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2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 605 - Resolution of Disputes Regarding Manufactured Homes.

§  605.  Resolution  of  disputes regarding manufactured homes. 1. Any
homeowner, retailer, manufacturer, installer, mechanic or lending entity
may file a complaint with  the  department  as  a  state  administrative
agency  seeking  resolution  of  an allegation that a substantial defect
exists in the delivered condition, installation, service or construction
of a manufactured home. The department shall promulgate forms  for  such
complaints  which  forms  shall  also  be  available on the department's
web-site. For the purpose of this article, a substantial defect shall be
a defect or a number of defects or other conditions  which  collectively
can reasonably be expected to cost five hundred dollars or more to cure.
2.  Complaints  relating  to  the  delivered  condition, installation,
service or construction of a manufactured home shall be made within  one
year  and  ten  days  after  the  date  of  the service, installation or
issuance of a  certificate  of  occupancy,  or  the  expiration  of  any
applicable provision of a contract or warranty, whichever is later.
3.  (a)  Upon  the department's determination that a complaint, on its
face,  alleges  a  substantial  defect  in  the   delivered   condition,
installation,  service,  or  construction  of  a  manufactured home, the
department shall notify the homeowner, manufacturer, retailer,  mechanic
and installer, as appropriate.
(b)  Initially,  the  department may attempt to informally resolve the
complaint. If informal resolution of the complaint is unsuccessful,  the
department  shall resolve such complaints and disputes by administrative
hearing, pursuant to the state administrative procedure act.
(c) The decision shall provide compensation to the aggrieved party  in
an amount which shall include, but not be limited to:
(i)  Filing  and  recording  fees,  inspection fees and other required
costs that the aggrieved party would not have incurred had the home  met
applicable standards; and
(ii) The cost of conforming repairs or replacements.
(d) The department may apportion liability between two or more parties
or business entities where appropriate.
(e) The decision resolving the complaint shall be in writing and shall
provide the reason therefor, a copy of the decision shall be provided to
all interested parties.
(f)  The  department  may  require,  as  a  condition of receiving and
retaining any certification pursuant to this article, that an  applicant
agrees  to  submit  to  the jurisdiction of the department in connection
with the resolution of complaints and disputes and agrees to be bound by
the  department's  determination  subject  to  any  administrative   and
judicial review provided for in this article.
(g)   Any  party  may  seek  judicial  review  of  the  administrative
determination pursuant to article seventy-eight of  the  civil  practice
law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 606 - Training and Continuing Education.

§  606. Training and continuing education. 1. Beginning January first,
  two thousand six, all persons certified as  an  installer  or  mechanic,
  must  obtain  initial  training,  including,  but  not  limited  to  the
  standards for proper installation of a manufactured home. Such  training
  shall  be  provided  in  courses  and seminars approved pursuant to this
  article.
2. All persons certified under  this  article  shall  be  required  to
  attend  continuing  education  courses  and  seminars not less than once
  every three years.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 607 - Penalties for Violation of This Article.

§ 607. Penalties for violation of this article. Any person or business
  entity  found  guilty,  after a hearing, of a violation of this article,
  except for the provisions of section six hundred nine of  this  article,
  may  be  required  to  pay a civil penalty of not more than one thousand
  dollars for each such violation, but not more than five thousand dollars
  for more than one violation relating to each home.  Such  civil  penalty
  shall  be  collected  and  deposited  in  the  state's  general fund. In
  addition to the civil penalties set forth in this section, the secretary
  shall also have the power to suspend or revoke  certifications  pursuant
  to section six hundred four of this title.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 608 - Fees.

§ 608. Fees. The department shall, by regulation, establish reasonable
  fees  for  obtaining  certification, obtaining warranty and installation
  seals and for instructional services, training and continuing  education
  pursuant  to  this article. Such fees shall be paid and deposited into a
  segregated account established within the department which shall be used
  exclusively  to  defray  the  administrative  expenses  associated  with
  carrying out the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 610 - State Certified Installers.

§  610. State certified installers. Manufacturers and retailers may as
  a condition of the sale of a manufactured home require that the home  be
  installed  by a state certified installer and may recommend a particular
  installer or installers. Manufacturers shall not void a warranty  for  a
  manufactured   home  if  the  home  buyer  utilizes  a  state  certified
  installer. It shall be  a  violation  of  this  article  to  restrict  a
  homebuyer  from  using  any  state  certified  installer  chosen  by the
  homebuyer, or to  void  a  warranty  for  a  manufactured  home  if  the
  homebuyer utilizes a state certified installer.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 611 - Manufactured Housing Advisory Council.

§  611.  Manufactured  housing  advisory  council.  1. There is hereby
  established  within  the  department  a  manufactured  housing  advisory
  council.  The  advisory  council  shall consist of fifteen members to be
  appointed as follows:
a. Four members shall be appointed by the governor; one of whom  shall
  be  a member, officer, or employee of an installer, one of whom shall be
  a member, officer, or employee of a park residence advocacy association,
  one of whom shall be a member, officer, or employee of a  retailer,  and
  one  of  whom  shall  be  a  member,  officer,  or  employee  of a trade
  association representing the manufactured home industry.
b. Four members shall be appointed by the temporary president  of  the
  senate;  one  of  whom  shall  be  a  member,  officer, or employee of a
  manufacturer, one of whom shall be a member, officer, or employee of the
  engineering industry involved in manufactured  housing  issues,  one  of
  whom  shall  be  a  member,  officer, or employee of a consumer advocacy
  association involved in manufactured housing issues,  and  one  of  whom
  shall be a manufactured housing resident owner.
c. Four members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; one
  of  whom  shall be a member, officer, or employee of a manufacturer, one
  of whom shall be a member, officer, or employee of the banking  industry
  involved  in manufactured housing issues, one of whom shall be a member,
  officer, or employee of a  consumer  advocacy  association  involved  in
  manufactured  housing  issues,  and  one of whom shall be a manufactured
  housing resident owner.
d. One member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
  who shall be a manufactured home resident owner.
e. One member shall  be  appointed  by  the  minority  leader  of  the
  assembly; who shall be a manufactured home resident owner.
2.  The  secretary shall be a member of the advisory council and shall
  serve as chair to the council.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 612 - Powers and Duties of the Advisory Council.

§ 612. Powers and duties of the advisory council. The advisory council
  shall have the following functions, powers, and duties:
1.  To  assist  in  the  development of certification requirements and
  fees, warranty seal requirements and fees, and  warranty  standards  for
  manufacturers and installers;
2.  To  assist in the development of training and continuing education
  requirements;
3. To  assist  in  the  creation  of  a  consumer  awareness  pamphlet
  detailing  the  certification process and resolution of dispute process.
  The pamphlet shall also explain the differences between types of  houses
  (mobile, modular and manufactured);
4.  To  examine  consumer protection issues, including but not limited
  to, manufactured housing financing and sales practices;
5. To examine the differences  of  manufactured  and  modular  housing
  regulations   and   make  recommendations  to  the  department  and  the
  legislature on an annual basis; and
6. To submit annual reports by December thirty-first, two thousand six
  and each year thereafter, to the governor, the  temporary  president  of
  the   senate   and   the  speaker  of  the  assembly  that  details  the
  recommendations of the advisory council regarding  manufactured  housing
  in  New  York  state. The advisory council shall, as part of its report,
  detail the number of complaints  received  by  the  department  and  the
  number of disputes resolved through the department.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 2 - Single-Family Dwellings in Residential Districts › 615 - Definitions.

§ 615. Definitions.  For  the  purposes  of  this title, the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Manufactured home" shall have the  same  meaning  as  provided  in
  subdivision seven of section six hundred one of this article.
2.  "Identical  development  specifications  and  standards"  includes
  access, building setback distance, enclosures and vehicle parking space.
3. "Single-family dwelling"  shall  mean  a  building  designed  as  a
  one-family  residence  and  used  or occupied, or intended to be used or
  occupied as the home or residence of one or more persons  maintaining  a
  household.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 2 - Single-Family Dwellings in Residential Districts › 616 - Manufactured Homes as Single-Family Dwellings in Residential Districts.

§ 616. Manufactured  homes  as  single-family dwellings in residential
  districts. A manufactured home that is affixed to a permanent foundation
  and conforms with the identical development specification and standards,
  including general aesthetic and architectural standards,  applicable  to
  conventional,  site-built  single-family  dwellings  in  the residential
  district in which the manufactured home is to be sited, shall be  deemed
  to be a conforming single family dwelling for purposes of the applicable
  local zoning law or ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 2 - Single-Family Dwellings in Residential Districts › 617 - Manufactured Home Parks to Be Consistent.

§ 617. Manufactured  home  parks  to  be consistent. Manufactured home
  parks may be established or existing parks expanded consistent with  the
  provisions  of  this title and consistent with the identical development
  specification   and   standards,   including   general   aesthetic   and
  architectural  standards,  applicable  to  other  single-family dwelling
  developments in the municipality in which the park  is,  or  is  to  be,
  located.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 620 - Declaration of Policy and Legislative Intent.

§ 620. Declaration  of  policy and legislative intent. The legislature
  recognizes that many innocent persons suffer personal physical injury or
  death as a result of criminal acts. Such persons or their dependents may
  thereby  suffer  disability,  incur  financial  hardships,   or   become
  dependent  upon  public assistance. The legislature finds and determines
  that there is a  need  for  government  financial  assistance  for  such
  victims  of crime. Accordingly, it is the legislature's intent that aid,
  care and support be provided by the state, as a  matter  of  grace,  for
  such victims of crime.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 622 - Office of Victim Services.

§  622.  Office  of  victim  services.  There is hereby created in the
  executive department the office of victim services, hereinafter in  this
  article  referred  to  as  the "office". The office shall be headed by a
  director, who shall be appointed by the governor for  a  term  of  three
  years.  The  director  shall coordinate and recommend policy relating to
  the provision of services to crime victims. The director  shall  appoint
  staff and perform such other functions to ensure the efficient operation
  of   the   office   within   the  amounts  made  available  therefor  by
  appropriation.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 624 - Eligibility.

§ 624. Eligibility.  1.  Except as provided in subdivision two of this
section, the following persons shall be eligible for awards pursuant  to
this article:
(a) a victim of a crime;
(b)   a  surviving  spouse,  domestic  partner,  grandparent,  parent,
stepparent, guardian, brother, sister, stepbrother,  stepsister,  child,
stepchild  or  grandchild  of  a  victim of a crime who died as a direct
result of such crime;
(c) any other person dependent for his principal support upon a victim
of a crime who died as a direct result of such crime;
(d) any person or business represented by a person who has paid for or
incurred the burial expenses of a victim who died as a direct result  of
such crime, except such person shall not be eligible to receive an award
for other than burial expenses unless otherwise eligible under paragraph
(a), (b) or (c) of this subdivision;
(e) an elderly victim of a crime;
(f) a disabled victim of a crime;
(g) a child victim of a crime;
(h)  a  parent,  stepparent,  grandparent,  guardian, brother, sister,
stepbrother or stepsister of a child victim of a crime;
(i) a surviving spouse of a crime victim  who  died  from  causes  not
directly  related  to  the crime when such victim died prior to filing a
claim with the office or subsequent to filing a claim but prior  to  the
rendering  of  a  decision by the office. Such award shall be limited to
out-of-pocket loss incurred as a direct result of the crime; and
(j) a spouse, child or stepchild of  a  victim  of  a  crime  who  has
sustained personal physical injury as a direct result of a crime.
(k)  a  surviving  spouse,  grandparent, parent, stepparent, guardian,
brother,  sister,  stepbrother,   stepsister,   child,   stepchild,   or
grandchild  of  a  victim of a crime who died as a direct result of such
crime and where such crime occurred in  the  residence  shared  by  such
family member or members and the victim.
2.  A  person who is criminally responsible for the crime upon which a
claim is based or an accomplice of such person shall not be eligible  to
receive an award with respect to such claim. A member of the family of a
person  criminally responsible for the crime upon which a claim is based
or a member of the family of an accomplice  of  such  person,  shall  be
eligible  to  receive an award, unless the office determines pursuant to
regulations promulgated to carry out the provisions and purposes of this
article, that the person criminally responsible will receive substantial
economic benefit or unjust enrichment from  the  compensation.  In  such
circumstances  the  award may be reduced or structured in such way as to
remove the substantial economic benefit or  unjust  enrichment  to  such
person or the claim may be denied.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 625-B - Standardized Victim Notification and Verification Procedures for Police Officers.

§  625-b. Standardized victim notification and verification procedures
  for police officers. 1. The commissioner of  the  division  of  criminal
  justice  services  in  cooperation  with  the  office  shall develop and
  implement a standardized procedure to be used by police officers, county
  sheriffs' departments and state police officers whereby victims of crime
  are notified about the rights of crime  victims  and  the  existence  of
  programs designed to assist crime victims.
2.  In  establishing  a  victims  assistance  notification  procedure,
  consideration shall be given to  (a)  developing  a  uniform  method  of
  informing  victims  of crime of their rights and services available, (b)
  including notification as part of a routine task performed in the course
  of law enforcement duties, and (c) documenting  a  victim's  receipt  of
  such notice.
3.  All  state  or  municipal  printed  forms  for  a  police  primary
  investigation report shall include a space to indicate that  the  victim
  did  or did not receive information on victim's rights, office of victim
  services  assistance  and  relevant   local   assistance   pursuant   to
  subdivision one of section six hundred twenty-five-a of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 626 - Out-of-Pocket Loss; Definition.

§ 626. Out-of-pocket  loss;  definition.  1.  Out-of-pocket loss shall
  mean unreimbursed and unreimbursable expenses or indebtedness reasonably
  incurred for medical care or other services necessary as a result of the
  injury upon which such claim is based, including such expenses  incurred
  as  a  result  of  the  exacerbation  of  a  pre-existing  disability or
  condition directly resulting from the crime or causally related  to  the
  crime.   Such  expenses  or  indebtedness  shall  include  the  cost  of
  counseling for the  eligible  spouse,  domestic  partner,  grandparents,
  parents,   stepparents,   guardians,  brothers,  sisters,  stepbrothers,
  stepsisters, children,  stepchildren  or  grandchildren  of  a  homicide
  victim,  and crime victims who have sustained a personal physical injury
  as the direct result of a crime and the spouse, children or stepchildren
  of such physically injured victim. For the purposes of this subdivision,
  the victim of a sex offense as defined in article one hundred thirty  of
  the  penal  law  is  presumed  to  have  suffered  physical injury. Such
  counseling may be provided  by  local  victim  service  programs,  where
  available.  It  shall  also include the cost of residing at or utilizing
  services provided by shelters for battered spouses and children who  are
  eligible  pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred twenty-four
  of this  article,  and  the  cost  of  reasonable  attorneys'  fees  for
  representation  before  the  office and/or before the appellate division
  upon judicial review not to exceed one thousand dollars.
2. Out-of-pocket loss shall also include the cost of counseling for  a
  child victim and the parent, stepparent, grandparent, guardian, brother,
  sister,   stepbrother   or   stepsister  of  such  victim,  pursuant  to
  regulations promulgated to carry out the provisions and purposes of this
  article.
3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision  of  this  article,  and
  without   regard   to   the   financial   difficulty  of  the  claimant,
  out-of-pocket loss also shall  include  the  cost  of  unreimbursed  and
  unreimbursable counseling expense or indebtedness reasonably incurred by
  relief  workers  who  worked  at  the  World  Trade  Center  site in the
  immediate  aftermath  of  the  September  eleventh,  two  thousand   one
  terrorist  attacks,  or incurred by individuals who personally witnessed
  such attacks, where such counseling expense or indebtedness is  incurred
  as  a  direct  result of such work or of the witnessing of such attacks,
  and is incurred on or before December thirty-first, two thousand seven.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 629 - Judicial Review.

§ 629. Judicial  review.  1.  Within fifteen days after receipt of the
  copy of the report containing the final  decision  of  the  office,  the
  comptroller shall, if in his judgment the award is illegal or excessive,
  notify  the  office  of  his  conclusion,  state  the  reasons  for that
  conclusion, and provide specific recommendations for modification.  Upon
  receiving  such  notification, the office shall have fifteen days within
  which to review and either modify or re-affirm its award. If after  such
  modification  or  reaffirmation the comptroller continues to adjudge the
  award to be illegal or excessive,  he  may  within  fifteen  days  after
  receipt  of such modification or reaffirmation, commence a proceeding in
  the appellate division of the supreme court, third department, to review
  the decision of the office. Such proceeding shall be heard in a  summary
  manner  and  shall  have  precedence  over all other civil cases in such
  court. Any claimant aggrieved by a final  decision  of  the  office  may
  commence  a  proceeding  to  review  that  decision  pursuant to article
  seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
2. Any such proceeding shall be commenced in accordance with the civil
  practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 630 - Emergency Awards.

§ 630. Emergency  awards. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
  six hundred twenty-seven of this article, if it appears to  the  office,
  that  such  claim is one with respect to which an award probably will be
  made, and undue hardship  will  result  to  the  claimant  if  immediate
  payment is not made, the office may make one or more emergency awards to
  the  claimant  pending  a  final decision of the office or payment of an
  award in the case, provided, however, that  the  total  amount  of  such
  emergency  awards  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  hundred dollars. The
  amount of such emergency awards shall be deducted from any  final  award
  made to the claimant, and the excess of the amount of any such emergency
  award  over  the  amount  of  the final award, or the full amount of any
  emergency awards if no final award is  made,  shall  be  repaid  by  the
  claimant to the office.
2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  if the crime upon which the claim is based resulted in the death of  the
  victim, and it appears to the office that such claim is one with respect
  to  which an award probably will be made, and undue hardship will result
  to the claimant if immediate payment is not made, the  office  may  make
  one  or  more  emergency  awards  to  the claimant for reasonable burial
  expenses pending a final decision of the office or payment of  an  award
  in  the  case;  provided, however, that the total amount of an emergency
  award or awards for reasonable burial expenses shall  not  exceed  three
  thousand  dollars. The amount of such emergency award or awards shall be
  deducted from any final award made to the claimant, and  the  excess  of
  the  amount  of  any  such  award or awards over the amount of the final
  award, of the full amount of an emergency award or awards  if  no  final
  award is made, shall be repaid by the claimant to the office.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 631-A - Crime Victim Service Programs.

§ 631-a. Crime  victim  service  programs.  1.  The  office shall make
grants, within amounts appropriated for that purpose, for  crime  victim
service  programs  to  provide  services to crime victims and witnesses.
These  programs  shall  be  operated   at   the   community   level   by
not-for-profit  organizations, by agencies of local government or by any
combination thereof. Crime victim service programs may  be  designed  to
serve  crime victims and witnesses in general in a particular community,
or may be designed to serve a category of  persons  with  special  needs
relating to a particular kind of crime.
2.  The  director  shall  promulgate  regulations,  relating  to these
grants, including guidelines for its determinations.
(a) These regulations shall be designed to promote:
(i) alternative funding sources other than the state, including  local
government and private sources;
(ii)  coordination of public and private efforts to aid crime victims;
and
(iii) long range development of services to all victims  of  crime  in
the  community  and  to  all  victims and witnesses involved in criminal
prosecutions.
(b) These regulations shall also provide for services  including,  but
not limited to:
(i)   assistance  to  claimants  seeking  crime  victims  compensation
benefits;
(ii) referrals, crisis intervention and other counseling services;
(iii) services to elderly victims  and  to  child  victims  and  their
families;
(iv) transportation and household assistance;
(v)  outreach  to  the  community  and  education  and training of law
enforcement and other criminal justice officials to the needs  of  crime
victims; and
(vi)  services to victims of a mass shooting as defined in subdivision
eleven of section eight hundred thirty-five of  this  chapter  or  of  a
shooting incident in which four or more people are injured.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 632 - Manner of Payment.

§ 632. Manner  of  payment.  1. The award shall be paid in a lump sum,
  except that in the case of death  or  protracted  disability  the  award
  shall  provide  for periodic payments to compensate for loss of earnings
  or support. No award made pursuant to this article shall be  subject  to
  execution  or  attachment  other  than  for  expenses resulting from the
  injury which is the basis for the claim.
2. Where a person entitled to receive an award is a person  under  the
  age  of  eighteen years, an incompetent, or a conservatee, the award may
  be paid to a relative, guardian, committee, conservator, or attorney  of
  such  person  on  behalf  of and for the benefit of such person. In such
  case the payee shall be required to file a periodic  accounting  of  the
  award  with the office and to take such other action as the office shall
  determine is necessary and appropriate for the  benefit  of  the  person
  under the age of eighteen years, incompetent or conservatee.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 22 - Office of Victim Services › 633 - Confidentiality of Records.

§  633.  Confidentiality  of  records.  * 1. Records maintained by the
office and proceedings by the office based  thereon  regarding  a  claim
submitted  by  a  victim or a claimant shall be deemed confidential with
the following exceptions:
(a) requests for information based upon  legitimate  criminal  justice
purposes;
(b) judicial subpoenas;
(c)  requests  for information by the victim or claimant or his or her
authorized representative;
(d) for purposes necessary and proper for the administration  of  this
article.
* NB Effective until December 31, 2025
* 1.  Records  maintained  by the office and proceedings by the office
based thereon regarding a claim submitted by  a  victim  or  a  claimant
shall be deemed confidential and shall not be shared with any government
or private entity, with the following exceptions:
(a)  requests  for  information  based  on legitimate criminal justice
purposes provided that, in such cases in which the crime victim reported
to a support agency that is also a victim services provider  as  defined
in  clause (B) of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision one
of section six hundred thirty-one of this article, the office shall  not
provide any personally identifying information or information tending to
identify the victim or claimant;
(b) judicial subpoenas;
(c)  requests  for information by the victim or claimant or his or her
authorized representative; or
(d) for purposes necessary and proper for the administration  of  this
article.
* NB Effective December 31, 2025
2. All other records, including but not limited to, records maintained
pursuant   to   sections   six  hundred  thirty-one-a  and  six  hundred
thirty-two-a of this article and proceedings by the office based thereon
shall be public record.
3. Any report or record obtained by the office, the confidentiality of
which is  protected  by  any  other  law  or  regulation,  shall  remain
confidential subject to such law or regulation.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 640 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims.

§ 640. Fair treatment standards for crime victims. 1. The commissioner
  of  the  division of criminal justice services, in consultation with the
  director  of  the  office  of  victim  services  and  other  appropriate
  officials,  shall promulgate standards for the treatment of the innocent
  victims of crime by the agencies which  comprise  the  criminal  justice
  system of the state.
2.  For the purposes of this article the term "criminal justice" shall
  include juvenile justice and the objectives and criteria  set  forth  in
  sections six hundred forty-one and six hundred forty-two of this article
  shall  apply to presentment agencies as defined in subdivision twelve of
  section 301.2 of the family court act.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 641 - Objectives of Fair Treatment Standards.

§ 641. Objectives of fair treatment standards. The object of such fair
treatment standards shall be to:
1.  Ensure  that  crime victims routinely receive emergency social and
medical services as soon as possible and are given information  pursuant
to section six hundred twenty-five-a of this chapter on the following:
(a) availability of crime victim compensation;
(b)  availability  of  appropriate  public  or  private  programs that
provide counseling, treatment or support for  crime  victims,  including
but  not  limited  to the following: rape crisis centers, victim/witness
assistance programs, elderly victim services, victim assistance hotlines
and domestic violence shelters;
(c) the role of the victims in the criminal justice process, including
what they can expect from the system as well as what the system  expects
from them; and
(d)  stages in the criminal justice process of significance to a crime
victim, and the manner in which information about  such  stages  can  be
obtained.
2. Ensure routine notification of a victim or witness as to steps that
law  enforcement  officers  or  district  attorneys  can take to protect
victims and witnesses from intimidation.
3. Ensure notification  of  victims,  witnesses,  relatives  of  those
victims and witnesses who are minors, and relatives of homicide victims,
if  such persons provide the appropriate official with a current address
and telephone number, either by  phone  or  by  mail,  if  possible,  of
judicial proceedings relating to their case, including:
(a) the arrest of an accused;
(b) the initial appearance of an accused before a judicial officer;
(c) the release of an accused pending judicial proceedings; and
(d) proceedings in the prosecution of the accused including entry of a
plea  of  guilty,  trial,  sentencing,  but prior to sentencing specific
information shall be provided regarding the right  to  seek  restitution
and  reparation,  and  where a term of imprisonment is imposed, specific
information shall be provided regarding maximum  and  minimum  terms  of
such imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 642-A - Fair Treatment of Child Victims as Witnesses.

§ 642-a. Fair  treatment  of child victims as witnesses. To the extent
  permitted  by  law,  criminal  justice  agencies,  crime  victim-related
  agencies,  social services agencies and the courts shall comply with the
  following guidelines in their treatment of child victims:
1. To minimize the number of times a child victim is  called  upon  to
  recite  the  events  of  the  case  and to foster a feeling of trust and
  confidence in the child  victim,  whenever  practicable  and  where  one
  exists, a multi-disciplinary team as established pursuant to subdivision
  six  of  section  four  hundred  twenty-three of the social services law
  and/or a child advocacy center shall be used for the  investigation  and
  prosecution  of  child  abuse  cases  involving  abuse  of  a  child, as
  described in paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of subdivision (e) of  section
  one  thousand twelve of the family court act, sexual abuse of a child or
  the death of a child.
2. Whenever practicable, the same prosecutor should handle all aspects
  of a case involving an alleged child victim.
3. To minimize the time during which a child victim  must  endure  the
  stress  of  his  involvement  in  the proceedings, the court should take
  appropriate action to ensure a speedy trial in all proceedings involving
  an alleged child victim. In ruling on any motion or request for a  delay
  or  continuance  of  a proceeding involving an alleged child victim, the
  court should consider and give weight to any  potential  adverse  impact
  the delay or continuance may have on the well-being of the child.
4.  The  judge  presiding should be sensitive to the psychological and
  emotional stress a child witness may undergo when testifying.
5. In accordance with the provisions  of  article  sixty-five  of  the
  criminal  procedure law, when appropriate, a child witness as defined in
  subdivision one of section 65.00 of such  law  should  be  permitted  to
  testify via live, two-way closed-circuit television.
6. In accordance with the provisions of section 190.32 of the criminal
  procedure  law,  a  person supportive of the "child witness" or "special
  witness" as defined in such section should be permitted  to  be  present
  and  accessible  to  a  child witness at all times during his testimony,
  although the person supportive  of  the  child  witness  should  not  be
  permitted to influence the child's testimony.
7.  A child witness should be permitted in the discretion of the court
  to use anatomically correct dolls and drawings during his testimony.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 643 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims; Agencies Generally.

§ 643. Fair treatment standards for crime victims; agencies generally.
  1.  As  used  in  this  section, "crime victim-related agency" means any
  agency of state government which provides services to or deals  directly
  with  crime  victims,  including  (a)  the office of children and family
  services,  the  office  for  the  aging,  the  department  of  veterans'
  services,  the  office  of  probation and correctional alternatives, the
  department of corrections  and  community  supervision,  the  office  of
  victim  services,  the  department  of  motor  vehicles,  the  office of
  vocational  rehabilitation,  the  workers'   compensation   board,   the
  department  of  health,  the  division of criminal justice services, the
  office of mental health, every transportation authority and the division
  of state police, and (b) any other agency so designated by the  governor
  within ninety days of the effective date of this section.
2.  Each  crime  victim-related  agency  shall  review  its practices,
  procedures, services, regulations and laws to determine the adequacy and
  appropriateness of its services with respect to crime victims, including
  victims with  special  needs,  particularly  the  elderly,  disabled  or
  victims  of child abuse, domestic violence or sex-related offenses. Such
  review shall include  reasonable  opportunity  for  public  comment  and
  consultation  with  crime  victims  or  their  representatives,  and may
  include public hearings.
3. After the review, and not later than one hundred eighty days  after
  the  effective  date  of  this section, each crime victim-related agency
  shall submit a report to the governor and the legislature, setting forth
  the findings of the review  including  a  description  of  the  services
  provided by the agency and recommendations for changes in its practices,
  procedures,  services,  regulations  and laws to improve its services to
  crime victims and to establish and implement  fair  treatment  standards
  for crime victims.
4.  Subject  to  the  direction  of  the  governor,  and to the extent
  practicable,  each  crime  victim-related  agency  shall   expeditiously
  implement the recommendations of its report.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 645 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims in the Courts.

§ 645. Fair  treatment  standards for crime victims in the courts. The
  chief administrator of the courts, in consultation with the commissioner
  of the division of criminal justice services, the director of the office
  of victim services and other  appropriate  officials,  shall  promulgate
  standards  for  the  treatment  of  the innocent victims of crime by the
  unified court system. These standards shall conform to and be consistent
  with the regulations promulgated pursuant to section six  hundred  forty
  of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 646 - Police Reports.

* § 646. Police  reports.  1.  A  victim  of  crime shall be entitled,
  regardless of physical injury, without charge to  a  copy  of  a  police
  report of the crime.
2.  An  individual  whose  identity  was  assumed  or  whose  personal
  identifying information, as defined in section 190.77 of the penal  law,
  was  used  in violation of section 190.78, 190.79 or 190.80 of the penal
  law, or any person who has suffered a financial loss as a direct  result
  of  the  acts  of  a  defendant  in violation of section 190.78, 190.79,
  190.80, 190.82 or 190.83 of the penal law, who has learned or reasonably
  suspects that his or  her  personal  identifying  information  has  been
  unlawfully  used  by  another,  may  make  a  complaint to the local law
  enforcement agency of the county in which any part of the  offense  took
  place  regardless  of whether the defendant was actually present in such
  county, or in the county in which the person who suffered financial loss
  resided at the time of the commission of the offense, or in  the  county
  where  the  person whose personal identification information was used in
  the commission of the offense resided at the time of the  commission  of
  the  offense as provided in paragraph (l) of subdivision four of section
  20.40 of the criminal procedure law. Said local law  enforcement  agency
  shall  take  a  police  report of the matter and provide the complainant
  with a copy of such report free of charge.
3. An individual who has been the victim in this  state  of  a  family
  offense  as defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 of the criminal
  procedure law or section eight hundred twelve of the  family  court  act
  may,  upon  alleging  that it would be a hardship for him or her to make
  such complaint in the local jurisdiction in which such offense occurred,
  make a complaint to any  local  law  enforcement  agency  in  the  state
  regardless  of  where  the  act  took  place. Such local law enforcement
  agency shall take a police report of the matter, as well  as  prepare  a
  domestic  violence  incident report as defined in subdivision fifteen of
  section eight hundred thirty-seven  of  this  chapter  and  provide  the
  complainant  with  a  copy  of such report free of charge. A copy of the
  police report and completed domestic violence incident report  shall  be
  promptly  forwarded  to  the  appropriate  law  enforcement  agency with
  jurisdiction over the location where the incident is  reported  to  have
  occurred for the purposes of further investigation.
* NB There are 2 § 646's
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 646*2 - Objectives.

* § 646. Objectives.  The  object  of  these  fair treatment standards
shall be to:
1. Ensure that crime victims are given information on the following:
(a) the role of the victims in the criminal justice process, including
what they can expect from the system as well as what the system  expects
from them;
(b)  stages in the criminal justice process of significance to a crime
victim, and the manner in which information about  such  stages  can  be
obtained; and
(c) how the court can address the needs of the victims at sentencing.
2. Ensure routine notification of a victim or witness as to steps that
the  court  can take to protect victims and witnesses from intimidation,
including the issuance of orders of protection and temporary  orders  of
protection.
3.  Ensure  notification  of  victims,  witnesses,  relatives of those
victims and witnesses who are minors, and relatives of homicide victims,
if such persons provide the appropriate court official  with  a  current
address  and  telephone number, either by phone or by mail, if possible,
of judicial proceedings relating to their case, including:
(a) the initial appearance of an accused before a judicial officer;
(b) the release of an accused pending judicial proceedings;
(c) proceedings in the prosecution of the accused, including entry  of
a plea of guilty, trial, sentencing, and where a term of imprisonment is
imposed,  specific  information  shall be provided regarding maximum and
minimum terms of such imprisonment; and
(d) the reversal or modification  of  the  judgment  by  an  appellate
court.
* NB There are 2 § 646's
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 647 - Criteria.

§ 647. Criteria.  Fair  treatment  standards  for crime victims in the
  courts shall provide that:
1.  The court shall consider the views of  the  victim  of  a  violent
  felony  offense,  a  felony  involving  physical injury to the victim, a
  felony involving property loss or damage in excess of two hundred  fifty
  dollars,  a  felony involving attempted or threatened physical injury or
  property loss or damage in excess of two  hundred  fifty  dollars  or  a
  felony  involving  larceny  against  the  person,  or of the family of a
  homicide  victim  or  minor  child,  regarding  discretionary  decisions
  relating  to  the  criminal  case,  including,  but not limited to, plea
  agreements and sentence. In addition, the court shall consider the views
  of the victim or family of the victim, as  appropriate,  concerning  the
  release   of  the  defendant  in  the  victim's  case  pending  judicial
  proceedings upon an  indictment,  and  concerning  the  availability  of
  sentencing  alternatives  such  as community supervision and restitution
  from the defendant. The failure of the court to consider  the  views  of
  the  victim  or family of the victim shall not be cause for delaying the
  proceedings against the defendant nor shall it affect the validity of  a
  conviction, judgment or order.
2.  The victims and other prosecution witnesses shall, where possible,
  be provided, when awaiting court appearances, a secure waiting area that
  is separate from all other witnesses.
3. The court shall assist in and expedite the return of property  held
  for  evidentiary  purposes  unless  there  is  a  compelling  reason for
  retaining it relating to proof at trial.
4.  Victim  assistance  education  shall  be  given  to  judicial  and
  nonjudicial personnel of the unified court system so that victims may be
  promptly, properly and completely assisted.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 23 - Fair Treatment Standards for Crime Victims › 648 - Review; Report and Implementation.

§ 648. Review;  report  and implementation. 1. The chief administrator
  of the unified court system shall review  court  practices,  procedures,
  services,   regulations   and   laws   to  determine  the  adequacy  and
  appropriateness of its services with respect to crime victims, including
  victims with  special  needs,  particularly  the  elderly,  disabled  or
  victims   of   child   abuse,  domestic  violence,  sex  trafficking  or
  sex-related offenses. Such review shall include  reasonable  opportunity
  for  public  comment  and  consultation  with  crime  victims  or  their
  representatives, and may include public hearings.
2. After the review, and not later than two hundred seventy days after
  the effective date of this  section,  and  no  later  than  two  hundred
  seventy  days after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two
  thousand fifteen which  amended  this  section,  and  every  five  years
  thereafter,  the  chief  administrator of the unified court system shall
  submit a report to the governor and the legislature, setting  forth  the
  findings of the review, including a description of the services provided
  by  the  components  of the unified court system and recommendations for
  changes in its procedures, services, regulations and laws to improve its
  services to crime victims and to establish and implement fair  treatment
  standards for crime victims.
3. Subject to the direction of the chief administrator, the components
  of   the   unified   court  system  shall  expeditiously  implement  the
  recommendations of its report.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 24 - Office of Employee Relations › 650 - Statement of Policy.

§ 650. Statement  of  policy.    The  legislature hereby reaffirms its
  policy to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships  between  the
  state and its employees to protect the public by assuring, at all times,
  the   orderly  and  uninterrupted  operations  and  functions  of  state
  government; and recognizes that  furtherance  of  such  policy  requires
  creation  in the executive department of an office of employee relations
  with staff and skills requisite  to  act  as  the  governor's  agent  in
  conducting  collective negotiations, to assure the proper implementation
  and administration of agreements reached pursuant to such  negotiations,
  and to assist the governor and direct and coordinate the state's efforts
  with regard to the state's powers and duties under the public employees'
  fair employment act.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 24 - Office of Employee Relations › 652 - Office of Employee Relations; Director.

§ 652. Office  of  employee  relations;  director.    There  is hereby
  created an office of employee relations in the executive department. The
  head of the office of  employee  relations  shall  be  the  director  of
  employee  relations  who  shall  be appointed by, and hold office at the
  pleasure of, the governor. He shall receive a salary to be fixed by  the
  governor  within  the  amount  appropriated  therefor.  The director may
  appoint such deputies, assistants, consultants and  other  employees  as
  may  be needed for the performance of his duties and may prescribe their
  powers  and  duties  and  fix  their  compensation  within  the   amount
  appropriated therefor. Such office may have an office seal.