N.Y. Public Officers Law § 7: Appointment by the governor and senate

§ 7. Appointment by the governor and senate. An appointment to an

office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate,

shall be made by communicating to the senate, while in session, a

written nomination of a person for the office, designating the residence

of the nominee, and if nominated to be an officer of a political

subdivision of the state, designating also such subdivision, and if

nominating two or more persons to the same office for different terms,

designating the term for which each is nominated. If such nomination be

of a successor to a predecessor in the same office, it may be made and

acted upon by the senate after the expiration of the term or occurrence

of a vacancy in the office of such predecessor, or at any time during

the legislative session of the calendar year in which the term of office

of such predecessor shall expire or in which the office shall become

vacant. If the appointment be made before the expiration of the term of

such predecessor, the term of office of the appointee shall commence

upon the expiration of the term of such predecessor, or if made to fill

a vacancy, upon the occurrence of such vacancy, or immediately if a

vacancy already exist. If the senate shall reject such nomination, the

secretary of the senate shall forthwith communicate, by writing, signed

by him and by the president of the senate, to the governor the fact of

such rejection. If the senate shall confirm such nomination the

appointment shall be deemed complete, and thereupon duplicate

certificates of the confirmation shall be made and signed by the

president and secretary of the senate, who shall cause one to be

delivered to the governor and the other to the secretary of state, who

shall record the same in his office in a book kept for that purpose.