Section 7-301
§ 7-301 Board of statutory consolidation; powers and duties. a. The
board of statutory consolidation shall consist of the mayor, the
comptroller, the public advocate and the corporation counsel. The board
from among its members shall elect a chairperson, a vice-chairperson and
a secretary. The members of such board shall serve as such members
without compensation. The powers and duties of such board shall include
the direction and control of the revision, simplification,
consolidation, codification, restatement and annotation of the statutes,
local laws, and departmental rules and regulations having the force of
law affecting and relating to the government, affairs and property of
the city and of the counties contained therein.
b. The revision, simplification, consolidation, codification,
restatement and annotation herein provided for shall be carried on under
the direction and control of such board by such counsel, assistant
counsel and other persons as it shall designate and employ for that
purpose. Compensation and necessary expenses shall be fixed by such
board on the certification of the executive officer thereof as may be
designated by such board and paid by the comptroller after audit by and
on the warrant of such comptroller out of an appropriation that shall be
made for such purpose. Such board is authorized and empowered, in its
discretion, to keep and use the ledgers, documents, books, reports and
all other papers and property of the codification division of the New
York city charter revision commission, created by chapter eight hundred
sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four.
c. The board shall cause its work to be printed from time to time, and
may distribute copies of the same to such persons as it may deem fit for
the purpose of obtaining their suggestions and advice in relation to
such work. It shall report to the local legislative body of the city
upon the progress of its work. It shall recommend for enactment to the
legislature the statutes or to the local legislative body the local
laws, and rules and regulations so revised, simplified, consolidated,
codified, or restated and shall designate such statutes, or parts of
statutes, as in its judgment should be repealed and shall recommend the
enactment of any acts, or parts of acts, which such repeal may in its
judgment render necessary. Such board shall have the power to cause to
be published and to sell any such publication and to copyright
annotations thereto, the proceeds of such sale to be paid into the city
treasury.
d. The city is authorized to appropriate and make available to the
board of statutory consolidation such sums of money as may be necessary
to defray the expenses of such board to enable it to perform its duties
under this section, upon the receipt of a requisition therefor stating
the purposes for which such moneys are required.
e. Such board may, under its direction and control, delegate to the
corporation counsel the duty of continuing the annotating and editing of
such statutes, local laws, rules and regulations and of statutes, local
laws, and rules and regulations hereafter enacted or adopted relating to
the government, affairs and property of the city and the counties
therein contained.
f. Nothing contained in section eleven hundred fifteen or in any other
section of the charter or in any other law shall be construed to prevent
such mayor, comptroller, public advocate and corporation counsel from
serving on such board, nor shall it prevent any city or county officer
of the city from serving on the staff of such board.