Section 536. Collaboration with other states, the United States, and foreign governments

1. Cooperation.   The commissioner may afford reasonable
  cooperation with every agency of the  United  States  charged  with  the
  administration of any unemployment compensation law.
    2.  Agreements.  (a)  The  commissioner  is  authorized  to enter into
  agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states or  the  United
  States  whereby  rights  to  benefits accumulated under the unemployment
  compensation laws of the several states or  of  the  United  States,  or
  both,  may  constitute the basis for the payment of benefits under terms
  which the commissioner finds will be  fair  and  reasonable  as  to  all
  affected  interests  and  will not result in any substantial loss to the
  fund.
    (b) (1) The commissioner is authorized to enter into arrangements with
  the appropriate agencies of other states or of  the  United  States  (i)
  whereby  remuneration or services, upon the basis of which an individual
  may become entitled to  unemployment  benefits  under  the  unemployment
  compensation  law  of  another  state  or  of the United States shall be
  deemed to be remuneration and weeks of employment for  the  purposes  of
  this  article,  provided  such  other agency has agreed to reimburse the
  unemployment insurance fund for such portion of benefits paid under this
  article  upon  the  basis  of  such  remuneration  or  services  as  the
  commissioner  finds  will  be  fair  and  reasonable  as to all affected
  interests,  and  (ii)  whereby  the  commissioner  will  reimburse  such
  agencies  with  such  reasonable  portion of unemployment benefits, paid
  under the laws of any such other states or of the United States upon the
  basis of employment or remuneration paid by employers for employment, as
  the commissioner finds will be fair and reasonable as  to  all  affected
  interests.  Reimbursements  so  payable shall be deemed benefits for the
  purpose of this article. The commissioner is hereby authorized  to  make
  reimbursements  from  the fund to such agencies and to receive from them
  reimbursements to the fund, in accordance with arrangements pursuant  to
  this section.
    (2)  The  commissioner  shall  participate in any arrangements for the
  payment of benefits on the basis of combining a claimant's  remuneration
  and  services  covered  under  this article with those covered under the
  laws of other states which are approved by the secretary of labor of the
  United States as provided in the federal unemployment tax act. The terms
  of any such arrangements shall be deemed to comply  with  the  foregoing
  provisions of this paragraph.
    (c) The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements
  with  the  appropriate agencies of other states in regard to services on
  vessels engaged in interstate or foreign commerce whereby such  services
  for  a  single  employer,  wherever performed, shall be deemed performed
  within this state or within any such other state.
    (d) The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements
  with appropriate agencies of other states or of the United States, under
  terms which he finds will be fair and  reasonable  as  to  all  affected
  interests,  (1)  whereby employer contributions erroneously paid to this
  state, or such other states or the United States  because  of  the  bona
  fide  belief  that  all  or some of the employees were covered under the
  unemployment insurance laws of this state, or of such other states or of
  the United States, may be repaid  or  transferred  to  the  unemployment
  insurance  fund  of  that  state or of the United States under whose law
  such contributions were actually due,  (2)  whereby  such  contributions
  upon  repayment  or transfer to the unemployment insurance fund shall be
  deemed to have been paid as of the dates payments thereof were  made  to
  the  transferring agency, (3) permitting such repayments or transfers by
  this state without regard to the time limitations  governing  refund  of

  contributions  contained  in  section  five hundred seventy, subdivision
  five.  Such agreements may also provide for  the  reimbursement  to  the
  unemployment  insurance  fund of the transferring agency of all benefits
  which  were  paid on the basis of employment for which the contributions
  transferred were paid in error. Any such reimbursement  of  benefits  by
  this  state in accordance herewith shall be deemed benefits paid for the
  purposes of and pursuant to the provisions of this  article  as  of  the
  dates of payment of such benefits by the transferring agency.
    *  (e)  The commissioner is authorized to enter into an agreement with
  the appropriate agency of the United States, whereby, in accordance with
  a law of the United States (i) the commissioner shall, as agent  of  the
  United  States,  provide  for  the  payment  of  additional  benefits to
  claimants whose rights as provided under title  seven  of  this  article
  have  been  exhausted,  or  (ii)  the  state  shall  be  reimbursed  for
  additional benefits paid pursuant to title eleven of this  article.  The
  commissioner is hereby authorized to receive and disburse funds from the
  United States, or any appropriate agency thereof, in accordance with any
  such agreement.
    * NB Expired September 1, 1963
    3.  Investigations  and  information. The commissioner is empowered to
  make investigations and secure information as requested by the agency of
  any state, of the federal  government,  or  of  any  foreign  government
  charged  with the administration of any unemployment compensation law or
  any public employment service law as he deems necessary  or  appropriate
  to  facilitate  the  administration  of such law by such agency and may,
  notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred  thirty-seven  of
  this  article,  transmit  the  results  of  such investigations and such
  information to such  agency.  For  this  purpose,  the  commissioner  is
  empowered  to make available services and facilities and to exercise the
  other powers provided in this article with respect to the administration
  thereof. The commissioner is  further  empowered  to  request  any  such
  agency, or the officers or employees of any such agency, to undertake on
  his  behalf  any  investigation  and to secure information needed in the
  administration of this article and to accept  and  utilize  information,
  services,  and  facilities  made  available  to  this  state by any such
  agency.
    4.  Manpower  training.  The  commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  to
  participate  in  the  federal  manpower  development and training act of
  nineteen hundred sixty-two as amended and may  approve  for  expenditure
  from available funds such sums as may be required to enable the state to
  carry out the purposes of such act.