2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBO - Public Officers
Article 2 - (3 - 19) APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
7 - Appointment by the governor and senate.

 
    § 7. Appointment  by  the  governor  and  senate. An appointment to an
  office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
  shall be made by communicating  to  the  senate,  while  in  session,  a
  written nomination of a person for the office, designating the residence
  of  the  nominee,  and  if  nominated  to  be  an officer of a political
  subdivision of the state, designating  also  such  subdivision,  and  if
  nominating  two  or more persons to the same office for different terms,
  designating the term for which each is nominated. If such nomination  be
  of  a  successor to a predecessor in the same office, it may be made and
  acted upon by the senate after the expiration of the term or  occurrence
  of  a  vacancy  in the office of such predecessor, or at any time during
  the legislative session of the calendar year in which the term of office
  of such predecessor shall expire or in which  the  office  shall  become
  vacant.  If the appointment be made before the expiration of the term of
  such predecessor, the term of office of  the  appointee  shall  commence
  upon  the expiration of the term of such predecessor, or if made to fill
  a vacancy, upon the occurrence of such  vacancy,  or  immediately  if  a
  vacancy  already  exist. If the senate shall reject such nomination, the
  secretary of the senate shall forthwith communicate, by writing,  signed
  by  him  and by the president of the senate, to the governor the fact of
  such  rejection.  If  the  senate  shall  confirm  such  nomination  the
  appointment   shall   be   deemed   complete,  and  thereupon  duplicate
  certificates of the  confirmation  shall  be  made  and  signed  by  the
  president  and  secretary  of  the  senate,  who  shall  cause one to be
  delivered to the governor and the other to the secretary of  state,  who
  shall record the same in his office in a book kept for that purpose.