N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 82: Powers and duties

§ 82. Powers and duties. 1. The commissioners shall appoint an

executive director, a general attorney, a secretary for terms of nine

years each. Vacancies in such positions shall be filled for the

unexpired terms. The commissioners shall also appoint, and may remove,

four deputy executive directors and an actuary. The foregoing

appointments shall be in the exempt class of the civil service. The

actuary shall be responsible directly to the commissioners. They shall

also appoint, and may remove, such number of assistant directors as may

in their judgment be required for the proper and expeditious conduct of

the business of the fund. In the absence of the executive director the

deputy executive director named for that purpose by the commissioners

shall perform the duties of the executive director. The commissioners

shall prescribe the duties of all administrative officers of the fund,

except as they may otherwise be prescribed by law.

2. The executive director shall, subject to the direction of the

commissioners, be responsible for the direction and operation of the

state fund. He shall appoint, and may remove, all officers and employees

of the fund, other than those required to be appointed by the

commissioners, and shall prescribe their duties. He may within the

limits of the budget fix salaries, and may promote employees and may

transfer employees from their positions to other positions in the fund,

and may abolish or consolidate positions subject to the civil service

law and rules, and all removals shall be made pursuant to such rules and

laws, it being the purpose and intent of this provision that the state

fund shall at all times be administered with due regard to the

requirements of its business affairs and its obligations under its

contracts and policies in force.

3. The commissioners shall consider at all times the condition of the

fund and examine into its reserves, investments and all other matters

relating to its administration. They shall have access to all records

and books of account, and may require the personal appearance before

them and require information from any officer or employee of the fund.

Information obtained by them from officers and employees of the fund and

from its records with respect to the business affairs of any employer

insured in the fund shall be deemed confidential unless ordered

disclosed by order of the commissioners.

4. The executive director shall submit to the commissioners an annual

estimate of the amounts required for salaries and for the maintenance

and expenses of the fund for the next ensuing calendar year. The

commissioners shall thereupon consider such estimate, and may modify or

approve such estimate. There may not be expended for the state insurance

fund more than the total amount specified in such budget, except as

authorized by the commissioner.

5. All statistics and other documentary matter filed with the state

fund, except where the further retention of such statistics and other

documentary matter is made necessary by requirements of law, may be

destroyed by the commissioners after the expiration of six years from

the filing thereof.