2013 New York Consolidated Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 2 - (4 - 27) Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties
17 - Delegation of powers.

 
    § 17. Delegation  of powers.  (a) The commissioner may delegate any of
  his powers to, or direct any of his duties to be performed by, a  deputy
  commissioner  or  the  director  of  a  bureau  and,  except where it is
  otherwise provided in this chapter or the  context  otherwise  requires,
  may  delegate  any  of  such  powers  to  any officer or employee of the
  department.
    (b) The commissioner, except when it is  otherwise  provided  in  this
  chapter  or  the  context  otherwise  requires,  may also delegate to an
  officer or employee of the  United  States  department  of  agriculture,
  engaged   within  this  state  in  joint  or  cooperative  state-federal
  programs, any of the powers invested in him  by  article  five  of  this
  chapter  for  the  control,  suppression  or eradication of communicable
  diseases in domestic animals  or  domestic  fowls,  any  of  the  powers
  invested   in  him  by  article  five-B  of  this  chapter  relative  to
  ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of animals slaughtered  for  food
  purposes  and  processing  inspection of meat, meat by-products and meat
  food products, any of the powers invested in him by  article  five-D  of
  this  chapter  relative to ante-mortem inspection of poultry slaughtered
  for  human  food,  post-mortem  inspection  of  poultry  carcasses   and
  inspection  of  poultry and poultry products, any of the powers invested
  in him by article fourteen of this chapter in the control or eradication
  of injurious insects or plant diseases, and any of the  powers  invested
  in  him by subdivisions four and five of section sixteen of this chapter
  relative  to  the  collection,  analysis  and  publication  of   primary
  statistical  data  relating to agricultural products of this state. Such
  delegation shall be in writing and shall state the  specific  limits  of
  the powers so delegated.
    (c) Whenever by the education law or other statute the commissioner is
  made a member by virtue of his office of the board of visitors, managers
  or  trustees  or  other  similar  body of a state institution, he may in
  writing authorize and empower a deputy commissioner,  the  secretary  of
  the department or the director of a bureau to act in his place and stead
  at any meeting or meetings of any such board or body.