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N.Y. DCD Law § 283 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 10-A / Section 283
Aggregate individual bankruptcy exemption for certain annuities and personal property
Status: in_force

§ 283. Aggregate individual bankruptcy exemption for certain annuities\nand personal property. 1. General application. The aggregate amount the\ndebtor may exempt from the property of the estate for personal property\nexempt from application to the satisfaction of a money judgment under\nsubdivision (a) of section fifty-two hundred five of the civil practice\nlaw and rules and for benefits, rights, privileges, and options of\nannuity contracts described in the following sentence shall not exceed\nten thousand dollars. Annuity contracts subject to the foregoing\nlimitation are those that are: (a) initially purchased by the debtor\nwithin six months of the debtor's filing a petition in bankruptcy, (b)\nnot described in any paragraph of section eight hundred five (d) of the\nInternal Revenue Code of nineteen hundred fifty-four, and (c) not\npurchased by application of proceeds under settlement options of annuity\ncontracts purchased more than six months before the debtor's filing a\npetition in bankruptcy or under settlement options of life insurance\npolicies.\n  2. Contingent alternative bankruptcy exemption. Notwithstanding\nsection two hundred eighty-two of this article, a debtor, who (a) does\nnot elect, claim, or otherwise avail himself of an exemption described\nin section fifty-two hundred six of the civil practice law and rules;\n(b) utilizes to the fullest extent permitted by law as applied to said\ndebtor's property, the exemptions referred to in subdivision one of this\nsection which are subject to the ten thousand dollar aggregate limit;\nand (c) does not reach such aggregate limit, may exempt cash in the\namount by which ten thousand dollars exceeds the aggregate of his or her\nexemptions referred to in subdivision one of this section or in the\namount of five thousand dollars, whichever amount is less. For purposes\nof this subdivision, cash means currency of the United States at face\nvalue, savings bonds of the United States at face value, the right to\nreceive a refund of federal, state and local income taxes, and deposit\naccounts in any state or federally chartered depository institution.\n
N.Y. UDC Law § 902 — New York Code / Act UDC / Article 9 / Section 902
Pleadings; form
Status: in_force

§ 902. Pleadings; form.\n  (a) All pleadings shall be formal pleadings, as in supreme court\npractice, except that:\n  (1) If the plaintiff's cause of action is for money only and the\nsummons is served within the county, the cause of action may be set\nforth by indorsement upon the summons. The indorsement shall consist of\na statement of the nature and substance of the cause of action, and the\nsummons in such instance shall set forth the amount in which the\nplaintiff will take judgment in the event of default. If the plaintiff\nshall appear without attorney, such indorsement shall be made by the\nclerk.\n  (2) Where the plaintiff's cause of action is for money only and the\ndefendant appears without attorney, he may describe his answer to the\nclerk, who shall indorse the nature and substance of the answer on, or\nannex it to, the summons.\n  (b) If a formal complaint must be or is used, it shall be served with\nthe summons, except that if service is made by publication the CPLR\nshall govern.\n  (c) The address of the defendant, and that of his attorney if he shall\nappear by attorney, shall be stated with or in the answer.\n  (d) The rules may provide, in actions for money only in designated\ncategories in which the plaintiff might otherwise proceed by indorsement\nas above provided, that a formal complaint, or a formal answer, or both,\nshall be required.\n  (e) The court in any case may, at any time before judgment, on its own\nmotion or on the motion on notice of a party, direct the service and\nfiling of a formal pleading.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 327 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 17 / Section 327
Vacancies in board of trustees
Status: in_force

§ 327. Vacancies in board of trustees. If any trustee of such\nincorporated United Methodist church declines to act, resigns, dies, or\nhas his trusteeship terminated by any other means, his office shall be\nvacant and the quarterly conference of the church in any regular or a\nspecial session may fill the vacancy until the next annual corporate\nmeeting when trustees are elected at which meeting the vacancy shall be\nfilled for the unexpired term.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 39-0103 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 39 / Section 39-0103
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 39-0103. Definitions.\n  The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this article,\nshall have the following meanings:\n  1. "Sewage system cleaner" means (a) any solid or liquid material\nintended or used primarily for the purpose of cleaning, treating, or\nunclogging any part of a sewage system or (b) any solid or liquid\nmaterial intended or used primarily for the purpose of continuously or\nautomatically deodorizing or disinfecting any part of a sewage system\nincluding but not limited to solid cakes or devices placed in plumbing\nfixtures. Excluded from the definition are products intended or used\nprimarily in the manual surface cleaning, scouring, treating,\ndeodorizing or disinfecting of common plumbing fixtures.\n  2. "Sewage system" means any part of a wastewater disposal system,\nincluding but not limited to all toilets, urinals, piping, drains,\nsewers, septic tanks, distribution boxes, absorption fields, seepage\npits, cesspools, and dry wells.\n  3. "Hydrocarbon chemical" means any compound composed of carbon and\nhydrogen.\n  4. "Restricted chemical material" means (a) any halogenated\nhydrocarbon chemical (aliphatic or aromatic) including but not limited\nto trichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, methylene chloride, halogenated\nbenzenes, carbon tetrachloride, or (b) any aromatic hydrocarbon chemical\nincluding but not limited to benzene, toluene, naphthalene, or (c) any\nhalogenated phenol derivative in which a hydroxide group and two or more\nhalogen atoms are substituted onto the aromatic carbons of a benzene\nring including but not limited to trichlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, or\n(d) acrolein, acrylonitrile, or benzidine.\n  5. "Restricted geographic areas" means Nassau and Suffolk counties.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 756-C — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 35-E / Section 756-C
Retention
Status: in_force

§ 756-c. Retention. By mutual agreement of the relevant parties an\nowner may retain no more than five per centum of the contract sum as\nretainage. A contractor or subcontractor may also retain no more than\nfive per centum for retainage and in no case shall retainage exceed the\nactual percentage retained by the owner. Retainage shall be released by\nthe owner to the contractor no later than thirty days after the final\napproval of the work under a construction contract. In the event that an\nowner fails to release retainage as required by this article, or the\ncontractor or subcontractor fails to release a proportionate amount of\nretainage to the relevant parties after receipt of retainage from the\nowner, the owner, contractor, or subcontractor, as the case may be,\nshall be subject to the payment of interest at the rate of one percent\nper month on the date retention was due and owing.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 57 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 3 / Section 57
Dissolution of authorities
Status: in_force

§ 57. Dissolution of authorities.  An authority or the municipality\nmay apply to the supreme court in any county in which the municipality\nor any part thereof is located, for an order dissolving the authority.\nThe court thereupon shall hold a hearing in open court after such notice\nof hearing as the court may require.  Upon a showing to the satisfaction\nof the court that provision has been made for the payment or\nsatisfaction of all of the outstanding obligations of the authority and\nfor the necessary expenses for the liquidation thereof, the court may\norder that the authority be dissolved. Upon such dissolution the\nproperty of the authority shall be and become the property of the\nmunicipality.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 3-801 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 3 / Part 8 / Section 3-801
Drafts in a Set
Status: in_force

Section 3--801. Drafts in a Set.\n  (1) Where a draft is drawn in a set of parts, each of which is\nnumbered and expressed to be an order only if no other part has been\nhonored, the whole of the parts constitutes one draft but a taker of any\npart may become a holder in due course of the draft.\n  (2) Any person who negotiates, indorses or accepts a single part of a\ndraft drawn in a set thereby becomes liable to any holder in due course\nof that part as if it were the whole set, but as between different\nholders in due course to whom different parts have been negotiated the\nholder whose title first accrues has all rights to the draft and its\nproceeds.\n  (3) As against the drawee the first presented part of a draft drawn in\na set is the part entitled to payment, or if a time draft to acceptance\nand payment. Acceptance of any subsequently presented part renders the\ndrawee liable thereon under subsection (2). With respect both to a\nholder and to the drawer payment of a subsequently presented part of a\ndraft payable at sight has the same effect as payment of a check\nnotwithstanding an effective stop order (Section 4--407).\n  (4) Except as otherwise provided in this section, where any part of a\ndraft in a set is discharged by payment or otherwise the whole draft is\ndischarged.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 176 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 9 / Section 176
Dock facilities for the New York naval militia
Status: in_force

§ 176. Dock facilities for the New York naval militia.  1. The\nadjutant general is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish dock\nfacilities including wharves, piers, bulkheads, slips, basins, docks and\nwater fronts for the use of the New York naval militia and to determine\ntheir suitability and adequateness.\n  2. The department, bureau, officer or authority having charge or\ncontrol of docks within the limits of a city, upon the requisition of\nthe chief of staff when requested to do so by the commanding officer of\nthe New York naval militia shall furnish to the state and the New York\nnaval militia without charge or expense suitable and adequate dock,\nberthing and mooring facilities for vessels used by any unit of the New\nYork naval militia located in said city and shall provide free access\nthereto at all times for the members of such naval militia.\n
N.Y. MHR Law § 35 — New York Code / Act MHR / Article 4 / Part 1 / Section 35
Legislative intent; construction
Status: in_force

§ 35. Legislative intent; construction. 1. It is the intention of the\nlegislature by this county charter law to provide for carrying into\neffect the provisions of paragraph (h) of subdivision one of article\nnine of the constitution and, pursuant to the direction contained\ntherein, to empower counties to prepare, adopt and amend county charters\nby local legislative action, subject to limitations imposed herein.\n  2. It is not the intention of the legislature hereby to (a) abolish or\ncurtail any powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or delegated to a\ncounty or counties or to any of the units of government therein or to\nany board, commission, body or officer thereof, or (b) adversely to\naffect the power of a county to adopt, amend or repeal county charters,\ncounty laws or local laws pursuant to any other authorization of the\nlegislature, unless a contrary intention is clearly manifested from the\nexpress provisions of this county charter law or by necessary intendment\ntherefrom.\n  3. This county charter law shall be construed liberally. The powers\nherein granted shall be in addition to any other powers granted to\ncounties by any other provisions of general or special laws, including\nbut not limited to charters, administrative codes, special acts or local\nlaws. A permissive procedure authorized hereby shall not be deemed to be\nexclusive or to prohibit the use of any other procedure authorized by\nany general or special act of the legislature, charter, administrative\ncode or local law lawfully adopted and still in effect.\n  4. All existing state, county, local and other laws or enactments,\nincluding charters, administrative codes and special acts having the\nforce of law shall continue in force until lawfully amended, modified,\nsuperseded or repealed.\n  5. If any provision of the county charter law is not clear or requires\nelaboration in its application to the county, the board of supervisors\nmay interpret such provision in a local law not inconsistent with the\nprovisions hereof. Where any question arises concerning the transition\nto a charter law which is not provided for herein, the board of\nsupervisors may provide for such transition by a local law not\ninconsistent with the provisions hereof.\n  6. If any provision of this county charter law shall be adjudged by\nany court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall\nnot affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be\nconfined in its operation to the particular provision directly involved\nin the controversy in which such judgment is rendered.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 653 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 24 / Section 653
Powers and duties
Status: in_force

§ 653. Powers and duties.  The director shall assist the governor with\nregard to relations between the state and its employees. Such assistance\nmay include acting as the governor's agent in discharging the powers and\nduties conferred on the governor by the public employees' fair\nemployment act, as amended, including, without limitation, conducting\ncollective negotiations with recognized or certified employee\norganizations and executing agreements reached pursuant thereto. The\ndirector shall have such other and further powers and duties as may from\ntime to time be conferred upon him by law and as the governor may from\ntime to time request. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted to\nenlarge, diminish or otherwise change any power or duty of the governor\nor legislature under said act or otherwise.\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 303 — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 10 / Section 303
Provision of workmen's compensation for civil defense volunteers
Status: in_force

§ 303. Provision of workmen's compensation for civil defense\nvolunteers. A civil defense volunteer performing authorized civil\ndefense services shall be deemed to be in special employment of his\nlocal office as defined in the state defense emergency act. Workmen's\ncompensation benefits are provided in this article for disability or\ndeath proximately caused by injury in the course of such special\nemployment without regard to fault as a cause of injury. Such special\nemployment may be within the area under the jurisdiction of the local\ndirector in which civil defense volunteers of said local office are\nmobilized or outside such area where civil defense volunteers are\noperating in accordance with plans approved by or orders issued by the\nNew York state civil defense commission.\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 153 — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 8 / Section 153
Annual report
Status: in_force

* § 153. Annual report. The board shall on or before the first day of\nFebruary in each year make an annual report in writing to the governor,\nstating in detail the work it has done in hearing and deciding cases and\notherwise.\n  * NB Effective until January 1, 2028\n  * § 153. Annual report. The board shall on or before the first day of\nFebruary in each year make an annual report in writing to the governor,\nthe temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and\nthe chairs of the senate and assembly standing committees on labor,\nstating in detail the work it has done in hearing and deciding cases and\notherwise. Such reports shall include the number of providers who\nrendered medical care or treatment under this chapter in the prior\ncalendar year, the completion rate for provider training required by the\nboard pursuant to section one hundred forty-one of this article, and an\nanalysis of the degree to which new providers are successfully complying\nwith this chapter and implementing regulations.\n  * NB Effective January 1, 2028\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 219-D — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 7 / Section 219-D
Emergency alert notification system employer registration
Status: in_force

§ 219-d. Emergency alert notification system employer registration. 1.\nThe department, in consultation with the state office of information\ntechnology services, shall provide every employer in the state with a\nregistration form which shall be created by the state office of\ninformation technology services, to voluntarily register with the\nemergency alert notification system. Such registration form shall be\naccompanied by a summary of the benefits of registering for alerts from\nthe emergency alert notification system, including a description of how\nthe use of the emergency alert system can be utilized to preserve the\nhealth and safety of workers, and an example for dissemination to\nworkers of information received from an emergency alert notification.\n  2. For the purposes of this section, the "emergency alert notification\nsystem" shall mean the state office of information technology services\nalert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 228-C — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 5-D / Section 228-C
Purposes, powers and operation
Status: in_force

§ 228-c. Purposes, powers and operation. 1. (a) The purposes of the\nNYSBIC shall be to serve the needs of the small business community in\nthe state of New York. The NYSBIC shall direct its efforts towards\nproviding small business with start-up, venture, operating or working\ncapital, particularly where general economic and historical conditions,\nsuch as recent employment displacement caused by international,\nnational, state, regional, and local economic developments, have\nprevented traditional capital sources from extending credit to such\nsmall businesses.\n  (b) The purposes of the NYSSBIC shall be to provide financing to\nfacilitate small business ownership by minorities and persons who reside\nin highly distressed areas as defined in section two hundred\ntwenty-eight-b of this article, neighborhood based alliance communities,\nand persons eligible for the earned income tax credit under an act to\namend the internal revenue code of 1954, Pub. L. 94-12, 89 Stat. 30\n(1975), as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, whose\nparticipation in the free enterprise system is hampered by an inability\nto compete effectively for capital in the marketplace due to prevailing\nor past restrictive practices provided, however, in approving\napplications for assistance, priority shall be given to minorities\nresiding in neighborhood based alliance communities, designated empire\nzones or highly distressed areas. The NYSSBIC shall direct its efforts\ntoward providing these businesses with start-up, venture, operating or\nworking capital. The NYSSBIC will adopt an investment policy consistent\nwith the policy set forth in Section 301(d).\n  (c) The NYSBIC and the NYSSBIC shall function as licensees and perform\nthe respective functions set forth in Title III and applicable\nregulations.\n  2. In furtherance of the purposes set forth in subdivision one of this\nsection, and in addition to the powers conferred on stock corporations\nby the business corporation law, the NYSBIC and the NYSSBIC shall,\nsubject to the restrictions and limitations contained in this article\nand without limiting any power otherwise conferred herein, have the\nfollowing powers:\n  (a) To lend money and conduct other financing transactions at such\nrate or rates as may be available to banking organizations licensed\nunder this chapter; and\n  (b) To enter such business and financing transactions and arrangements\nat such rates and under such terms and conditions as may be permitted to\nlicensees under Sections 301(c), 301(d) and applicable regulations.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 13-4.9 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 13 / Part 4 / Section 13-4.9
Nontestamentary transfer on death
Status: in_force

§ 13-4.9 Nontestamentary transfer on death\n  (a) A transfer on death resulting from a registration in beneficiary\nform is effective by reason of the contract regarding the registration\nbetween the owner and the registering entity and this part and is not\ntestamentary.\n  (b) This part does not limit the rights of creditors of security\nowners against beneficiaries and other transferees under other laws of\nthis state.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 501 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 5 / Section 501
Contractual provisions fixing venue
Status: in_force

§ 501. Contractual provisions fixing venue. Subject to the provisions\nof subdivision two of section five hundred ten and section five hundred\nfourteen of this article, written agreement fixing place of trial, made\nbefore an action is commenced, shall be enforced upon a motion for\nchange of place of trial.\n
N.Y. CVS Law § 53 — New York Code / Act CVS / Article 4 / Title A / Section 53
Noncitizen status
Status: in_force

§ 53. Noncitizen status. Except as otherwise provided by law, no\nnoncitizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United\nStates shall be denied appointment to a position in the competitive\nclass of civil service for reasons of noncitizen status.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 510 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 5 / Section 510
State and participating counties not liable on bonds and notes
Status: in_force

§ 510. State and participating counties not liable on bonds and notes.\nThe bonds, notes or other obligations of a corporation shall not be a\ndebt of either the state of New York or of any participating county and\nneither the state nor any county shall be liable thereon, nor shall they\nbe payable out of any funds other than those of the corporation.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 83 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 5 / Section 83
Appraisal of diseased animals
Status: in_force

§ 83. Appraisal of diseased animals.  Each animal directed to be\nslaughtered shall be appraised at its market value. The appraiser shall\nmake and transmit to the commissioner a certificate of appraisal and\nshall deliver to the owner a copy of such appraisal certificate. If the\nowner is dissatisfied with the amount of the appraisal he may, within\nten days after the delivery of the copy of appraisal certificate, make\nwritten application to the commissioner for a review of the appraisal.\nUpon receipt of such application, the commissioner shall cause an\ninvestigation to be made as to the market value of the animals referred\nto in the application for a review.  Upon completion of such\ninvestigation, the commissioner shall render a decision either\nconfirming the appraisal or modifying it by an increase or a decrease of\nthe amount of the appraisal as justice may require, and shall state in\nhis decision the reasons therefor and shall transmit a copy of the\ndecision to the owner. The decision of the commissioner may be reviewed\nby a proceeding under article eight of the civil practice law and rules.\n
N.Y. MRE Law § 302-A — New York Code / Act MRE / Article 8 / Section 302-A
Unlawful occupation
Status: in_force

§ 302-a. Unlawful occupation. 1. If any dwelling or structure be\noccupied in whole or in part for human habitation in violation of\nsection three hundred two of this article, no rent shall be recovered by\nthe owner of such premises for said period, and no action for possession\nof said premises for nonpayment of such rent shall be maintained\ntherefor.\n  2. The department charged with the enforcement of this chapter may\ncause to be vacated any dwelling or any part thereof which contains a\nnuisance as defined in section three hundred five of this article, or is\noccupied by more families or persons than permitted in this chapter, or\nis erected, altered or occupied contrary to law. Any such dwelling shall\nnot again be occupied until it or its occupancy, as the case may be, has\nbeen made to conform to law.\n