Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1986
Abstract
In New York State, there is an elaborate system in place for holding regulatory agencies accountable. It appears to be a system developed by happenstance rather than by design. It cannot be discovered by looking it up in our statute books. It can only be found by examining court cases, executive orders, legislative resolutions, bill jackets and governmental reports and by interviewing participants in the system. It is a system with which people knowledgeable of state government is at least familiar. But it is a system of regulation which appears not to be well documented nor well studied. This paper attempts to describe the system for regulating the regulators in New York State. Part I of this paper describes the system of regulation by the legislature, the executive, the comptroller and the judiciary. Part II examines the responsibility of a recent addition to this regulatory system: the enlarged Office of Business Permits and Regulatory Assistance. In 1984, this executive agency was given the responsibility of overseeing the law-making activities of state agencies through the systematic review of proposed rules.
Recommended Citation
58 N.Y. St. B.J. 58 (1986)
Source Publication
58 N.Y. St. B.J. 58