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N.Y. DCD Law § 275 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 10 / Section 275
When transfer is made or obligation is incurred
Status: in_force

§ 275. When transfer is made or obligation is incurred. For the\npurposes of this article:\n  (a) a transfer is made:\n  (1) with respect to an asset that is real property other than a\nfixture, but including the interest of a seller or purchaser under a\ncontract for the sale of the asset, when the transfer is so far\nperfected that a good-faith purchaser of the asset from the debtor\nagainst which applicable law permits the transfer to be perfected cannot\nacquire an interest in the asset that is superior to the interest of the\ntransferee; and\n  (2) with respect to an asset that is not real property or that is a\nfixture, when the transfer is so far perfected that a creditor on a\nsimple contract cannot acquire a judicial lien otherwise than under this\narticle that is superior to the interest of the transferee;\n  (b) if applicable law permits the transfer to be perfected as provided\nin subdivision (a) of this section and the transfer is not so perfected\nbefore the commencement of an action for relief under this article, the\ntransfer is deemed made immediately before the commencement of the\naction;\n  (c) if applicable law does not permit the transfer to be perfected as\nprovided in subdivision (a) of this section, the transfer is made when\nit becomes effective between the debtor and the transferee;\n  (d) a transfer is not made until the debtor has acquired rights in the\nasset transferred; and\n  (e) an obligation is incurred:\n  (1) if oral, when it becomes effective between the parties; or\n  (2) if evidenced by a record, when the record signed by the obligor is\ndelivered to or for the benefit of the obligee.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 265 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 8 / Section 265
Fraudulent intent, question of fact
Status: in_force

§ 265. Fraudulent intent, question of fact. The question of fraudulent\nintent in a case arising under this article, shall be deemed a question\nof fact and not of law; and a conveyance or charge shall not be adjudged\nfraudulent as against creditors, purchasers or incumbrancers, solely on\nthe ground that it was not founded on a valuable consideration.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 2607 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 26 / Section 2607
Court reporters 1
Status: in_force

§ 2607. Court reporters\n  1. Each surrogate may appoint and at pleasure remove one or more court\nreporters for the court, whose compensation shall be determined and paid\nin the same manner as salaries of clerks in the court.\n  2. The court reporter appointed to serve in the surrogate's court may\nwith approval of the surrogate be designated to perform duties in\nanother court and the court reporter of another court with approval of\nthe judge thereof may be designated to serve in the surrogate's court.\nThe provisions of the judiciary law apply to court reporters in the\ncourt.\n  3. Whenever the service of a court reporter is required and no regular\ncourt reporter is available, or he is sick, absent or unable to act, or\nwhenever a trial or hearing requires additional reportorial services, a\nsurrogate may appoint one or more temporary court reporters to serve in\nan action or proceeding to be paid a reasonable compensation certified\nby the surrogate which shall be a charge upon the city or county and\npaid as other expense of the court.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 12-1.2 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 12 / Part 1 / Section 12-1.2
Order of liability; preferences
Status: in_force

§ 12-1.2 Order of liability; preferences\n  (a) Distributees and testamentary beneficiaries are liable, as\nprovided in 12-1.1, in the following order:\n  (1) Distributees.\n  (2) Residuary beneficiaries.\n  (3) General beneficiaries. Demonstrative beneficiaries shall be\ntreated as general beneficiaries, to the extent that the property or\nfund charged with a demonstrative disposition has adeemed.\n  (4) Specific beneficiaries. Demonstrative beneficiaries shall be\ntreated as specific beneficiaries if the property or fund charged with\nany demonstrative disposition has not adeemed, to the extent of the\nvalue of such property or fund.\n  (5) A surviving spouse to whom a disposition has been made which\nqualifies for the estate tax marital deduction.\n  (b) The order of liability provided in paragraph (a) shall not apply\nto the liability for an estate or other death tax, under the law of this\nstate or of any other jurisdiction, with respect to any property\nrequired to be included in the gross tax estate of a decedent under the\nprovisions of any such law. The apportionment of such estate or other\ndeath tax, and the liability, under 12-1.1, of distributees and\ntestamentary beneficiaries consequent to such apportionment are governed\nby the provisions of 2-1.8.\n  (c) The express or implied intention of the testator to prefer certain\nbeneficiaries shall be effective to vary the order of liability\nprescribed by paragraph (a).\n  (d) If, in an action under this article, it is established to the\nsatisfaction of the court that:\n  (1) The defendant is liable for the payment of two or more claims,\npreference in the payment of such claims must be given in the order\nprescribed by law for payment of the debts of the decedent and the\nobligations of his estate.\n  (2) An unsatisfied claim exists which is legally preferred to that of\nthe plaintiff, the existence of such unsatisfied claim is a defense to\nthe action if the aggregate value of the decedent's property passing to\ndefendant and other persons in his order of liability does not exceed\nthe amount of such unsatisfied claim; if in excess of the amount of such\nunsatisfied claim, the plaintiff may recover such ratable share of the\nexcess as the amount of his claim bears to the claims of all persons in\nthe same order of preference as his.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 89 — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 4 / Section 89
Consolidated projects; operation of more than one project
Status: in_force

§ 89. Consolidated projects; operation of more than one project.  The\ncommissioner may permit the consolidation of two or more approved\nprojects or the extension or amendment of any approved project or the\nconsolidation of any approved project with a proposed project. In any of\nthese events, the consolidated project shall be treated as an original\nproject and an application shall be submitted as in the case of an\noriginal project and rents and costs may be averaged throughout the\nconsolidated or extended project. The commissioner may likewise permit\nany housing company to organize and operate more than one project or to\ntake over any project heretofore approved by the commissioner and to\noperate it independently of other projects of the housing company.  The\ncommissioner may in his discretion decline to permit more than one\nproject to be operated by the same housing company.\n
N.Y. CCO Law § 77 — New York Code / Act CCO / Article 5 / Section 77
Annual license fee
Status: in_force

§ 77. Annual license fee. 1. Each cooperative corporation organized,\nwith or without capital stock, for the purpose of cooperative marketing\nof agricultural products or for the purpose of making loans to its\nmembers producing agricultural products or for the purpose of purchasing\nfood products for sale to its members, such a purchasing cooperative\ncorporation having gross receipts from such sales of less than five\nhundred thousand dollars in a calendar year, shall pay to the\ncommissioner of taxation and finance an annual fee of ten dollars, in\nlieu of all franchise or license or corporation taxes.\n  2. Each cooperative corporation organized without capital stock, with\nfederal internal revenue code section 501(c)12 status, for the purpose\nof producing and/or distributing district heating and/or cooling service\nsolely for the use of its members where: (a) the heating or cooling\nfacility of such cooperative corporation is located in a city with a\npopulation of more than two hundred thousand and less than three hundred\nthousand and (b) either (i) at least thirty-five percent of such heating\nand/or cooling service as measured by relative thermal usage is\ndistributed to and used by members which qualify as organizations\ndescribed in paragraph one, two or four of subdivision (a) of section\neleven hundred sixteen of the tax law, or which qualify as cooperative\ncorporations organized without capital stock with federal internal\nrevenue code section 501(c)12 status, or (ii) is a member of a\ncooperative corporation organized without capital stock which satisfies\nthe requirements of clause (a) and item (i) of clause (b) of this\nsubdivision shall pay to the commissioner of taxation and finance an\nannual fee of ten dollars, in lieu of all franchise, license or\ncorporation taxes, or the tax imposed under section one hundred\neighty-six-a of the tax law.\n  3. Such annual fee shall be paid for each calendar year on the\nfifteenth day of March next succeeding the close of such calendar year\nbut shall not be payable after January first, two thousand twenty;\nprovided, however, that cooperative corporations described in\nsubdivisions one or two of this section shall continue to not be subject\nto the franchise, license, and corporation taxes referenced in such\nsubdivisions or, in the case of cooperative cooperations described in\nsubdivision two of this section, the tax imposed under section\none-hundred eighty-six-a of the tax law.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2803-A — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 28 / Section 2803-A
Authority to contract
Status: in_force

§ 2803-a. Authority to contract. Hospitals, including hospitals\ndescribed in subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law,\nare hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as the council\nmay authorize, to enter into contracts and make arrangements among\nthemselves and among other municipal, state, federal or privately owned\nhospitals, or any medical schools, or other health related facilities\nhaving or utilizing hospital services or facilities or voluntary\nambulance services registered or certified pursuant to article thirty of\nthe public health law or nutrition programs that receive federal, state\nor local government funding, whether or not located in this state or\nelsewhere, for the\n  1. mutual use, or exchange of medical resources including, but not\nlimited to, real or personal property or employment of personnel;\n  2. joint purchases of goods, supplies and services; or\n  3. development of medical information, techniques and facilities\nuseful in the progress of the medical art; reduction of medical costs\nand promotion of a more efficient and effective approach to the delivery\nof health care services.\n  Any contract between any such hospitals and such voluntary ambulance\nservices shall be limited to joint purchases of goods and supplies\nnecessary for the support of such ambulance services or otherwise used\nby such hospitals.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 550 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 13 / Section 550
County treasurer; duties
Status: in_force

§ 550. County treasurer; duties. 1. The county treasurer shall perform\nthe duties prescribed by law as the chief fiscal officer of the county.\nSuch county treasurer shall perform such additional and related duties\nas may be prescribed by law and directed by the board of supervisors.\n  2. The county treasurer shall receive and be the custodian of all\nmoney belonging to the county or in which the county has an interest and\nshall keep a true account of all receipts and the expenditures in books\nprovided by him at the expense of the county.\n  3. On or before the first day of March in each year the county\ntreasurer shall furnish a statement of and pay over to the state\ncomptroller all penalties or moneys belonging to the state. Any state\ntax levied as part of the county tax shall be paid to the state\ncomptroller on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year. The\ncounty treasurer, the county and the surety or sureties on the official\nundertaking of such county treasurer shall be liable to the state for\nall moneys collected and belonging to the state and for any state tax\nlevied as a part of the county tax together with interest not exceeding\nten per centum per annum, to reimburse the state for any borrowing\noccasioned by any failure to pay the same to the state.\n  4. On or before the tenth day of January in each year, the county\ntreasurer shall transmit to the town clerk of each town within his\ncounty a statement of all moneys paid by said county treasurer to the\nsupervisor of the town during the preceding year.\n  5. The county treasurer shall disburse all moneys received from the\nfish and wildlife service of the United States department of the\ninterior pursuant to section seven hundred fifteen-s of the migratory\nbird conservation act on a proportional basis to those units of local\ngovernment, including, but not limited to school districts and the\ncounty itself in appropriate cases, which have incurred the loss or\nreduction of real property tax revenues by reason of the existence of\nsuch areas. Where such moneys are to be paid to the supervisors of\ntowns, in a case where any such wildlife refuge lands are located wholly\nwithin the boundaries of an incorporated village, such moneys shall be\npaid to the board of trustees of such village. Such moneys shall be used\nexclusively for town or village highway purposes, as the case may be.\nWhere such moneys are paid to treasurers or other fiscal officers of a\nschool district, such moneys shall be used exclusively for public school\npurposes. Upon request, a district superintendent of schools shall\nfurnish to the county treasurer such data as he may require to\neffectuate the disbursement of moneys under this subdivision.\n  6. The board of supervisors may, by resolution, determine to enter\ninto a contract to provide for the deposit of the periodic payroll of\nthe county in a bank or trust company for disbursal by it in accordance\nwith the provisions of section ninety-six-b of the banking law.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 9-621 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 9 / Part 6 / Subpart 1 / Section 9-621
Notification of Proposal to Accept Collateral
Status: in_force

Section 9--621. Notification of Proposal to Accept Collateral.\n  (a) Persons to which proposal to be sent. A secured party that desires\nto accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation\nit secures shall send its proposal to:\n       (1) any person from which the secured party has received, before\n           the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated\n           notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;\n       (2) any other secured party or lienholder that, 10 days before\n           the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security\n           interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the\n           filing of a financing statement that:\n           (A) identified the collateral;\n           (B) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and\n           (C) was filed in the office or offices in which to file a\n               financing statement against the debtor covering the\n               collateral as of that date; and\n       (3) any other secured party that, 10 days before the debtor\n           consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in the\n           collateral perfected by compliance with a statute,\n           regulation, or treaty described in Section 9--311(a).\n  (b) Proposal to be sent to secondary obligor in partial satisfaction.\nA secured party that desires to accept collateral in partial\nsatisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to any\nsecondary obligor in addition to the persons described in subsection\n(a).\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 620-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 13 / Section 620-A
Certain claims shall not be accepted
Status: in_force

§ 620-a. Certain claims shall not be accepted. The superintendent\nshall not accept a claim based on an agreement with the banking\norganization unless the agreement is either reflected on the accounts,\nbooks or records of the banking organization or a creditor provides\ndocumentary evidence of such agreement. The superintendent may issue any\nregulations determined to be necessary to implement this section.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 116 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 6 / Section 116
Evangelical Lutheran church, changing system of electing trustees
Status: in_force

§ 116. Evangelical Lutheran church, changing system of electing\ntrustees. If the trustees of an incorporated Evangelical Lutheran church\nshall at any time be elective in pursuance of article ten of this\nchapter, the church may, at an annual corporate meeting, if notice\nthereof be given with the notice of such meeting determine that the\nminister or ministers and elders and deacons thereof shall thereafter\nconstitute the trustees thereof, and thereon the trustees of such church\nshall sign, acknowledge and cause to be filed and recorded, a\ncertificate stating the fact of such determination, and the name of the\nminister or ministers, if any, and of the elders and deacons of such\nchurch; and thereon the terms of office of such elective trustees shall\ncease, and the minister or ministers and the elders and deacons of such\nchurch, and their successors in office shall, by virtue of their\nrespective offices, be the trustees of such church. If, at any time, the\nofficers of an incorporated Evangelical Lutheran church which officers\nby virtue of their offices constitute the trustees thereof shall\ndetermine to submit to a meeting of such church corporation, the\nquestion whether the trustees of such church shall be thereafter\nelective in pursuance of article ten of this chapter, they shall cause a\ncorporate meeting of such church to be called and held in the manner\nprovided in sections one hundred and ninety-four and one hundred and\nninety-five of this chapter, and such corporate meeting shall determine\nwhether the trustees of such church shall thereafter be elective in\npursuance of article ten of this chapter, and also whether the number of\nsuch trustees shall be three, six or nine, and the date of the annual\ncorporate meeting of the church. If such meeting shall determine that\nsuch trustees shall thereafter be elective, the presiding officer\nthereof and at least two other persons present and voting thereat, shall\nsign, acknowledge and cause to be filed and recorded in the office of\nthe clerk of the county in which the certificate of incorporation of\nsuch church is filed, a certificate of such determination of such\nmeeting; and thereafter the trustees of such church shall be elective in\npursuance of article ten of this chapter. At the next annual corporate\nmeeting after the filing of such certificate, one-third of the number of\ntrustees so determined on shall be elected to hold office for one year,\none-third for two years, and one-third for three years, and the officers\nof such church who by virtue of their offices have been trustees of such\nchurch, shall then cease to be such trustees, and thereafter article ten\nof this chapter shall apply to such church. At each subsequent annual\ncorporate meeting of such church, one-third of the number of trustees so\ndetermined on shall be elected to hold office for three years.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 749 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 14-B / Section 749
Severability
Status: in_force

* § 749. Severability. If any provision of this article or the\napplication thereof to any person or circumstances is held to be\ninvalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or\napplications of this article which can be given effect without the\ninvalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this\narticle are severable.\n  * NB Effective upon the one hundred eightieth day after the\npromulgation of rules and/or regulations by the department of financial\nservices to effectuate certain provisions (see Ch. 58 of 2025, Part Y, §\n13)\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 58-B — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 4-A / Section 58-B
Retail sale of cider by wholesale licensees
Status: in_force

§ 58-b. Retail sale of cider by wholesale licensees. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other law upon payment to the liquor authority of an\nadditional annual fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars, the liquor\nauthority may in its discretion and upon such terms and conditions as it\nmay prescribe, issue to a licensed cider producer upon application\ntherefor a certificate authorizing such producer to sell cider at retail\nin sealed containers to a householder for consumption in his home, but\nno sale to such householder shall be in quantities aggregating more than\nfifteen gallons. Revenues received by any such licensed cider producer\nfrom the sale of cider at retail to householders under such a\ncertificate during the term thereof shall not exceed five per centum of\nall the revenues derived by such licensee from the sale of apples and\ncider during such term.\n  2. No retail licensee of cider authorized by this section shall keep\nor permit to be kept upon the licensed premises, any cider in any\nunsealed bottle or other unsealed container, except for the purpose of\ncider tasting or sampling by any person pursuant to authorization to\nconduct such a sampling or tasting pursuant to subdivision two of\nsection fifty-eight of this article, except to those persons to whom\nsales are prohibited in section sixty-five of this chapter.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 172 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 8 / Section 172
Application
Status: in_force

§ 172. Application. Any person or corporation assessable for highway\ntaxes may make written application to the town superintendent of the\ntown in which he or it shall reside, or is assessable, to alter or\ndiscontinue a highway, or to lay out a new highway.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 320 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 20 / Section 320
Standard of purity
Status: in_force

§ 320. Standard of purity. The gas furnished or supplied by any\ncorporation, association, partnership or person in any city of the\nsecond class shall be free from sulphuretted hydrogen, to be determined\nby exposing for thirty seconds a slip of white paper saturated with\nacetate of lead to a jet of gas flowing about five feet per hour, and\neach one hundred cubic feet shall not contain more than ten grains of\nammonia nor twenty grains of sulphur.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 344-D*3 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 12 / Section 344-D*3
Portion of state highway system to be designated as the "Sergeant Elisha R
Status: in_force

* § 344-d. Portion of state highway system to be designated as the\n"Sergeant Elisha R. Parker Veterans Memorial Highway". That portion of\nstate route thirteen in the village of Camden in the county of Oneida\nfrom its intersection with county route eighty-four, known as Florence\nHill Road, and continuing southerly to the village line, shall be\ndesignated and known as the "Sergeant Elisha R. Parker Veterans Memorial\nHighway".\n  * NB There are 16 § 344-d's\n