N.Y. Legislative Law § 60: Testimony before legislative committees

§ 60. Testimony before legislative committees. A legislative committee

may require the attendance of witnesses in this state whom the committee

may wish to examine, or may issue a commission for the examination of

witnesses who are out of the state or unable to attend the committee or

excused from attendance, which commission if directed by the house or

legislature by which the committee is appointed may be executed during

the recess of the legislature. A commission issued as provided by this

section shall be in the form used in the courts of record of this state

and shall be executed in like manner. Unless otherwise instructed by the

committee appointing them the commissioners shall examine privately

every witness attending before them and shall not make public the

particulars of such examination. No committee of either house or a joint

committee of both houses shall have the power to take testimony at a

private hearing or at a public hearing unless at least two of its

members are present at such hearing.