto, shall not be printed in any official supplement  published  for
  any  period  prior  to the date as of which such new edition, volume, or
  supplementation is published.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 104 - Departmental Cooperation.

§ 104. Departmental  cooperation.  The  secretary  of state may advise
  with the several departments, boards,  bureaus,  officers,  authorities,
  commissions  and  other  agencies  of  the state which are authorized by
  statute to issue codes, rules or regulations, to the end that  the  same
  may,  so  far  as  possible,  be  uniform in style and form, be properly
  numbered and captioned and be free from matter which is obsolete.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 104-A - Departmental Cooperation Regarding Water Quality.

§   104-a.  Departmental  cooperation  regarding  water  quality.  The
  secretary of state shall cooperate  with  the  environmental  facilities
  corporation  to  establish  methods  to  facilitate  loans  to  eligible
  borrowers and to develop educational materials  for  eligible  borrowers
  about  the  low-interest  loans  available  through  the water pollution
  control linked deposit program, established by article  sixteen  of  the
  state  finance law, and to develop an application form to be provided to
  lenders for linked deposit loan  requests.  For  residential  and  small
  business  on-site  wastewater treatment systems projects, the department
  shall  require  owners  of  such  systems  to  submit  the  results   of
  inspections  of such systems at the time of an application for financial
  assistance pursuant to article sixteen of the  state  finance  law.  The
  department may promulgate rules and regulations necessary and reasonable
  for the operation of the program, including but not limited to standards
  for  the inspection of residential and small business on-site wastewater
  treatment systems.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 105 - Changes in Codes, Rules or Regulations.

§ 105. Changes  in  codes, rules or regulations.  Changes in any code,
  rule or regulation except such as relates solely to the organization  or
  internal   management   of   a  department,  board,  bureau,  authority,
  commission or other agency of the state shall be made by  a  department,
  board,  bureau,  officer,  authority,  commission or other agency of the
  state only by addition, amendment or repeal. Every resolution  or  order
  affecting  such  an  addition,  amendment  or  repeal shall refer to the
  appropriate title  and  to  the  appropriate  section  or  paragraph  as
  published in the official compilation or supplement thereto. In the case
  of a proposed new code, rule or regulation except such as relates solely
  to  the  organization  or  internal  management  of a department, board,
  bureau, authority, commission or other agency of  the  state  for  which
  there  is  no  appropriate  title,  the  head of such department, board,
  bureau, authority, commission or other agency of the state shall  confer
  with  the  secretary  of  state  and shall, prior to the adoption of any
  resolution establishing such code, rule or regulation, have his approval
  in writing of the proposed title, captions and  numbers  of  such  code,
  rule or regulation and any parts, paragraphs or sections thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 106 - Proof of Codes, Rules and Regulations.

§ 106. Proof  of  codes,  rules  and  regulations.  Any  code, rule or
  regulation of the state of New York may be read  in  evidence  from  the
  official  compilation  or supplement thereto.   To entitle any copy of a
  code, rule or regulation published, other than those published  in  such
  official compilation or supplement thereto, to be read in evidence there
  shall be contained in the same book or pamphlet a printed certificate of
  the  secretary  of  state  that such copy is a correct transcript of the
  text of the code, rule or  regulation  as  published  in  such  official
  compilation  or supplement thereto. For such a certificate the secretary
  of state shall collect such a fee as he shall deem just and reasonable.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 106-A - Internet Access to the New York Code, Rules and Regulations.

§  106-a. Internet access to the New York code, rules and regulations.
  The department of state shall post or maintain a link on its website  to
  an  unofficial  version  of  the New York codes, rules, and regulations,
  which shall be provided at no cost to the end users. All state  agencies
  which  have  adopted  rules and regulations shall maintain a link to the
  department of state website which contains such link.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 110 - Administration of Certain Monies.

§  110.  Administration  of  certain  monies.  The  secretary or their
  designee shall administer monies collected pursuant to section 2-202  of
  the  village  law and appropriations available for the operations of the
  village incorporation commission established pursuant to  section  2-260
  of  the  village  law  to  ensure  that  the  commission can perform its
  statutory functions; and provided further, that the secretary  or  their
  designee shall distribute funds as required pursuant to section 2-236 of
  the village law and any relevant appropriations bill.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 132 - Certificates of Official Character of Notaries Public.

§ 132. Certificates  of  official  character  of  notaries public. The
  secretary of state or the county  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  the
  commission  of  a  notary  public  is  filed may certify to the official
  character of such notary public and any notary  public  may  file  their
  autograph  signature  and  a  certificate  of  official character in the
  office of any county clerk of  any  county  in  the  state  and  in  any
  register's  office  in  any county having a register and thereafter such
  county clerk may certify as to the official  character  of  such  notary
  public.  The  secretary  of  state shall collect for each certificate of
  official character issued the sum of one dollar. The  county  clerk  and
  register of any county with whom a certificate of official character has
  been filed shall collect for filing the same the sum of ten dollars. For
  each  certificate  of  official character issued, with seal attached, by
  any county clerk, the sum of five dollars shall be collected.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 133 - Certification of Notarial Signatures.

§ 133. Certification  of  notarial  signatures.  The county clerk of a
  county in whose office any notary public  has  qualified  or  has  filed
  their  autograph  signature  and  a  certificate  of official character,
  shall, when so requested and upon payment of a  fee  of  three  dollars,
  affix  to  any  certificate of proof or acknowledgment or oath signed by
  such notary anywhere in the state of New York, a certificate under their
  hand and seal, stating that a commission or a  certificate  of  official
  character  of  such notary with their autograph signature has been filed
  in the county clerk's office, and that the county clerk was at the  time
  of  taking  such proof or acknowledgment or oath duly authorized to take
  the same; that the county clerk is well acquainted with the  handwriting
  of  such  notary public or has compared the signature on the certificate
  of  proof  or  acknowledgment  or  oath  with  the  autograph  signature
  deposited  in  their  office by such notary public and believes that the
  signature  is  genuine.  An  instrument   with   such   certificate   of
  authentication  of the county clerk affixed thereto shall be entitled to
  be read in evidence or to be recorded in any of  the  counties  of  this
  state  in  respect  to  which  a  certificate  of  a county clerk may be
  necessary for either purpose. In addition to  the  foregoing  powers,  a
  county  clerk  of a county in whose office a notary public has qualified
  may certify the signature of an  electronic  notary  public,  registered
  with   the   secretary   of   state  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred
  thirty-five-c of this article, provided such county clerk  has  received
  from  the  secretary  of  state,  an  exemplar  of  the  notary public's
  registered electronic signature.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 134 - Signature and Seal of County Clerk.

§ 134. Signature and seal of county clerk. The signature and seal of a
  county  clerk,  upon  a  certificate  of  official character of a notary
  public or the  signature  of  a  county  clerk  upon  a  certificate  of
  authentication  of  the  signature  and  acts  of  a  notary  public  or
  commissioner  of  deeds,  may  be   a   facsimile,   printed,   stamped,
  photographed or engraved thereon.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 135 - Powers and Duties; in General; of Notaries Public Who Are Attorneys at Law.

§  135.  Powers  and  duties;  in  general; of notaries public who are
  attorneys  at  law.  Every  notary  public  duly  qualified  is   hereby
  authorized  and  empowered within and throughout the state to administer
  oaths and affirmations, to take affidavits and depositions,  to  receive
  and  certify  acknowledgments or proof of deeds, mortgages and powers of
  attorney and other instruments  in  writing;  to  demand  acceptance  or
  payment  of  foreign  and inland bills of exchange, promissory notes and
  obligations in writing, and to protest the same  for  non-acceptance  or
  non-payment,   as  the  case  may  require,  and,  for  use  in  another
  jurisdiction, to exercise such other powers and duties as by the laws of
  nations and according to commercial usage, or by the laws of  any  other
  government or country may be exercised and performed by notaries public,
  provided that when exercising such powers he shall set forth the name of
  such other jurisdiction.
A  notary  public  who  is  an  attorney  at law regularly admitted to
  practice in this state may, in his discretion,  administer  an  oath  or
  affirmation  to or take the affidavit or acknowledgment of his client in
  respect of any matter, claim, action or proceeding.
For any misconduct by a notary public in the performance of any of his
  powers such notary public shall be liable to the parties injured for all
  damages sustained by them.  A  notary  public  shall  not,  directly  or
  indirectly, demand or receive for the protest for the non-payment of any
  note,  or for the non-acceptance or non-payment of any bill of exchange,
  check or draft and giving the requisite notices and certificates of such
  protest, including his notarial seal, if affixed  thereto,  any  greater
  fee  or  reward  than seventy-five cents for such protest, and ten cents
  for each notice, not exceeding five, on any bill or note.  Every  notary
  public  having  a  seal  shall,  except  as otherwise provided, and when
  requested, affix his seal to such protest free of expense.