2006 New York Code - Assignment of functions; number of departments may be reduced.

 
    §  3.  Subject  to the limitations contained in this constitution, the
  legislature may from time to time assign by law new powers and functions
  to departments, officers, boards, commissions or  executive  offices  of
  the  governor,  and  increase,  modify  or  diminish  their  powers  and
  functions.  Nothing  contained  in  this  article  shall   prevent   the
  legislature  from creating temporary commissions for special purposes or
  executive offices of the  governor  and  from  reducing  the  number  of
  departments  as  provided  for  in  this  article,  by  consolidation or
  otherwise.