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N.Y. NPC Law § 717 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 7 / Section 717
Duty of directors, officers and key persons
Status: in_force

§ 717. Duty of directors, officers and key persons.\n  (a) Directors, officers and key persons shall discharge the duties of\ntheir respective positions in good faith and with the care an ordinarily\nprudent person in a like position would exercise under similar\ncircumstances. The factors set forth in subparagraph one of paragraph\n(e) of section 552 (Standard of conduct in managing and investing an\ninstitutional fund), if relevant, must be considered by a governing\nboard delegating investment management of institutional funds pursuant\nto section 514 (Delegation of investment management) For purposes of\nthis paragraph, the term institutional fund is defined in section 551\n(Definitions).\n  (b) In discharging their duties, directors, officers and key persons,\nwhen acting in good faith, may rely on information, opinions, reports or\nstatements including financial statements and other financial data, in\neach case prepared or presented by: (1) one or more officers or\nemployees of the corporation, whom the director believes to be reliable\nand competent in the matters presented, (2) counsel, public accountants\nor other persons as to matters which the directors, officers or key\npersons believe to be within such person's professional or expert\ncompetence or (3) a committee of the board upon which they do not serve,\nduly designated in accordance with a provision of the certificate of\nincorporation or the bylaws, as to matters within its designated\nauthority, which committee the directors, officers or key persons\nbelieve to merit confidence, so long as in so relying they shall be\nacting in good faith and with that degree of care specified in paragraph\n(a) of this section. Persons shall not be considered to be acting in\ngood faith if they have knowledge concerning the matter in question that\nwould cause such reliance to be unwarranted. Persons who so perform\ntheir duties shall have no liability by reason of being or having been\ndirectors, officers or key persons of the corporation.\n
N.Y. ERL Law § 16 — New York Code / Act ERL / Section 16
Except for matters pending before the commission, no action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time when this act as amende...
Status: in_force

§ 16. Except for matters pending before the commission, no action or\nproceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time when this act as\namended shall take effect, brought by or against the commission, shall\nbe affected or abated by the enactment of this act or by anything\ntherein contained. No existing right or remedy of any character shall be\nlost or impaired or affected by such enactment.\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 92-A — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 7 / Section 92-A
Alcohol distributors' permits
Status: in_force

§ 92-a. Alcohol distributors' permits. 1. The following kinds of\npermits may be issued for the sale and distribution of alcohol.\n  (a) Distributor's alcohol permit---class a.\n  (b) Distributor's alcohol permit---class b.\n  (c) Distributor's alcohol permit---class c.\n  (d) Distributor's alcohol permit---class d.\n  2. (a) A class "a" permit shall authorize the holder thereof to sell\nand distribute to licensed rectifiers alcohol which is to be used for\nbeverage purposes and to all holders of permits issued pursuant to this\nsection or sections ninety-one and ninety-two of this chapter. (b) A\nclass "b" permit shall authorize the holder thereof to sell and\ndistribute alcohol to holders of a class "c" alcohol distributor's\npermit or to holders of permits issued pursuant to section ninety-one\nand section ninety-two of this chapter. (c) A class "c" permit shall\nauthorize the holder thereof to sell and distribute alcohol to holders\nof permits issued pursuant to section ninety-two of this chapter and to\nuse alcohol in the preparation by him of any of the products enumerated\nin section ninety-one of this chapter. Such a permit may be applied for\nby and shall be issued only to a wholesale druggist. (d) A class "d"\npermit shall authorize the holder thereof to sell and distribute alcohol\nto the holder of winery licenses. Such permits shall be issued only to a\nperson holding a winery license under this chapter.\n  Such permits shall be issued in such form as may be prescribed by the\nliquor authority, and the privileges granted thereby shall be exercised\nin accordance with the terms and conditions thereof and the rules of the\nliquor authority.\n  3. The annual fee for a distributor's alcohol permit, class "a," shall\nbe sixteen hundred dollars.\n  4. The annual fee for a distributor's alcohol permit, class "b," shall\nbe eight hundred dollars.\n  5. The annual fee for a distributor's alcohol permit, class "c," shall\nbe one hundred sixty dollars.\n  6. The annual fee for a distributor's alcohol permit, class "d," shall\nbe three hundred eighty-four dollars.\n  7. Such distributors' alcohol permits shall be effective for a license\nyear expiring on the thirty-first day of December following the date of\nissuance, and the fee prescribed therefor by this section shall be the\nfee due and payable therefor, and shall be paid in advance at the time\nthe application shall be made as provided by this section.\n  When application for any permit under this section is made, after the\nfirst day of January in any year, the fee therefor shall, for the\nbalance of the year, be in proportion as the remainder of such year\nshall bear to the whole year, except, that it shall in no case be for\nless than one-half of such year.\n
N.Y. UCT Law § 212 — New York Code / Act UCT / Article 2 / Section 212
Additional jurisdiction and powers
Status: in_force

§ 212. Additional jurisdiction and powers.\n  In the exercise of its jurisdiction the court shall have all of the\npowers that the supreme court would have in like actions and\nproceedings.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 460-F — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 28-C / Section 460-F
Surety requirement
Status: in_force

§ 460-f. Surety requirement. Every provider shall maintain in full\nforce and effect for the entire period during which the provider\nprovides immigrant assistance services and for one year after the\nprovider ceased to do business as an immigrant assistance service\nprovider, a bond, contract of indemnity, or irrevocable letter of\ncredit, payable to the people of the state of New York, in the principal\namount of fifty thousand dollars; provided, however, that every provider\nthat receives in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars in total\nfees and other compensation for providing immigrant assistance service\nduring any twelve-month period shall maintain in full force and effect a\nbond, contract of indemnity, or irrevocable letter of credit, payable to\nthe people of the state of New York, in the principal amount of twenty\npercent of such total fees and compensation. Such surety shall be for\nthe benefit of any customer who does not receive a refund of fees from\nthe provider to which he or she is entitled, or is otherwise injured by\nthe provider. The attorney general on behalf of the customer or the\ncustomer in his or her own name, may maintain an action against the\nprovider and the surety.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 426 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 4 / Section 426
Disposition of unpaid money due on account of pari-mutuel tickets not presented
Status: in_force

§ 426. Disposition of unpaid money due on account of pari-mutuel\ntickets not presented. The sum held by any corporation or association\nauthorized to conduct pari-mutuel betting for payment of outstanding\nwinning pari-mutuel tickets and for refunding the price of pari-mutuel\ntickets shall be retained by such corporation or association for such\npurposes until April first of the succeeding year; provided, however,\nthat ninety-five per centum of such sum remaining unclaimed as of the\nlast day of February of such year shall be paid to the state tax\ncommission by March fifteenth. On April tenth, the balance of such sum\nremaining unclaimed and any other unclaimed amount received in the\ncourse of conducting pari-mutuel betting shall be paid to the state tax\ncommission. A penalty of five per centum and interest at the rate of one\nper centum per month from the due date to the date of payment of the\nunclaimed balance due March fifteenth or April tenth, as the case may\nbe, shall be payable in the case such balance is not paid when due. Such\namounts, interest and penalties when collected shall be paid by the\nstate tax commission into the general fund of the state treasury.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 265 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 5-A / Section 265
Contracts
Status: in_force

§ 265. Contracts. a. The administrative head or body, where\napplicable, may contract (1) for the purchase, from any legal entity\nhaving water available, of any quantity of water for resale within the\nwater district on either a wholesale or retail basis, subject to the\napproval of the contract by the county legislative body, or (2) for the\ncollection, conveyance, treatment or disposal of sewage, wastewater\ndisposal, water quality treatment residuals, drainage and refuse with\nany public corporation or any county or town on behalf of any\nimprovement district and also with any other sewer district, wastewater\ndisposal district, water quality treatment district or private\ncorporation. If the county drainage district has capacity in excess of\nits own needs, the county legislative body may contract for the\nconveyance of storm water and other waters, both surface and\nsub-surface, from municipalities, districts and persons, corporate or\notherwise, outside the drainage district.\n  If a Suffolk county sewer district has capacity in excess of its own\nneeds, the administrative head may contract with municipalities,\ndistricts, public or private corporations, or individuals within or\nwithout the district for the collection, conveyance, treatment or\ndisposal of sewage including scavenger waste.\n  b. Upon the adoption of a resolution, the administrative head or body\nof a district, with the approval of the county legislative body, may\nenter into such contracts, as it may deem necessary, with any person,\ncorporation or association for the purpose of ensuring that the cost of\nthe county district will not constitute an undue burden upon the\nproperty within such district and may require the filing of a surety\nbond or bonds or the deposit of cash or securities with the county\ntreasurer to ensure the performance of such contracts.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 343 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 10 / Section 343
Duties of attendants for supreme and county courts in Monroe county
Status: in_force

§ 343. Duties of attendants for supreme and county courts in Monroe\ncounty. Each of the persons appointed an attendant in the supreme or\ncounty court by the sheriff of Monroe county pursuant to section four\nhundred and nine of this chapter must attend from day to day the terms\nand sittings of the court to which he is assigned, to preserve order and\nto perform such other services as may be required by the judge or\njustice presiding thereat, and shall attend at chambers and perform such\nother duties in and about said court-house in addition to their duties\nas court attendants, as may be prescribed by said justices and judges.\n
N.Y. NAV Law § 45-CC — New York Code / Act NAV / Article 4 / Part 1 / Section 45-CC
Reckless operation and speed on the canal system
Status: in_force

§ 45-cc. Reckless operation and speed on the canal system. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any inconsistent\nlocal laws, every vessel operated on the canal system, as defined in\nsubdivision one of section two of the canal law, shall be operated in a\ncareful and prudent manner in such a way as not to unreasonably\ninterfere with or endanger any other vessel or person. A violation of\nthis subdivision or any applicable rules and regulations shall be a\nmisdemeanor punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-b of this\narticle.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any\ninconsistent local laws, no vessel shall be operated on such canal\nsystem within one hundred feet of the shore, a dock, pier, raft, float\nor an anchored or moored vessel at a speed exceeding five miles per\nhour, unless such vessel is being operated near such shore, dock, float,\npier, raft, or anchored vessel for the purpose of enabling a person\nengaged in water skiing to take off or land, and except in those areas\nwhere the canal corporation has established a different speed by rule\nand regulation pursuant to the canal law. A violation of this\nsubdivision or any applicable rules and regulations shall be a violation\npunishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 93 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 6 / Section 93
Custody of records
Status: in_force

§ 93. Custody of records. 1. The secretary of state shall have the\ncustody of all laws and concurrent resolutions of the legislature, all\ndocuments issued under the great seal, all books, records, deeds,\nparchments, maps and papers deposited or kept in his or her office, and\nshall properly arrange and preserve them.\n  2. The records in the custody of the secretary of state need not be\nretained in the form in which the record is received so long as the\ntechnology used to retain such record results in a permanent record\nwhich may be accurately reproduced during the period for which the\nrecord is required to be retained. The secretary of state may promulgate\nrules and regulations relating to the use by the department of state of\nautomatic data processing, telecommunications and other information\ntechnologies for the processing of records for retention by the\ndepartment of state.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 694 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 19-B / Section 694
Violations
Status: in_force

§ 694. Violations. Any person who violates, and the officers of a\ncorporation and stockholders holding ten percent or more of the stock of\na corporation which is not publicly traded who knowingly permit the\ncorporation to violate, subdivisions one and two of sections six hundred\nninety-one and six hundred ninety-two of this article shall be guilty of\na misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine not to\nexceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one year,\nor both, by any court of competent jurisdiction. Criminal proceedings\nbased upon violation of such sections may be instituted by the\ncommissioner and/or any persons aggrieved by such violations.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 82.10 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title E / Article 82 / Section 82.10
Form of agreement
Status: in_force

* § 82.10 Form of agreement.\n  (a) A supported decision-making agreement may be in any form\nconsistent with the requirements set forth in this article.\n  (b) A supported decision-making agreement must:\n  1. be in writing;\n  2. be dated;\n  3. designate the decision-maker, and at least one supporter;\n  4. list the categories of decisions with which a supporter is\nauthorized to assist the decision-maker;\n  5. list the kinds of support that each supporter may give for each\narea in which they are designated as a supporter;\n  6. contain an attestation that the supporters agree to honor the right\nof the decision-maker to make their own decisions in the ways and areas\nspecified in the agreement, respect the decision-maker's decisions, and,\nfurther, that they will not make decisions for the decision-maker;\n  7. state that the decision-maker may change, amend, or revoke the\nsupported decision-making agreement at any time for any reason, subject\nto the requirements of section 82.06 of this article;\n  8. be signed by all designated supporters; and\n  9. be executed or endorsed by the decision-maker in the presence of at\nleast two adult witnesses who are not also designated as supporters, or\nwith the attestation of a notary public.\n  (c) A supported decision-making agreement may:\n  1. appoint more than one supporter;\n  2. authorize a supporter to obtain personal information as described\nin subdivision (e) of section 82.05 of this article;\n  3. authorize a supporter to share information with any other supporter\nor others named in the agreement; or\n  4. detail any other limitations on the scope of a supporter's role\nthat the decision-maker deems important.\n  (d) In order to be subject to the provisions of section 82.11 and\nsubdivisions (b) through (d) of section 82.12 of this article, a\nsupported decision-making agreement must also:\n  1. be signed by a facilitator or educator;\n  2. include a statement that the supported decision-making agreement\nwas made in accordance with a recognized facilitation and/or education\nprocess; and\n  3. include an attached attestation by the decision-maker that a\nparticular decision has been made in accordance with the support\ndescribed in the supported decision-making agreement.\n  * NB Effective 90 days from the date that the regulations issued in\naccordance with § 1 of chapter 481 of 2022 appear in the New York State\nRegister or the date such regulations are adopted, whichever is later.\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 129 — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 8 / Section 129
Surrender of license; notice to police officials
Status: in_force

§ 129. Surrender of license; notice to police officials.  Within three\ndays after a license shall have been revoked pursuant to this chapter,\nnotice thereof shall be given to the licensee by mailing such notice\naddressed to him at the premises licensed. Notice shall also be mailed\nto the owner of the premises licensed. The holder of such license shall\nthereupon surrender same to the liquor authority.  The mailing thereof\nby the licensee to the liquor authority by registered mail or insured\nparcel post shall be deemed sufficient compliance with this section. The\nliquor authority, immediately upon giving notice of revocation, shall\nserve a written notice thereof upon the commissioner of police, chief of\npolice or chief police officer of the city, or village in which the\npremises for which the revoked license was issued is situated, or upon\nthe sheriff of the county or a constable of the town in case the license\nwas issued for premises situated in a town and not within any city or\nvillage. Such notice shall include a statement of the number of such\nlicense, the name and place of residence of the holder thereof, the\nlocation of the licensed premises, and the date when such license was\nrevoked. In case such license be not forthwith surrendered, the liquor\nauthority shall issue a written demand for the surrender of such license\nand deliver said demand to the sheriff of the county in which the\nlicensed premises are located, or to any representative of the liquor\nauthority, and said sheriff or representative shall immediately take\npossession of such license and return the same to the liquor authority.\n
N.Y. HHC Law § 18 — New York Code / Act HHC / Section 18
Assistance to the corporation
Status: in_force

§ 18. Assistance to the corporation. The state or city shall be\nempowered to make grants of money or property to the corporation for the\npurpose of enabling it to carry out its corporate purposes and for the\nexercise of its powers, including, but not limited to, deposits to the\ncapital reserve fund to assist the corporation in maintaining the said\ncapital reserve fund in the amounts required by section thirteen.\nNothing in this section shall be interpreted as implying that in the\nabsence thereof the state or city would not be empowered to make such\ngrants to the corporation.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 980-O — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 19-A / Section 980-O
Dissolution
Status: in_force

§ 980-o. Dissolution. (a) Any district established or extended\npursuant to the provisions of this article, where there is no\nindebtedness, outstanding and unpaid, incurred to accomplish any of the\npurposes of the district, may be dissolved by local law by the\nlegislative body upon its own motion or upon the written petition of (1)\nthe owners of at least fifty-one percent or more of the total assessed\nvaluation of all benefited real property included in the boundaries of\nthe district and (2) at least fifty-one percent of the owners of\nbenefited real property within the area included in the district. The\nlegislative body shall request and consider the recommendations of the\ndistrict management association concerning any proposed dissolution;\nprovided that if the association has not submitted recommendations to\nthe legislative body within sixty days after request therefor, the\nlegislative body may adopt any such proposed dissolution without\nconsidering such recommendations.  In the event of dissolution, all\nassets of the district shall revert to the municipality.\n  (b) A certified copy of the order of dissolution shall be filed with\nthe state comptroller at Albany, New York.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 570.64 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 3 / Title Q / Article 570 / Section 570.64
Interpretation
Status: in_force

§ 570.64  Interpretation.\n  The provisions of this article shall be so interpreted and construed\nas to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those\nstates which enact it.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 97-K — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 97-K
Minority and women-owned business enterprise fund
Status: in_force

§ 97-k. Minority and women-owned business enterprise fund. 1. There is\nhereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the\ncommissioner of taxation and finance a special fund to be known as the\n"minority and women-owned business enterprise fund".\n  2. Such funds shall consist of all moneys appropriated for the purpose\nof such fund, all moneys transferred or paid to such fund pursuant to\nlaw, including pursuant to section three hundred sixteen of the\nexecutive law, and contributions consisting of grants, including grants\nor other financial assistance from any agency of government and all\nmoneys required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be\npaid into or credited to this fund.\n  3. Monies of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature,\nshall be expended by the appropriate New York state offices, agencies,\nor authorities to acquire software, employ personnel to audit,\ninvestigate and prosecute minority and women-owned business enterprise\nfraud and to underwrite minority and women-owned business enterprise\nprograms to assist minority and women business enterprise owners to\ndevelop sustainable businesses, provided that expenditures for such\nactivities shall only be required under this section to the extent that\nmonies are available in the fund to support them.\n
N.Y. IND Law § 15 — New York Code / Act IND / Article 2 / Section 15
Freedom from toll and ferriage
Status: in_force

§ 15. Freedom from toll and ferriage.  The Indians of the Six Nations\nmay pass and repass free of toll and ferriage, at all seasonable times\nof the day, on any turnpike road, which shall have been established\nsince April sixth, eighteen hundred and three, or which shall hereafter\nbe established, leading from or through the town of Canandaigua to\nBuffalo creek or its vicinity, and over any toll bridge between those\nplaces, and at the ferry across the Niagara river at or near Black Rock,\nor at such place or places in its vicinity where any ferry shall have\nbeen established since such time, or shall hereafter be established.\n
N.Y. UCT Law § 1906 — New York Code / Act UCT / Article 19 / Section 1906
Costs allowed by court
Status: in_force

§ 1906. Costs allowed by court.\n  The court may in its discretion impose costs not exceeding fifty\ndollars in the following cases:\n  (a) Upon granting or denying a motion.\n  (b) Upon allowing an amendment of a pleading.\n  (c) Upon adjournment of a trial.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 292 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 9 / Section 292
Original stenographic notes part of proceedings in cause
Status: in_force

§ 292. Original stenographic notes part of proceedings in cause. The\noriginal stenographic notes, taken by a stenographer, are part of the\nproceedings in the cause.\n