401 - Statewide wireless network advisory council.
§ 401. Statewide wireless network advisory council. There is hereby established within the office for technology a statewide wireless network advisory council. The advisory council shall consist of twenty-seven members. The governor shall appoint two members and the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall each appoint four members. One of the governor's appointments and three of the appointments of the temporary president of the senate and of the speaker of the assembly shall be a member, officer, or employee of a first responder organization that serves a municipal corporation. One each of the appointments of the temporary president of the senate and of the speaker of the assembly shall possess expertise in the field of communications technology but no appointee shall be the owner, principal, or employee of an entity that has a contract with the state of New York or that vends communications products to any state or local government. An organization shall be considered a first responder organization if it provides policing, firefighting, or emergency medical services, as defined in subdivision eleven of section three hundred two of the retirement and social security law, subdivision two of section one hundred of the general municipal law, subdivisions one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven of section three thousand one of the public health law, and section six hundred fifty of the county law. In addition, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall each designate one member of their respective houses to serve on the advisory council. Ex officio members of the council shall be the director of the office of homeland security, the superintendent of the state police, the director of the office for technology, the commissioner of the department of health, the commissioner of the department of correctional services, the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation, the chairperson of the thruway authority, the state fire administrator of the office of fire prevention and control, the chief judge of the state, the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services, the chairperson of the metropolitan transportation authority, a designee of the law enforcement council and the designee of the mayor of the city of New York, or their designees. The chief information officer of New York state shall be the chair of the advisory council.