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N.Y. CNT Law § 625 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 16 / Section 625
County purchasing agent; terms; duties
Status: in_force

§ 625. County purchasing agent; terms; duties. The board of\nsupervisors shall have power to create the office of county purchasing\nagent, who shall be appointed for the term for which the membership of\nsuch board appointing him was elected. Except as otherwise provided by\nlaw, he shall make all purchases and contracts for supplies for the\nvarious county offices, buildings, institutions and grounds of the\ncounty, and shall let to public advertisement and bid all purchases when\nso required by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.\nHe shall prescribe the form of requisitions, and of receipts for\nsupplies delivered without requisition. No claim shall be audited and\npaid without the requisition or delivery receipt being attached thereto.\nHe shall be the custodian of all vouchers, requisitions, receipts and\nother papers pertaining thereto which shall be open to public\ninspection. He shall upon dates to be fixed by the board and covering\nperiods to be specified by it furnish to the county treasurer and to the\nclerk of the board of supervisors verified statements of all purchases\ntogether with the quantity and price and shall furnish to the board of\nsupervisors such additional statements as the board may direct. He shall\nperform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law\nand directed by the board of supervisors.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 11-A-4.15 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 11-A / Part 4 / Subpart 3 / Section 11-A-4.15
Asset-backed securities
Status: in_force

§ 11-A-4.15 Asset-backed securities\n  (a) In this section, "asset-backed security" means an asset whose\nvalue is based upon the right it gives the owner to receive\ndistributions from the proceeds of financial assets that provide\ncollateral for the security. The term includes an asset that gives the\nowner the right to receive from the collateral financial assets only the\ninterest or other current return or only the proceeds other than\ninterest or current return. The term does not include an asset to which\n11-A-4.1 or 11-A-4.9 applies.\n  (b) If a trust receives a payment from interest or other current\nreturn and from other proceeds of the collateral financial assets, the\ntrustee shall allocate to income the portion of the payment which the\npayer identifies as being from interest or other current return and\nshall allocate the balance of the payment to principal.\n  (c) If a trust receives one or more payments in exchange for the\ntrust's entire interest in an asset-backed security in one accounting\nperiod, the trustee shall allocate the payments to principal. If a\npayment is one of a series of payments that will result in the\nliquidation of the trust's interest in the security over more than one\naccounting period, the trustee shall allocate ten percent of the payment\nto income and the balance to principal.\n
N.Y. UCT Law § 412 — New York Code / Act UCT / Article 4 / Section 412
Accrual of interest
Status: in_force

§ 412. Accrual of interest.\n  In any action, petition, order to show cause or other proceeding\nwherein interest accrues from the date of the inception of the action,\npetition, order or proceeding, said entitlement to interest shall not\naccrue until service is completed by the actual index number being\nproperly depicted on the summons and provided to the party to be charged\nwith payment of interest.\n
N.Y. DEA Law § 122 — New York Code / Act DEA / Article 9 / Section 122
When to take effect
Status: in_force

§ 122. When to take effect. This act shall take effect immediately.\n
N.Y. TRA Law § 475 — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 21 / Section 475
Contracts for municipal transportation infrastructure projects
Status: in_force

* § 475. Contracts for municipal transportation infrastructure\nprojects.  Any such contract between the commissioner and a municipality\nmay include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the parties\nthereto, and shall include, in substance, the following:\n  1. an estimate of the reasonable cost of the project as determined by\nthe commissioner;\n  2. an agreement by the commissioner to pay to the municipality during\nthe progress of construction or following completion of construction an\namount as may be agreed upon by the parties;\n  3. an agreement by the municipality:\n  (a) to proceed expeditiously with and complete the project as approved\nby the commissioner,\n  (b) to apply for and/or make reasonable efforts to secure federal\nassistance, if any, for the project,\n  (c) to provide for the municipality's share of the cost of the\nproject, if any,\n  (d) to maintain the project at its own expense in accordance with the\nrequirements of the commissioner for the period of time corresponding to\nthe period of useful life for such project as determined by reference to\nsection sixty-one of the state finance law; and\n  4. a provision that, in the event that federal assistance which was\nnot included in the calculation of the state financial assistance\nbecomes available to the municipality, the amount of the state financial\nassistance shall be recalculated by reducing the amount of the state\nfinancial assistance by the amount of such federal assistance, and the\nmunicipality shall pay to the state the amount by which the state\npayment actually made exceeds the state financial assistance determined\nby the recalculation, if any.\n  * NB Not effective due to defeat of the Transportation Bond Act of\n2000\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 1811 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 18 / Section 1811
Payment of debts and funeral expenses 1
Status: in_force

§ 1811. Payment of debts and funeral expenses\n  1. The reasonable funeral expenses of the decedent subject to the\npayment of expenses of administration shall be preferred to all debts\nand claims against his estate and shall be paid out of the first moneys\nreceived by his fiduciary.\n  2. Every fiduciary must proceed with diligence to pay the debts of the\ndecedent according to the following order:\n  (a) Debts entitled to a preference under the laws of the United States\nand the state of New York.\n  (b) Taxes assessed on property of the deceased previous to his death.\nAny taxes so paid by a fiduciary on real property which descends to a\ndistributee or passes to a devisee shall be a charge thereon for which\nthe beneficiary must reimburse the estate unless in the case of wills\nthe testator has indicated expressly or by necessary implication that\nsuch taxes be otherwise paid.\n  (c) Judgments docketed and decrees entered against the decedent\naccording to the priority thereof respectively.\n  (d) All recognizances, bonds, sealed instruments, notes, bills and\nunliquidated demands and accounts.\n  3. Preference shall not be given in the payment of a debt over other\ndebts of the same class, except those specified in subparagraph (c) of\nsubdivision 2. A debt due and payable shall not be entitled to a\npreference over debts not due. The commencement of a suit for the\nrecovery of a debt or the obtaining of a judgment thereon against the\nfiduciary shall not entitle this debt to preference over others of the\nsame class. Debts not due may be paid according to the class to which\nthey belong, after deducting a rebate of legal interest on the sum paid\nfor the unexpired term of credit without interest. A debt or claim of\nthe fiduciary shall not have preference over others of the same class,\nexcept that if the claim of the fiduciary is secured by collateral the\nfiduciary may apply to the court for leave to surrender the collateral\nand make payment of the claim upon such conditions as directed by the\ncourt. Preference may be given to rents due or accruing on leases held\nby the decedent at the time of his death over other debts specified in\nsubdivision 2 (d) if it appears to the court's satisfaction that such\npreference will benefit the estate of the decedent.\n  4. Dividends payable to secured creditors in insolvent estates shall\nbe computed only upon the difference between the face amount of the\nclaim without security and the value of the security itself as of a date\nto be determined by the court for the fixation of the rights of\ncreditors, unless the creditor shall surrender his security to the\nfiduciary, in which event the dividend upon such claim when established\nas valid shall be computed on the full face amount thereof.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 208-A — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 10 / Section 208-A
School guards
Status: in_force

§ 208-a. School guards. The duly constituted authorities of any city,\ntown, or village or any county police department or police district may\ndesignate, authorize and appoint such a number of persons as such\nauthority shall deem necessary, and at such salaries as such authority\nshall deem advisable, as school crossing guards to aid in protecting\nschool children going to and from school, and church crossing guards to\naid in protecting persons going to and from places of worship, and for\nsuch purpose shall have power to control vehicular traffic within such\nmunicipality. A board of education or trustees of a school district may\nenter into an agreement with any city, town, village or county police\ndepartment or police district whereby such school district pays for all\nor any portion of the salaries of the school crossing guards providing\nservices pursuant to this section to the students of such district.\nNotwithstanding any agreement entered into pursuant to this section,\nschool crossing guards shall not be considered employees of the school\ndistrict. The authority of a board of education or trustees of a school\ndistrict to enter into such agreement shall only exist when such\nagreement results in an increase to the number of school crossing guards\nemployed by the city, town, village, county police department or police\ndistrict.\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 147 — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 9 / Section 147
Effective duration of local option determination
Status: in_force

§ 147. Effective duration of local option determination. 1. In any\ntown or city in which a vote shall be taken on any one or more of the\nlocal option questions provided for in this article, no further vote\nshall be submitted upon any local option question that was presented to\nthe voters before the second general election thereafter.\n  2. If at the time of any subsequent submission of such questions it\nshall be lawful to sell alcoholic beverages and a majority of the votes\ncast shall be in the negative on such questions, then all of the\nprovisions of this article applicable thereto shall become effective.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 34-0110 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 34 / Section 34-0110
Provision of technical assistance
Status: in_force

§ 34-0110. Provision of technical assistance.\n  The commissioner shall encourage and assist affected local governments\nin the preparation and implementation of erosion hazard area ordinances\nand local laws. When an erosion hazard area has been identified pursuant\nto section 34-0104 of this article, the commissioner shall provide to\nthe affected local governments whatever technical assistance may be\nnecessary to enable such local governments to prepare and adopt erosion\nhazard area ordinances or local laws meeting the requirements of section\n34-0105 of this article or section 34-0106 of this article, as the case\nmay be. Such efforts shall include, as may be necessary, maps, model\nerosion hazard area regulations, and other information.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 1905 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 19 / Section 1905
When disposition may be refused or delayed 1
Status: in_force

§ 1905. When disposition may be refused or delayed\n  1. The court may deny the application upon such terms and conditions\nas justice shall require.\n  2. If the disposition affects real property and it appears that the\nnet income thereof may be sufficient to make the disposition unnecessary\nwithin a reasonable time, the court may postpone the application from\ntime to time and authorize the fiduciary to enter into possession of the\nproperty, to receive the rents thereof and to apply the net rents as\ndirected by the court.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 464-B — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 8 / Section 464-B
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 464-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:\n  1. "Rural area" shall mean a rural area as defined in section two\nthousand nine hundred fifty-one of the public health law.\n  2. "Advisory committee" shall mean the committee created in accordance\nwith section four hundred sixty-four-c of this article, for the purposes\nof assisting the commissioner in administering the New York state rural\nhuman services networking program created pursuant to the provisions of\nthis article.\n  3. "Human service" shall mean any service provided to individuals or\ngroups of individuals, for the purpose of improving or enhancing such\nindividuals' health and/or welfare, by addressing social problems\nincluding but not limited to: domestic violence, teenage pregnancy,\nmigrant health problems, child abuse, nutritional deficiencies, suicide,\nhunger, unemployment, lack of suitable shelter, crime, drug and alcohol\nabuse and poverty.\n  4. "Human services provider" shall mean any public or not-for-profit\nprivate entity utilizing public and/or private funds to provide or\ncontract for the provision of human services for the benefit of the\ngeneral public or specific client groups.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 1407 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 14 / Section 1407
Alumni corporations
Status: in_force

§ 1407. Alumni corporations.\n  (a) Alumni may be incorporated.\n  The alumni of any college or university, or of one or more colleges or\nschools of any university, may be incorporated by executing and filing a\ncertificate pursuant to article 4 of this chapter.\n  (b) Type of corporation.\n  An alumni corporation is a charitable corporation.\n  (c) Powers.\n  An alumni corporation may create, manage and control a fund, to be\nknown as the alumni fund, and for that purpose acquire and hold real and\npersonal property. The principal of such fund, or the income derived\ntherefrom, may be transferred to the college or university with which\nsuch corporation is identified, or used for and applied to such object\nor objects connected with such college or university as such alumni\ncorporation shall direct.\n  (d) Alumni fund.\n  The directors of an alumni corporation shall have the custody and\nmanagement of the alumni fund but shall not dispose of the whole or any\npart of the principal of any invested fund except as authorized by a\ntwo-thirds vote of the members of such corporation, present at an annual\nmeeting thereof.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 510 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 5 / Section 510
Disposition of all or substantially all assets
Status: in_force

§ 510. Disposition of all or substantially all assets.\n  (a) A sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all, or\nsubstantially all, the assets of a corporation may be made upon such\nterms and conditions and for such consideration, which may consist in\nwhole or in part of cash or other property, real or personal, including\nshares, bonds or other securities of any other domestic or foreign\ncorporation or corporations of any kind, as may be authorized in\naccordance with the following procedure:\n  (1) If there are members entitled to vote thereon, the board shall\nadopt a resolution recommending such sale, lease, exchange or other\ndisposition. The resolution shall specify the terms and conditions of\nthe proposed transaction, including the consideration to be received by\nthe corporation and the eventual disposition to be made of such\nconsideration, together with a statement that the dissolution of the\ncorporation is or is not contemplated thereafter. The resolution shall\nbe submitted to a vote at a meeting of members entitled to vote thereon,\nwhich may be either an annual or a special meeting. Notice of the\nmeeting shall be given to each member and each holder of subvention\ncertificates or bonds of the corporation, whether or not entitled to\nvote. At such meeting by two-thirds vote as provided in paragraph (c) of\nsection 613 (Vote of members) the members may approve the proposed\ntransaction according to the terms of the resolution of the board, or\nmay approve such sale, lease, exchange or other disposition and may\nauthorize the board to modify the terms and conditions thereof.\n  (2) If there are no members entitled to vote thereon, such sale,\nlease, exchange or other disposition shall be authorized by the vote of\nat least two-thirds of the entire board, provided that if there are\ntwenty-one or more directors, the vote of a majority of the entire board\nshall be sufficient.\n  (3) If the corporation is, or would be if formed under this chapter,\nclassified as a charitable corporation under section 201 (Purposes) such\nsale, lease, exchange or other disposition shall in addition require\napproval of the attorney general or the supreme court in the judicial\ndistrict or of the county court of the county in which the corporation\nhas its office or principal place of carrying out the purposes for which\nit was formed in accordance with section 511 (Petition for court\napproval) or section 511-a (Petition for attorney general approval) of\nthis article.\n  (b) After such authorization the board in its discretion may abandon\nsuch sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of assets, subject to\nthe rights of third parties under any contract relating thereto, without\nfurther action or approval.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 500 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15 / Section 500
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 500. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited and\nreferred to as the "urban renewal law."\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 682 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 19-A / Section 682
Referrals by employment agencies
Status: in_force

§ 682. Referrals by employment agencies.  No employment agency shall\nplace or attempt to place any employee in an occupation at less than the\nwage applicable to such occupation under this article.\n  The term "employment agency" as used in this section shall mean an\nemployment agency as defined in section one hundred seventy-one of the\ngeneral business law.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 189-I — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 11-A / Section 189-I
Fire protection
Status: in_force

§ 189-i. Fire protection. The board of fire commissioners shall\nprovide fire protection throughout the entire district and for that\npurpose may accept the services of any volunteer fire department or\ncompany organized and operating within the village, or if the\ncommissioners are unable to provide such fire protection by volunteer\nservices, it may employ and fix the compensation of such firefighters as\nmay be necessary to provide such protection. Moneys, if any, paid to\nfirefighters shall be deemed a part of the cost of maintenance and\noperation of the district.\n
N.Y. DCD Law § 281 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 10 / Section 281
Uniformity of application and construction
Status: in_force

§ 281. Uniformity of application and construction. This article shall\nbe applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make\nuniform the law with respect to the subject of this article among states\nenacting it.\n
N.Y. VIL Law § 16-1606 — New York Code / Act VIL / Article 16 / Section 16-1606
Effect of reincorporation
Status: in_force

§ 16-1606 Effect of reincorporation. If the proposition be adopted,\nthe reincorporation of the village under this chapter shall take effect\nimmediately upon the filing of the certificate of election in the office\nof the village clerk and the secretary of state. From and after such\nfiling such village shall be deemed incorporated under this chapter, and\nshall possess all the powers, enjoy all the privileges and be subject to\nall the liabilities, in all respects and for all purposes, as if it had\nbeen originally incorporated thereunder. Such reincorporation shall not\naffect any action then pending or cause of action existing by or against\nsuch village, nor property rights thereof under the provisions of any\nlaw to which it was then subject, nor affect the validity of any lawful\nordinance previously enacted.  The officers of the village in office\nwhen the reincorporation takes effect shall continue to hold their\noffices until the end of their term or until their successors shall have\nqualified.  The term of office of an officer elected at an annual\nelection, at which the proposition to reincorporate was adopted, shall\nnot be affected by such reincorporation and such term shall begin at\nnoon on the first Monday in the month following such election and\ncontinue for a full term expiring on the first Monday in the month\nfollowing the election at which their successors shall have been\nelected.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 79.37 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title E / Article 79 / Section 79.37
Invalidity of part of article
Status: in_force

§ 79.37 Invalidity of part of article.\n  The invalidity of any portion of this article shall not affect the\nvalidity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without\nsuch invalid part.\n
N.Y. CTC Law § 22 — New York Code / Act CTC / Article 3 / Section 22
Determination of ownership of awards for property appropriated
Status: in_force

§ 22. Determination of ownership of awards for property appropriated.\n1.  In the event there may be adverse and conflicting claims asserted to\nan award for property appropriated by the state or any part thereof, or\nif there be any apparent lien or encumbrance on the property so\nappropriated, or on any interest therein, or any dower or other interest\nwhich has been asserted by any party as affecting the rights to an\naward, or which has caused the attorney general or other official of the\nstate to refuse to make payment of any portion of the award, the court\nmay, upon motion of a party in an action to determine the amount of said\naward, order the interpleader or joinder of anyone claiming or imputed\nto have such a claim or interest.\n  The court shall determine the respective interests and rights of the\nparties to the award and the method of apportionment thereof, and direct\nto whom the same shall be paid.\n  2. In the event the court is unable for any reason to determine the\nvarious interests in the award for the property appropriated, and in any\nother case as justice requires, it may, in and by its award and judgment\ndirect the comptroller to deposit the amount awarded as compensation for\nthe property appropriated in any bank in which moneys belonging to the\nfund from which such compensation is payable may be deposited, to the\naccount of such award. In any case where the court has directed a\ndeposit in accordance with this subdivision, the comptroller may, at his\noption, deposit such money in a sub-account of the eminent domain\naccount established by section ninety-seven-dd of the state finance law.\nAny deposits made pursuant to this subdivision shall be paid and\ndistributed to the persons entitled to the same as ordered by the\nsupreme court on application of any person interested in such award.\n