N.Y. Executive Law § 436: Hearings; immunity

§ 436. Hearings; immunity. 1. A hearing upon any investigation or

review authorized by this article or by article fourteen-h of the

general municipal law may be conducted by two or more members of the

commission or by a hearing officer duly designated by the commission, as

the commission shall determine.

2. A person who has violated any provision of this article or article

fourteen-h of the general municipal law, or of the rules and regulations

of the commission, or any term of any license issued under said articles

or said rules and regulations, is a competent witness against another

person so charged. In any hearing upon any investigation or review

authorized by this article or article fourteen-h of the general

municipal law, for or relating to a violation of any provision of said

articles or of the rules and regulations of the commission or of the

term of any such license, the commission, may confer immunity upon such

witness in accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 of the

criminal procedure law. Such immunity shall be conferred only upon the

vote of at least three members of the commission, and only after

affording the attorney general and the appropriate district attorney a

reasonable opportunity to be heard with respect to any objections which

they or either of them may have to the granting of such immunity.