2020 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
Article 35 - Uniform Statewide Application
1603 - Delegation of Powers.

§ 1603. Delegation of powers.  (a) Any or all of the powers granted by
this  chapter to the legislative body of a city or village or to the New
York state thruway  authority,  the  office  of  parks,  recreation  and
historic preservation, the department of environmental conservation, the
department of agriculture and markets, the industrial exhibit authority,
a  county  park commission, a parkway authority, a bridge authority or a
bridge and tunnel authority may be delegated to any official,  board  or
agency  thereof  designated by it or designated by law. If any authority
or commission herein mentioned shall  cease  to  exist,  its  powers  as
granted  by  this  chapter  shall  devolve  upon  the state or municipal
corporation succeeding to the property, functions, powers and duties  of
such  authority  or commission, as the case may be, and may be delegated
by its legislative body to any official,  board  or  agency  thereof  as
designated by it or by law.
  (b)  Any  or  all  of the powers to adopt orders, rules or regulations
granted by this chapter to the legislative body of  any  city  having  a
population   in  excess  of  one  million,  whether  through  provisions
applicable to cities generally or applicable specifically  to  any  such
city,  may be exercised in such city, with respect to any highway, park,
bridge or tunnel therein, except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)
of this section, by any official, board or agency thereof authorized  by
law,  immediately  prior  to  the  effective  date  of  this section, to
promulgate traffic regulations with respect to such  place,  unless  and
until  any  such power shall be transferred to any other official, board
or agency of such city by local law or state statute.
  (c) Any or all of the powers to adopt orders,  rules,  regulations  or
health  code  provisions  in relation to transportation of combustibles,
chemicals,  explosives,  inflammables  or  other  dangerous  substances,
articles, compounds or mixtures granted by this title to the legislative
body  of  any  city  having a population in excess of one million may be
exercised by the official, board or agency having the power  immediately
prior  to  the effective date of this section, to promulgate regulations
or health code provisions governing such matters,  unless  and  until  a
different  official, board or agency is designated by local law or state
statute to exercise such power.
  (d) In any case where any  provision  of  this  title  grants  to  the
legislative  body  of  any  city  having  a  population in excess of one
million any power to adopt orders, rules,  regulations  or  health  code
provisions not possessed by such legislative body or any official, board
or  agency of such city, immediately prior to the effective date of this
section, such power may be exercised by the official,  board  or  agency
authorized  by  law,  immediately  prior  to  the effective date of this
section,  to  promulgate  traffic   regulations   applicable   generally
throughout  such  city,  unless and until a different official, board or
agency is designated by local law or  state  statute  to  exercise  such
power,  provided that any such power with respect to any park or highway
under the jurisdiction of a commissioner of parks  or  a  department  of
parks,  shall  be  exercised by the official, board or agency having the
power, immediately prior to the  effective  date  of  this  section,  to
promulgate  traffic  regulations  with  respect to such park or highway,
unless and until a different official, board or agency is designated  by
local  law or state statute to exercise such power, and provided further
that any such power  in  relation  to  transportation  of  combustibles,
chemicals,  explosives,  inflammables  or  other  dangerous  substances,
articles, compounds or mixtures shall  be  exercised  by  the  official,
board  or  agency  having  the power, immediately prior to the effective
date  of  this  section,  to  promulgate  regulations  or  health   code
provisions   governing  such  matters,  unless  and  until  a  different

official, board or agency is designated by local law or state statute to
exercise such power.
  (e)  Any  or all of the powers granted by this title to the town board
of a town, except those set forth in paragraphs one, five, nine, fifteen
and twenty of subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred  sixty  may  be
delegated to any official, board or agency designated by it or by law.