* § 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 multiple requirements, jurisdictional overlaps, and business uncertainties. More than thirty-five state agencies issue permits affecting business. Permits number in the hundreds in statute with still […]
* § 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 activities. A master application shall be made on a form prescribed by the office, such form to be designed primarily for the convenience of applicants […]
* § 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, pending the submission of application forms, in which the interested state agencies shall participate in order to clarify the nature and scope of their interest and […]
* § 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 of this article, provide a conceptual review of a proposed business undertaking, project, or activity which may require multiple permits, which will take place in phases […]
* § 884. Permit coordination and assistance to applicants. 1. Any applicant for permits required for a business undertaking, project or activity may confer with the office to obtain assistance in the prompt and efficient processing and review of applications. 2. The office shall, so far as possible, render such assistance; and the director may […]
* § 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 request the office to coordinate any public hearings. The office may consolidate such hearings insofar as may be feasible. 2. A consolidated hearing shall be conducted […]
* § 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 such determinations. The provisions of this article shall not lessen or reduce such powers and shall modify the procedures followed in carrying out such powers […]
* § 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 provided for in section eight hundred eighty through section eight hundred eighty-five of this article, except as otherwise provided in subdivision three of this section. […]
* § 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 and to make information available to applicants through the office with respect to any business undertaking, project, or activity which is referred to […]
* § 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 amount of time necessary for the permits to be issued, the cost of obtaining such permits, the types of projects for which specific permits are issued, […]
* § 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 or his duly authorized officers and employees, shall establish a business permit assistance program to provide in such empire zone the business […]
* § 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 the temporary assignment or transfer of officers and employees of state agencies to the office on a permanent or temporary basis […]
* § 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 appointive members shall include one member each appointed by the governor on the recommendation of the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of 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 Authority of office terminated per § 893 December 31, 1995
* § 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, nineteen hundred ninety-five, provided, however, that any master application still pending with the office on or before such date shall be processed to conclusion in […]
