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N.Y. CPL Law § 150.50 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 2 / Title H / Article 150 / Section 150.50
Appearance ticket; filing a local criminal court accusatory instrument; dismissal of insufficient instrument
Status: in_force

§ 150.50 Appearance ticket; filing a local criminal court accusatory\n           instrument; dismissal of insufficient instrument.\n  1. A police officer or other public servant who has issued and served\nan appearance ticket must, at or before the time such appearance ticket\nis returnable, file or cause to be filed with the local criminal court\nin which it is returnable a local criminal court accusatory instrument\ncharging the person named in such appearance ticket with the offense\nspecified therein; provided, however, that no separate accusatory\ninstrument shall be required to be filed for an appearance ticket issued\nfor a parking infraction which conforms to the requirements set forth in\nparagraph (b) of subdivision one of section 1.20 of this chapter.\nNothing herein contained shall authorize the use of a simplified\ninformation when not authorized by law.\n  2. If such accusatory instrument is not sufficient on its face, as\nprescribed in section 100.40, and if the court is satisfied that on the\nbasis of the available facts or evidence it would be impossible to draw\nand file an accusatory instrument which is sufficient on its face, it\nmust dismiss such accusatory instrument.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 399-QQ — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 26 / Section 399-QQ
Sale or promotional distribution of utility knives, box cutters, or box cart cutters
Status: in_force

§ 399-qq. Sale or promotional distribution of utility knives, box\ncutters, or box cart cutters. 1. No person, firm, or corporation shall\nsell or offer to sell or give away as either a retail or wholesale\npromotion a utility knife, box cutter, or box cart cutter to any person\nunder eighteen years of age.\n  2. For purposes of this section, the term "utility knife", "box\ncutter", or "box cart cutter" means a knife consisting of a razor blade,\nretractable or non-retractable, attached to or contained within a\nplastic or metal housing.\n  3. The provisions of this section shall not preclude the temporary\ntransfer of a utility knife, box cutter, or box cart cutter to a person\nunder eighteen years of age by such person's employer where such device\nis possessed only on the employer's premises and only during the course\nand scope of such person's employment.\n  4. No provision of this section shall be deemed to restrict the\nauthority of any county, city, town or village to enact and enforce\nadditional local laws, ordinances or codes, or portions thereof,\nprovided the provisions thereof are not inconsistent with the provisions\nof this section.\n  5. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates the provisions of\nthis section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five\nhundred dollars.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 429 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 12 / Section 429
Restrictions on claims against assurance fund
Status: in_force

§ 429.  Restrictions on claims against assurance fund.  No person\nshall recover from the assurance fund, or the county or city general\nfund after the assurance fund has been terminated pursuant to section\nfour hundred twenty-six of this article, any greater sum than the fair\nmarket value of the property at the time the right to bring such action\nfirst accrued. Any action or proceeding to recover damages out of the\nassurance fund shall be commenced within six years from the time when\nthe right to begin the same accrued, and not afterward, and such time\nshall not be extended because of any disability.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 9-309 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 9 / Part 3 / Subpart 2 / Section 9-309
Security Interest Perfected upon Attachment
Status: in_force

Section 9--309. Security Interest Perfected upon Attachment.\n  The following security interests are perfected when they attach:\n  (1) a purchase-money security interest in consumer goods, except as\notherwise provided in Section 9--311(b) with respect to consumer goods\nthat are subject to a statute or treaty described in Section 9--311(a);\n  (2) an assignment of accounts or payment intangibles which does not by\nitself or in conjunction with other assignments to the same assignee\ntransfer a significant part of the assignor's outstanding accounts or\npayment intangibles;\n  (3) a sale of a payment intangible;\n  (4) a sale of a promissory note;\n  (5) a security interest created by the assignment of a\nhealth-care-insurance receivable to the provider of the health-care\ngoods or services;\n  (6) a security interest arising under Section 2--401, 2--505,\n2--711(3), or 2-A-508(5), until the debtor obtains possession of the\ncollateral;\n  (7) a security interest of a collecting bank arising under Section\n4--210;\n  (8) a security interest of an issuer or nominated person arising under\nSection 5--118;\n  (9) a security interest arising in the delivery of a financial asset\nunder Section 9--206(c);\n  (10) a security interest in investment property created by a broker or\nsecurities intermediary;\n  (11) a security interest in a commodity contract or a commodity\naccount created by a commodity intermediary;\n  (12) an assignment for the benefit of all creditors of the transferor\nand subsequent transfers by the assignee thereunder;\n  (13) a security interest created by an assignment of a beneficial\ninterest in a decedent's estate; and\n  (14) a sale by an individual of an account that is a right to payment\nof winnings in a lottery or other game of chance.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 100 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 5-A / Section 100
Compact
Status: in_force

§ 100. Compact. The interstate corrections compact as set forth in\nthis article is hereby adopted and entered into with all jurisdictions\njoining therein.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 230.11 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title M / Article 230 / Section 230.11
Aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the third degree
Status: in_force

§ 230.11 Aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the third\n           degree.\n  A person is guilty of aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution\nin the third degree when, being twenty-one years old or more, he or she\npatronizes a person for prostitution and the person patronized is less\nthan seventeen years old and the person guilty of patronizing engages in\nvaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact, anal sexual contact, or\naggravated sexual contact as those terms are defined in section 130.00\nof this part, with the person patronized.\n  Aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the third degree is\na class E felony.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 139-H — New York Code / Act STF / Article 9 / Section 139-H
Participation in an international boycott prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 139-h. Participation in an international boycott prohibited. 1.  A\nclause shall be inserted in all specifications or contracts hereafter\nmade or awarded by the state or any public department, agency or\nofficial thereof, for work or services performed or to be performed, for\ngoods sold or to be sold, in an amount exceeding five thousand dollars,\npursuant to which any contractor, to whom any contract shall be let,\ngranted or awarded, agrees, as a material condition of the contract,\nthat neither such contractor nor any substantially owned or affiliated\nperson, firm, partnership or corporation has participated or is\nparticipating or shall participate in an international boycott in\nviolation of the provisions of the United States export administration\nact of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended, or the export\nadministration act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine, as amended, or the\nregulations of the United States department of commerce promulgated\nthereunder.\n  2. Any such contract shall be rendered forfeit and void by the state\ncomptroller, if, subsequent to execution, such person, firm, partnership\nor corporation has been convicted of a violation of the provisions of\nthe United States export administration act of nineteen hundred\nsixty-nine, as amended, or the export administration act of nineteen\nhundred seventy-nine, as amended, or the regulations promulgated\nthereunder or has been found upon the final determination of the United\nStates commerce department or any other appropriate agency of the United\nStates to have violated the provisions of either such federal act or\nsuch regulations.\n  3. Nothing contained in this section shall operate to impair any\nexisting contract, except that any renewal, amendment or modification of\nsuch contract occurring on or after the effective date of this section\nshall be subject to the conditions specified in this section.\n  4. The comptroller of the state shall have the power to issue rules\nand regulations pursuant to this section.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 1615 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 16 / Section 1615
Construction, intent and scope
Status: in_force

§ 1615. Construction, intent and scope.\n  The provisions of this article shall be construed liberally to\neffectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and\nindependent authorization for the performance of each and every act and\nthing authorized by this article, and all powers granted shall be\nbroadly interpreted to effectuate the intent and purposes and not as a\nlimitation of powers. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this\narticle, in the exercise of its powers and duties under this article and\nits powers relating to property held by the land bank, the land bank\nshall have complete control as fully and completely as if it represented\na private property owner and shall not be subject to restrictions\nimposed by the charter, ordinances, or resolutions of a local unit of\ngovernment.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 383-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 10 / Section 383-A
Rental of safe deposit boxes
Status: in_force

§ 383-a. Rental of safe deposit boxes. Any savings and loan\nassociation may rent to its members safe deposit boxes in which to keep\npersonal property and papers of any kind.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 353 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 26 / Section 353
Overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance
Status: in_force

§ 353. Overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide\nproper sustenance. A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures or\ncruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or kills any\nanimal, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to himself or to\nanother, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink,\nor neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or\ncauses, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded,\ntortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or\nkilled, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who wilfully\nsets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any act of\ncruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, is\nguilty of a class A misdemeanor and for purposes of paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision one of section 160.10 of the criminal procedure law, shall\nbe treated as a misdemeanor defined in the penal law.\n  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or interfere\nwith any properly conducted scientific tests, experiments or\ninvestigations, involving the use of living animals, performed or\nconducted in laboratories or institutions, which are approved for these\npurposes by the state commissioner of health. The state commissioner of\nhealth shall prescribe the rules under which such approvals shall be\ngranted, including therein standards regarding the care and treatment of\nany such animals. Such rules shall be published and copies thereof\nconspicuously posted in each such laboratory or institution. The state\ncommissioner of health or his duly authorized representative shall have\nthe power to inspect such laboratories or institutions to insure\ncompliance with such rules and standards. Each such approval may be\nrevoked at any time for failure to comply with such rules and in any\ncase the approval shall be limited to a period not exceeding one year.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 6-3.4 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 6 / Part 3 / Section 6-3.4
When future estates are created
Status: in_force

§ 6-3.4 When future estates are created\n  A future estate is created when the disposition creating it becomes\nlegally effective.\n
N.Y. ABP Law § 1420 — New York Code / Act ABP / Article 14 / Section 1420
Property held by agricultural cooperative corporations
Status: in_force

§ 1420. Property held by agricultural cooperative corporations.  1.\nFor the purposes of this section, "agricultural cooperative corporation"\nshall include any corporation organized or qualified to do business in\nthis state pursuant to the cooperative corporations law, which is\noperated primarily for the benefit of producers of agricultural\nproducts, as such term is defined in subdivision (a) of section three of\nthe cooperative corporations law.  Notwithstanding any other provision\nof this chapter to the contrary, any share of stock, credit, dividend,\nprofit, patronage refund, distribution, interest, equity certificate,\nequity retain, payment, or other money or property which:\n  (a) is in the possession of an agricultural cooperative corporation\norganized or qualified to do business in this state pursuant to the\ncooperative corporations law;\n  (b) evidences membership in or resulted from patronage with an\nagricultural cooperative corporation or the predecessor of such\ncorporation; and\n  (c) is held for, allocated to the account of, allocated in the name of\nor owing by the agricultural cooperative corporation to a member,\nstockholder, patron or other person; shall not be deemed abandoned\nproperty or otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 933 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 24 / Section 933
Appropriations for extraordinary criminal actions
Status: in_force

§ 933. Appropriations for extraordinary criminal actions. It shall be\nlawful for the city, upon the certificate of the district attorney of\nany county within the city of New York, to appropriate such sums as it\nmay deem necessary, for the proper conduct of a criminal action of\nexceptional difficulty. Such sums shall be raised pursuant to paragraph\nten of subdivision a of section one hundred seventeen of the New York\ncity charter.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 911 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 40 / Section 911
Discrimination on the basis of credit card ownership prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 911. Discrimination on the basis of credit card ownership\nprohibited. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership,\ninstitution, sole proprietorship, corporation or other entity engaged in\nthe business of peer-to-peer car sharing to refuse to make a shared\nvehicle available to any person solely on the requirement of ownership\nof a credit card.\n  2. For the purposes of this section, "credit card" shall mean any\ncredit card, credit plate, charge plate or other identification card or\ndevice which is issued by a person to another person as the holder\nthereof, and may be used by such holder to obtain a cash advance, loan,\nor credit, or to purchase or rent property or services on the credit of\nthe person issuing the credit card or the holder.\n  3. A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine\nnot to exceed one thousand dollars.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 145.30 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title I / Article 145 / Section 145.30
Unlawfully posting advertisements
Status: in_force

§ 145.30 Unlawfully posting advertisements.\n  1. A person is guilty of unlawfully posting advertisements when,\nhaving no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he\nhas such right, he posts, paints or otherwise affixes to the property of\nanother person any advertisement, poster, notice or other matter\ndesigned to benefit a person other than the owner of the property.\n  2. Where such matter consists of a commercial advertisement, it shall\nbe presumed that the vendor of the specified product, service or\nentertainment is a person who placed such advertisement or caused it to\nbe placed upon the property.\n  Unlawfully posting advertisements is a violation.\n
N.Y. GCM Law § 30 — New York Code / Act GCM / Part 3 / Subpart 2 / Section 30
Administration; procedure; provisions of law applicable
Status: in_force

§ 30. Administration; procedure; provisions of law applicable. For the\npurpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this subpart, and\nexcept as otherwise provided in this subpart, income shall be computed,\ngain or loss ascertained, deductions made, apportionments and\nallocations determined, at the same time and subject to the same\nlimitations and conditions, in so far as practicable, as is provided by\nsubpart one of this part in relation to the tax imposed by such subpart.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 3038 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 41 / Part 3 / Section 3038
Civil damages for unauthorized disclosure of returns and return information
Status: in_force

§ 3038.  Civil damages for unauthorized disclosure of returns and\nreturn information. (a) General. (1) Disclosure by employee of the\nstate.  If any officer or employee of the state of New York knowingly,\nor by reason of negligence, discloses any return or report, any\nparticulars set forth or disclosed in any return or report, or any other\ninformation with respect to a taxpayer in violation of any provision\nlisted in section eighteen hundred twenty-five of this chapter, such\ntaxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against the state in the\ncourt of claims.\n  (2)  Disclosure by a person who is not an employee of the state.  If a\nperson who is not an officer or employee of the state knowingly, or by\nreason of negligence, discloses any return or report, any particulars\nset forth or disclosed in any return or report, or any other information\nwith respect to a taxpayer in violation of any provision listed in\nsection eighteen hundred twenty-five of this chapter, such taxpayer may\nbring a civil action for damages against such person.\n  (b)  No liability for good faith but erroneous interpretation.  No\nliability shall arise under this section with respect to any disclosure\nwhich results from a good faith, but erroneous, interpretation of any of\nthe provisions listed in section eighteen hundred twenty-five of this\nchapter.\n  (c)  Damages.  In any action brought under subdivision (a) of this\nsection, upon a finding of a liability on the part of the defendant, the\ndefendant shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal to the sum\nof (1) the greater of (A) one thousand dollars for each act of\nunauthorized disclosure with respect to which such defendant is found\nliable, or (B) the sum of (i) the actual damages sustained by the\nplaintiff as a result of such unauthorized disclosure, plus (ii) in the\ncase of a willful disclosure or a disclosure which is the result of\ngross negligence, punitive damages, plus (2) the costs of the action.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 209 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 12-A / Section 209
Application of article
Status: in_force

§ 209. Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions of\nthis chapter, the town board of any town may, in the manner provided by\nthis article, establish or extend in said town, improvement districts as\ndefined in this article and provide improvements or services, or both,\nin any such district, wholly at the expense of the district; but no\nwater supply district shall be established or extended to include lands\nsituate within the boundaries of a water district. Any improvement\ndistrict as defined in this article established pursuant to this article\nor otherwise may be extended pursuant to the provisions of this article\nor any other applicable provision of law. However, this article shall\nnot apply to the extension of any such improvement districts to which\nthe provisions of article thirteen of this chapter are applicable\nwithout the prior approval in writing of a majority of the commissioners\nof such district. No such district shall be established or extended in a\ncity or in an incorporated village provided, however, that such a\ndistrict may be established or extended wholly or partly within an\nincorporated village on consent of the village expressed in a local law,\nordinance or resolution, subject to a referendum on petition under\nsection twenty-four of the municipal home rule law or a permissive\nreferendum under article five-a of the village law, as the case may be.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 738 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 20-B / Section 738
Actions for damages
Status: in_force

§ 738. Actions for damages. Any employee or prospective employee\ndamaged as the result of a violation of any of the provisions of this\narticle shall be entitled to file an action for damages in the supreme\ncourt of this state.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 518 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15 / Section 518
Rules and regulations of commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 518. Rules and regulations of commissioner.  The commissioner shall\nhave the power to make, promulgate, modify, amend and repeal rules and\nregulations to effectuate his powers and duties under this article. No\nsuch rule or regulation shall be effective until it is filed in the\noffice of the department of state.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 156-C — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 8 / Section 156-C
Statement required for termination of lease
Status: in_force

§ 156-c. Statement required for termination of lease.  Notwithstanding\nany other provision of law, an authority must incorporate into a written\nnotice of termination of a lease the specific grounds upon which it has\nmade its determination for termination.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 470 — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 8-B / Section 470
Policy and purposes of article
Status: in_force

§ 470. Policy and purposes of article. It is hereby declared and found\nthat there exists in municipalities within the state substandard and\nunsanitary areas and neighborhoods containing deteriorated one to four\nunit private and multiple dwellings, and that the rehabilitation or\npreservation of such dwellings is necessary in order to aid in the\nprevention and elimination of slums and blight in such areas and\nneighborhoods.\n  It further is found that there exists in such municipalities a\nseriously inadequate supply of safe and sanitary one to four unit\nprivate and multiple dwellings, particularly for persons of low and\nmoderate income, that existing non-compliance with local housing codes\nand with the multiple dwelling law and the multiple residence law\nthreatens to decrease such supply, and that the rehabilitation,\npreservation and improvement of such dwellings is necessary to arrest\nsuch conditions of deterioration.\n  It further is found that the elimination of such conditions by\nrehabilitation or other improvements in one to four unit private and\nmultiple dwellings cannot be readily provided without public aid in the\nform of low interest loans or grants to owners of such one to four unit\ndwellings.\n  The rehabilitation, preservation or other improvement of such private\nand multiple dwellings is hereby declared a public purpose and a\nmunicipal purpose for which public monies may be loaned or granted.\n  In order, further, to promote the preservation and rehabilitation of\nsuch dwellings, it is hereby declared that additional provisions should\nbe made to provide public monies for interest reduction subsidies for\nprivate loans made by private investors for such rehabilitation.\n  The necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this\narticle is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.\n