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N.Y. JUD Law § 61 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 3-A / Section 61
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 61. Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following\nterms shall have the following meanings:\n  1. "Commission" means the commission on judicial nomination.\n  2. "Candidate" means a person who is constitutionally eligible to hold\nthe office of chief judge or associate judge of the court of appeals and\n(a) who has requested the commission to consider his qualifications to\nhold such office; or (b) who has been recommended for consideration by\nthe commission by another person, including a community or professional\norganization; or (c) who has agreed to be considered by the commission\nat the commission's request.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 660 — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 12 / Section 660
Remedies of noteholders and bondholders
Status: in_force

§ 660. Remedies of noteholders and bondholders. 1. In the event that\nthe corporation shall default in the payment of principal of or interest\non any issue of notes or bonds after the same shall become due, whether\nat maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default shall continue\nfor a period of thirty days, or in the event that the corporation shall\nfail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this article, or shall\ndefault in any agreement made with the holders of any issue of notes or\nbonds, the holders of twenty-five per centum in aggregate principal\namount of the notes or bonds of such issue then outstanding, by\ninstrument or instruments filed in the office of the clerk of the county\nof New York and proved or acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to\nbe recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent the holders of such\nnotes or bonds for the purposes herein provided.\n  2. Such trustee may, and upon written request of the holders of\ntwenty-five per centum in principal amount of such notes or bonds then\noutstanding shall, in such trustee's own name:\n  (a) by suit, action or proceeding in accordance with the civil\npractice law and rules, enforce all rights of the noteholders or\nbondholders, including the right to require the corporation to carry out\nany agreement with such holders and to perform its duties under this\narticle;\n  (b) bring suit upon such notes or bonds;\n  (c) by action or suit, require the corporation to account as if it\nwere the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such notes or\nbonds;\n  (d) by action or suit, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful\nor in violation of the rights of the holders of such notes or bonds;\n  (e) declare all such notes or bonds due and payable, and if all\ndefaults shall be made good, then, with the consent of the holders of\ntwenty-five per centum of the principal amount of such notes or bonds\nthen outstanding, annul such declaration and its consequences.\n  3. The supreme court shall have jurisdiction of any suit, action or\nproceeding by the trustee on behalf of such noteholders or bondholders.\nThe venue of any such suit, action or proceeding shall be laid in the\ncounty of New York.\n  4. Before declaring the principal of notes or bonds due and payable,\nthe trustee shall first give thirty days' notice in writing to the\ncorporation.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1812-F — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 37 / Part 3 / Section 1812-F
Article thirteen-A tax
Status: in_force

§ 1812-f. Article thirteen-A tax. (a) Any person who willfully accepts\nan exempt transaction certificate (or similar document which has been\nprescribed by the commissioner of taxation and finance) or\ninterdistributor sale certificate with respect to claiming exemption\nfrom the taxes imposed with respect to diesel motor fuel or residual\npetroleum product by article thirteen-A of this chapter which he does\nnot believe to be true and correct as to any material matter shall be\nguilty of a misdemeanor.\n  (b) Any willful act or omission, other than those described in section\neighteen hundred one of this article or subdivision (a) or (c) of this\nsection, by any person which constitutes a violation of any provision of\narticle thirteen-A of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor.\n  (c) Any person who willfully makes a movement tracking document\nrequired pursuant to subdivision (b) of section three hundred fifteen of\nthis chapter, which he does not believe to be true and correct as to\nevery material matter or who willfully produces any such document for\ninspection as required under subdivision (b) of section three hundred\nfifteen of this chapter which he knows to be fraudulent or to be false\nas to any material matter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided,\nhowever, that if the tax liability under article thirteen-A of this\nchapter with respect to the product being transported, is equal to or\ngreater than one thousand dollars, such person shall be guilty of a\nclass E felony.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 283 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 23 / Section 283
Powers and duties of the commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 283. Powers and duties of the commissioner. The commissioner shall\nhave the powers and duties to:\n  1. Develop and implement programs designed to facilitate direct\nmarketing.\n  2. Encourage direct marketing through the cooperative selling and\nbuying of farm products or production supplies.\n  3. Provide technical or educational assistance to producers of farm\nproducts seeking new or improved methods of direct marketing of such\nproducts.\n  4. Provide assistance to wholesale buyers and retail stores seeking to\npurchase farm and food products directly from producers.\n  5. Provide assistance to consumer or non-profit organizations, public\nor private agencies, hospitals and other health care facilities seeking\nto purchase or facilitate the purchase of farm products directly from\nproducers.\n  6. Publicize and encourage participation by producers and consumers in\ndirect marketing programs.\n  7. Encourage the direct marketing of food and farm products to public\nand private agencies within the state.\n  8. Encourage the development of direct marketing programs within areas\nof the state which are identified as having poor consumer access to\nreasonably priced and high quality farm products.\n  8-a. Encourage the development of direct marketing programs, within\nareas of the state designated by the department of health as having a\nhigh incidence of childhood obesity and to increase the consumption of\nfresh fruits and vegetables to help curb the incidence of childhood\nobesity.\n  9. Conduct conferences, seminars or workshops designed to promote the\ndirect marketing of farm products within the state.\n  10. Contract, where necessary, and cooperate with other federal, state\nand local governmental, private non-profit agencies, and other private\nbusiness organizations for the development, design and implementation of\nany activities authorized hereunder.\n  11. Establish a statewide advisory council which shall provide\ninformation to and advise the commissioner, as prescribed by him, on\npolicy, planning and programs.\n  12. Undertake any other activities which he deems necessary to\naccomplish the purposes of this article.\n  13. Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to supplement and give\nfull force and effect to the provisions of this article.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 232 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 2 / Part 3 / Section 232
Jurisdiction over children with physical disabilities
Status: in_force

§ 232. Jurisdiction over children with physical disabilities. (a) The\nfamily court has jurisdiction over children with physical disabilities.\n  (b) "Child with physical disabilities" means a person under twenty-one\nyears of age who, by reason of a physical disability, whether congenital\nor acquired by accident, injury or disease, is or may be expected to be\ntotally or partially incapacitated for education or for remunerative\noccupation, as provided in the education law, or has a physical\ndisability, as provided in section two thousand five hundred eighty-one\nof the public health law.\n  (c) (1) Whenever a parent or other person who has been ordered to\ncontribute to the cost of medical service authorized pursuant to section\ntwo thousand five hundred eighty-two of the public health law refuses to\nor fails to make such contribution, the health commissioner or the\nmedical director of the program for children with physical disabilities,\nas the case may be, may institute a proceeding in the family court to\ncompel such contribution. In any case where an order has been granted\npursuant to section 556-18.0 or section 17-121 of the administrative\ncode of the city of New York the department of health, under the\nconditions specified in such section, may institute a proceeding in the\nfamily court to compel the parents of a child for whom care, treatment,\nappliances or devices have been ordered pursuant to such section, or\nother persons legally chargeable with the support of such child, to\ncontribute such portion of the expense of such care, treatment,\nappliances or devices as may be just, by payments in installments or\notherwise.\n  (2) A parent or other person who has been ordered by the commissioner\nof health of a county or part-county health district, the medical\ndirector of a county program for children with physical disabilities, or\nthe department of health of the city of New York, to contribute to the\ncost of medical service authorized under section two thousand five\nhundred eighty-two of the public health law, may petition the family\ncourt to review such order and determine the extent, if any, of his\nfinancial liability. In any such proceeding, the court may by order\nrequire such parent or other person to pay part or all of the expense of\nsuch service in a lump sum or in such weekly or monthly installments as\nthe court may decide.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 1031 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 10 / Part 3 / Section 1031
Originating proceeding to determine abuse or neglect
Status: in_force

§ 1031. Originating proceeding to determine abuse or neglect. (a) A\nproceeding under this article is originated by the filing of a petition\nin which facts sufficient to establish that a child is an abused or\nneglected child under this article are alleged.\n  (b) Allegations of abuse and neglect may be contained in the same\npetition. Where more than one child is the legal responsibility of the\nrespondent, it may be alleged in the same petition that one or more\nchildren are abused children, or that one or more children are neglected\nchildren, or both.\n  (c) On its own motion and at any time in the proceedings, the court\nmay substitute for a petition to determine abuse a petition to determine\nneglect if the facts established are not sufficient to make a finding of\nabuse, as defined by this article.\n  (d) A proceeding under this article may be originated by a child\nprotective agency pursuant to section one thousand thirty-two,\nnotwithstanding that the child is in the care and custody of such\nagency. In such event, the petition shall allege facts sufficient to\nestablish that the return of the child to the care and custody of his\nparent or other person legally responsible for his care would place the\nchild in imminent danger of becoming an abused or neglected child.\n  (e) In any case where a child has been removed prior to the filing of\na petition, the petition alleging abuse or neglect of said child shall\nstate the date and time of the removal, the circumstances necessitating\nsuch removal, whether the removal occurred pursuant to section ten\nhundred twenty-one, ten hundred twenty-two or ten hundred twenty-four of\nthis act, and if the removal occurred without court order, the reason\nthere was not sufficient time to obtain a court order pursuant to\nsection ten hundred twenty-two of this act.\n  (f) A petition alleging abuse shall contain a notice in conspicuous\nprint that a fact-finding that a child is severely or repeatedly abused\nas defined in subdivision eight of section three hundred eighty-four-b\nof the social services law, by clear and convincing evidence, could\nconstitute a basis to terminate parental rights in a proceeding pursuant\nto section three hundred eighty-four-b of the social services law.\n  (g) Where a petition under this article contains an allegation of a\nfailure by the respondent to provide education to the child in\naccordance with article sixty-five of the education law, regardless of\nwhether such allegation is the sole allegation of the petition, the\npetition shall recite the efforts undertaken by the petitioner and the\nschool district or local educational agency to remediate such alleged\nfailure prior to the filing of the petition and the grounds for\nconcluding that the education-related allegations could not be resolved\nabsent the filing of a petition under this article.\n
N.Y. PEP Law § 312 — New York Code / Act PEP / Article 9 / Section 312
Refund credit on cancellation of credit related insurance or prepayment of contract
Status: in_force

§ 312. Refund credit on cancellation of credit related insurance or\nprepayment of contract. The provisions of this article requiring refunds\nand refund credits with respect to group credit life insurance, in cases\nof cancellation of group credit life insurance or of prepayment of a\nretail instalment contract shall also require refunds and refund credits\nwith respect to credit unemployment insurance, group credit accident,\ngroup credit health or group credit accident and health insurance in\ncases of cancellation of such insurance or prepayment of a retail\ninstalment contract which included such insurance.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 30 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 2 / Section 30
Continuation of salaries of local and state welfare employees receiving training for the better performance of their duties
Status: in_force

§ 30.  Continuation of salaries of local and state welfare employees\nreceiving training for the better performance of their duties.  Subject\nto the approval of the department, the board of supervisors of a county\nand the appropriating body of a city or town may include in its\nappropriations moneys for the continuation of the salaries of their\nlocal welfare employees who are on leave receiving additional training\nfor the better performance of their duties, provided that no such\nsalaries shall be so continued to a greater extent than will reimburse\nsuch employee for the loss of earnings while on such leave.  Salaries of\nthe employees of the department may be continued in a similar fashion.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 324 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 18 / Section 324
Penalty of conversion of floating lumber
Status: in_force

§ 324. Penalty of conversion of floating lumber. Whoever shall convert\nto his own use, without the consent of the owner thereof, any logs,\ntimber, boards or plank, floating in any of the waters of this state, or\nlying on the banks or shores of any such waters, or on any island where\nthe same may have drifted, shall, for every offense, forfeit to the\nowner of such logs, or other lumber, three times the value thereof.\nNothing contained in this section shall be construed to extend to that\nkind of lumber called driftwood.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 155 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 10-A / Section 155
Legislative intent
Status: in_force

§ 155. Legislative intent. It is hereby determined and declared that\nthe promotion of travel, either individually or as a group, is now of\nsuch volume that it is in the public interest to subject it to the\nsupervision of the appropriate political subdivisions of the state for\nthe purpose of safeguarding the public against fraud, false advertising,\nmisrepresentation and similar abuses.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 370 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 26 / Section 370
Protection of the public from attack by wild animals and reptiles
Status: in_force

§ 370. Protection of the public from attack by wild animals and\nreptiles. Any person owning, possessing or harboring a wild animal or\nreptile capable of inflicting bodily harm upon a human being, who shall\nfail to exercise due care in safeguarding the public from attack by such\nwild animal or reptile, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by\nimprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than\nfive hundred dollars, or by both. "Wild animal" within the meaning of\nthis section, shall not include a dog or cat or other domestic animal.\n  Previous attacks upon a human being by such wild animal or reptile, or\nknowledge of the vicious propensities of such wild animal or reptile, on\nthe part of the possessor or harborer thereof, shall not be required to\nbe proven by the people upon a prosecution hereunder; and neither the\nfact that such wild animal or reptile has not previously attacked a\nhuman being, nor lack of knowledge of the vicious propensities of such\nwild animal or reptile on the part of the owner, possessor or harborer\nthereof shall constitute a defense to a prosecution hereunder.\n
N.Y. GAS Law § 10 — New York Code / Act GAS / Article 2 / Section 10
Injunction against joint-stock association
Status: in_force

§ 10.  Injunction against joint-stock association.  An injunction\norder, suspending the general and ordinary business of a joint-stock\nassociation, consisting of seven or more persons, or suspending from\noffice, or restraining from the performance of his duties, a trustee,\ndirector, or other officer thereof, can be granted only by the court,\nupon notice of the application therefor, to the proper officer of the\nassociation, or to the trustee, director, or other officer enjoined.  If\nsuch an injunction order is made, otherwise than as prescribed in this\nsection, it is void.\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 13-J — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 2 / Section 13-J
Medical or surgical treatment by insurance carriers and employers
Status: in_force

§ 13-j. Medical or surgical treatment by insurance carriers and\nemployers. (1) An insurance carrier shall not participate in the\ntreatment of injured workers, except as provided in paragraph five of\nsubdivision (i) of section thirteen of this article and subdivision\nseven of section thirteen-a of this article and except, that it may\nemploy medical inspectors to examine compensation cases periodically,\nwhile under treatment, and report upon the adequacy of medical care, and\nother matters relative to the medical conduct of the case, a copy of\nwhich report shall be filed directly with the chair within ten days, and\nthat it may maintain rehabilitation bureaus operated by qualified\nphysicians if authorized by the chair in accordance with section\nthirteen-c of this article. (2) An employer may maintain a compensation\nmedical bureau at the place or places of employment, if such bureau is\nrequired because of the nature of the industrial hazards, or the\nfrequency of injuries to employees arising out of industry. Such bureau\nor bureaus shall be authorized and licensed pursuant to section\nthirteen-c, and their use by an injured employee shall be optional in\naccordance with the provisions of section thirteen-a.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 595-B — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 12-D / Section 595-B
Regulation of mortgage loan servicers
Status: in_force

§ 595-b. Regulation of mortgage loan servicers. 1. Establishment of\ngrounds to impose a fine or penalty. In addition to such other rules,\nregulations and policies as the superintendent may promulgate to\neffectuate the purposes of this article, the superintendent shall\npromulgate regulations and policies governing the establishment of\ngrounds to impose a fine or penalty with respect to the activities of a\nmortgage loan servicer.\n  2. Servicing practices. In addition to such other rules, regulations\nand policies as the superintendent may promulgate to effectuate the\npurposes of this article, the superintendent may prescribe regulations\nwhich relate to: (a) providing for disclosures to borrowers of the basis\nfor any interest rate resets; (b) requirements for the provision of\npay-off statements; and (c) governing the timing of the crediting of\npayments made by the borrower.\n
N.Y. PAR Law § 27.13 — New York Code / Act PAR / Title E / Article 27 / Section 27.13
Disposition of fees and penalties
Status: in_force

§ 27.13 Disposition of fees and penalties.  1. Not later than the\ntenth day of each month, all fines and penalties collected for\nviolations of this chapter or rules, regulations, local laws or\nordinances adopted thereunder under judgment of any town or village\ncourt, shall be paid over by such court to the comptroller of the state,\nwith a statement accompanying the same, setting forth the action or\nproceeding in which such moneys were collected, the name and residence\nof the defendant, the nature of the offense, and the fines and penalty\nimposed.\n  All fines and penalties collected for violations of this chapter by\ncourts operating pursuant to section thirty-nine of the judiciary law\nshall be paid to the state commissioner of taxation and finance on a\nmonthly basis no later than ten days after the last day of each month.\n  2. The commissioner shall deposit all moneys received by him from the\nsale of snowmobile publications and other services provided by the\noffice and all fees otherwise collected by him under this chapter to the\ncredit of the general fund.\n
N.Y. PAR Law § 19.18 — New York Code / Act PAR / Title C / Article 19-A / Section 19.18
Acquiring title to undocumented property
Status: in_force

§ 19.18 Acquiring title to undocumented property.  Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law regarding abandoned or lost property the office\nmay acquire title to undocumented property held by the office for at\nleast five years as follows:\n  1. The office must give notice by publication that it is asserting\ntitle to the undocumented property.\n  2. In addition to the information described in section 19.16 of this\narticle, the notice shall be entitled "Notice of Intent to Acquire Title\nto Property" and must include a statement containing substantially the\nfollowing information: "The records of the office of parks, recreation\nand historic preservation fail to indicate the owner of record of\ncertain property in its possession. The office hereby asserts its intent\nto acquire title to the following property: (general description of\nproperty). If you claim ownership of this property, you must submit\nwritten proof of ownership to the office and make arrangements to\ncollect the property. If you fail to do so within one hundred eighty\ndays, the office will commence proceedings to acquire title to the\nproperty. If you claim an interest in the property but do not possess\nwritten proof of such interest, you should submit your name and address\nand a written statement of your claim to (name of contact), within one\nhundred eighty days, in order to receive notice of any legal proceedings\nconcerning the property.  If you wish to commence legal proceedings to\nclaim the property, you should consult your attorney.\n  3. If after one hundred eighty days following the last date of\npublication of such notice no claimant has responded thereto by\nsubmitting written proof of ownership of the property to the office, or\nif there is a dispute between the office and any claimant as to\nownership of the property, at the request of the commissioner, the\nattorney general may make an application to the supreme court pursuant\nto article thirty of the civil practice law and rules for a declaratory\njudgment to determine the office's rights in the property.\n