2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 4-A - (51 - 55) OFFICE OF THE STATE INSPECTOR GENERAL
55 - Responsibilities of covered agencies, state officers and employees.

§  55.  Responsibilities  of  covered  agencies,  state  officers  and
  employees. 1. Every state officer or employee in a covered agency  shall
  report   promptly   to  the  state  inspector  general  any  information
  concerning corruption, fraud, criminal activity, conflicts  of  interest
  or  abuse  by  another  state officer or employee relating to his or her
  office or employment, or by a person having  business  dealings  with  a
  covered  agency  relating  to those dealings. The knowing failure of any
  officer or employee to so report shall be cause for removal from  office
  or  employment or other appropriate penalty. Any officer or employee who
  acts pursuant to this subdivision by reporting to  the  state  inspector
  general   improper   governmental   action   as   defined   in   section
  seventy-five-b of  the  civil  service  law  shall  not  be  subject  to
  dismissal, discipline or other adverse personnel action.
    2.  The  head  of  any covered agency shall advise the governor within
  ninety days of the issuance of a report by the state  inspector  general
  as  to  the remedial action that the agency has taken in response to any
  recommendation for such action contained in such report.