2023 New York Laws
COM - Economic Development Law
Article 4 - General Powers of Department
104-A - Special Powers and Duties of the Department With Respect to Employee Ownership Assistance.

§  104-a.  Special powers and duties of the department with respect to
  employee  ownership  assistance.  With  respect  to  employee  ownership
  assistance  loans provided for in subtitle six of title eight of article
  eight of the public authorities law and paragraph (o) of subdivision one
  of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter one hundred  seventy-four
  of  the  laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight, constituting the New York
  state urban development corporation act, the department shall  have  the
  power  and  duty  and in cooperation with the job development authority,
  the empire state development corporation and any other applicable  state
  agency or office to:
1. Assist and counsel new employee-owned enterprises in their dealings
  with  federal, state and local governments, including but not limited to
  providing ready access to information regarding government  requirements
  which affect employee-owned enterprises;
2.   Receive   complaints  and  suggestions  concerning  policies  and
  activities of federal,  state  and  local  governmental  agencies  which
  affect  employee-owned enterprises, and develop, in cooperation with the
  agency involved, proposals for changes  in  policies  or  activities  to
  alleviate any unnecessary adverse effects on employee-owned enterprises;
3.  Conduct  investigations, research, studies and analyses of matters
  affecting the interests of employee-owned enterprises;
4.  Assist   employee-owned   enterprises   in   obtaining   available
  managerial, technical, and financial assistance;
5.   Initiate   and   encourage   educational   programs  relating  to
  employee-owned  enterprises,  including  programs  in  cooperation  with
  various public and private educational institutions;
6.  Help  new  employee-owned enterprises in this state by simplifying
  and streamlining license and application procedures wherever possible;
7. Identify industrial and manufacturing businesses that are in danger
  of being permanently closed or relocated out of state, which results  in
  the  loss of jobs and increasing unemployment, and assist the businesses
  and employees of such businesses by distributing information  about  the
  provisions of this section.
The  department may impose fees, pursuant to rules and regulations, to
  defray departmental expenses incurred  in  providing  the  services  set
  forth in this section.