N.Y. Executive Law Section 164
Reports by and to the department


Each department, other than the executive department, shall make an annual report to the governor and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding calendar year. It shall contain such information concerning the department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and institutions, and their activities and affairs, and such recommendations, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or proper, and any matters required by express provision of law to be included in such report. A department also shall make such other and special reports as the governor or either house of the legislature may require. From time to time, the head of a department may require from any board, commission or other body in the department or from any subordinate officer or employee, division or bureau of the department, or from any institution subject to the supervision of the department, or from any agency of the department, such reports or information as such head may deem necessary. Unless expressly authorized by the head of the department, there shall be hereafter no separate report, annual or otherwise, directly to the legislature or governor by any such board, commission, body, officer, division, bureau, institution or agency notwithstanding any existing provision of law authorizing or requiring such report.

Source: Section 164 — Reports by and to the department, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EXC/164 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

161
Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies, ordered by state officers to be gratuitous
162
Contracts for professional services of state and municipal employees
163
Contracts for services of state agencies
163–A
Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated
164
Reports by and to the department
164–A
Report and publication economy regulations
164–B
State aid to rural areas: agency reports
164–C
Printing cost reduction notices
164–D
Availability of application forms
165
Commission on uniform state laws
166
Record of appearances
167
Advertising and publicizing summer camps cited as subversive
168
Notices to attorneys at law by state bodies or officers
168–A
Designation of days of commemoration
169
Salaries of certain state officers
170
Audit of agencies by the state comptroller
170–A
Celebration of Rosa Parks
170–B
Employee loans
170–B*2
Racial references contained in state and municipal forms
170–C
Regulatory penalties for small businesses
170–D
Disclosure of disabled tenants’ rights
170–E
Disclosure of lawful source of income rights to prospective tenants
170–E*2
Collection of demographic information
170–F
Website accessibility
170–G
Collection of demographic information
170–H
Additional collection of demographic information
170–I
Gender-based violence and the workplace
170–J
Mental health references contained in state and municipal forms
170–K
Local cops, local crimes act
171
Discovery and disposition of human remains and funerary objects

Verified:
Jun. 18, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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