§ 7 — Organization and records; minutes as evidence; destruction of certain records

§ 7. Organization and records; minutes as evidence; destruction of\ncertain records. 1. The commission shall have a secretary and assistant\nsecretaries to be appointed by the chairman. It shall be the duty of the\nsecretary to keep a full and true record of all proceedings and a\ntranscript of the public sessions of the commission. The record of the\nproceedings of the commission shall be prima facie evidence of the\nproceedings of the commission. The transcript of public sessions shall\nbe made available in the Albany and New York city offices that the\ncommission maintains. The chairman shall have charge of the organization\nof its office, shall assign its employees to the several divisions or\nbureaus and shall superintend the performance of their duties. The\nsecretary and assistant secretary, each commissioner and each hearing\nofficer or person designated to conduct an investigation may administer\noaths in all parts of the state, so far as the exercise of such power is\nproperly incidental to the performance of his duty or that of the\ncommission.\n 2. Such records and general correspondence as are no longer necessary\nfor the purposes of the commission may be destroyed upon the order of\nthe commission; but no such record, report or correspondence shall be\ndestroyed until it shall have been on file for at least five years.\n 3. Any opinion issued by the commission in a formal commission\nproceeding shall include a record of the vote taken indicating the names\nof the commissioners who voted in favor and the names of the\ncommissioners who voted against the opinion. Any statement of dissent\nshall be attached to the majority's opinion.\n