2013 New York Consolidated Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 20 - (700 - 718) NEW YORK STATE LABOR RELATIONS ACT
717 - State mediation board, state labor relations board, and state employment relations board abolished.

 
    §  717.  State mediation board, state labor relations board, and state
  employment relations board abolished. The state mediation board  created
  by  chapter  five  hundred  sixty-nine  of  the laws of nineteen hundred
  sixty-eight, the New York state labor relations board created by chapter
  four hundred forty-three of the laws of nineteen  hundred  thirty-seven,
  and  the state employment relations board created by chapter one hundred
  sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one  are  hereby
  abolished.  All  the  functions,  powers  and  duties of such boards are
  hereby assigned to and shall hereafter be exercised and performed by and
  through the board. Any controversy, proceeding or other  matter  pending
  before  the New York state board of mediation, the state labor relations
  board or the state employment relations board at the time  this  section
  takes  effect,  may be conducted and completed by the board and for such
  purposes the  board  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  continuation  of  the
  functions,  powers  and duties of the New York state board of mediation,
  the state labor relations board or the state employment relations board,
  respectively, and not a new entity. Upon the transfer  of  functions  to
  the   board   pursuant   to   this   section,   all  appropriations  and
  reappropriations heretofore or hereafter made to the department of labor
  relating to the state board of mediation or the  state  labor  relations
  board  or  segregated  pursuant  to  law,  to  the  extent  of remaining
  unexpended  or  unencumbered  balances  thereof,  whether  allocated  or
  unallocated  and  whether  obligated  or  unobligated  are  hereby  made
  available for use and expenditure by the board for the same purposes for
  which originally appropriated  or  reappropriated.  Whenever  the  state
  board of mediation or the state labor relations board or the chairman of
  the  state  board  of mediation or of the state labor relations board or
  the state employment relations board is referred to or designated in any
  general, special or local law or in any rule,  regulation,  contract  or
  other  document,  such reference or designation shall be deemed to refer
  to the board and the chairman thereof, respectively.