N.Y. Executive Law § 717: Office of interoperable and emergency communications

§ 717. Office of interoperable and emergency communications. 1. The

office of interoperable and emergency communications shall be the

principal state agency for all interoperable and emergency

communications issues and oversee and direct the development,

coordination and implementation of policies, plans, standards, programs

and services related to interoperable and emergency communications,

including those related to public safety land mobile radio

communications. The office shall coordinate with federal, state, local,

tribal, non-governmental and other appropriate entities.

2. The office shall be responsible for coordinating relevant grant

programs and other funding sources to enhance interoperable and

emergency communications, as consistent with the mission of the

division. The director shall make final determinations regarding the

distribution of grants, in consultation with the board.

3. The director of this office shall serve as the statewide

interoperable and emergency communications coordinator.

4. To ensure appropriate coordination and consultation with relevant

entities, the director shall be the chairperson of the statewide

interoperable and emergency communication board as defined in section

three hundred twenty-seven of the county law, and whose duties shall

include, but not be limited to all the duties regularly assigned to the

board as defined by section three hundred twenty-eight of the county

law.

5. The commissioner, in consultation with the director of the office,

shall promulgate rules and regulations which require municipalities to

report, no less than annually, on prior and planned expenditures to

develop and operate interoperable and emergency communications. The

regulations shall permit municipalities which participate in county or

multi-county regional coordinated interoperability efforts to submit a

single report to the division for all participating municipalities, so

long as all expenses which would have been reported if the participating

municipalities had submitted individual reports are contained in the

combined report. The regulations shall not require a municipality that

incurred no relevant expenses and anticipates no relevant expenses to

submit such a report. The division shall include a summary of such

information in its annual report to the governor, temporary president of

the senate, and speaker of the assembly provided for in subdivision

seven of section seven hundred nine of this article, as well as

submitting such information at the same time to the state comptroller.