2012 New York Consolidated Laws
WKC - Workers' Compensation
Article 6 - (76 - 100) State Insurance Fund.
82 - Powers and duties.

 
    §  82.  Powers  and  duties.    1.  The commissioners shall appoint an
  executive director, a general attorney, a secretary for  terms  of  nine
  years  each.  Vacancies  in  such  positions  shall  be  filled  for the
  unexpired terms. The commissioners shall also appoint, and  may  remove,
  four   deputy   executive   directors  and  an  actuary.  The  foregoing
  appointments shall be in the exempt class  of  the  civil  service.  The
  actuary  shall  be responsible directly to the commissioners. They shall
  also appoint, and may remove, such number of assistant directors as  may
  in  their judgment be required for the proper and expeditious conduct of
  the business of the fund. In the absence of the executive  director  the
  deputy  executive  director  named for that purpose by the commissioners
  shall perform the duties of the executive  director.  The  commissioners
  shall  prescribe  the duties of all administrative officers of the fund,
  except as they may otherwise be prescribed by law.
    2. The executive director shall,  subject  to  the  direction  of  the
  commissioners,  be  responsible  for  the direction and operation of the
  state fund. He shall appoint, and may remove, all officers and employees
  of  the  fund,  other  than  those  required  to  be  appointed  by  the
  commissioners,  and  shall  prescribe  their  duties.  He may within the
  limits of the budget fix salaries, and may  promote  employees  and  may
  transfer  employees from their positions to other positions in the fund,
  and may abolish or consolidate positions subject to  the  civil  service
  law and rules, and all removals shall be made pursuant to such rules and
  laws,  it  being the purpose and intent of this provision that the state
  fund shall  at  all  times  be  administered  with  due  regard  to  the
  requirements  of  its  business  affairs  and  its obligations under its
  contracts and policies in force.
    3. The commissioners shall consider at all times the condition of  the
  fund  and  examine  into its reserves, investments and all other matters
  relating to its administration. They shall have access  to  all  records
  and  books  of  account,  and may require the personal appearance before
  them and require information from any officer or employee of  the  fund.
  Information obtained by them from officers and employees of the fund and
  from  its  records  with respect to the business affairs of any employer
  insured  in  the  fund  shall  be  deemed  confidential  unless  ordered
  disclosed by order of the commissioners.
    4.  The executive director shall submit to the commissioners an annual
  estimate of the amounts required for salaries and  for  the  maintenance
  and  expenses  of  the  fund  for  the  next  ensuing calendar year. The
  commissioners shall thereupon consider such estimate, and may modify  or
  approve such estimate. There may not be expended for the state insurance
  fund  more  than  the  total  amount specified in such budget, except as
  authorized by the commissioner.
    5. All statistics and other documentary matter filed  with  the  state
  fund,  except  where  the further retention of such statistics and other
  documentary matter is made necessary by  requirements  of  law,  may  be
  destroyed  by  the  commissioners after the expiration of six years from
  the filing thereof.