N.Y. Legislative Law § 33: Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly

§ 33. Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office

of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly. A

statutory power of the temporary president of the senate or speaker of

the assembly, jointly or singly to approve vouchers, to direct the

expenditure of moneys appropriated for a legislative purpose, to appoint

or fix the compensation of legislative employees, to appoint a member or

members of a legislative committee of investigation or other special

legislative committee, or of a temporary commission lawfully

constituted, or to act ex officio as a member of such a committee or

commission, may be exercised during a vacancy or vacancies in such

office or offices, between final adjournment of the annual session of

the legislature and the ensuing first day of January, by the chairman of

the finance committee of the senate, acting in the place and stead of

the temporary president of the senate, if such vacancy be in that

office, and by the chairman of the ways and means committee of the

assembly, in the place and stead of the speaker of the assembly, if such

vacancy be in that office.

In case of the disability of the chairman of such a committee, or of a

vacancy in such chairmanship, if the occasion arises for the exercise by

the chairman of the powers conferred by this section, a majority of the

members of the committee, by certificate in triplicate filed with the

respective secretary and clerk of the senate and assembly and with the

comptroller, may designate one of the members of the committee to

exercise such powers.