2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 26 - (709 - 717) DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
717 - Office of interoperable and emergency communications.

§  717.  Office  of interoperable and emergency communications. 1. The
  office of  interoperable  and  emergency  communications  shall  be  the
  principal   state   agency   for   all   interoperable   and   emergency
  communications  issues  and  oversee   and   direct   the   development,
  coordination  and implementation of policies, plans, standards, programs
  and services related  to  interoperable  and  emergency  communications,
  including   those   related   to   public   safety   land  mobile  radio
  communications. The office shall coordinate with federal, state,  local,
  tribal, non-governmental and other appropriate entities.
    2.  The  office  shall  be responsible for coordinating relevant grant
  programs  and  other  funding  sources  to  enhance  interoperable   and
  emergency   communications,  as  consistent  with  the  mission  of  the
  division. The director shall make  final  determinations  regarding  the
  distribution of grants, in consultation with the board.
    3.   The  director  of  this  office  shall  serve  as  the  statewide
  interoperable and emergency communications coordinator.
    4. To ensure appropriate coordination and consultation  with  relevant
  entities,  the  director  shall  be  the  chairperson  of  the statewide
  interoperable and emergency communication board as  defined  in  section
  three  hundred  twenty-seven  of  the county law, and whose duties shall
  include, but not be limited to all the duties regularly assigned to  the
  board  as  defined  by  section three hundred twenty-eight of the county
  law.
    5. The commissioner, in consultation with the director of the  office,
  shall  promulgate  rules and regulations which require municipalities to
  report, no less than annually, on  prior  and  planned  expenditures  to
  develop  and  operate  interoperable  and  emergency communications. The
  regulations shall permit municipalities which participate in  county  or
  multi-county  regional  coordinated interoperability efforts to submit a
  single report to the division for all participating  municipalities,  so
  long as all expenses which would have been reported if the participating
  municipalities  had  submitted  individual  reports are contained in the
  combined report. The regulations shall not require a  municipality  that
  incurred  no  relevant  expenses and anticipates no relevant expenses to
  submit such a report. The division  shall  include  a  summary  of  such
  information in its annual report to the governor, temporary president of
  the  senate,  and  speaker  of  the assembly provided for in subdivision
  seven of section  seven  hundred  nine  of  this  article,  as  well  as
  submitting such information at the same time to the state comptroller.