2006 New York Code - Vacancy In Office; Delivery Of Money, Papers And Effects; Discharge

 
  § 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.