FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
N.Y. ACA Law § 20.33 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title E / Article 20 / Section 20.33
Exemption from taxation
Status: in_force

§ 20.33. Exemption from taxation. 1. It is hereby determined that the\ncreation of a trust pursuant to this article and the carrying out of its\ncorporate purposes are in all respects for the benefit of the people of\nthe state, for the improvement of their health and welfare, and for the\npromotion of the economy; that said purposes are public purposes; and\nthat a trust will perform an essential governmental function by\nexercising the powers conferred upon it by this article and by special\nlaw.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of any other law to the\ncontrary, the income, monies, operations and properties of a trust shall\nbe exempt from taxation, including without limitation any and all state\nand local income, franchise, occupancy, transfer, recording, real\nproperty, sales and compensating use taxation. Any combined-use\nfacility, including the non-institutional portion thereof, any facility\nfor a not-for-profit cultural organization and any public television\nfacility with respect to which a trust entered an agreement prior to\nJanuary first, nineteen hundred ninety which has been developed by or on\nbehalf of, or pursuant to an agreement with, or in whole or in part with\nthe proceeds of a loan from a trust and any real property in or on which\nall or any part of any such facility prior to completion is designed to\nbe and upon completion is developed shall be exempt from real property\ntaxation from and after the date on which such real property has first\nbeen conveyed to the trust, or in the case of the development of a\npublic television facility with respect to which a trust entered an\nagreement prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety by a public\ntelevision station or a facility for a not-for-profit cultural\norganization in whole or in part with proceeds of a loan from a trust,\nfrom and after the date on which such real property has first been\nconveyed to such station. In the case of a combined-use facility for a\nperforming arts center with respect to which a trust entered an\nagreement prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety, the\nnon-institutional portion shall not be exempt from real property\ntaxation from and after the date a trust conveys such non-institutional\nportion to any non-exempt third party.\n  3. The state covenants with all holders and transferees of bonds and\nnotes issued by a trust, in consideration of the acceptance of and\npayment for the bonds and notes, that the bonds and notes of the trust,\nand the interest thereon and income therefrom and all its properties,\nincome, fees, charges, gifts, grants, revenues, receipts, and other\nmonies received or to be received, shall at all times be free from\nincome and other taxation, except for estate or gift taxes on such bonds\nand notes and taxes on transfers.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 2603 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 26 / Section 2603
Surrogate and acting surrogate 1
Status: in_force

§ 2603. Surrogate and acting surrogate\n  1. The judge of the surrogate's court may be designated as the\nsurrogate. He may sign any paper wherever he may be at any time.\n  2. Where the county judge is also a judge of the surrogate's court he\nshall be designated as such without any addition referring to his office\nas county judge.\n  3. Where a judicial officer other than the judge of the surrogate's\ncourt acts as a judge of the surrogate's court in a case prescribed by\nlaw, he may be designated as "surrogate", notwithstanding his official\ntitle.\n  4. No person other than the one who holds such office on the effective\ndate of this act may serve in the office of judge of the surrogate's\ncourt unless he or she has been admitted to practice law in the state of\nNew York for at least 10 years as of the date he or she commences the\nduties of office.\n
N.Y. VOL Law § 12 — New York Code / Act VOL / Article 2 / Section 12
Non-schedule adjustments
Status: in_force

§ 12. Non-schedule adjustments. Notwithstanding any other provision of\nthis chapter, in any case coming within the provisions of sections ten\nand eleven of this chapter, in which the right to benefits has been\nestablished and benefits have been paid for not less than three months,\nin which the continuance of disability cannot be ascertained with\nreasonable certainty, the workmen's compensation board may, in the\ninterest of justice, approve a non-schedule adjustment agreed to between\nthe claimant and the political subdivision liable for the payment of\nbenefits or its insurance carrier. The provisions of subdivision five-b\nof section fifteen of the workmen's compensation law shall apply in any\nsuch case.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-105 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2 / Part 1 / Section 2-105
Definitions: Transferability; "Goods"; "Future" Goods; "Lot"; "Commercial Unit"
Status: in_force

Section 2--105. Definitions: Transferability; "Goods"; "Future" Goods;\n                  "Lot"; "Commercial Unit".\n  (1) "Goods" means all things (including specially manufactured goods)\nwhich are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale\nother than the money in which the price is to be paid, investment\nsecurities (Article 8) and things in action. "Goods" also includes the\nunborn young of animals and growing crops and other identified things\nattached to realty as described in the section on goods to be severed\nfrom realty (Section 2--107).\n  (2) Goods must be both existing and identified before any interest in\nthem can pass. Goods which are not both existing and identified are\n"future" goods. A purported present sale of future goods or of any\ninterest therein operates as a contract to sell.\n  (3) There may be a sale of a part interest in existing identified\ngoods.\n  (4) An undivided share in an identified bulk of fungible goods is\nsufficiently identified to be sold although the quantity of the bulk is\nnot determined. Any agreed proportion of such a bulk or any quantity\nthereof agreed upon by number, weight or other measure may to the extent\nof the seller's interest in the bulk be sold to the buyer who then\nbecomes an owner in common.\n  (5) "Lot" means a parcel or a single article which is the subject\nmatter of a separate sale or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient\nto perform the contract.\n  (6) "Commercial unit" means such a unit of goods as by commercial\nusage is a single whole for purposes of sale and division of which\nmaterially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. A\ncommercial unit may be a single article (as a machine) or a set of\narticles (as a suite of furniture or an assortment of sizes) or a\nquantity (as a bale, gross, or carload) or any other unit treated in use\nor in the relevant market as a single whole.\n
N.Y. LEG Law § 7-D — New York Code / Act LEG / Article 2 / Section 7-D
Employees of the legislature
Status: in_force

§ 7-d. Employees of the legislature. Employees of any legislative\ncommittee, commission, task force, council or similar body, where all\nthe members of such body are members of the legislature, shall be\nconsidered to be employees of the legislature for all purposes.\n
N.Y. CVR Law § 25 — New York Code / Act CVR / Article 3 / Section 25
Witness exempt from arrest
Status: in_force

§ 25. Witness exempt from arrest. A person duly and in good faith\nsubpoenaed or ordered to attend, for the purpose of being examined, in a\ncase where his attendance may lawfully be enforced by attachment or by\ncommitment, is privileged from arrest in a civil action or special\nproceeding, while going to, remaining at, and returning from, the place\nwhere he is required to attend. An arrest, made contrary to the\nprovisions of this section, is absolutely void and is a contempt of the\ncourt, if any, from which the subpoena was issued, or by which the\nwitness was directed to attend.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 3221 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 32-A / Section 3221
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 3221. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. "DNA" means deoxyribonucleic acid.\n  2. "Recombinant DNA" means DNA molecules which;\n  (a) have been formed by joining together DNA segments in a cell-free\nsystem and which have the capacity to enter a cell and to replicate in\nsuch cell either autonomously or after they have become an integrated\npart of such cell's genome; or\n  (b) are the result of a replication of the DNA molecules described in\nparagraph (a) of this subdivision.\n  3. "Recombinant DNA activity" means the possession of recombinant DNA\nby any person and any activity undertaken by any person for the\nproduction of recombinant DNA.\n  4. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, or legal\nentity of any kind, or a governmental agency, board or body.\n  5. "Cell-free system" means an environment outside of any cell or\ncellular organism.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 779 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 19 / Section 779
Prosecution of undertaking by attorney-general or district attorney
Status: in_force

§ 779. Prosecution of undertaking by attorney-general or district\nattorney. If no party is aggrieved by the misconduct of the accused, the\norder must, and, in any case where the court thinks proper so to direct,\nit may, direct the prosecution of the undertaking, by the\nattorney-general, or by the district attorney of the county in which it\nwas given, in the name of the people. In an action, brought pursuant to\nthe order, the people are entitled to recover the entire sum, specified\nin the undertaking. Out of the money collected, the court, which\ndirected the prosecution, must direct that the person, at whose instance\nthe warrant was issued, be paid such a sum as it thinks proper, to\nsatisfy the costs and expenses incurred by him, and to compensate him\nfor any loss or injury sustained by him, by reason of the misconduct.\nThe residue of the money must be paid into the treasury of the state.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 96-H — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 5-B / Section 96-H
Application of article
Status: in_force

§ 96-h. Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions\nof this article, the knowing sale, exposure for sale, exchange or\ntransportation at any and all places within the state of the fur, hair,\nskin or flesh of domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or domesticated cat\n(felis catus or domesticus) as food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm\ndressed meat, meat by-product or meat food product edible by humans or\nanimals is hereby prohibited. A violation of this section shall subject\nthe offender to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars for an\nindividual and up to five thousand dollars for a corporation for the\nfirst violation. Any subsequent violation shall be subject to a civil\npenalty of up to twenty-five thousand dollars. Any civil penalties\ncollected pursuant to this section shall be paid to the animal\npopulation control fund established by section ninety-seven-xx of the\nstate finance law. Any authorization given by or pursuant to the\nprovisions of this article to handle, sell, expose for sale, exchange or\ntransport the carcasses of animals, parts thereof, meat, meat\nby-products and meat food products within the state and any exclusion\nfrom the application of this article applicable to custom slaughtered\nmeat or contained in section ninety-six-j or another provision of this\narticle shall not apply to the knowing sale, exposure for sale, exchange\nor transportation of the fur, hair, skin or flesh of domesticated dog or\ndomesticated cat as food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm dressed\nmeat, meat by-product or meat food product edible by humans or animals\nwhich is prohibited by the provisions of this section. In the case of\nany conflict with another provision of this article, the provisions of\nthis section shall prevail over such other provision of this article.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1399-MM-3 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13-F / Section 1399-MM-3
Carrier oils
Status: in_force

§ 1399-mm-3. Carrier oils. 1. For the purposes of this section\n"carrier oils" shall mean any ingredient of a vapor product intended to\ncontrol the consistency or other physical characteristics of such vapor\nproduct, to control the consistency or other physical characteristics of\nvapor, or to facilitate the production of vapor when such vapor product\nis used in an electronic cigarette. "Carrier oils" shall not include any\nproduct approved by the United States food and drug administration as a\ndrug or medical device or manufactured and dispensed pursuant to title\nfive-A of article thirty-three of this chapter.\n  2. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations\ngoverning the sale and distribution of carrier oils that are suspected\nof causing acute illness and have been identified as a chemical of\nconcern by the United States centers for disease control and prevention.\nSuch regulations may, to the extent deemed by the commissioner as\nnecessary for the protection of public health, prohibit or restrict the\nselling, offering for sale, possessing with intent to sell, or\ndistributing of carrier oils.\n  3. The provisions of this section shall not apply where preempted by\nfederal law. Furthermore, the provisions of this section shall be\nseverable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision is declared\nto be invalid, or is preempted by federal law or regulation, the\nvalidity of the remainder of this section shall not be affected thereby.\nIf any provision of this section is declared to be inapplicable to any\nspecific category, type, or kind of carrier oil, the provisions of this\nsection shall nonetheless continue to apply with respect to all other\ncarrier oils.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 4514 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 45 / Section 4514
Impeachment of witness by prior inconsistent statement
Status: in_force

Rule 4514. Impeachment of witness by prior inconsistent statement.  In\naddition to impeachment in the manner permitted by common law, any party\nmay introduce proof that any witness has made a prior statement\ninconsistent with his testimony if the statement was made in a writing\nsubscribed by him or was made under oath.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 97-R — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 97-R
State cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund
Status: in_force

§ 97-r. State cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or\nremoval and administration fund. 1. There is hereby established in the\njoint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation\nand finance a special fund to be known as the state cemetery vandalism\nrestoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund.\n  2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received from the\nassessment pursuant to paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven of\nthe not-for-profit corporation law and all other moneys credited or\ntransferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.\n  3. Moneys of the fund may be expended for the purposes provided in\nsubparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven of\nthe not-for-profit corporation law according to the requirements of such\nparagraph (h). Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and\nwarrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by\nthe secretary of state.\n  4. The fund shall be held within the business and licensing services\naccount as established in section ninety-seven-y of this article.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 710-B — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 20 / Section 710-B
Electronically available information
Status: in_force

§ 710-b. Electronically available information. The board shall create\nwritten materials informing employers and employees of the rights\nafforded pursuant to this article to be made available on the board's\nwebsite. Such materials shall be translated into the twelve most common\nnon-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals\nin the state, based on the data in the most recent American Community\nSurvey published by the United States Census Bureau. Such materials\nshall include the rights afforded under the farm laborers fair labor\npractices act pursuant to chapter one hundred five of the laws of two\nthousand nineteen.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 642 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 6 / Part 2 / Section 642
Rules of court
Status: in_force

§ 642. Rules of court. Rules of court, not inconsistent with any\nprovision of article seven of the domestic relations law, may authorize\nthe probation service to interview such persons and obtain such data as\nwill aid the court in determining a petition under that article.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 82 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 4 / Section 82
Quorum and number necessary to a sitting and decision of appellate division
Status: in_force

§ 82. Quorum and number necessary to a sitting and decision of\nappellate division. No more than five justices of the appellate division\nin any department shall sit in any case. In each department four of the\njustices shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of three shall\nbe necessary to a decision. If three justices do not concur in a\ndecision, a reargument must be ordered.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 899-P — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 39-E / Section 899-P
Uniformity of application and construction
Status: in_force

§ 899-p. Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and\nconstruing this article in this state, consideration shall be given to\nthe need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject\nmatter among states that enact it.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 625 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 6 / Part 1 / Section 625
Sequence of hearings
Status: in_force

§ 625. Sequence of hearings. (a) Upon completion of the fact-finding\nhearing, the dispositional hearing may commence immediately after the\nrequired findings are made; provided, however, that if all parties\nconsent the court may, upon motion of any party or upon its own motion,\ndispense with the dispositional hearing and make an order of disposition\non the basis of competent evidence admitted at the fact-finding hearing.\nWhere the disposition ordered is the commitment of guardianship and\ncustody in accordance with section six hundred thirty-four of this part,\nan initial freed child permanency hearing and all subsequent permanency\nhearings shall be held in accordance with article ten-A of this act.\n  (b) Reports prepared by the probation service or a duly authorized\nagency for use by the court prior to the making of an order of\ndisposition shall be deemed confidential information furnished to the\ncourt which the court in a proper case may, in its discretion, withhold\nfrom or disclose in whole or in part to the child's attorney, counsel,\nparty in interest, or other appropriate person. Such reports may not be\nfurnished to the court prior to the completion of a fact-finding\nhearing, but may be used in a dispositional hearing or in the making of\nan order of disposition without a dispositional hearing pursuant to\nsubdivision (a) of this section.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 797-I — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 7-D / Section 797-I
Trial
Status: in_force

§ 797-i. Trial. Where triable issues of fact are raised, they shall be\ntried by the court unless, at the time the petition is noticed to be\nheard, a party demands a trial by jury, in which case trial shall be by\njury. At the time when issue is joined, the court, at the request of\neither party shall adjourn the trial of the issue, not less than\nfourteen days, except by consent of all parties. A party's second or\nsubsequent request for adjournment shall be granted in the court's sole\ndiscretion.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 207 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 8 / Section 207
Discontinuance of highway
Status: in_force

§ 207. Discontinuance of highway. Whenever the town superintendent of\nany town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not\nwithin the limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of\nsuch street or highway, is unnecessary for highway purposes, and said\ntown superintendent may, by an order to be duly entered in the town\nclerk's office, direct such highway to be discontinued and abandoned for\npublic purposes.  Provided, however, that no portion of such highway to\nbe discontinued shall be greater than one thousand feet of the terminus\nthereof and that the owners of the land on both sides of such highway or\nstreet, for the distance it is proposed to discontinue the same, shall,\nby written petition to such town superintendent have requested the\ndiscontinuance thereof.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 31 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 3 / Section 31
Scope of authority's jurisdiction
Status: in_force

§ 31. Scope of authority's jurisdiction.  The territorial jurisdiction\nof an authority established for a city or village shall be coterminous\nwith the territorial limits of such city or village, and the territorial\njurisdiction of an authority established for a town shall include all\nsuch town, except that such territorial jurisdiction shall not include\nany territory that lies within the boundaries of any village, whether\nsuch village has or has not established an authority. The members of\nsuch town authority shall if they consent and when authorized by\nresolutions of the town board and the village board, act as the\nauthority in and for said village, the same as if it had been created\nespecially for said village.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1405-A — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31 / Section 1405-A
Credit
Status: in_force

§ 1405-A. Credit. A grantor shall be allowed a credit against the tax\ndue on a conveyance of real property to the extent tax was paid by such\ngrantor on a prior creation of a leasehold of all or a portion of the\nsame real property or on the granting of an option or contract to\npurchase all or a portion of the same real property, by such grantor.\nSuch credit shall be computed by multiplying the tax paid on the\ncreation of the leasehold or on the granting of the option or contract\nby a fraction, the numerator of which is the value of the consideration\nused to compute such tax paid which is not yet due to such grantor on\nthe date of the subsequent conveyance (and which such grantor will not\nbe entitled to receive after such date), and the denominator of which is\nthe total value of the consideration used to compute such tax paid.\n
N.Y. TCP Law § 29 — New York Code / Act TCP / Article 3 / Section 29
Transfer of property to other corporations
Status: in_force

§ 29. Transfer of property to other corporations. Any such corporation\nmay lease, sell or convey its property, rights, privileges and\nfranchises, or any interest therein, or any part thereof to any\ntelegraph, telephone or telegraph and telephone corporation organized\nunder or created by the laws of this or any other state, and may acquire\nby purchase, lease or conveyance the property rights, privileges and\nfranchises, or any interest therein or part thereof of any such\ncorporation, and may make payments therefor in its own stock, money or\nproperty, or receive payment therefor in the stock, money or property of\nthe corporation to which the same may be so sold, leased or conveyed.\n
N.Y. GCT Law § 53 — New York Code / Act GCT / Article 2-D / Part 1-6 / Part 4 / Section 25-A-53
Credit for tax withheld
Status: in_force

§ 53. Credit for tax withheld.-- Wages upon which tax is required to\nbe withheld shall be taxable under this local law as if no withholding\nwere required, but any amount of tax actually deducted and withheld\nunder this local law in any calendar year shall be deemed to have been\npaid to the administrator on behalf of the person from whom withheld,\nand such person shall be credited with having paid that amount of tax\nfor the taxable year beginning in such calendar year.  For a taxable\nyear of less than twelve months, the credit shall be made under\nregulations of the administrator.\n