2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 35 - (835 - 846*2) DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES
837-B - Duties of courts and peace officers.

§ 837-b. Duties of courts and peace officers. 1. It is hereby made the
  duty  of  the  state  administrator  of the unified court system; and of
  every sheriff, county or city commissioner of  correction  and  head  of
  every  police  department,  state,  county, or local, and also railroad,
  steamship, park, aqueduct and tunnel  police  and  town  constables,  of
  every district attorney, of every probation agency; and of head of every
  institution  or  department,  state,  county  and  local,  dealing  with
  criminals and of every other officer, person  or  agency,  dealing  with
  crimes  or  criminals or with delinquency or delinquents, to transmit to
  the commissioner not later than  the  fifteenth  day  of  each  calendar
  month, or at such times as provided in the rules and regulations adopted
  by  the commissioner, such information as may be necessary to enable him
  to comply with subdivision four of section eight  hundred  thirty-seven.
  Such  reports  shall  be  made upon forms which shall be supplied by the
  commissioner.
    2. Such officers and  agencies  shall  install  and  maintain  records
  needed  for  reporting  data required by the commissioner and shall give
  him or his accredited agents  access  to  records  for  the  purpose  of
  inspection.
    3.  For every neglect to comply with the requirements of this section,
  the commissioner may apply to the supreme court for an order directed to
  such person responsible requiring compliance. Upon such application  the
  court  may issue such order as may be just, and a failure to comply with
  the order of the court shall be a contempt of court  and  punishable  as
  such.