Section 7.     COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.

1.   The commission shall cooperate with the federal government
     and other appropriate governmental agencies in effectuating
     the purposes of this act, and shall endeavor to procure and
     may accept from the federal housing expediter and other
     officers and agencies of the federal government and from the
     temporary city housing rent commission of the city of New
     York such cooperation, information, records and data as will
     assist the commission in effectuating such purposes.

2.   The commission may request and shall receive cooperation and
     assistance in effectuating the purposes of this act from all
     departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or
     agencies of the state and political subdivisions thereof.
     The commissioner and state rent administrator shall be
     deemed to be an officer included within the provisions of
     section one hundred sixty-one of the executive law, and
     shall be accorded all the rights and privileges of the
     officers specified in subdivision one of said section.