§ 274. Officers; employees; offices. The authority shall have power to appoint any necessary deputies, counsels, assistants, investigators, and other employees within the limits provided by appropriation. Investigators so employed by the authority shall be deemed to be peace officers for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law or judgements or orders obtained for violation thereof, with all the powers set forth in § 2.20 of the criminal procedure law. 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 it may deem necessary.