2012 New York Consolidated Laws
ABC - Alcoholic Beverage Control
Article 2 - (10 - 19) LIQUOR AUTHORITY
10 - State liquor authority.

 
    § 10. State  liquor  authority.    There  shall  continue to be in the
  executive department an alcoholic beverage control division, the head of
  which shall be the state liquor authority which shall consist  of  three
  members,  who  shall  be  known  as  commissioners, all of whom shall be
  citizens and residents of the  state.    The  state  alcoholic  beverage
  control  board  created  and  appointed  pursuant to chapter one hundred
  eighty of the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  thirty-three,  as  presently
  constituted,  shall  continue  in existence and hereafter shall be known
  and designated  as  the  state  liquor  authority.    The  terms  "state
  alcoholic beverage control board", "state board", "liquor authority", or
  "authority", wherever occurring in any of the provisions of this chapter
  or  of  any  other  law, or in any official books, records, instruments,
  rules or papers, shall hereafter mean and  refer  to  the  state  liquor
  authority provided for in this section.