N.Y. County Law § 54: Personal liability of heads of agencies

§ 54. Personal liability of heads of agencies. No head of any agency,

department, bureau, or office of a county shall be liable to respond in

damages to the county or to any other person for any act or omission of

any employee of the county employed within the agency, department,

bureau, or office of which he is such head. Any lawful claims which but

for this section would be claims against such head of an agency,

department, bureau, or office shall be lawful claims against the county

and shall be deemed to be the liability of the county. Nothing

contained herein, however, shall be deemed to relieve the head of any

agency, department, bureau, or office of liability to the county or to

any other person for his own act or omission to act, nor be deemed to

impose any new liability upon the county for any act or omission of such

head of any agency, department, bureau, or office to which the county

was not lawfully subject prior to the taking effect of this act.