N.Y. Alcoholic Beverage Control Law § 10: State liquor authority

§ 10. State liquor authority. There shall continue to be in the

executive department an alcoholic beverage control division, the head of

which shall be the state liquor authority whose members shall consist of

a chairman and two commissioners, all of whom shall be citizens and

residents of the state. The terms "state alcoholic beverage control

board", "state board", "liquor authority", or "authority", wherever

occurring in any of the provisions of this chapter or of any other law,

or in any official books, records, instruments, rules or papers, shall

hereafter mean and refer to the state liquor authority provided for in

this section.