§ 436. Hearings; immunity. 1. A hearing upon any investigation or
review authorized by this article or by article fourteen-h of the
general municipal law may be conducted by two or more members of the
commission or by a hearing officer duly designated by the commission, as
the commission shall determine.

2. A person who has violated any provision of this article or article
fourteen-h of the general municipal law, or of the rules and regulations
of the commission, or any term of any license issued under said articles
or said rules and regulations, is a competent witness against another
person so charged. In any hearing upon any investigation or review
authorized by this article or article fourteen-h of the general
municipal law, for or relating to a violation of any provision of said
articles or of the rules and regulations of the commission or of the
term of any such license, the commission, may confer immunity upon such
witness in accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 of the
criminal procedure law. Such immunity shall be conferred only upon the
vote of at least three members of the commission, and only after
affording the attorney general and the appropriate district attorney a
reasonable opportunity to be heard with respect to any objections which
they or either of them may have to the granting of such immunity.