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N.Y. GBS Law § 623 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 30 / Section 623
Contract restrictions
Status: in_force

§ 623. Contract restrictions. 1. No contract for services shall\nrequire payment by the person receiving service or the use of the\nfacilities of a total amount in excess of three thousand six hundred\ndollars per annum, provided, however, that this subdivision shall not\napply to contracts relating solely to the use of tennis, platform tennis\nor racquet ball facilities.\n  2. No contract for services shall provide for a term longer than\nthirty-six months. No contract for services shall require payments or\nfinancing by the buyer over a period in excess of thirty-seven months\nfrom the date the contract is entered into, nor shall the term of any\nsuch contract be measured by or be for the life of the buyer.  Provided,\nhowever, that the services to be rendered to the buyer under the\ncontract may extend over a period not to exceed three years from the\ndate the contract is entered into with the right to renew, at the option\nof the buyer for a like period. The buyer may have thirty days after the\nexpiration to renew the contract. The installment payments shall be in\nsubstantially equal amounts exclusive of the down payment and shall be\nrequired to be made at substantially equal intervals, not to exceed one\nmonth.\n  3. No contract for services may contain any provisions whereby the\nbuyer agrees not to assert against the seller or any assignee or\ntransferee of the health club services contract any claim or defense\narising out of the health club services contract.\n  4. No contract for services may require the buyer to execute a\npromissory note or series of promissory notes which, when negotiated,\ncuts off as to third parties a defense which the buyer may have against\nthe seller.\n  5. No contract may be assigned by one health club to another health\nclub not located on the same premises without written consent of the\nbuyer.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 239 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 6 / Section 239
Trains to come to full stop
Status: in_force

§ 239. Trains to come to full stop. All trains upon elevated railroads\nshall come to a full stop before any passenger shall be permitted to\nleave such trains; and no train on such railroad shall be permitted to\nstart until every passenger desiring to depart therefrom shall have left\nthe train, provided such passenger has manifested his intention to so\ndepart by moving toward or upon the platform of any car; nor until every\npassenger upon the platform or station at which such train has stopped,\nand desiring to board or enter such cars, shall have actually boarded or\nentered the same, but no person shall be permitted to enter or board any\ntrain after due notice from an authorized employee of such corporation\nthat such train is full and that no more passengers can be then\nreceived.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 7410 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 74 / Section 7410
Conduct of delinquency proceedings against insurers not domiciled in this state
Status: in_force

§ 7410. Conduct of delinquency proceedings against insurers not\ndomiciled in this state. (a) Whenever under the laws of this state an\nancillary receiver is to be appointed in delinquency proceedings for an\ninsurer not domiciled in this state, the court shall appoint the\nsuperintendent as ancillary receiver. The superintendent shall file a\npetition requesting the appointment if he finds that there are\nsufficient assets of such insurer located in this state to justify the\nappointment of an ancillary receiver, or if ten or more persons resident\nin this state having claims against such insurer file a petition with\nthe superintendent requesting the appointment of such ancillary\nreceiver.\n  (b) The domiciliary receiver for the purpose of liquidating an insurer\ndomiciled in a reciprocal state, shall be vested by operation of law\nwith the title to all of the property, contracts, and rights of action,\nand all books and records of the insurer located in this state, and\nshall have the immediate right to recover balances due from local agents\nand obtain possession of any books and records of the insurer found in\nthis state.  He shall also be entitled to recover the other assets of\nthe insurer located in this state except that upon the appointment of an\nancillary receiver in this state, the ancillary receiver shall during\nthe ancillary receivership proceedings have the sole right to recover\nsuch other assets. The ancillary receiver shall, as soon as practicable,\nliquidate from their respective securities those special deposit claims\nand secured claims which are proved and allowed in the ancillary\nproceedings in this state, and shall pay the necessary expenses of the\nproceedings. All remaining assets he shall promptly transfer to the\ndomiciliary receiver. Subject to the foregoing provisions the ancillary\nreceiver and his deputies shall have the same powers and be subject to\nthe same duties with respect to the administration of such assets, as a\nreceiver of an insurer domiciled in this state.\n  (c) The domiciliary receiver of an insurer domiciled in a reciprocal\nstate may sue in this state to recover any assets of such insurer to\nwhich he may be entitled under the laws of this state.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 4403 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 44 / Section 4403
Registration
Status: in_force

§ 4403. Registration. (a) The trustees of every employee welfare fund\nshall register such fund with the superintendent within three months of\ncommencing to do business in this state. Such registration shall be in\nsuch form and shall contain such information relating to the\norganization, operations and affairs of such fund as may be prescribed\nby the superintendent.\n  (b) If it is found that the conditions that originally required\nregistration with the superintendent have ceased to exist and that new\nconditions exist that would not require the registration of an employee\nwelfare fund with the superintendent, then the superintendent may, on\napplication of the trustees or on the superintendent's own motion,\ncancel the registration of such fund.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 680.60 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 3 / Title S / Article 680 / Section 680.60
Examination of witnesses on commission; form and content of the commission
Status: in_force

§ 680.60  Examination of witnesses on commission; form and content of\n             the commission.\n  1.  The commission must be subscribed by the court and must contain:\n  (a)  The name and address of each witness to be examined; and\n  (b)  The name, or a descriptive title, of a commissioner or\ncommissioners who, pursuant to subdivision two, are authorized to\nconduct the examination; and\n  (c)  A statement authorizing such commissioner or commissioners to\nadminister the oath to witnesses; and\n  (d)  A direction that, upon completion of such examination, such\ncommissioner or commissioners cause it to be transcribed and remit to\nthe court the transcript, the commission, the interrogatories and all\nother pertinent instruments and documents.\n  2.  The following persons may be designated commissioners:\n  (a)  If the examination is to occur within the United States or any\nterritory thereof, any attorney authorized to practice law in the\nspecified jurisdiction or any person authorized to administer oaths\ntherein;\n  (b)  If the examination is to occur in a foreign country, any\ndiplomatic or consular agent or representative of the United States\nemployed in such capacity in such country, or any commissioned officer\nof the armed forces.\n  3.  The court must cause the commission to be delivered to a\ncommissioner designated therein, together with a copy of this article.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 20.00 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 1 / Title B / Article 20 / Section 20.00
Criminal liability for conduct of another
Status: in_force

§ 20.00 Criminal liability for conduct of another.\n  When one person engages in conduct which constitutes an offense,\nanother person is criminally liable for such conduct when, acting with\nthe mental culpability required for the commission thereof, he solicits,\nrequests, commands, importunes, or intentionally aids such person to\nengage in such conduct.\n
N.Y. ACG Law § 58 — New York Code / Act ACG / Article 2 / Section 58
Choice between election and appointment of officials
Status: in_force

§ 58. Choice between election and appointment of officials. 1. The\noffice of comptroller, in a county where the office would otherwise be\nelective, or any elective county office that is being continued except\nthat of a supervisor or a judicial officer, may be made appointive by\nprovision therefor in the petition or resolution by which an alternative\nform of county government or a change in such a form is initiated and by\nvote of the people as provided in article fourteen. This option shall\napply to elective officers provided for in the constitution as well as\nto others. By like action the office of county commissioner of public\nwelfare, in a county where the office would otherwise be appointive, or\nany formerly elective office that has been made appointive pursuant to\nthis section, may be made elective. Whenever one of the options provided\nfor in this section is submitted to the people, it shall be submitted as\na separate question.  Its adoption may, however, be made contingent on\nthe adoption of another question submitted at the same time if the\npetition or resolution by which it is initiated so provides.\n  2. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, every\nelective official of a county shall remain elective after the adoption\nof an alternative form of government and shall continue to perform the\nfunctions pertaining to his office.\n  3. When an office which could be made appointive remains or becomes\nelective under an alternative form of county government, the term of\nsuch office shall be four years from and including the first day of\nJanuary after each election to the office, except that the term of the\nfirst official elected to such office after the alternative form takes\neffect shall be three years if the term begins in an odd-numbered year.\nElections shall take place at the general elections in the last year of\neach term. When an appointive office is made elective, the first\nelection to the office shall take place at the next general election.\n  4. When an elective office is made appointive, the appointment shall\nbe made as provided in section two hundred two for a term coterminous\nwith the term of the county executive or board of supervisors making the\nappointment, except that it may be shortened as provided in subdivision\nthree if the office is made elective and that the person so appointed\nshall continue to serve until his successor is chosen and has qualified.\nIf a vacancy occurs in such an office, it shall be filled similarly by\nappointment for the balance of the term.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 1408 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 14 / Section 1408
Historical societies
Status: in_force

§ 1408. Historical societies.\n  (a) Historical societies may hold property.\n  Any incorporated historical society of this state is hereby authorized\nto have and hold for the purposes of inclosure, preservation and the\nerection of monuments, but not for business purposes, the sites of old\nforts, battlegrounds and other historic sites, not exceeding six acres\nin any one locality, which shall be exempt from taxation; and to receive\ndonations of articles of historic interest on the condition that in case\nof its dissolution or inability to pay its debts otherwise than from its\neffects, such articles shall revert to the donors or their heirs. Fees\nmay be charged by any such society for the exhibition of its property or\ncollections only to the extent that the proceeds thereof are used for\nthe preservation, maintenance and development of such property or\ncollections.\n  (b) Type of corporation.\n  An historical society is a charitable corporation under this chapter.\n  (c) Acquisition.\n  The acquisition by any such historical society of this state of any\nreal property for the purpose of inclosure, preservation and the\nerection of monuments, is hereby declared to be for a public use. Such\nproperty may be acquired in the manner prescribed by the eminent domain\nprocedure law.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 520 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15 / Section 520
Construction
Status: in_force

§ 520. Construction. This article shall be construed liberally to\neffect the purposes hereof and the enumeration of specific powers in\nthis act shall not operate to restrict the meaning of any general grant\nof power contained in this chapter or to exclude other powers\ncomprehended in such general grant. In construing this chapter\nconsideration shall be given to its purposes and intent, among others,\nof consolidating, clarifying and simplifying the respective provisions\nof the chapters repealed as hereinafter specified in section five\nhundred twenty-five hereof and of authorizing municipalities to\nundertake one or more programs of urban renewal with respect to the\nclearance, replanning, reconstruction, rehabilitation, redevelopment,\nconservation, restoration or improvement of substandard, insanitary,\nslum, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating residential,\nnon-residential, improved or vacant areas, or the remedying of\nunsuitable topographical, subsoil or other physical conditions which\ntend to impede the development of such areas, for residential,\ncommercial, industrial, community, public and other uses and to apply\nfor and accept federal or state loans, subsidies or grants in connection\ntherewith. Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent\nwith the provisions of any other general, special or local law, the\nprovisions of this article shall be controlling.\n
N.Y. BSW Law § 25 — New York Code / Act BSW / Section 25
Examination by physician; cost
Status: in_force

* § 25. Examination by physician; cost. 1. All boxers must be examined\nby a physician designated by the commission before entering the ring and\neach such physician shall immediately file with the commission a written\nreport of such examination. The cost of any such examination, as\nprescribed by a schedule of fees established by the commission, shall be\npaid by the corporation conducting the contest or exhibition to the\ncommission, which shall then pay the fee covering such cost to the\nexamining physician, in accordance with the rules of the commission.\n  2. Any professional boxer licensed under this chapter rendered\nunconscious or suffering head trauma as determined by the attending\nphysician shall be immediately examined by the attending commission\nphysician and shall be required to undergo neurological and\nneuropsychological examinations by a neurologist including but not\nlimited to a computed tomography or medically equivalent procedure. Any\nboxer so injured shall not appear in any match or exhibition until\nresults of such examinations are reviewed by the commission. The results\nof all such examinations herein required shall become a part of the\nboxer's permanent medical record as maintained by the commission and\nshall be used by the commission to determine whether a boxer shall be\npermitted to appear in any future boxing match or exhibition. The costs\nof all such examinations called for in this subdivision and subdivision\nthree shall be assumed by the state if such examinations are performed\nby a physician approved by the commission.\n  3. The commission may at any time require a licensed boxer to undergo\na physical examination, including any neurological or neuropsychological\ntest or procedure.\n  * NB Repealed September 1, 2016\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 222 — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 9 / Section 222
Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required
Status: in_force

§ 222. Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The\nchair, the board or the chair's designee, pursuant to section two\nhundred twenty-one of this article, in making an investigation or\ninquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or\nstatutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of\nprocedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such\ninvestigation or inquiry or conduct such hearing in such manner as to\nascertain the substantial rights of the parties.\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 61-B — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 5 / Section 61-B
Importer's license
Status: in_force

§ 61-b. Importer's license. An importer's license shall authorize the\nholder thereof to import alcoholic beverages into this state and sell\nsuch alcoholic beverages to licensed wholesalers authorized to sell such\nalcoholic beverages.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 172-G — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 11 / Section 172-G
Filing of determination
Status: in_force

§ 172-g. Filing of determination. 1. Whenever the board of fire\ncommissioners and the town board shall adopt a resolution diminishing\nthe area of a fire district and including such area in a fire protection\ndistrict, the town clerk shall cause a certified copy of such resolution\nto be duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which\nsuch fire district and fire protection district are located, and shall,\nwithin ten days cause a certified copy of such resolution to be filed in\nthe state department of audit and control at Albany, New York. When so\nrecorded, such resolution shall be presumptive evidence of the\nregularity of the establishment of the fire protection district and the\ndiminution of the fire district. The expense of such recording shall be\na charge against the fire district.  The said determination shall be\nfinal and conclusive unless a proceeding has been commenced for a review\nin the manner provided by article seventy-eight of the civil practice\nlaw and rules within thirty days from the time of recording thereof.\n  2. In the event that the boundaries of a fire district having\nindebtedness, either bonded or temporary, shall be diminished pursuant\nhereto, such district shall continue in law as it existed immediately\nprior to such change of boundaries for the purpose of paying such\nindebtedness, and there shall be annually assessed and levied upon and\ncollected from the taxable real property within such district as it\nexisted immediately prior to such diminution of its boundaries, and in\nthe same manner and at the time and by the same officers as town taxes\nare assessed, levied and collected, a sum sufficient to pay such\nindebtedness and interest thereon as the same shall become due. All and\nonly the real property within the diminished boundaries of the district\nas they exist after the diminution thereof shall be liable for the\npayment of indebtedness incurred for the purposes of such district after\nsuch diminution. For the purposes hereof, such diminution of boundaries\nshall be deemed effective upon the adoption by the town board of the\nresolution providing therefor, unless such resolution shall specify some\nother date for such purpose, in which case such diminution shall be\ndeemed effective upon the date so specified.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 245.11 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title N / Article 245 / Section 245.11
Public display of offensive sexual material
Status: in_force

§ 245.11 Public display of offensive sexual material.\n  A person is guilty of public display of offensive sexual material\nwhen, with knowledge of its character and content, he displays or\npermits to be displayed in or on any window, showcase, newsstand,\ndisplay rack, wall, door, billboard, display board, viewing screen,\nmoving picture screen, marquee or similar place, in such manner that the\ndisplay is easily visible from or in any:  public street, sidewalk or\nthoroughfare; transportation facility; or any place accessible to\nmembers of the public without fee or other limit or condition of\nadmission such as a minimum age requirement and including but not\nlimited to schools, places of amusement, parks and playgrounds but\nexcluding rooms or apartments designed for actual residence; any\npictorial, three-dimensional or other visual representation of a person\nor a portion of the human body that predominantly appeals to prurient\ninterest in sex, and that:\n  (a) depicts nudity, or actual or simulated sexual conduct or\nsado-masochistic abuse; or\n  (b) depicts or appears to depict nudity, or actual or simulated sexual\nconduct or sado-masochistic abuse, with the area of the male or female\nsubject's unclothed or apparently unclothed genitals, pubic area or\nbuttocks, or of the female subject's unclothed or apparently unclothed\nbreast, obscured by a covering or mark placed or printed on or in front\nof the material displayed, or obscured or altered in any other manner.\n  Public display of offensive sexual material is a Class A misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 804-A — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 18 / Section 804-A
Certain interests prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 804-a. Certain interests prohibited. No member of the governing\nboard, of a municipality shall have any interest in the development or\noperation of any real property located within Nassau County and\ndeveloped or operated by any membership corporation originally formed\nfor purposes among which are the following:\n  1. to plan for, advise, recommend, promote and in all ways encourage,\nalone or in concert with public officials and bodies and interested\nlocal associations, the development and establishment of any lands in\nNassau County publically owned with particular emphasis on industrial,\nbusiness, commercial, residential and public uses, the augmention of\npublic revenues and furtherance of the public interest of the citizens\nof Nassau County;\n  2. to conduct studies to ascertain the needs of Nassau County as\npertains to such publically owned lands and supporting facilities and in\nNassau County generally for the purpose of aiding the County of Nassau\nin attracting new business, commerce and industry to it and in\nencouraging the development and retention of business, commerce and\nindustry;\n  3. to relieve and reduce unemployment, promote and provide for\nadditional and maximum employment, better and maintain job opportunities\nand instruct or train individuals to improve or develop their\ncapabilities for such jobs;\n  4. to implement and engage itself in plans of development of such\npublically owned lands and other areas in connection with private\ncompanies and citizens and with public bodies and officials, and to\nparticipate in such operations, leaseholds, loans, ownerships with\nrespect to land, buildings or public facilities or interest therein as\nmay be lawful and desirable to effectuate its corporate purposes and the\nbest interests of the people of Nassau County.\n