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N.Y. AGM Law § 203 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 17 / Section 203
Manufacture and sale of imitation maple, birch, walnut or beech sugar and syrup prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 203. Manufacture and sale of imitation maple, birch, walnut or beech\nsugar and syrup prohibited. (a) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale,\nkeep for sale, or offer or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or\nsemblance of maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup in\nimitation or semblance of maple syrup, which is not pure maple syrup,\nnor shall any person manufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as\nand for maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup as and\nfor maple syrup which is not pure maple syrup.\n  2. For the purpose of this article the term "maple sugar" shall be\ndeemed to mean sugar made from pure maple sap or pure maple syrup, and\nthe term "maple syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure\nmaple sap.\n  (b) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer\nor expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of birch sugar\nwhich is not pure birch sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance\nof birch syrup, which is not birch syrup, nor shall any person\nmanufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for birch sugar\nwhich is not pure birch sugar, nor any syrup as and for birch syrup\nwhich is not pure birch syrup.\n  2. For the purpose of this article the term "birch sugar" shall be\ndeemed to mean sugar made from pure birch sap or pure birch syrup, and\nthe term "birch syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure\nbirch sap.\n  (c) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer\nor expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of walnut sugar\nwhich is not pure walnut sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance\nof walnut syrup, which is not pure walnut syrup, nor shall any person\nmanufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for walnut sugar\nwhich is not pure walnut sugar, nor any syrup as and for walnut syrup\nwhich is not walnut syrup.\n  2. For the purpose of this article the term "walnut sugar" shall be\ndeemed to mean sugar made from pure walnut sap or pure walnut syrup, and\nthe term "walnut syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure\nwalnut sap.\n  (d) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer\nor expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of beech sugar\nwhich is not pure beech sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance\nof beech syrup, which is not pure beech syrup, nor shall any person\nmanufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for beech sugar\nwhich is not pure beech sugar, nor any syrup as and for beech syrup\nwhich is not pure beech syrup.\n  2. For the purpose of this article the term "beech sugar" shall be\ndeemed to mean sugar made from pure beech sap or pure beech syrup, and\nthe term "beech syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure\nbeech sap.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 4112 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 41 / Section 4112
Entry of verdict
Status: in_force

Rule 4112. Entry of verdict.  When the jury renders a verdict, the\nclerk shall make an entry in his minutes specifying the time and place\nof the trial, the names of the jurors and witnesses, the general verdict\nand any answers to written interrogatories, or the questions and answers\nor other written findings constituting the special verdict and the\ndirection, if any, which the court gives with respect to subsequent\nproceedings.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 750 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 35-C / Section 750
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

§ 750. Declaration of policy. The legislature hereby finds and\ndeclares that the relationships that humans develop with other members\nof the animal kingdom that are taken into our homes and kept as pets are\nunique and special. These relationships can enrich our lives and\nincrease our happiness. Even after the death of a pet, human attachment\nto the memory of the pet often remains very strong and many people feel\nthe need to memorialize their love for their animal by burying their pet\nin a pet cemetery. Pet cemeteries, their managers and owners have a\nspecial responsibility to their customers who have entrusted their pets'\nremains with them.  These pet cemeteries have a duty to act in an\nethical and lawful manner to prevent grieving pet owners from\nexperiencing further any emotional pain or financial manipulation.\nPerpetrations of fraud against grieving pet owners are unconscionable.\n  The legislature further finds and declares that the people of this\nstate have a vital interest in the establishment, maintenance and\npreservation of pet cemeteries and pet crematoriums and the proper\noperation of the businesses and individuals which own and manage the\nsame. This article is determined an exercise of the police powers of\nthis state to protect the well-being of our citizens, to promote the\npublic welfare, to promote the health of the public and to prevent pet\ncemeteries and pet crematoriums from falling into disrepair and\ndilapidation and becoming a burden upon the community.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 201 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 10 / Section 201
Rights and privileges of exempt volunteer firefighters
Status: in_force

§ 201. Rights and privileges of exempt volunteer firefighters. In case\nany city, town or village in this state shall organize a paid fire\ndepartment and thereby deprive any volunteer firefighter who has\nfaithfully actually performed service in the protection of life and\nproperty within the territory protected by his or her company of the\nright to serve a full term of five years such firefighter shall be\nentitled to a full and honorable discharge; and to all the rights and\nprivileges granted by the laws of this state to volunteer firefighter,\nprovided, however, that if such paid department has been organized since\nthe first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and two, he or she\nshall have so served for a consecutive period of at least one year\nimmediately preceding the installation of said paid fire department.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 115 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 6 / Section 115
Fiscal accounts and records
Status: in_force

§ 115. Fiscal accounts and records.  1. The superintendent of each\ncorrectional facility shall maintain books of entry and such other\nrecords as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner of correction in\norder to fully account for cash receipts from all sources and all cash\ndisbursements from accounts established in the name of the facility or\nthe superintendent. Such books and records shall be in a form prescribed\nby the commissioner of correction and shall be open at all times to the\ncommissioner and the comptroller and their authorized representatives.\n  2. The superintendent of each correctional facility shall also cause\nto be prepared an annual inventory of the equipment and furnishings\nreceived by the facility and to maintain same for the purpose of audit\nor examination by the commissioner, the comptroller or their authorized\nrepresentatives.\n  3. All purchases for the use of any correctional facility shall be\nmade in conformance with the rules and regulations in effect or\nestablished by the commissioner of correction, the comptroller and the\ncommissioner of the office of general services. The superintendent of\neach correctional facility shall cause to be maintained a record of all\nbills and receipts for expenditures made for goods or services for the\nfacility for the purpose of audit or examination by the commissioner,\nthe comptroller or their designated representatives.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 240.25 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title N / Article 240 / Section 240.25
Harassment in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 240.25 Harassment in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of harassment in the first degree when he or she\nintentionally and repeatedly harasses another person by following such\nperson in or about a public place or places or by engaging in a course\nof conduct or by repeatedly committing acts which places such person in\nreasonable fear of physical injury.  This section shall not apply to\nactivities regulated by the national labor relations act, as amended,\nthe railway labor act, as amended, or the federal employment labor\nmanagement act, as amended.\n  Harassment in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 191 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 8 / Section 191
Highways or roads along division lines
Status: in_force

§ 191. Highways or roads along division lines. Whenever a highway or\nprivate road shall be laid along the division line between lands of two\nor more persons, and wholly upon one side of the line, and the land upon\nboth sides is cultivated or improved, the persons owning or occupying\nthe lands adjoining such highway or road shall be paid for building and\nmaintaining such additional fence as they may be required to build or\nmaintain, by reason of the laying out and opening such highway or road;\nwhich damages shall be ascertained and determined in the same manner\nthat other damages are ascertained and determined in the laying out of\nhighways or private roads.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 97-PPPP — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 97-PPPP
Lupus research and education fund
Status: in_force

* § 97-pppp. Lupus research and education fund. 1. There is hereby\nestablished in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and\nfinance and the comptroller a fund to be known as the "lupus research\nand education fund".\n  2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to\nsection four hundred four-y of the vehicle and traffic law, and all\nother moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any\nother fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section\nshall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the\npurposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into\nthe fund according to law.\n  2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller\nshall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate,\nspeaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair\nof the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited\nin the lupus research and education fund during the preceding calendar\nyear as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section four hundred\nfour-y of the vehicle and traffic law and from grants, gifts and\nbequests.\n  2-b. On or before the first day of February each year, the\ncommissioner of health shall provide a written report to the temporary\npresident of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate\nfinance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair\nof the senate committee on health, chair of the assembly health\ncommittee, the state comptroller and the public. Such report shall\ninclude how the monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding\ncalendar year, and shall include:\n  (i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process\nused for such disbursements;\n  (ii) recipients of awards from the fund;\n  (iii) the amount awarded to each;\n  (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and\n  (v) a summary financial plan for such moneys which shall include\nestimates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and\nsucceeding fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior\nfiscal year.\n  3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for lupus research\nprojects and lupus education projects approved by the department of\nhealth in New York state. As used in this section, the term "lupus\nresearch project" means scientific research approved by the department\nof health into the causes and/or treatment of lupus, and the term "lupus\neducation project" means a project approved by the department of health\naimed toward educating the general public about the causes, symptoms,\nand treatment of lupus.\n  4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of\nthe comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner\nof health.\n  5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure\nthat all moneys received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the\nend of that fiscal year.\n  * NB There are 2 § 97-pppp's\n
N.Y. TRA Law § 453 — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 20 / Section 453
Powers and duties of municipalities
Status: in_force

§ 453. Powers and duties of municipalities. A municipality is hereby\nauthorized:\n  1. To undertake and carry out municipal bridge improvements for which\nstate assistance is received or is to be received pursuant to this\narticle.\n  2. To expend moneys received from the state together with other moneys\navailable to it for costs incurred for such improvements.\n  3. To contract with any person, firm, corporation or agency, either\ngovernmental or private, for the purpose of accomplishing the purposes\nof this article.\n  4. To apply for and receive moneys of the state and the federal\ngovernment for the purposes of accomplishing municipal bridge\nimprovements.\n  5. To perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper\nor desirable in order to carry out municipal bridge improvements or any\nobligation, duty or function relating thereto.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 284 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 12-A / Section 284
Tax imposed
Status: in_force

§ 284. Tax imposed. 1.  There is hereby levied and imposed an excise\ntax of four cents per gallon upon motor fuel (a) imported into or caused\nto be imported into the state by a distributor for use, distribution,\nstorage or sale in the state or upon motor fuel which is produced,\nrefined, manufactured or compounded by a distributor in the state (which\nacts shall hereinafter in this subdivision be encompassed by the phrase\n"imported or manufactured") or (b) if the tax has not been imposed prior\nto its sale in this state, which is sold by a distributor (which act, in\nconjunction with the acts described in paragraph (a) of this\nsubdivision, shall hereinafter in this article be encompassed by the\nphrase "imported, manufactured or sold"), except when imported,\nmanufactured or sold under circumstances which preclude the collection\nof such tax by reason of the United States constitution and of laws of\nthe United States enacted pursuant thereto or when imported or\nmanufactured by an organization described in paragraph one or two of\nsubdivision (a) of section eleven hundred sixteen of this chapter or a\nhospital included in the organizations described in paragraph four of\nsuch subdivision for its own use or consumption and except kero-jet fuel\nwhen imported or manufactured by an airline for use in its airplanes.\nProvided, further, no motor fuel shall be included in the measure of the\ntax unless it shall have previously come to rest within the meaning of\nfederal decisional law interpreting the United States constitution. All\ntax for the period for which a return is required to be filed shall be\ndue on the date limited for the filing of the return for such period,\nregardless of whether a return is filed by such distributor as required\nby this article or whether the return which is filed correctly shows the\namount of tax due.\n  2. If, prior to April first, nineteen hundred forty-seven, a contract\nof sale of motor fuel shall have been made, and delivery thereof\npursuant to such contract is made within the state thereafter, from a\nstock of motor fuel which, at the time of the taking of such fuel\ntherefrom for such delivery, is subject to the taxing power of the\nstate, the vendor shall be deemed a distributor, for the purposes of\nthis article, and such motor fuel shall be deemed to be sold, and shall\nbe subject to such tax, at the time of such delivery.\n
N.Y. PAR Law § 11.05 — New York Code / Act PAR / Title B / Article 11 / Section 11.05
Organization
Status: in_force

§ 11.05 Organization.  1. The governor shall designate a chairman from\namong the members of the board appointed by him, to hold such office at\nhis pleasure. The board may provide for its organization and appoint\nsuch other officers from among its members as it deems appropriate.\n  2. The commissioner, upon the approval of the board, shall appoint\nstaff within amounts made available by appropriation to serve the board.\nThe staff shall assist with the organization and implementation of the\nboard's duties; serve as a liaison between the commissioner and board;\ninform the board of all developments germane to its duties and perform\nother duties required of the board through provisions of article\nfourteen of this chapter and any other laws affecting the board.\n
N.Y. DCD Law § 213 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 7 / Section 213
Order for discharge of trustee from trust
Status: in_force

§ 213. Order for discharge of trustee from trust. Upon producing to\nthe court allowing such assignment, the certificate of the assignee,\nduly proved by the oath of a subscribing witness, that such assignment\nhas been duly made, and the property capable of delivery, belonging to\nsuch debtor, together with all the books, vouchers and documents,\nrelating to the estate of such debtor, has been duly delivered; and also\na certificate of the county clerk, that such assignment has been\nrecorded; such court shall grant to the trustee so applying, an order\nthat he be discharged from his trust.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 59-B — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 3-A / Section 59-B
Transfer of property of extinct parishes and churches
Status: in_force

§ 59-b. Transfer of property of extinct parishes and churches. The\nMetropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church may decide that a parish\nor church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical\njurisdiction, and to which this article is applicable, has become\nextinct, if it has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto,\nto maintain religious services according to the discipline, customs and\nusages of such synod, or has had less than ten resident attending\nmembers making annual or regular contributions towards its support, and\nmay take possession of the temporalities and property belonging to such\nchurch or parish and manage the same; or may, in pursuance of the\nprovisions of this chapter relating to the disposition of real property,\nsell or dispose of the same and apply the proceeds thereof to any of the\npurposes to which the property of such synod is devoted, and it shall\nnot divert such property to any other object. For the purpose of\nobtaining a record title to the land and the church edifice, or other\nbuildings thereon, by such synod, the surviving trustee or trustees of\nsaid extinct church or if there be no surviving trustee, then a\nsurviving member of said extinct church, may, without a consideration\nbeing paid therefor by such synod, convey to it said land and church\nedifice, or other buildings thereon, subject, however, to an order of\nthe supreme or county court based upon a petition reciting that said\nchurch has become extinct; the name of its surviving trustee or\ntrustees; and the names of its members (who must have given their\nconsent to the making of said conveyance). Upon the recital of said\nfacts in said petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to grant an\norder allowing said conveyance to be made without a consideration; and\nshould there be no surviving members, as well as no surviving trustee of\nsaid extinct church, said petition may be made by an officer of said\nsynod, in which event the court, upon the recital of said fact, shall\nhave jurisdiction to appoint a suitable person as trustee for the\npurpose of making said conveyance.\n
N.Y. UCT Law § 211 — New York Code / Act UCT / Article 2 / Section 211
Joinder of causes of action in complaint; effect on jurisdiction
Status: in_force

§ 211. Joinder of causes of action in complaint; effect on jurisdiction.\n  Where several causes of action are asserted in the complaint, and each\nof them would be within the jurisdiction of the court if sued upon\nseparately, the court shall have jurisdiction of the action. In such\ncase judgment may be rendered by the court in excess of its monetary\njurisdiction as referred to in § 202 if such excess result solely\nbecause of such joinder.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 3 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 2 / Section 3
Sabbath breaking
Status: in_force

§ 3. Sabbath breaking.  A violation of the foregoing prohibition is\nSabbath breaking.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 130-H — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 4-A / Section 130-H
Construction of article
Status: in_force

§ 130-h. Construction of article. This article shall be construed\nliberally to effectuate its purpose.  The enumeration by this article of\nspecific powers and duties in trust indentures and other instruments\nshall not preclude or prevent the use, exercise or enjoyment of\nadditional powers and duties under or pursuant to such instruments or\nexcuse the failure to exercise or perform such other powers or duties.\nNothing contained in this article shall be construed to repeal any other\nprovision of law except in so far as it is irreconcilably in conflict\nwith a provision of this article in which event the latter shall\ncontrol.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 91 — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 91
Transportation safety account
Status: in_force

* § 91. Transportation safety account. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of\ntaxation and finance an account of the miscellaneous special revenue\nfund to be known as the transportation safety account.\n  2. Such account shall consist of all fees received pursuant to article\nfive, sections three hundred ninety-four, three hundred ninety-eight-c,\nfour hundred fifteen, four hundred fifteen-a, four hundred twenty-nine,\nsubdivision four of section five hundred thirty and subdivision seven of\nsection one thousand one hundred ninety-six and all reinstatement,\nsuspension, termination and reapplication fees received pursuant to\narticle nineteen of the vehicle and traffic law and required to be\ndeposited to this account, and all other monies credited or transferred\nthereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.\n  3. Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature,\nshall be available to the department of motor vehicles for services and\nexpenses of transportation safety activities.\n  * NB Repealed April 1, 2004 - Section revived April 1, 2028\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 406 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 12 / Section 406
Transfers of registered property
Status: in_force

§ 406. Transfers of registered property. A registered owner of real\nproperty, in order to transfer his whole estate or interest therein, or\nany part or parcel thereof, or any undivided interest therein, shall\nexecute to the intended transferee a deed or instrument of conveyance in\nany form authorized by law. Such deed or instrument of conveyance shall\nhave recited therein a statement or reference setting forth the source\nof the title of the grantor or the circumstances under which the title\nwas acquired by him. Upon filing such deed or other instrument in the\nregistrar's office and surrendering to the registrar the duplicate\ncertificate of title, he shall then make out and register as herein\nprovided a new certificate and also an owner's duplicate certificate of\ntitle certifying the title to the estate or interest in the property\nconveyed to the transferee and shall enter upon the original and\nduplicate certificate the date of the transfer, the name of the\ntransferee and the number of the new certificate, and shall stamp across\nthe original and surrendered duplicate certificates the word\n"cancelled." Title to such property shall not pass by such transfer\nuntil the transfer is registered as prescribed by this section.\n