Section 7-301. Board of statutory consolidation; powers and duties

a. The
  board of  statutory  consolidation  shall  consist  of  the  mayor,  the
  comptroller,  the public advocate and the corporation counsel. The board
  from among its members shall elect a chairperson, a vice-chairperson and
  a secretary. The members of such  board  shall  serve  as  such  members
  without  compensation. The powers and duties of such board shall include
  the   direction   and   control   of   the   revision,   simplification,
  consolidation, codification, restatement and annotation of the statutes,
  local  laws,  and departmental rules and regulations having the force of
  law affecting and relating to the government, affairs  and  property  of
  the city and of the counties contained therein.
    b.   The   revision,   simplification,   consolidation,  codification,
  restatement and annotation herein provided for shall be carried on under
  the direction and control of  such  board  by  such  counsel,  assistant
  counsel  and  other  persons  as  it shall designate and employ for that
  purpose. Compensation and necessary expenses  shall  be  fixed  by  such
  board  on  the  certification of the executive officer thereof as may be
  designated by such board and paid by the comptroller after audit by  and
  on the warrant of such comptroller out of an appropriation that shall be
  made  for  such  purpose. Such board is authorized and empowered, in its
  discretion, to keep and use the ledgers, documents, books,  reports  and
  all  other  papers  and property of the codification division of the New
  York city charter revision commission, created by chapter eight  hundred
  sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four.
    c. The board shall cause its work to be printed from time to time, and
  may distribute copies of the same to such persons as it may deem fit for
  the  purpose  of  obtaining  their suggestions and advice in relation to
  such work. It shall report to the local legislative  body  of  the  city
  upon  the  progress of its work. It shall recommend for enactment to the
  legislature the statutes or to the  local  legislative  body  the  local
  laws,  and  rules  and regulations so revised, simplified, consolidated,
  codified, or restated and shall designate such  statutes,  or  parts  of
  statutes,  as in its judgment should be repealed and shall recommend the
  enactment of any acts, or parts of acts, which such repeal  may  in  its
  judgment  render  necessary. Such board shall have the power to cause to
  be  published  and  to  sell  any  such  publication  and  to  copyright
  annotations  thereto, the proceeds of such sale to be paid into the city
  treasury.
    d. The city is authorized to appropriate and  make  available  to  the
  board  of statutory consolidation such sums of money as may be necessary
  to defray the expenses of such board to enable it to perform its  duties
  under  this  section, upon the receipt of a requisition therefor stating
  the purposes for which such moneys are required.
    e. Such board may, under its direction and control,  delegate  to  the
  corporation counsel the duty of continuing the annotating and editing of
  such  statutes, local laws, rules and regulations and of statutes, local
  laws, and rules and regulations hereafter enacted or adopted relating to
  the government, affairs and  property  of  the  city  and  the  counties
  therein contained.
    f. Nothing contained in section eleven hundred fifteen or in any other
  section of the charter or in any other law shall be construed to prevent
  such  mayor,  comptroller,  public advocate and corporation counsel from
  serving on such board, nor shall it prevent any city or  county  officer
  of the city from serving on the staff of such board.