Title PBO, Public Officers

§ 86. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise: 1. "Judiciary" means the courts of the state, including any municipal or district court, whether or not of record. 2. "State legislature" means the legislature of the state of New York, including …

§ 87. Access to agency records. 1. (a) Within sixty days after the effective date of this article, the governing body of each public corporation shall promulgate uniform rules and regulations for all agencies in such public corporation pursuant to such general rules and regulati…

§ 88. Access to state legislative records. 1. The temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall promulgate rules and regulations for their respective houses in conformity with the provisions of this article, pertaining to the availability, location and …

§ 89. General provisions relating to access to records; certain cases. The provisions of this section apply to access to all records, except as hereinafter specified: 1. (a) The committee on open government is continued and shall consist of the lieutenant governor or the delegat…

§ 9. Deputies, their appointment, number and duties. Every deputy, assistant, or other subordinate officer, whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for, shall be appointed by his principal officer, board or other body, and the number thereof, if not otherwise pre…

§ 90. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not affect or impair the validity of the other provisions of the article or the applicatio…

§ 91. Short title. This article shall be known as the "personal privacy protection law".

§ 92. Definitions. (1) Agency. The term "agency" means any state board, bureau, committee, commission, council, department, public authority, public benefit corporation, division, office or any other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the s…

§ 93. Powers and duties of the committee. (1) The committee shall prepare a directory derived from the information provided pursuant to section three of chapter six hundred seventy-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty and subdivision four of section ninety-four of this a…

§ 94. Agency obligations. (1) Each agency that maintains a system of records shall: (a) except when a data subject provides an agency with unsolicited personal information, maintain in its records only such personal information which is relevant and necessary to accomplish a pur…

§ 95. Access to records. (1) (a) Each agency subject to the provisions of this article, within five business days of the receipt of a written request from a data subject for a record reasonably described pertaining to that data subject, shall make such record available to the da…

§ 96. Disclosure of records. (1) No agency may disclose any record or personal information unless such disclosure is: (a) pursuant to a written request by or the voluntary written consent of the data subject, provided that such request or consent by its terms limits and specific…

§ 96-a. Prohibited conduct. 1. Beginning on January first, two thousand ten the state and its political subdivisions shall not do any of the following, unless required by law: (a) Intentionally communicate to the general public or otherwise make available to the general public i…

§ 97. Civil remedies. (1) Any data subject aggrieved by any action taken under this article may seek judicial review and relief pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. (2) In any proceeding brought under subdivision one of this section, the party d…

§ 98. No waiver. Any agreement purporting to waive a data subject's rights under this article is hereby declared to be void as against public policy.

§ 99. Executive authority. Nothing in this article shall limit the authority of the governor to exercise his or her responsibilities.