N.Y. Executive Law § 164: Reports by and to the department

§ 164. Reports by and to the department. Each department, other than

the executive department, shall make an annual report to the governor

and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding

calendar year. It shall contain such information concerning the

department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and

institutions, and their activities and affairs, and such

recommendations, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or

proper, and any matters required by express provision of law to be

included in such report. A department also shall make such other and

special reports as the governor or either house of the legislature may

require. From time to time, the head of a department may require from

any board, commission or other body in the department or from any

subordinate officer or employee, division or bureau of the department,

or from any institution subject to the supervision of the department, or

from any agency of the department, such reports or information as such

head may deem necessary. Unless expressly authorized by the head of the

department, there shall be hereafter no separate report, annual or

otherwise, directly to the legislature or governor by any such board,

commission, body, officer, division, bureau, institution or agency

notwithstanding any existing provision of law authorizing or requiring

such report.