2006 New York Code - Conflicts Of Interest.

 
  § 17-0827. Conflicts of interest.
    The  commissioner  of  the  department or his designee responsible for
  issuance  of  SPDES  permits  hereunder,  is  hereby   prohibited   from
  receiving, or during two years prior to approval of an application for a
  permit  from  having  received,  a  significant  portion  of  his income
  directly or indirectly from permit holders or applicants for  a  permit.
  For the purposes of this section (a) "significant portion of his income"
  shall  mean  ten  percent  of gross personal income for a calendar year,
  except that it shall mean fifty percent of gross personal income  for  a
  calendar  year  if  the  recipient  is  over  sixty  years of age and is
  receiving such portion  pursuant  to  retirement,  pension,  or  similar
  arrangement; (b) "income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees,
  and  stock  dividends;  and  (c)  income  is  not  received "directly or
  indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit" where  it  is
  derived from mutual-fund payments, or from other diversified investments
  over  which  the  recipient  does  not  know the identity of the primary
  sources of income.