2016 New York Laws
LEG - Legislative
Article 2 - (Legislative) MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE LEGISLATURE
33 - Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.

 33. Exercise  of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office
  of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.  A
  statutory  power  of the temporary president of the senate or speaker of
  the assembly, jointly or singly  to  approve  vouchers,  to  direct  the
  expenditure of moneys appropriated for a legislative purpose, to appoint
  or fix the compensation of legislative employees, to appoint a member or
  members  of  a  legislative  committee of investigation or other special
  legislative  committee,  or   of   a   temporary   commission   lawfully
  constituted,  or  to  act  ex officio as a member of such a committee or
  commission, may be exercised during  a  vacancy  or  vacancies  in  such
  office  or  offices,  between final adjournment of the annual session of
  the legislature and the ensuing first day of January, by the chairman of
  the finance committee of the senate, acting in the place  and  stead  of
  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate,  if  such vacancy be in that
  office, and by the chairman of the  ways  and  means  committee  of  the
  assembly, in the place and stead of the speaker of the assembly, if such
  vacancy be in that office.
In case of the disability of the chairman of such a committee, or of a
  vacancy in such chairmanship, if the occasion arises for the exercise by
  the  chairman of the powers conferred by this section, a majority of the
  members of the committee, by certificate in triplicate  filed  with  the
  respective  secretary  and clerk of the senate and assembly and with the
  comptroller, may designate one  of  the  members  of  the  committee  to
  exercise such powers.