2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 29 - Manufacture, Sale and Introduction or Movement in Commerce of Flammable Wearing Apparel, Fabrics, Related Material and Interior Furnishing Prohibited › 503 - Administration.

§  503.  Administration.  1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and
  directed to prescribe such rules and regulations,  including  provisions
  for  maintenance  of  records  relating  to products, fabrics or related
  materials, and for  the  labeling  for  a  product,  fabric  or  related
  material,  as may be necessary and proper for purposes of administration
  and enforcement of this article.
2. The commissioner is hereby authorized and  directed  to  promulgate
  the  standards  of  flammability  and  shall  include  such standards of
  flammability in such rules and regulations which he may publish.
3.  Such  standards,  rules  and  regulations,  promulgated   by   the
  commissioner  pursuant  to this article, shall be filed in the office of
  the secretary of state before becoming effective and may be amended  and
  revised  from  time  to  time. Each such standard, rule or regulation or
  amendment thereto shall become effective twelve months from the date  on
  which  such  standard,  rule,  regulation  or  amendment is promulgated,
  unless the commissioner finds for good cause shown that  an  earlier  or
  later  effective date is in the public interest and publishes the reason
  for such finding. Each such standard, rule or  regulation  or  amendment
  thereto shall exempt products, fabrics or related materials in inventory
  or  with  the  trade  as  of  the  date  on  which the standard, rule or
  regulation or amendment thereto becomes effective  except  that  if  the
  commissioner  finds that any such product, fabric or related material is
  so highly flammable as to be dangerous when used by  consumers  for  the
  purpose  for  which  it is intended, he may under such conditions as the
  commissioner may prescribe, withdraw, or limit the exemptions  for  such
  product, fabric or related material.
4.  The  commissioner is authorized to cooperate on matters related to
  the purposes of this article  with  any  department  or  agency  of  the
  federal,  state  or  municipal  government; with any state, territory or
  possession of the United States or with the  District  of  Columbia;  or
  with  any  department,  agency or political subdivision thereof; or with
  any person.
5. The commissioner may  obtain  from  any  person  by  regulation  or
  subpoena  issued  pursuant  thereto  such  information  in  the  form of
  testimony, books, records, or other writings  as  is  pertinent  to  the
  findings  or  determinations  which he is required or authorized to make
  pursuant to this article.
All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the  commissioner
  or  his  representative  pursuant  to this subdivision which information
  contains or relates to a trade secret shall be considered  confidential,
  except  that  such  information  may  be  disclosed to other officers or
  employees concerned with carrying out this article or when  relevant  in
  any proceeding under this article.