New York Executive Law Article 39 - OFFICE OF BUSINESS PERMITS

• 875 - Declaration of Purpose.
  * The legislature finds and determines as follows: 1. Increasing regulation of business in the state has been accompanied by a proliferation of permits entailing...
• 876 - Definitions.
  * When used in this article: 1. "Office" means the office of business permits created by this article. 2. "Director" means the director of the...
• 877 - Office of Business Permits.
  * 1. There is hereby created in the executive department an office of business permits. The head of the office shall be the director of...
• 878 - General Functions, Powers and Duties.
  * The office of business permits, by and through the director or his duly authorized officers and employees, shall have the following functions, powers and...
• 879 - Assistance of Other State Agencies.
  * To effectuate the purposes of this article, the director may request and shall be entitled to receive from any state agency, and the same...
• 880 - Comprehensive Permit Information.
  * 1. Not later than ninety days from the effective date of this article each state agency required to review, approve or grant permits for...
• 881 - Master Application Procedure.
  * 1. The office shall develop and implement a master application procedure to expedite the identification and processing of permits for business undertakings, projects, and...
• 882 - Pre-Application Conferences.
  * The office, at the request of any person proceeding in accordance with section eight hundred eighty-one of this article, may conduct a pre-application conference,...
• 883 - Conceptual Review.
  * 1. The office at the request of the director may, at the request of any person proceeding in accordance with section eight hundred eighty-one...
• 884 - Permit Coordination in Assistance to Applicants.
  * 884. Permit coordination and assistance to applicants. 1. Any applicant for permits required for a business undertaking, project or activity may confer with the...
• 885 - Consolidated Hearings.
  * 1. Any applicant for permits required for a business undertaking, project, or activity, or any state agency having jurisdiction of the required permits, may...
• 886 - Permit Authority Retained.
  * Each state agency having jurisdiction to approve or deny a permit shall have the continuing power heretofore or hereafter vested in it to make...
• 887 - Implementation of Services.
  * 1. Not later than six months from the effective date of this article, the office shall establish the permit information, coordination, and assistance services...
• 888 - Federal and Local Government Participation.
  * 1. Federal and local government permit agencies shall be encouraged to participate in the business permit information, coordination, and assistance services of the office...
• 889 - Program Responsibilities.
  * 1. The office shall obtain and keep on an annual basis appropriate statistical data regarding the number of permits issued by state agencies, the...
• 889-a - Business Permit Assistance in Empire Zones.
  * (a) Upon the designation of an empire zone pursuant to article eighteen-B of the general municipal law, the office, by and through the director...
• 890 - Temporary Assignment or Permanent Transfer of Personnel.
  * The director, in consultation with the head of the agency concerned and with the approval of the director of the budget, may provide for...
• 891 - Advisory Council.
  * 1. There shall be an advisory council in the office consisting of the secretary to the governor ex officio and six appointive members. The...
• 892 - Reports to the Governor and the Legislature.
  * The office shall thereafter make an annual report to the governor and the legislature not later than December thirty-first of each year. * NB...
• 893 - Termination of Authority.
  * Unless expressly extended by act of the legislature, the authority of the office to provide services under this article shall terminate on December thirty-first,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019