A copy of any paper, record, book, document or map, filed in the department of finance, or the minutes, records or proceedings, or any portion thereof, of any board or commission of which the commissioner of finance, is or may become a member, when certified by the commissioner of finance, or a deputy commissioner of finance, to be a correct copy of the original, shall be admissible in evidence in any trial, investigation, hearing or proceeding in any court, or before any commissioner, board or tribunal, with the same force and effect as the original. Whenever a subpoena is served upon the commissioner of finance, or any member of a board or commission of which the commissioner of finance is a member, or upon any officer or employee of the department of finance, or upon any officer or employee of such boards or commissions, requiring the production upon any trial or hearing of an original paper, document, book, map, record, minutes or proceedings, the commissioner of finance, in his or her discretion, may furnish a copy certified as herein provided, unless the subpoena be accompanied by an order of the court or other tribunal before which trial or hearing is had requiring the production of such original.
a. The commissioner of finance in the proper discharge of his duties in the administration and collection of taxes, assessments, arrears or other charges payable to the city may require any person to furnish such identifying number as the commissioner may prescribe for securing proper identification of such person, including but not limited to a social security account number or federal employer identification number.
b. Any person who fails to supply such identifying number within thirty days after written demand therefor shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars. Upon application in writing and for good cause shown, the commissioner of finance may extend the time for compliance with such written demand.
c. The civil penalty prescribed by this section shall be recovered by the corporation counsel in an action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction. In addition, the corporation counsel may institute any other action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction that may be appropriate or necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this section.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1986/065.
The commissioner and any deputy commissioner of finance, within ten days after receiving notice of his or her appointment and before the commissioner enters upon his or her office, shall give a bond to the city and to the people of the state of New York in the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, with not less than four sufficient sureties to be approved by the comptroller, conditioned that he or she will faithfully discharge the duties of the commissioner's office and all trusts imposed on him or her by law in virtue of the commissioner's office, including all duties in connection with the tax on mortgages as prescribed by article eleven of the tax law. Such bond shall be deemed to extend to the faithful execution of the duties of the office until a new appointment shall be made and confirmed, and the person so appointed enters upon the performance of the commissioner's duties. In case of any official misconduct or default on the part of such commissioner or any deputy commissioner of finance, or their subordinates, an action upon such bond may be begun and prosecuted to judgment by the city, which, after first paying therefrom the expenses of the litigation, shall cause the proceeds of such judgment to be distributed as shall be lawful and equitable among the persons and objects injured or defrauded by such official misconduct or default of the commissioner or any deputy commissioner of finance or any of their subordinates.
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