Section 33-1201. Pesticide sales and use computer data base

1.  a. The department shall develop a pesticide sales and use computer
  data base in conjunction with Cornell University. The data base shall be
  maintained at the department.
    b. Such data base shall  consist  of  all  information  compiled  from
  reports  submitted  to  the  department pursuant to sections 33-1205 and
  33-1207 of this title. Such reports shall be entered into and maintained
  on a computerized data base and shall be updated  annually.  Information
  obtained  for  and  contained  in  the  data base shall be accessible by
  interested  parties  only  to  the  extent  permitted  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  subdivision  two  of  this  section  and  paragraph a of
  subdivision 1 of section 33-1203 of this title.
    2.  The  commissioner  shall  prepare  an  annual  report  summarizing
  pesticide sales, quantity of pesticides used, category of applicator and
  region  of  application.  The  commissioner  shall not provide the name,
  address, or any other  information  which  would  otherwise  identify  a
  commercial  or private applicator, or any person who sells or offers for
  sale restricted use or general use pesticides to a  private  applicator,
  or  any  person who received the services of a commercial applicator. In
  accordance with article six of  the  public  officers  law,  proprietary
  information  contained  within  such record, including price charged per
  product, shall not be disclosed. The report shall be  submitted  to  the
  governor,  the  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
  assembly, and shall be made available to  all  interested  parties.  The
  first  report  shall  be  submitted  on  July  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-eight and on July first annually thereafter.