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N.Y. EXC Law § 837-R — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 35 / Section 837-R
Office of sex offender management
Status: in_force

§ 837-r. Office of sex offender management. 1. Establishment of\noffice.  There is hereby established within the division of criminal\njustice services the office of sex offender management, hereinafter in\nthis section referred to as "the office."\n  2. Duties and responsibilities. The office, in consultation with the\ncommissioner of mental health, shall be responsible for policy matters\nrelating to sex offenders and the management of their behavior. Its\nactivities as to such matters shall include, but not be limited to:\n  (a) Studying issues relating to management of sex offender behavior in\nconsultation with experts, service providers and representative\norganizations in the field of sex offender management;\n  (b) Serving as a clearinghouse for information and materials including\nlists of treatment providers and other community resources for sex\noffender management;\n  (c) Advising the governor and the legislature on the most effective\nways for state government to address issues of sex offender management;\n  (d) Coordinating and recommending sex offender management policy and\ninteragency initiatives including matters relating to risk assessment;\nprovision of treatment; supervision policy; the use of videoconferencing\nand other tools to expedite hearings; the use of polygraphs, electronic\nmonitoring, and other supervisory tools; the sharing of information\namong relevant agencies; residential issues; and other matters relating\nto re-entry and integration into society;\n  (e) Developing recommendations as to standards, guidelines, best\npractices, and qualifications for sex offender assessment, treatment,\nand supervision;\n  (f) Acting as an advocate for sex offense victims and programs and\ncoordinating activities of other agencies with related functions;\n  (g) Developing and implementing campaigns of public awareness,\ncommunity outreach, and sex offense prevention;\n  (h) Coordinating programs of training and education for law\nenforcement and treatment providers, judges, attorneys, and other\nprofessionals; and\n  (i) Developing case management systems and other information\ntechnology to support state activities in the management of sex offender\nbehavior.\n  3. Other state agencies shall provide cooperation and assistance to\nthe office so as to assist it in the effective performance of its\nduties.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 91 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 4 / Section 91
Contract and oath of enlistment
Status: in_force

§ 91. Contract and oath of enlistment.  Every person who enlists or\nre-enlists in any force of the organized militia shall sign an\nenlistment contract and shall take and subscribe such oath or\naffirmation of enlistment as may be prescribed by applicable laws of the\nUnited States and by regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.  Such\noath shall be taken and subscribed before any officers authorized by\nsection seventy-three of this chapter to administer the oath of office\nto a commissioned officer.  A person making a false oath as to any\nstatement contained in such enlistment contract shall upon conviction be\ndeemed guilty of perjury.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 5048 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 50-B / Section 5048
Assignment of periodic installments
Status: in_force

§ 5048. Assignment of periodic installments. An assignment of or an\nagreement to assign any right to periodic installments for future\ndamages contained in a judgment entered under this article is\nenforceable only as to amounts: (a) to secure payment of alimony,\nmaintenance, or child support; (b) for the cost of products, services,\nor accommodations provided or to be provided by the assignee for\nmedical, dental or other health care; or (c) for attorney's fees and\nother expenses of litigation incurred in securing the judgment.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 511 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 29-A / Section 511
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 511. Definitions. In this article, unless the context or subject\nmatter otherwise requires:\n  1. "Credit card" means and includes any credit card, credit plate,\ncharge plate, courtesy card, or other identification card or device\nissued by a person to another person which may be used to obtain a cash\nadvance or a loan or credit or to purchase or lease property or services\non the credit of the issuer or of the holder;\n  2. "Person" includes an individual, corporation, partnership or\nassociation, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or\nany other legal or commercial entity;\n  3. "Issuer" means a person who issues a credit card or a debit card;\n  4. "Holder" means a person to whom such a credit card or debit card is\nissued or who has agreed with the issuer to pay obligations arising from\nthe use of a credit card or debit card issued to another person;\n  5. "Unauthorized use" means use of a credit card or a debit card by a\nperson other than the holder who does not have actual, implied or\napparent authority from the holder for such use and from which use the\nholder receives no benefit;\n  6. "Seller" means any person who honors credit cards or debit cards\nwhich may be used to purchase or lease property or services;\n  7. "Lender" means any person who honors credit cards which may be used\nto obtain a cash advance or loan.\n  8. "Improper use" means unauthorized use of a credit card or a debit\ncard or use of a revoked, cancelled, expired or forged credit card or\ndebit card at the premises of a seller or lender, to obtain a cash\nadvance or loan, or to purchase or lease property or services, or an\nattempt to do so;\n  9. "Debit card" means a card, plate or other similar device issued by\na person to another person which may be used, without a personal\nidentification number, code or similar identification number, code or\nsimilar identification, to purchase or lease property or services. The\nterm does not include a credit card or a check, draft or similar\ninstrument.\n  10. "Secured credit card" means any credit card for which an issuer\ntakes a pledge of a specifically identified interest-bearing deposit\naccount as provided in section four hundred thirteen of the personal\nproperty law.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 179-AA — New York Code / Act STF / Article 11-B / Section 179-AA
Advisory committee
Status: in_force

§ 179-aa. Advisory committee. There is hereby established a\nnot-for-profit contracting advisory committee. The advisory committee\nshall consist of sixteen members which shall include eight appointed\nmembers, four to be appointed by the governor who shall be\nrepresentatives of not-for-profit organizations providing services in\nthe state, and two each to be appointed by the governor upon\nrecommendation of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of\nthe assembly, and eight ex officio members of the committee, one each\ndesignated from the division of the budget, the department of law, the\noffice of the state comptroller, and the education department. The\ngovernor shall also designate four members from among the following\nagencies: the department of state, the office of children and family\nservices, the office of temporary and disability assistance, the\ndepartment of health, the office of mental hygiene, the office for\npeople with developmental disabilities, and the department of labor. The\ngovernor shall designate an appointee to serve as chair of the\ncommittee. The advisory committee shall meet at least quarterly and upon\nits own initiative may: comment and report on the implementation and\noperation of the not-for-profit short-term revolving loan fund; advise\nthe governor, comptroller and state agencies on the implementation and\noperation of this article; evaluate the benefits of requiring all state\nagencies to use standard contract language and the extent to which\nstandard language may be effectively included in contracts with\nnot-for-profit organizations; review annually the report of the office\nof the state comptroller made pursuant to section one hundred\nseventy-nine-bb of this article; and propose any legislation they deem\nnecessary to improve the fund and this article. The committee shall\nreport to the governor and the legislature with recommendations on\nimproving the contracting procedures with not-for-profit organizations\nwhich receive state funds through the intermediary of municipalities.\nSuch reports shall be due annually not later than December first.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1941 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 19 / Section 1941
When special proceeding to quiet title may be maintained
Status: in_force

§ 1941. When special proceeding to quiet title may be maintained.\nWhenever real property shall have been conveyed by a sheriff or referee,\npursuant to a judicial decree, which decree has been lost or destroyed,\nand the defendants (other than lienors or incumbrancers) named in the\nnotice of pendency of the action in which such decree was made, or those\nwho might claim under them, or either of them, are dead, unknown or\ntheir whereabouts can not after diligent inquiry be ascertained, the\nperson who has been, or he and those having his estate who have been,\nfor ten years in actual possession of such property claiming it in fee\nunder said sheriff's or referee's deed, which deed shall have been\nrecorded at least ten years, may maintain a special proceeding for the\npurpose of establishing judicially his or their title to such real\nproperty.\n
N.Y. VIL Law § 2-242 — New York Code / Act VIL / Article 2 / Section 2-242
First election of officers, terms of office
Status: in_force

§ 2-242 First election of officers, terms of office. 1. Except as\nprovided in section 17-1703 of this chapter, an election, which shall be\ndeemed a special election, shall be held pursuant to the election law in\nthe village no more than sixty days after the appointment of the village\nclerk.\n  2. At such first election a mayor and four trustees shall be chosen.\n  3. If such first election be held on or after the first Monday in\nApril and before the first Monday of October in any one year, the terms\nof office of two of the trustees shall expire at noon on the first\nMonday in April next succeeding such first election.\n  4. If such first election be held at any other time, the terms of\noffice of such two trustees shall expire one year after the first Monday\nin April next succeeding such first election.\n  5. The terms of office of the mayor and the other two trustees shall\nexpire at noon on the first Monday in April next succeeding the\nexpiration of the terms of office of the first two trustees above\nmentioned.\n  6. The terms of office of officers elected under this section commence\nas soon as they have qualified in the manner hereinafter provided in\nthis chapter.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 241 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 13 / Section 241
Dedication or acquisition of land or buildings for playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers
Status: in_force

§ 241. Dedication or acquisition of land or buildings for playgrounds\nor neighborhood recreation centers. The board of estimate and\napportionment of a city, or if there be no such board, the common\ncouncil, board of aldermen or corresponding legislative body, or the\ngoverning board of any county outside of the city of New York, or of a\ntown or village, may designate and set apart for use as playgrounds or\nneighborhood recreation centers any land or building owned by such\nmunicipality and not dedicated or devoted to another inconsistent public\nuse; or such municipality may, with the approval of such local\nauthorities and in such manner as may be authorized or provided by law\nfor the acquisition of land for public purposes in such municipality,\nacquire lands in such municipality for playgrounds or neighborhood\nrecreation centers, or if there be no law authorizing such acquisition,\nthe board of estimate and apportionment of such city, or if there be no\nsuch board, the common council, board of aldermen or corresponding\nlegislative body, or the governing board of any such county, town or\nvillage, may acquire land for such purpose by gift, private purchase or\nby condemnation, or may lease lands or buildings in such municipality\nfor temporary use for such purpose.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 48-0109 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 48 / Section 48-0109
Agency responsibilities
Status: in_force

§ 48-0109. Agency responsibilities.\n  1. Each state agency that engages in activities or operations that\nhave a significant effect on the environment, including but not limited\nto through the adoption of rules and regulations, issuance of permits,\nacquisition or maintenance of property, or approval, funding or\nundertaking of projects, shall be guided in its decision making on such\nactivities or operations by an environmental justice policy. Each such\nagency shall adopt rules and regulations setting forth its environmental\njustice policy not later than two years after the adoption of a model\nenvironmental justice policy pursuant to section 48-0107 of this\narticle.\n  2. Each state agency subject to the requirements of subdivision one of\nthis section shall:\n  (a) appoint a staff member of the agency to serve as environmental\njustice coordinator, to provide information to the public on the\npolicies, activities and operations of the agency related to\nenvironmental justice and to act as liaison to the environmental justice\nadvisory group;\n  (b) notify the advisory group of the appointment of an environmental\njustice coordinator; and\n  (c) develop an environmental justice training plan which includes the\nprovision of workshops and written materials to appropriate staff\nregarding environmental justice and implementation of the agency's\nenvironmental justice policy.\n
N.Y. EDP Law § 403 — New York Code / Act EDP / Article 4 / Section 403
Names of reputed condemnees
Status: in_force

§ 403. Names of reputed condemnees. The condemnor shall deliver to its\nappropriate legal officer or attorney, (who shall be in acquisitions\npursuant to subdivision (A) of section five hundred one, the state\nattorney general) a copy of such acquisition map, whereupon it shall be\nthe duty of such legal officer or attorney to advise and certify to the\ncondemnor the names of the reputed condemnees of parcels to be acquired.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 135.35 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title H / Article 135 / Section 135.35
Labor trafficking
Status: in_force

§ 135.35 Labor trafficking.\n  A person is guilty of labor trafficking if he or she compels or\ninduces another to engage in labor or recruits, entices, harbors, or\ntransports such other person by means of intentionally:\n  1. requiring that the labor be performed to retire, repay, or service\na real or purported debt that the actor has caused by a systematic\nongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud such person;\n  2. withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported\npassport, immigration document, or any other actual or purported\ngovernment identification document, of another person with intent to\nimpair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however, that this\nsubdivision shall not apply to an attempt to correct a social security\nadministration record or immigration agency record in accordance with\nany local, state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is\nnot made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;\n  3. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or\ninduce such person to engage in or continue to engage in labor activity\nby means of instilling a fear in such person that, if the demand is not\ncomplied with, the actor or another will do one or more of the\nfollowing:\n  (a) cause physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to a\nperson; or\n  (b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or\n  (c) engage in other conduct constituting a felony or unlawful\nimprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this\narticle; or\n  (d) accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or\ndeportation proceedings to be instituted against such person; provided,\nhowever, that it shall be an affirmative defense to this subdivision\nthat the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true\nand that his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to\ntake reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of\nsuch threatened charge; or\n  (e) expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or\nfalse, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;\nor\n  (f) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or\ninformation with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or\n  (g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing\nsome act within or related to his or her official duties, or by failing\nor refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect\nsome person adversely.\n  Labor trafficking is a class D felony.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 206-A — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 12 / Section 206-A
Advertising of rates for motels and motor courts
Status: in_force

§ 206-a. Advertising of rates for motels and motor courts. No person\nengaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in\nmotels and motor courts shall:\n  (a) post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign\npertaining to such establishment, that may be seen from a public highway\nor street, any rates for accommadations in such establishment unless the\nsign shall have posted thereon both the minimum and maximum room, or\nother rental unit rates, for accommodations offered for rental. All\nposted rates and descriptive data on such sign shall be in type and\nmaterial of the same size and prominence.\n  (b) post or maintain posted on such outdoor or outside advertising\nsigns rates for accommodations in any such establishment unless there\nare available in any such establishment, when vacant, accommodations for\nimmediate occupancy to meet the posted rates of such advertising signs.\n  (c) post or maintain outdoor or outside advertising signs in\nconnection with any such establishment relating to rates which shall\nhave thereon any untrue, false, fraudulent or misleading representations\nor statements as to any matter whatsoever.\n  Advertising signs stating the rate per person and bearing the legend\n"and up" shall not be deemed to comply with the provisions of this\nsection.\n  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be\nguilty of an offense and subject to a fine of not more than fifty\ndollars.\n
N.Y. PBS Law § 135-O — New York Code / Act PBS / Article 7-A / Section 135-O
Recovery of costs
Status: in_force

§ 135-o. Recovery of costs. A utility shall be allowed to recover as\nnormal operating expenses through rates the just and reasonable costs of\ncarrying out its responsibilities and home conservation plan under this\narticle, as determined by the commission after public hearing upon\nreasonable notice.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 509 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 29 / Section 509
Hemp grower's authorization, license; fees; requirements
Status: in_force

§ 509. Hemp grower's authorization, license; fees; requirements. 1. No\nperson shall: (a) grow, cultivate, process, produce, sell or distribute\nhemp in the state unless authorized by the commissioner as part of an\nagricultural research pilot program established under this article; or\n(b) grow, cultivate and process hemp in connection with its growing and\ncultivation or sell hemp plants or hemp seed unless licensed by the\ncommissioner. Mere transportation, such as by common carrier or another\nentity or individual, does not constitute activity subject to licensing\nunder this article.\n  2. A hemp grower license does not authorize the processing or retail\nsale of hemp for human consumption, as defined in section thirty-three\nhundred ninety-eight of the public health law, unless the licensee also\nobtains a cannabinoid hemp processor license, cannabinoid hemp retailer\nlicense, or any other license required pursuant of article\nthirty-three-B of the public health law.\n  3. Applications for licenses, authorizations or a modification\nthereof, as set out in regulation, shall be upon a form specified by the\ncommissioner, accompanied by a reasonable application fee for new\napplications or significant modifications to an application, which shall\nbe established by regulation and which may be made non-refundable by\nregulation.\n  4. The commissioner may also assess a reasonable authorization or\nlicensing fee established by regulation, scaled to cover the estimated,\nor if known, actual costs of inspections, regulatory testing and other\nadministrative expenses of the authorized or licensed activity, which\nfee shall be paid prior to the issuance of the authorization or license.\n  5. The applicant, if an individual, shall be asked to furnish together\nwith the application evidence of his or her good moral character and, if\nan entity, the applicant shall be asked to furnish together with the\napplication evidence of the good moral character of the individuals who\nhave or will have substantial responsibility for the licensed or\nauthorized activity and those in control of the entity, including\nprincipals, officers, or others exercising such control. The names of\nsuch individuals shall be set forth in the application.\n  6. The applicant shall furnish evidence of his, her or its experience\nand competency, and that the applicant has adequate facilities,\nequipment, process controls, testing capability and security, to grow,\ncultivate and process hemp in connection with its growing and\ncultivation or to sell hemp plants or hemp seed.\n  7. The department shall provide an application for renewal of any\nlicense issued under this article not less than ninety days prior to the\nexpiration of the current license. A renewal application shall be\nsubmitted to the commissioner at least thirty days prior to the\nexpiration of the authorization or license, on a form or forms provided\nby the commissioner for such purpose.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 339 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 3 / Section 339
Colorectal cancer screening notification
Status: in_force

§ 339. Colorectal cancer screening notification. The superintendent\nshall require an insurer authorized to write accident and health\ninsurance in this state, a corporation organized pursuant to article\nforty-three of this chapter, and a health maintenance organization\ncertified pursuant to article forty-four of the public health law to\nnotify insureds and enrollees at least annually of colorectal cancer\nscreenings covered by such insureds' or enrollees' health insurance\npolicy or contract, and of the most recently published guidelines of the\nAmerican Cancer Society for colorectal cancer screenings that are\ncovered by such insureds' or enrollees' health insurance policy or\ncontract. The notice shall be delivered by United States postal mail\nunless the insured or enrollee consents to another method of\nnotification, including electronic notification.\n