N.Y. Labor Law § 12-d: Advisory council on farm labor safety

* § 12-d. Advisory council on farm labor safety. 1. There is hereby

established in the department of labor an advisory council on farm labor

safety to make a study and investigation of the problems of providing

adequate protection to farm workers against injuries arising out of

their employment. Such study and investigation shall include: (a) the

unique and special conditions involved in farm safety; (b) the need for

education and training programs for the protection of farm workers

against accidents; (c) the identification of areas where existing

educational and training programs are insufficient to provide adequate

protection to farm workers against accidents; (d) the methods of

encouraging farmers and farm groups to establish such education and

training programs; and (e) all matters and approaches for the protection

of farm workers against accidents referred by the industrial

commissioner.

2. The advisory council shall consist of ten members appointed by the

industrial commissioner. The members shall be representative of farmers,

growers, farm workers and other persons and groups concerned with

agricultural safety. One of the members shall be designated as chairman

by the industrial commissioner. The chairman of the board of standards

and appeals, the commissioner of agriculture and markets, the

commissioner of education, and the dean of the college of agriculture at

Cornell University, or their designated representatives, shall be

additional members of the council, who shall serve by virtue of their

positions, without voting power.

The industrial commissioner shall designate an officer or employee of

the department of labor to act as secretary of the advisory council, who

shall not be a member of such council and who shall not receive any

additional compensation therefor.

3. The advisory council may take testimony, subpoena witnesses, and

require the production of books, records and papers, and hold public or

private hearings.

4. The advisory council may request and shall receive such assistance,

service and data from any agency of the state or from any political

subdivision thereof as will enable it properly to carry out its

activities hereunder and effectuate the purposes herein set forth.

5. The advisory council shall, from time to time, but not less

frequently than on December first of each year, submit a report to the

industrial commissioner, and shall submit a final report on or before

March thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-two. Such reports may

include such recommendations as the council finds appropriate on the

basis of its studies and investigations.

6. The appointed members of the advisory council shall receive no

compensation for their services but shall receive in lieu of expenses

incurred in the performance of their duties the sum of sixty dollars for

each day or part thereof spent in attendance at meetings or otherwise in

the work of the council, but no member shall receive in excess of twelve

hundred dollars during any one fiscal year.

7. The advisory council may adopt rules and regulations to govern its

own proceedings. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of

the council, which shall show the name of each member present at the

meetings and every matter considered by the council and the action taken

thereon. Such records shall be filed in the office of the secretary of

the department of labor.

* NB Expired March 31, 1972