141 – General Powers and Duties of the Chair.

§  141. General powers and duties of the chair. The chair shall be the
  administrative  head  of  the  workers'  compensation  board  and  shall
  exercise   the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  in  relation  to  the
  administration of this chapter heretofore vested in the commissioner  of
  labor  by  chapter fifty of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and
  acts amendatory thereof, and  by  this  chapter  excepting  article  six
  thereof,  and  except  in so far as such powers and duties are vested by
  this chapter in the workers' compensation board. The chair shall preside
  at all meetings of the board and shall appoint all committees and panels
  of the board; shall designate the times and places for  the  hearing  of
  claims under this chapter and shall perform all administrative functions
  of the board as in this chapter set forth. The chair, in the name of the
  board,  shall  enforce  all the provisions of this chapter, and may make
  administrative  regulations  and  orders  providing  for  the   receipt,
  indexing  and  examining  of  all  notices,  claims and reports, for the
  giving of notice  of  hearings  and  of  decisions,  for  certifying  of
  records,  for  the  fixing  of  the  times and places for the hearing of
  claims, and for providing for the conduct of hearings  and  establishing
  of  calendar  practice  to the extent not inconsistent with the rules of
  the board.  The  chair  shall  issue  and  may  revoke  certificates  of
  authorization  of  physicians, chiropractors and podiatrists as provided
  in sections thirteen-a, thirteen-k and thirteen-1 of this  chapter,  and
  licenses  for medical bureaus and x-ray and other laboratories under the
  provisions of section thirteen-c of this chapter, issue stop work orders
  as provided in section one hundred  forty-one-a  of  this  article,  and
  shall  have and exercise all powers not otherwise provided for herein in
  relation to the administration  of  this  chapter  heretofore  expressly
  conferred  upon  the  commissioner  of labor by any of the provisions of
  this chapter, or of the labor law. The chair, on behalf of the  workers'
  compensation  board,  shall  enter  into  the  agreement provided for in
  section one hundred seventy-one-h of the tax law, and  shall  take  such
  other  actions  as  may be necessary to carry out the agreement provided
  for in  such  section  for  matching  beneficiary  records  of  workers'
  compensation  with  information  provided  by  employers  to  the  state
  directory of new hires for the purposes  of  verifying  eligibility  for
  such benefits and for administering workers' compensation.