N.Y. Public Officers Law § 28: Receivers, assignees and trustees deemed public officers

§ 28. Receivers, assignees and trustees deemed public officers. A

receiver, an assignee of an insolvent debtor, or a trustee or other

officer, appointed by a court or a judge, is a public officer, within

the meaning of this article; but where he was appointed by or pursuant

to the order of a court, or in proceedings supplementary to execution

against property, the application for leave to prosecute his official

bond or undertaking must be made to the court by which, or pursuant to

whose order, he was appointed, or in which the judgment was rendered, as

the case may be.