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N.Y. SOS Law § 482-B — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 10-B / Section 482-B
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 482-b. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. "Settlement house" means an independent, voluntary, not-for-profit\norganization demonstrating affiliation with the New York state\nassociation for settlement houses and neighborhood centers engaged in\ncommunity work and social services delivery in a defined neighborhood in\na municipality of the state of New York which provides comprehensive,\ncoordinated, family-focused multi-generational human services such as\nchild care, employment training, housing assistance counseling, youth\ndevelopment, educational services, senior services and arts and cultural\nactivities, based on the needs of the neighborhood or neighborhoods\nserved and which:\n  (a) has been incorporated for at least three years;\n  (b) is qualified as a tax-exempt organization pursuant to section\n501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code;\n  (c) provides services to all those who live in the neighborhood or\nneighborhoods served without regard to race, creed, religious practice,\ncolor, sex, age, national origin, economic status, disability, or\naffectional preference;\n  (d) has an independent, autonomous board of directors which meets at\nregular intervals, has full authority over the policies and operations\nof the organization, and the membership of which includes community\nresidents;\n  (e) employs appropriate staff including a position of chief executive\nofficer;\n  (f) has a budget which is adopted on an annual basis by the board of\ndirectors, utilizes an accepted accounting system, and has prepared an\nannual fiscal audit by a certified public accountant not connected with\nthe organization; and\n  (g) can demonstrate that one of its primary purposes is the\nimprovement of the relationships among groups of different cultural,\neconomic, religious, and social groups in the community through a\nvariety of individual, group, and inter-group activities.\n  2. "Program services" may include, but are not limited to, several of\nthe following services:\n  (a) early childhood services, including child care, child development\nservices, early child education and health information and referral for\npre-school children;\n  (b) youth services, including teen centers and school-age programs\nwhich provide recreation, homework assistance, preparation for\nemployment, counseling and meals;\n  (c) education programs, including remedial education, tutoring,\nhomework assistance and English language training;\n  (d) family programs, including home management, homemaker services,\nparenting skills training, teen parent services and programs for\nseniors;\n  (e) child welfare services including foster care and preventive\nservices;\n  (f) employment programs, including summer youth employment apprentice\nprograms, job training programs, and displaced homemaker programs;\n  (g) mental health services, including psychological and, where\nappropriate, psychiatric group and individual evaluation and counseling;\n  (h) housing assistance.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1449-IIIIII — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-H / Section 1449-IIIIII
Liability of recording officer
Status: in_force

§ 1449-iiiiii. Liability of recording officer. A recording officer\nshall not be liable for any inaccuracy in the amount of tax imposed\npursuant to this article that he or she shall collect so long as he or\nshe shall compute and collect such tax on the amount of consideration or\nthe value of the interest conveyed as such amounts are provided to him\nor her by the person paying the tax.\n
N.Y. GCM Law § 20 — New York Code / Act GCM / Part 3 / Subpart 1 / Section 20
Gross income defined
Status: in_force

§ 20. Gross income defined. 1. The term "gross income" includes gains,\nprofits and income derived from the business, of whatever kind and in\nwhatever form paid, including gains, profits or income from dealings in\nproperty, whether real or personal, or gains, profits or income received\nas compensation for services, as interest, rents, commissions, brokerage\nor other fees, or otherwise in carrying on such business, including all\ndividends received on stocks and all interest received from federal,\nstate, municipal or other bonds.\n  2. If the gross income of a taxpayer is derived from business carried\non both within and without the city, "gross income" means that\nproportion thereof which is derived from business carried on within the\ncity, to be allocated and determined on the basis of separate accounting\nfor each office or branch or, at the election of the taxpayer, under\nrules and regulations prescribed by the director of finance.\n  3. "Gross income" of a savings bank shall include the amount received\nby it in any taxable year as a distribution in liquidation of the mutual\nsavings bank fund.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 471 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 4 / Part 7 / Section 471
Undertaking for support and cash deposits
Status: in_force

§ 471. Undertaking for support and cash deposits. The court may in its\ndiscretion require either a written undertaking with sufficient surety\napproved by the court or may require that cash be posted to secure\ncompliance by the respondent with the order for support for such period.\nSuch undertaking shall be for a definite period, not to exceed three\nyears, and the required amount of the principal of such undertaking\nshall not exceed the total payments for support required for three years\nand shall be so stated in the order for support. After hearing and for\ngood cause shown, the court may extend an undertaking requirement by\nrequiring a new undertaking similar to the original undertaking. The\nrespondent may deposit cash with the clerk, or when the court so orders,\nwith the support collection unit designated by the appropriate social\nservices district, when the order for support directs payments to such\nunit. When such cash has been deposited with the support collection unit\nand the respondent fails to make any payment, when due, within such\nperiod, payment shall be made by the support collection unit to the\npetitioner out of such cash. When cash is posted as security, as herein\nprovided, the person or persons so posting such cash shall at the\nexpiration of the period for which such security shall have been ordered\nbe entitled to the return of such cash less any amount which shall have\nbeen paid therefrom to the petitioner by reason of any default or\ndefaults in payments on the part of the respondent. The form of the\nundertaking and the form and manner of justification of the surety shall\nconform to the rules of court.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 5219 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 52 / Section 5219
Disclaimer or denial of coverage cases
Status: in_force

§ 5219. Disclaimer or denial of coverage cases. If a qualified person\nwho has complied with paragraph three of subsection (a) of section five\nthousand two hundred eight of this article obtains judgment against an\nowner of a motor vehicle after a trial on the merits and there is a\nfinal judgment in favor of the insurer of the owner based on a\ndisclaimer or denial of coverage by the insurer, the qualified person\nmay preserve his right to apply for payment from the corporation by\ncomplying with the procedure prescribed in section five thousand two\nhundred ten of this article.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 353 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 13 / Section 353
Laws repealed
Status: in_force

§ 353. Laws repealed. Chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred\nand nine entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter\ntwenty-five of the consolidated laws," and all acts amendatory thereof\nand supplemental thereto, constituting the highway law as heretofore in\nforce, are hereby repealed, except as otherwise provided herein.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 150.10 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 2 / Title H / Article 150 / Section 150.10
Appearance ticket; definition, form and content
Status: in_force

§ 150.10 Appearance ticket; definition, form and content.\n  1. An appearance ticket is a written notice issued and subscribed by a\npolice officer or other public servant authorized by state law or local\nlaw enacted pursuant to the provisions of the municipal home rule law to\nissue the same, directing a designated person to appear in a designated\nlocal criminal court at a designated future time in connection with his\nalleged commission of a designated offense. A notice conforming to such\ndefinition constitutes an appearance ticket regardless of whether it is\nreferred to in some other provision of law as a summons or by any other\nname or title.\n  2. When an appearance ticket as defined in subdivision one of this\nsection is issued to a person in conjunction with an offense charged in\na simplified information, said appearance ticket shall contain the\nlanguage, set forth in subdivision four of section 100.25, notifying the\ndefendant of his right to receive a supporting deposition.\n  3. Before issuing an appearance ticket a police officer or other\npublic servant must inform the arrestee that they may provide their\ncontact information for the purposes of receiving a court notification\nto remind them of their court appearance date from the court or a\ncertified pretrial services agency. Such contact information may include\none or more phone numbers, a residential address or address at which the\narrestee receives mail, or an email address. The contact information\nshall be recorded and be transmitted to the local criminal court as\nrequired by section 150.80 of this article.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 4121 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 41 / Section 4121
Security may be required from banking officers and employees
Status: in_force

§ 4121. Security may be required from banking officers and employees.\n(a) The board of directors or trustees of each bank, trust company,\nsavings bank or savings and loan associations in this state, may require\nfrom each officer and employee thereof an individual fidelity bond in\nfavor of the institution in an amount and form approved by such board of\ndirectors or trustees.\n  (b) Such bond shall be accepted only from a corporation authorized to\nissue fidelity bonds and doing business in this state under the\nauthority of the department.\n  (c) The premium for such bond may be paid as a necessary expense of\nany such banking institution.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 146 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 3-A / Section 146
Saving provision
Status: in_force

§ 146. Saving provision. Nothing herein contained shall be interpreted\nor construed as approving any act, action or conduct which is or has\nbeen or may be in violation of existing law, nor shall anything herein\ncontained constitute a defense to any action, suit, or proceeding,\npending or hereafter instituted on account of any act, action, or\nconduct prohibited by law.\n
N.Y. PTR Law § 27 — New York Code / Act PTR / Article 3 / Section 27
Partner by estoppel
Status: in_force

§ 27. Partner by estoppel.  1. When a person, by words spoken or\nwritten or by conduct, represents himself, or consents to another\nrepresenting him to any one, as a partner in an existing partnership or\nwith one or more persons not actual partners, he is liable to any such\nperson to whom such representation has been made, who has, on the faith\nof such representation, given credit to the actual or apparent\npartnership, and if he has made such representation or consented to its\nbeing made in a public manner he is liable to such person, whether the\nrepresentation has or has not been made or communicated to such person\nso giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making\nthe representation or consenting to its being made.\n  (a) When a partnership liability results, he is liable as though he\nwere an actual member of the partnership.\n  (b) When no partnership liability results, he is liable jointly with\nthe other persons, if any, so consenting to the contract or\nrepresentation as to incur liability, otherwise separately.\n  2. When a person has been thus represented to be a partner in an\nexisting partnership, or with one or more persons not actual partners,\nhe is an agent of the persons consenting to such representation to bind\nthem to the same extent and in the same manner as though he were a\npartner in fact, with respect to persons who rely upon the\nrepresentation. Where all the members of the existing partnership\nconsent to the representation, a partnership act or obligation results;\nbut in all other cases it is the joint act or obligation of the person\nacting and the persons consenting to the representation.\n
N.Y. DCD Law § 12 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 2 / Section 12
Notices to parties interested in the estate as creditors or otherwise
Status: in_force

§ 12. Notices to parties interested in the estate as creditors or\notherwise. Parties interested in the estate as creditors, or parties\notherwise interested, if the judge so directs, shall have at least ten\ndays' notice by mail to their respective addresses as they appear in the\nschedule filed by the assignor, or at such other addresses as they shall\nhave filed with the assignee, of (a) all proposed sales of property, (b)\nthe declaration and time of payment of dividends, (c) the filing of the\ninterim account and the filing of the final account of the assignee and\nof the hearing thereon, (d) the proposed compromise of any controversy.\nSuch notice may be published as the judge shall direct and must be\nreturnable in court.\n  The judge may cause such notices to be sent or published on the\npetition of the assignee at any time after the assignment, or on\npetition of any other person interested in the estate, at any time after\nthe lapse of sixty days from the filing of such assignment, or where an\nassignee has been removed and ordered to account as hereinbefore\nprovided on the petition of a creditor, or an assignee's surety, or\nassignor, and on good cause being shown, the judge may grant an order\ndirecting the assignee to show cause at the time specified why a sale of\nthe property should not be had or a dividend should not be paid, or a\nsettlement of his account should not be had, or such other matters as in\nthe opinion of the judge should be disposed of.\n  Upon the hearing and determination of such order to show cause the\njudge may make such order in the premises as justice requires.\n  Whenever the assignee has filed his final account the judge shall fix\na date for the final hearing to consider the judicial settlement of the\naccount, which date shall not be less than fifteen days following the\nfiling of the account and notices shall be given to the creditors as\nprovided in this section.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 1.01 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title A / Article 1 / Section 1.01
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1.01 Short title.\n  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mental Hygiene\nLaw".\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 429 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 18 / Section 429
Payment of tax; returns
Status: in_force

§ 429. Payment of tax; returns. 1. Every distributor, noncommercial\nimporter or other person shall, on or before the twentieth day of each\nmonth, file with the department of taxation and finance a return, on\nforms to be prescribed by the commissioner and furnished by such\ndepartment, stating separately the number of gallons, or lesser\nquantity, of beers, and the number of liters, or lesser quantity, of\nwines and liquors sold or used by such distributor, noncommercial\nimporter or other person in this state during the preceding calendar\nmonth, except that the commissioner may, if he or she deems it necessary\nto facilitate the efficient reporting and payment of the tax imposed by\nthis article, require returns to be made at such times and covering such\nperiods as he or she may deem necessary. Such return shall contain such\nfurther information as the commissioner shall require. The fact that the\nname of the distributor, noncommercial importer or other person is\nsigned to a filed return shall be prima facie evidence for all purposes\nthat the return was actually signed by such distributor, noncommercial\nimporter or other person.\n  2. Each such distributor, noncommercial importer or other person shall\npay to such department with the filing of such return, the tax imposed\nby this article, on each gallon, or lesser quantity, of beers and on\neach liter, or lesser quantity of all other alcoholic beverages sold or\nused by such distributor, noncommercial importer or other person in this\nstate, as so reported, during the period covered by such return, except\nthat, where a distributor has purchased alcoholic beverages prior to the\nexpiration of the period covered by the return, upon which the taxes\nimposed by this article have been or are required to be paid by another\ndistributor, a credit shall be allowed for the amount of such taxes.\n  3. All alcoholic beverages which have come into the possession of a\ndistributor shall be deemed to have been sold or used by such\ndistributor unless it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the tax\ncommission that such alcoholic beverages have not been sold or used.\n  4. A distributor entitled to a refund under the provisions of section\nfour hundred thirty-four of this chapter, in lieu of such refund, may\ntake credit therefor on a return filed pursuant to this section, unless\nthe tax commission shall withdraw such privilege.\n  5. The commissioner shall provide any brewer, as such term is defined\nin subdivision five of section three of the alcoholic beverage control\nlaw, or any distiller, as such term is defined in subdivision ten of\nsection three of the alcoholic beverage control law, with the option to\nfile their tax returns electronically.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 263-A — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 5-A / Section 263-A
Powers with respect to lake protection and rehabilitation
Status: in_force

§ 263-a. Powers with respect to lake protection and rehabilitation.\nThe administrative head or body shall be responsible for:\n  1. Initiating and coordinating research and surveys for the purpose of\ngathering data on the lake, related shorelands, and the drainage basin;\n  2. Planning lake rehabilitation projects;\n  3. Adopting by resolution rules for carrying out their duties and\nplans for lake rehabilitation projects;\n  4. Contacting and attempting to secure the cooperation of officials of\nunits of general purpose government in the area for the purpose of\nenacting ordinances deemed necessary by the board of supervisors as\nfurthering the objectives of the district;\n  5. Carrying out lake protection and rehabilitation projects and\nobtaining any necessary permits therefor; and\n  6. Maintaining liaison with those officials of state government and\nlocal government involved in lake protection and rehabilitation.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 72-H — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 5 / Section 72-H
Sale, lease and transfer to municipal corporations of certain public lands
Status: in_force

§ 72-h. Sale, lease and transfer to municipal corporations of certain\npublic lands. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special\nor local law or of any charter, the supervisors of a county, the town\nboard of a town, the board of trustees of a village, the board of fire\ncommissioners of a fire district, the board of estimate of a city, or if\nthere be none the local legislative body of such city, and, in a city\nhaving a population of one million or more, the mayor, subject to\ndisapproval by the council within thirty days following receipt of\nnotice of the approval of the mayor, may sell, transfer or lease to or\nexchange with any municipal corporation or municipal corporations,\nschool district, board of cooperative educational services, fire\ndistrict, the state of New York, or the government of the United States\nand any agency or department thereof, either without consideration or\nfor such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as shall be\napproved by such officer or body, any real property owned by such\ncounty, town, village, fire district or city; and any municipal\ncorporation or fire district may acquire or lease such real property as\nprovided in this section. The term of any lease entered into pursuant to\nthe provisions of this section shall not exceed ten years but nothing\nherein contained shall prevent the renewal of any such lease.\n  (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any real\nproperty which is made inalienable under the provisions of any general,\nspecial or local law or of any charter.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 106 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 3 / Section 106
Deposits by banks and trust companies with other banking corporations and private bankers; restrictions
Status: in_force

§ 106. Deposits by banks and trust companies with other banking\ncorporations and private bankers; restrictions.  1. No bank or trust\ncompany shall deposit any of its funds with any other foreign or\ndomestic banking corporation or private banker in an amount exceeding\none hundred per centum of the capital stock, surplus fund and undivided\nprofits of such bank or trust company unless such other banking\ncorporation or private banker has been approved by the superintendent as\na depositary for the purpose of this section, in which case the amount\nso deposited may equal but shall not exceed such per centum of the\ncapital stock, surplus fund and undivided profits of such bank or trust\ncompany as the superintendent shall approve.\n  2. The restrictions contained in this section shall not apply to\ndeposits by any bank or trust company with a federal reserve bank.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 222.20 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title M / Article 222 / Section 222.20
Licensing of cannabis production and distribution; defense
Status: in_force

§ 222.20 Licensing of cannabis production and distribution; defense.\n  In any prosecution for an offense involving cannabis under this\narticle or an authorized local law, it is a defense that the defendant\nwas engaged in such activity in compliance with the cannabis law.\n
N.Y. PBB Law § 145 — New York Code / Act PBB / Article 5 / Section 145
Gender neutral single-occupancy bathrooms
Status: in_force

§ 145. Gender neutral single-occupancy bathrooms. 1. As used in this\nsection:\n  (a) "state agency" means any state department, office, board, bureau,\ncommission, agency, or any public authority or public benefit\ncorporation at least one of whose members is appointed by the governor.\n  (b) "state-owned building" means any building owned by a state agency\nused for official state business.\n  (c) "state-leased building" means any building or portion of any\nbuilding leased by a state agency for office or residential occupancy.\n  (d) "single-occupancy bathroom" means a bathroom intended for use by\nno more than one occupant at a time or for family or assisted use and\nwhich has a door for entry into and egress from the bathroom that may be\nlocked by the occupant to ensure privacy and security.\n  2. Each state agency shall ensure that all single-occupancy bathrooms\nunder its jurisdiction be designated as gender neutral in state-owned\nbuildings and, where practicable, in state-leased buildings.\n