N.Y. Public Officers Law § 35: Removals from office

§ 35. Removals from office. Every removal of an officer by one or

more state officers, shall be in written duplicate orders, signed by the

officer, or by all or a majority of the officers, making the removal, or

if made by a body or board of state officers may be evidenced by

duplicate certified copies of the resolution or order of removal, signed

either by all or by a majority of the officers making the removal, or by

the president and clerk of such body or board. Both such duplicate

orders or certified copies shall be delivered to the secretary of state,

who shall record in his office one of such duplicates, and shall, if the

officer removed is a state officer, deliver the other to such officer by

messenger, if required by the governor, and otherwise by mail or as the

secretary of state shall deem advisable, and shall, if directed by the

governor, cause a copy thereof to be published in the state paper. If

the officer removed be a local officer, he shall send the other of such

duplicates to the county clerk of the county in which the officer

removed shall have resided at the time he was chosen to the office, and

such clerk shall file the same in his office, and forthwith notify the

officer removed of his removal.