N.Y. Senate Rules Rule 11, § 2: Admission to floor

§ 2. Admission to floor. Persons not members of the Senate, or

officers or employees thereof, shall be admitted to the floor of the

Senate only as follows:

a. The Governor, his or her secretary and messenger.

b. The members and Clerk of the Assembly, and clerks and messengers of

the Assembly in the exercise of an official duty directly connected with

the business of the Senate.

c. The elected State officers, heads of departments and their

deputies.

d. Reporters of the Senate and of the Assembly designated under the

rules, unless a designation theretofore given them has been revoked.

e. Members of a Senator's family, or of the family of the President of

the Senate.

f. Former members of the Senate.

g. Any person not hereinbefore named may be admitted to the floor of

the Senate, with the permission of the Secretary of the Senate.

h. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions a through g of this

section, no person shall be admitted to the floor of the Senate who is

interested in pending or contemplated legislation, or who is employed by

or receives compensation from any public or private source for

influencing legislation.

i. During the sessions of the Senate, no person other than a Senator

shall occupy the chair of a Senator, or stand in or otherwise occupy any

part of the area between the last row of Senators' chairs on the east

and west sides of the Chamber, and the east and west walls thereof,

respectively. All persons in the Senate Chamber shall observe proper

rules of order and decorum.

j. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant at Arms strictly to enforce

the provisions of this section, and it shall be in order for any Senator

to call a breach thereof to the attention of the Presiding Officer.