New York Executive Law Article 26 - DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

• 709 - Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services; Creation; Powers and Duties.
  1. There is hereby created within the executive department the division of homeland security and emergency services, which shall have and exercise the powers and...
• 709-a - Office of Counterterrorism.
  The office of counterterrorism shall develop and analyze the state's policies, protocols and strategies relating to the prevention and detection of terrorist acts and terrorist...
• 710 - Commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services; Appointment of the Commissioner; Powers and Duties.
  1. The commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services (commissioner) shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and...
• 711 - Reports.
  1. On or before January thirty-first of each year, the director shall appear before and deliver a report to representatives of each house of the...
• 711-a - Analyze and Report on the Feasibility of Implementing Tornado Warning Systems.
  1. The division shall analyze and report on the feasibility of implementing tornado warning systems, including the installation of tornado sirens in municipalities across the...
• 711-b - Review of Water Supplier Vulnerability Analysis Assessments.
  The commissioner, or his or her designee, shall review each vulnerability analysis assessment prepared by a water supplier pursuant to section eleven hundred twenty-five of...
• 712 - Miscellaneous.
  The office shall be subject to the laws, rules and regulations of the state including, but not limited to, the state finance law, the state...
• 713 - Protection of Critical Infrastructure Including Energy Generating and Transmission Facilities.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services shall conduct a review and analysis of...
• 714 - Protection of Critical Infrastructure; Storage Facilities for Hazardous Substances.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the availability of an appropriation, the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency...
• 716 - Protection of Critical Infrastructure; Commercial Aviation, Petroleum and Natural Gas Fuel Transmission Facilities and Pipelines.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services shall conduct a review and analysis of...
• 717 - Office of Interoperable and Emergency Communications.
  1. The office of interoperable and emergency communications shall be the principal state agency for all interoperable and emergency communications issues and oversee and direct...
• 718 - Voluntary Surveillance Access Database.
  1. The division shall establish a voluntary surveillance access database to be made accessible, upon written request, to any law enforcement agency solely for purposes...

Last modified: February 3, 2019