N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 5, § 11.6 – Form of certification.

(a) The commissioner shall develop a certificate form to be signed by the commissioner, which shall include, but not be limited to, the location of the empire zone, the name of the business enterprise, the street address of the applicable facility or facilities within the zone, the date the certification is issued, and the effective date of the certificate, and the period for which the certificate is in effect.
(b) The effective date of certification shall be the date the chair of the local empire zone administrative board signed the application indicating that the local zone administrative board recommended the business enterprise for certification, unless, upon petition by the business enterprise the commissioner approves as an effective date:
1. (1) the date the application for certification is approved by the commissioner; or
2. (2) in the case of a business enterprise that submitted an application for a regionally significant project to the Department of Economic Development prior to April 7, 2009 but submitted an application for certification on or after April 7, 2009, the date the commissioner determined the project to be eligible as a regionally significant project in accordance with section 10.2(u) of this Title. Such petition must be submitted to the commissioner prior to his/her approval of the business enterprise's application for certification.