N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 17: Delegation of powers

§ 17. Delegation of powers. (a) The commissioner may delegate any of

his powers to, or direct any of his duties to be performed by, a deputy

commissioner or the director of a bureau and, except where it is

otherwise provided in this chapter or the context otherwise requires,

may delegate any of such powers to any officer or employee of the

department.

(b) The commissioner, except when it is otherwise provided in this

chapter or the context otherwise requires, may also delegate to an

officer or employee of the United States department of agriculture,

engaged within this state in joint or cooperative state-federal

programs, any of the powers invested in him by article five of this

chapter for the control, suppression or eradication of communicable

diseases in domestic animals or domestic fowls, any of the powers

invested in him by article five-B of this chapter relative to

ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of animals slaughtered for food

purposes and processing inspection of meat, meat by-products and meat

food products, any of the powers invested in him by article five-D of

this chapter relative to ante-mortem inspection of poultry slaughtered

for human food, post-mortem inspection of poultry carcasses and

inspection of poultry and poultry products, any of the powers invested

in him by article fourteen of this chapter in the control or eradication

of injurious insects or plant diseases, and any of the powers invested

in him by subdivisions four and five of section sixteen of this chapter

relative to the collection, analysis and publication of primary

statistical data relating to agricultural products of this state. Such

delegation shall be in writing and shall state the specific limits of

the powers so delegated.

(c) Whenever by the education law or other statute the commissioner is

made a member by virtue of his office of the board of visitors, managers

or trustees or other similar body of a state institution, he may in

writing authorize and empower a deputy commissioner, the secretary of

the department or the director of a bureau to act in his place and stead

at any meeting or meetings of any such board or body.