N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 1205: Vacancy in office; delivery of money, papers and effects; discharge 1

§ 1205. Vacancy in office; delivery of money, papers and effects;

discharge

1. Whenever the public administrator shall resign or be removed, he

shall immediately deliver over to his successor all papers, moneys and

effects in his hands.

2. In case of the death of a public administrator the persons into

whose custody or possession any such papers, moneys or effects shall

come, shall deliver them on demand to the successor. Upon the

resignation, removal or death of any public administrator, if there be

no deputy public administrator, the clerk of the surrogate's court of

his county shall immediately take possession for custodial purposes only

of all papers, moneys and effects which were in the hands of the public

administrator. Delivery in either of the above cases may be enforced in

the manner provided by law in relation to public officers. Upon the

appointment of a duly qualified successor the clerk shall immediately

deliver over to the successor all such papers, moneys and effects so

held by him and such successor upon duly qualifying shall succeed at

once to all the rights, duties and powers of his predecessor without the

reissuance of formal letters to him.

3. In any final accounting by a public administrator the court shall

discharge the acting administrator and any prior public administrator

who may have acted in the estate.