§ 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.