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N.Y. EXC Law § 4-B — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 2 / Section 4-B
Chief disability officer
Status: in_force

§ 4-b. Chief disability officer. 1. Persons with disabilities comprise\na major segment of the state of New York's population and their\nparticular needs and concerns must be considered as an integral part of\nthe planning and implementation of all state programs and services\naffecting their lives and well-being. The office of the chief disability\nofficer shall advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities and ensure\nthat persons with disabilities are afforded the opportunity to exercise\nall of the rights and responsibilities accorded to citizens of this\nstate.\n  2. For purposes of this article:\n  (a) "Persons with disabilities" shall mean any person who has a\ndisability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred\nninety-two of this chapter.\n  (b) "State agency" or "state agencies" shall mean any state\ndepartment, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public\nauthority, public corporation, council, office or other governmental\nentity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state,\nexcept the judiciary or the state legislature.\n  3. (a) The governor shall appoint a chief disability officer. The\nchief disability officer shall advise and assist state agencies in\ndeveloping policies designed to help meet the needs of persons with\ndisabilities.  The chief disability officer shall be appointed by the\ngovernor and receive a salary to be fixed by the governor within the\namounts appropriated therefor.\n  (b) The chief disability officer shall: (i) be the state's coordinator\nfor the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act; (ii)\ncoordinate state activities to ensure that state programs do not\ndiscriminate against and are accessible to persons with disabilities;\n(iii) ensure that such programs provide services to individuals with\ndisabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs;\nand (iv) work with state agencies to develop legislation and potential\nregulatory changes to help effectuate the duties and responsibilities\nrequired in this article, and any other changes that may significantly\naffect the lives of persons with disabilities in the state.\n  (c) The chief disability officer shall, to the extent practicable,\nreview and report to the governor upon proposed legislation and\nregulations. The chief disability officer shall submit comments, where\nappropriate, to the state agency which referred such proposed\nlegislation and regulations evaluating: (i) the impact of the proposed\nlegislation or regulation upon persons with disabilities; (ii) the\nrelationship and impact of such proposed legislation or regulation on\nexisting programs affecting persons with disabilities; and (iii) any\nmodifications that would help persons with disabilities or aid in the\nimplementation of the new proposal. All state agencies shall cooperate\nwith the chief disability officer to ensure that the chief disability\nofficer is able to fulfill the requirements under this section.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 184 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 6-A / Section 184
Number of judges of the surrogate's court, county judges to serve as judges of surrogate's court
Status: in_force

§ 184. Number of judges of the surrogate's court, county judges to\nserve as judges of surrogate's court. 1. The number of judges of the\nsurrogate's court for each county, whether without or within the city of\nNew York, shall be equal to the number of separate elective offices or\noffice of judge of the surrogate's court for such county authorized by\nlaw on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred sixty-two,\nexcept those authorized by certificate filed pursuant to section one\nhundred eighty-nine-c of the judiciary law, as added by chapter six\nhundred ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty, subsequent to\nMarch first, nineteen hundred sixty-two.\n  2. Except where a separate surrogate has been or shall be elected, the\ncounty judge of each county outside of the city of New York shall be and\nserve as judge of the surrogate's court for his county.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 217 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 12-B / Section 217
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 217. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and\nphrases shall have the following meanings:\n  1. "Retail mercantile establishment" shall mean a place where goods,\nwares or merchandise are offered to the public for sale.\n  2. "Restocking fee" shall mean any amount charged by a seller for\naccepting returned merchandise and paying a refund or credit.\n  3. "Online retailer" shall mean a seller of goods, wares or\nmerchandise, primarily for personal, family or household purposes,\nexcluding used goods, who offers to consumers in New York such items for\nsale online through a website, mobile application or other online\nplatform. "Online retailer" shall not include an online marketplace\nwhere such marketplace is not the seller.\n
N.Y. REL Law § 50 — New York Code / Act REL / Article 5 / Section 50
Filing of articles
Status: in_force

§ 50. Filing of articles. Articles of incorporation, amendment,\nconsolidation, merger, conversion, or dissolution, when executed and\nacknowledged and accompanied by such affidavits as may be required by\napplicable provisions of this chapter, shall be filed in the department\nof state.  The secretary of state shall, upon the payment of the fees as\nin this chapter provided, index such articles. Upon the filing of such\narticles, the incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger,\nconversion, or dissolution provided for therein shall be in effect.  The\nprovisions of this section shall also apply to certificates of election\nto dissolve and affidavits executed in connection therewith pursuant to\nsubsection (b) of section thirty-five of this chapter.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 410.90 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 2 / Title L / Article 410 / Section 410.90
Termination of sentence
Status: in_force

§ 410.90 Termination of sentence.\n  1. The court may at any time terminate either a period of probation,\nother than a period of lifetime probation, for conviction to a crime or\na period of conditional discharge for an offense.\n  2. The court may terminate a period of probation for a person who is\nsubject to lifetime probation and who has been on unrevoked probation\nfor at least five consecutive years.\n  3. (a) The court shall grant a request for termination of a sentence\nof probation under this section when, having regard to the conduct and\ncondition of the probationer, the court is of the opinion that:\n  (i) the probationer is no longer in need of such guidance, training or\nother assistance which would otherwise be administered through probation\nsupervision;\n  (ii) the probationer has diligently complied with the terms and\nconditions of the sentence of probation; and\n  (iii) the termination of the sentence of probation is not adverse to\nthe protection of the public.\n  No such termination shall be granted unless the court is satisfied\nthat the probationer, who is otherwise financially able to comply with\nan order of restitution or reparation, has made a good faith effort to\ncomply therewith.\n  (b) The court shall grant a request for termination of a sentence of\nconditional discharge under this section when, having regard to the\nconduct and condition of the defendant, the court is of the opinion\nthat:\n  (i) the defendant has diligently complied with the terms and\nconditions of the sentence of conditional discharge; and\n  (ii) termination of the sentence of conditional discharge is not\nadverse to protection of the public.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 216 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 5-A / Section 216
Capital stock
Status: in_force

§ 216. Capital stock. The capital stock of such corporation shall be\nfive hundred thousand shares of common and preferred stock, in such\namounts as shall be established in the by-laws by the board of\ndirectors, with the preferred stock having such relative rights,\npreferences and limitations as shall be established in the by-laws by\nthe board of directors.  At least a majority of the capital stock of\nsuch corporation shall at all times be held by residents of the state or\nby persons, firms or corporations engaged in doing business therein.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 404 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 14-C / Section 404
Authorization of undertaking
Status: in_force

§ 404. Authorization of undertaking. The acquisition, construction,\nreconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any undertaking\nmay be authorized under this article by resolution or resolutions of the\ngoverning body of the municipality which may be adopted at a regular or\nspecial meeting and at the same meeting at which they are introduced by\na majority of all the members thereof then in office and which shall\ntake effect immediately upon adoption.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 231 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 7 / Section 231
Lease, when void; liability of landlord where premises are occupied for unlawful purpose
Status: in_force

§ 231. Lease, when void; liability of landlord where premises are\noccupied for unlawful purpose. 1. Whenever the lessee or occupant other\nthan the owner of any building or premises, shall use or occupy the\nsame, or any part thereof, for any illegal trade, manufacture or other\nbusiness, the lease or agreement for the letting or occupancy of such\nbuilding or premises, or any part thereof shall thereupon become void,\nand the landlord of such lessee or occupant may enter upon the premises\nso let or occupied.\n  2. The owner of real property, knowingly leasing or giving possession\nof the same to be used or occupied, wholly or partly, for any unlawful\ntrade, manufacture or business, or knowingly permitting the same to be\nso used, is liable severally, and also jointly with one or more of the\ntenants or occupants thereof, for any damage resulting from such\nunlawful use, occupancy, trade, manufacture or business.\n  3. For the purposes of this section, two or more convictions of any\nperson or persons had, within a period of one year, for any of the\noffenses described in section 230.00, 230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.12,\n230.13, 230.20, 230.25, 230.30, 230.32 or 230.40 of the penal law\narising out of conduct engaged in at the same premises consisting of a\ndwelling as that term is defined in subdivision four of section four of\nthe multiple dwelling law shall be presumptive evidence of unlawful use\nof such premises and of the owners knowledge of the same.\n  4. Any lease or agreement hereafter executed for the letting or\noccupancy of real property or any portion thereof, to be used by the\nlessee as a residence, which contains therein a provision pledging\npersonal property exempt by law from levy and sale by virtue of an\nexecution, as security for the payment of rent due or to become due\nthereunder, is void as to such provision.\n  * 5. The attorney general may commence an action or proceeding in the\nsupreme court to enjoin the continued unlawful trade, manufacture or\nbusiness in such premises.\n  * NB There are 2 sub 5's\n  * 5. For the purposes of this section, two or more convictions of any\nperson or persons had, within a period of one year, for any of the\noffenses described in section 225.00, 225.05, 225.10, 225.15, 225.20,\n225.30, 225.32, 225.35 or 225.40 of the penal law, arising out of\nconduct engaged in at the same premises consisting of a dwelling as that\nterm is defined in subdivision four of section four of the multiple\ndwelling law shall be presumptive evidence of unlawful use of such\npremises and of the owner's knowledge of the same.\n  * NB There are 2 sub 5's\n  6. Any owner or tenant, including a tenant of one or more rooms of an\napartment house, tenement house or multiple dwelling of any premises\nwithin two hundred feet of the demised real property, may commence an\naction or proceeding in supreme court to enjoin the continued unlawful\ntrade, manufacture or other business in such premises.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 254 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 6 / Section 254
Examinations by trustees
Status: in_force

§ 254. Examinations by trustees.  1.  Once in each calendar year the\ntrustees of each savings bank by a committee of not less than three of\ntheir number, none of whom shall be an officer or salaried employee of,\nor an attorney who receives any fee, compensation or any other form of\nemolument for legal services rendered to, such savings bank, shall fully\nexamine the records and affairs of such savings bank, for the purpose of\ndetermining its true financial condition. Such examination shall be made\nas of a date not less than six months after the date of the previous\nsuch examination. In the conduct of each such examination inquiry shall\nbe made into the policies of management for the purpose of determining\nwhether such policies are sound and consistent with the requirements of\nlaw, and into such other matters as shall be necessary to enable the\ntrustees to determine whether adequate protection is afforded to\ndepositors. The trustees may employ such assistants as they deem\nnecessary in making the examination prescribed by this section, other\nthan an attorney who receives any fee, compensation or any other form of\nemolument for legal services rendered to such savings bank.\n  2.  A savings bank's compliance with section one hundred twelve of the\nFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act of 1991, as implemented by the\nprovisions of part three hundred sixty-three of the rules and\nregulations of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as they may be\namended from time to time, shall be deemed to satisfy the examination\nrequirement of this section.\n  3. A report of each such examination, in such form as may be\nprescribed by the superintendent, sworn to by the trustees making the\nsame shall, within thirty days after the completion of such examination,\nbe presented to the board of trustees of such savings bank at a regular\nmeeting and thereafter filed with the records of such savings bank.\nWithin ten days after the presentation of such report to the board of\ntrustees a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the\nsuperintendent, together with a certificate that such report was\npresented to the board of trustees, in the form prescribed by the\nsuperintendent.\n
N.Y. EHC Law § 2 — New York Code / Act EHC / Section 2
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 2. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the\n"Expanded Health Care Coverage Act of Nineteen Hundred Eighty-eight".\n
N.Y. ACG Law § 205 — New York Code / Act ACG / Article 5 / Section 205
Vacancies in elective offices
Status: in_force

§ 205. Vacancies in elective offices. Vacancy in the offices of\nsheriff, coroner, county clerk, register, district attorney, and county\ntreasurer shall be filled by the governor with the advice and consent of\nthe senate if in session. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by\nexpiration of term, in the office of judge of the county court,\nsurrogate, or judge of the family court outside the city of New York, it\nshall be filled for a full term at the next general election held not\nless than three months after such vacancy occurs and, until the vacancy\nshall be so filled, the governor by and with the consent of the senate,\nif the senate shall be in session, or, if the senate not be in session\nthe governor may fill such vacancy by an appointment which shall\ncontinue until and including the last day of December next after the\nelection at which the vacancy shall be filled. All other vacancies in an\nelective county office shall be filled by the board of supervisors.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 17 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 2 / Section 17
Occupancy preference
Status: in_force

§ 17. Occupancy preference.  The occupancy of any state project shall\nbe restricted to persons of low income and preference shall be given to\npersons who live or shall have lived in the substandard or insanitary\narea or areas which have been or will be cleared, replanned,\nreconstructed or rehabilitated pursuant to a plan.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 55 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 3 / Section 55
Accommodation of connecting roads
Status: in_force

§ 55. Accommodation of connecting roads. Every railroad corporation\nwhose road, at or near the same place, connects with or is intersected\nby two or more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and\nimpartially afford to each of such connecting or intersecting roads\nequal terms of accommodation, privileges and facilities in the\ntransportation of cars, passengers, baggage and freight over and upon\nits roads and over and upon their roads, and equal facilities in the\ninterchange and use of passenger, baggage, freight and other cars\nrequired to accommodate the business of each road, and in furnishing\npassage tickets to passengers who may desire to make a continuous trip\nover any part of its roads and either of such connecting roads. The\ncommissioner of transportation may, upon application of the corporation\nowning or operating either of the connecting or intersecting roads, and\nupon fourteen days' notice to the corporation owning or operating the\nother road, prescribe such regulations as will secure, in its judgment,\nthe enjoyment of equal privileges, accommodations and facilities to such\nconnecting or intersecting roads as may be required to accommodate the\nbusiness of each road, and the terms and conditions upon which the same\nshall be afforded to each road. The decision of the commissioner of\ntransportation shall be binding on the parties for two years, and the\nsupreme court shall have power to compel the performance thereof in an\naction or special proceeding, by injunction or otherwise.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 4-A-101 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 4-A / Part 1 / Section 4-A-101
Short Title
Status: in_force

Section 4-A-101. Short Title.\n  This Article may be cited as uniform commercial code -- funds\ntransfers.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 351 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 3 / Section 351
Evidence as to common lands in the city of New York
Status: in_force

§ 351. Evidence as to common lands in the city of New York. In any\naction or special proceeding involving a question as to the situs of any\nlot of the common lands, so-called, in the city of New York, the court\nmay, upon the offer of any party, receive in evidence any evidence which\nwas received in the action heretofore prosecuted in the superior court\nof the city of New York, by Russell D. Miner, and continued by the\npersonal representatives of the same Russell D. Miner, deceased, against\nthe city of New York, or in the action in such court between certain\nheirs at law of the same Russell D. Miner, deceased, and Jacob Scholle\nand others, and also the deposition of Isaac T. Ludlam, deceased,\nverified before E. Henry Lacombe, as referee, upon the fourteenth day of\nNovember, eighteen hundred seventy-eight, in an action in such court by\nHester Sherman and others, against Thomas Kane and others; provided that\nthe testimony of a witness shall not be admissible, under the provisions\nof this section until the court is satisfied that such witness has\nheretofore died; and provided further, that no provision of this section\nshall give to any documentary evidence introduced in connection with any\nformer testimony any greater or different effect than may be due to it\nby reason of the testimony relative thereto. Such evidence may be\nintroduced in any mode established by the practice of the courts for the\nintroduction of testimony given upon a former trial, by a witness who\nhas since died, or by reading from the printed cases on appeal,\nheretofore filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the\ncity of New York.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 1305 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 13 / Section 1305
Discharge of debtor, transfer agent, safe deposit company, bank, trust company or other person The delivery by a voluntary administrator ...
Status: in_force

§ 1305. Discharge of debtor, transfer agent, safe deposit company, bank,\n          trust company or other person\n  The delivery by a voluntary administrator to a debtor, transfer agent,\nsafe deposit company, bank, trust company or other person holding or\nhaving custody or possession or control of any personal property of the\ndecedent, of the short form certificate of the court, the receipt of the\nadministrator, and the surrender of any evidentiary document, shall\nconstitute a complete release and discharge for any payment of money or\ndelivery of personal property made pursuant to the certificate, without\nsuch person being required to see to the application thereof and with\nthe same effect as if made to any duly appointed fiduciary.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 200 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 10 / Section 200
Office of general services
Status: in_force

§ 200. Office of general services.  There is hereby created an office\nof general services in the executive department. The head of the office\nof general services shall be the commissioner of general services. He\nshall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of\nthe senate and hold office during the pleasure of the governor. He shall\nreceive a salary to be fixed by the governor within the amount\nappropriated therefor.  Such commissioner, subject to rules prescribed\nby the governor, may establish such bureaus or divisions in the office\nof general services as he may deem necessary and may appoint such\ndeputies, directors, assistants and other employees as may be needed for\nthe performance of his duties and may prescribe their powers and duties\nand fix their compensation within the amount appropriated therefor. Such\noffice may have an office seal. The principal office of the office of\ngeneral services shall be in the city of Albany, and branch offices may\nbe established by direction of the governor, subject to appropriations\nfor their maintenance.\n  Such commissioner may adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations\nrelating to the discharge of his functions, powers and duties and those\nof the office of general services as prescribed by law. Nothing\ncontained herein shall limit or impair compliance with the requirements\nof section one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law, with\nrespect to rules promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to such\nsection.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 226-E — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 5 / Section 226-E
Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations
Status: in_force

§ 226-e. Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations. The Niagara\ncounty legislature is hereby authorized to waive fees by local law,\nincluding but not limited to building permit review fees and fees\nassociated with capital improvements to any post or hall owned by a\nnot-for-profit congressionally chartered veterans' organization located\nin such county.\n
N.Y. VIL Law § 6-626 — New York Code / Act VIL / Article 6 / Section 6-626
Streets by prescription
Status: in_force

§ 6-626 Streets by prescription. All lands within the village which\nhave been used by the public as a street for ten years or more\ncontinuously, shall be a street with the same force and effect as if it\nhad been duly laid out and recorded as such.\n