New York Consolidated Laws, Alcoholic Beverage Control Law - ABC § 15. Officers;  employees;  offices

Investigators employed by the authority shall be deemed to be peace officers for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter or judgements or orders obtained for violation thereof, with all the powers set forth in section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law.  The counsel, secretary, chief executive officer, assistant chief executive officers, confidential secretaries to commissioners and deputies shall be in the exempt class of the civil service.  The other assistants, investigators and employees of the authority shall all be in the competitive class of the civil service.  The authority shall continue to have its principal office in the city of Albany, and may maintain a branch office in the cities of New York and Buffalo and such other places as the chairman may deem necessary.