N.Y. State Finance Law § 15: Fees to be charged for certain documents

§ 15. Fees to be charged for certain documents. 1. Except as herein

otherwise provided, no blank, report, pamphlet or other document printed

pursuant to law by or under the supervision and direction of a state

department, or a division, officer, board, bureau, commission or other

state agency, included within such department, shall be furnished or

distributed to any person except on payment of a fee therefor, to be

fixed as herein provided.

2. The head of each state department shall adopt rules and regulations

governing the printing and distribution of all blanks, reports,

pamphlets and other documents printed by or under the direction and

supervision of his department, or of any officer, board, division,

bureau, commission or other state agency included within such

department, and containing an itemized schedule of fees to be charged

therefor. Such rules and regulations shall be submitted by such

department head to the director of the budget and, upon his approval

thereof, shall have the force and effect of law. Such rules and

regulations may be revised from time to time, subject to the approval of

such director. In preparing such schedule of fees each department head

shall be guided, as far as possible, by the unit cost to the state of

the preparation, printing and distribution of such blanks, reports,

pamphlets and other documents. A copy of the rules and regulations in

force for each department shall be at all times conspicuously displayed

in the principal office of such department and in the particular portion

of such department where the blanks, reports, pamphlets and other

documents of the department are available for distribution.

3. No fee shall be charged for furnishing a report or other document

which is required by law to be made or furnished to the governor, the

legislature or to any of the state departments, and the director of the

budget may prescribe other cases in which no fee shall be charged.

4. A true record and account of all fees received pursuant to this

section shall be kept by the head of each department or by someone

delegated by him to perform such task.

5. Nothing herein contained shall apply to reports, documents or

pamphlets furnished to the governor, a member of the legislature, a

representative of the press, the head of any state department.

6. All fees collected by the commissioner of transportation pursuant

to the provisions of this section shall be deposited by the comptroller

into the special obligation reserve and payment account of the dedicated

highway and bridge trust fund established pursuant to section

eighty-nine-b of this chapter.