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N.Y. NPC Law § 713 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 7 / Section 713
Officers
Status: in_force

§ 713. Officers.\n  (a) The board may elect or appoint a chair or president, or both, one\nor more vice-presidents, a secretary and a treasurer, and such other\nofficers as it may determine, or as may be provided in the by-laws.\nThese officers may be designated by such alternate titles as may be\nprovided in the certificate of incorporation or the by-laws. Any two or\nmore offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of\npresident and secretary, or the offices corresponding thereto.\n  (b) The certificate of incorporation or a by-law adopted by the\nmembers may provide that all officers or that specified officers shall\nbe elected by the members instead of by the board, or it may authorize\nthe president to appoint the other officers, or some of them, subject to\napproval by the board.\n  (c) Each officer shall hold office for the term for which he is\nelected or appointed, and until his successor has been elected or\nappointed and qualified. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of\nincorporation or the by-laws, all officers shall be elected or appointed\nannually.\n  (d) The certificate of incorporation or the by-laws may provide that\nany one or more officers shall be ex-officio members of the board, with\nvoting rights unless specified otherwise.\n  (e) All officers as between themselves and the corporation shall have\nsuch authority and perform such duties in the management of the\ncorporation as may be provided in the by-laws or, to the extent not so\nprovided, by the board. The board may require any officer to give\nsecurity for the faithful performance of his duties.\n  (f) No employee of the corporation shall serve as chair of the board\nor hold any other title with similar responsibilities, unless the board\napproves such employee serving as chair of the board by a two-thirds\nvote of the entire board and contemporaneously documents in writing the\nbasis for the board approval; provided, however, that no such employee\nshall be considered an independent director for the purposes of this\nchapter.\n
N.Y. BSW Law § 28-A — New York Code / Act BSW / Section 28-A
Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers
Status: in_force

* § 28-a. Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and\nprofessional wrestlers. 1. All persons, parties or corporations having\nlicenses as promoters or who are licensed in accordance with section\n28-b of this act shall continuously provide insurance for the protection\nof licensed boxers and professional wrestlers, appearing in boxing bouts\nor wrestling exhibitions. Such insurance coverage shall provide for\nreimbursement to the licensed athlete for medical, surgical and hospital\ncare, with a minimum limit of seven thousand five hundred dollars for\ninjuries sustained while participating in any program operated under the\ncontrol of such licensed promoter and for a payment of one hundred\nthousand dollars to the estate of any deceased athlete where such death\nis occasioned by injuries received in this state during the course of a\nprogram in which such licensed athlete or professional wrestler\nparticipated under the promotion or control of any licensed promoter.\nThe commission may from time to time, in its discretion, increase the\namount of such minimum limits.\n  2. The failure to provide such insurance as is required by subdivision\none of this section shall be cause for the suspension or the revocation\nof the license of such defaulting promoter.\n  * NB Repealed September 1, 2016\n
N.Y. CMS Law § 2 — New York Code / Act CMS / Section R2
Senate Composition
Status: in_force

RULE II\nSENATE COMPOSITION\n
N.Y. PBS Law § 91-A — New York Code / Act PBS / Article 5 / Section 91-A
Customer of record for telephonic blocking and restrictions on the removal of telephonic blocks to certain area codes
Status: in_force

§ 91-a.  Customer of record for telephonic blocking and restrictions\non the removal of telephonic blocks to certain area codes. Where access\nto telephone numbers in the 800 and/or 900 area codes has been blocked\nat the request of the customer of record to prevent the completion of\nthe call to numbers in such area codes, the customer of record may\nprovide a personal password to be retained in the customer's record for\npurposes of preventing the unauthorized removal of the request for\nblocking. No telephone corporation shall remove such telephonic block\nexcept pursuant to the customer of record providing the correct\npassword, or a request of the customer of record made in writing or in\nperson to such telephone corporation.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 153 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 7 / Section 153
Custody of shade trees
Status: in_force

§ 153. Custody of shade trees. The town superintendent shall have\ncontrol of all shade trees in the town highways of the town, but not\nwithin the limits of an incorporated village, and shall prosecute\ncomplaints for malicious injury to, or unlawful acts concerning public\nshade trees. Upon recommendation of the town superintendent, the town\nboard of any town may appropriate general town moneys for setting out\nand preserving shade trees along the highways of any class in such town;\nbut no tree shall be so set out in a state highway without the consent\nin writing of the commissioner of transportation except in a village of\nthe first or second class, nor shall any trees be so set out in a county\nroad without the written consent of the county superintendent, except in\nvillages of the first and second class. Trees set out in a state highway\nunder the provisions of this section shall not be removed without the\nwritten consent of the commissioner of transportation. Trees set out in\na county road under the provisions of this section shall not be removed\nwithout the written consent of the county superintendent. Trees set out\nin a state highway within villages of the first and second class which\ntend to make travel or traffic thereon unsafe or hazardous shall be\nremoved or their location changed by the proper village autohrity when\nsuch removal or change of location is ordered by the commissioner of\ntransportation.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 31-H — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 2-C / Section 31-H
Office of community gardens; powers; duties
Status: in_force

§ 31-h. Office of community gardens; powers; duties. 1. The\ncommissioner shall establish within the department an office of\ncommunity gardens which shall have the authority and responsibility for\ncarrying out the provisions of this article in cooperation with the\nstate department of environmental conservation, the state education\ndepartment, the department of state, cooperative extensions and other\nstate agencies and municipalities.\n  2. The duties of the office shall include:\n  a. Upon request, the office shall assist in the identification of\nvacant public land within a given geographical location and provide\ninformation regarding agency jurisdiction and the relative suitability\nof such lands for community gardening purposes;\n  b. Serve as a coordinator on behalf of interested community groups and\nthe appropriate state or local agencies to facilitate the use of vacant\npublic lands for community garden use for not less than one growing\nseason by receiving and forwarding with recommendation completed\napplications to the appropriate state or municipal agency. Provided,\nfurther, that the office may develop a single recommended application\nform to be used by community groups when applying to state agencies or\nmunicipalities for use of vacant public land for community garden\npurposes;\n  c. Support and encourage contact between community garden programs\nalready in existence and those programs in the initial stages of\ndevelopment;\n  d. Seek and provide such assistance, to the extent funds or grants may\nbecome available, for the purposes identified in this article;\n  e. Assist, support and encourage contact and cooperation between, and\nthe cooperative sharing of resources between community garden groups,\nschool garden programs and local voluntary food assistance programs,\nsuch as community food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers, and\nother community and not-for-profit organizations that provide or\ndistribute food to the elderly, poor, and disadvantaged. Such support\ncan include the provision of surplus community garden food or other\nagricultural products to such local voluntary food assistance programs;\nand\n  f. Assist, support and encourage communication, and the sharing of\nresources between community garden organizations, the New York Harvest\nFor New York Kids Week program established by the department pursuant to\nsubdivision five-b of section sixteen of this chapter and individual\nfarm-to-school and school garden programs, and, where applicable, the\ndepartment of health, the department of state, the office of children\nand family services and the division of housing and community renewal.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 5001 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 50 / Section 5001
Interest to verdict, report or decision
Status: in_force

§ 5001. Interest to verdict, report or decision. (a) Actions in which\nrecoverable. Interest shall be recovered upon a sum awarded because of a\nbreach of performance of a contract, or because of an act or omission\ndepriving or otherwise interfering with title to, or possession or\nenjoyment of, property, except that in an action of an equitable nature,\ninterest and the rate and date from which it shall be computed shall be\nin the court's discretion.\n  (b) Date from which computed. Interest shall be computed from the\nearliest ascertainable date the cause of action existed, except that\ninterest upon damages incurred thereafter shall be computed from the\ndate incurred. Where such damages were incurred at various times,\ninterest shall be computed upon each item from the date it was incurred\nor upon all of the damages from a single reasonable intermediate date.\n  (c) Specifying date; computing interest. The date from which interest\nis to be computed shall be specified in the verdict, report or decision.\nIf a jury is discharged without specifying the date, the court upon\nmotion shall fix the date, except that where the date is certain and not\nin dispute, the date may be fixed by the clerk of the court upon\naffidavit.  The amount of interest shall be computed by the clerk of the\ncourt, to the date the verdict was rendered or the report or decision\nwas made, and included in the total sum awarded.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 464 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 22 / Section 464
Meeting for incorporation
Status: in_force

§ 464. Meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for incorporation\nheld in pursuance of such notice, only qualified voters shall be\neligible to vote.\n  2. The presence of one-third of the qualified voters or six qualified\nvoters, whichever number is higher, shall be necessary to constitute a\nquorum of such meeting. The action of the meeting upon any matter or\nquestion shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters present.\n  3. The minister of the church, or if none, the officiating minister,\nshall act as presiding officer of the meeting to incorporate. The\npresiding officer shall call the meeting to order and shall be the judge\nof the qualification of voters.\n  4. Such meeting shall decide by ballot whether the church shall be\nincorporated, the name of the proposed corporation, the names of the\ninitial trustees, and the date, not more than fifteen months thereafter,\non which the first annual election or affirmation of the trustees\nthereof after such meeting shall be held. The trustees shall hold office\nuntil their successors are elected or affirmed.\n  5. At the meeting for incorporation, a constitution and by-laws shall\nbe adopted setting forth a form of church governance that is consistent\nwith section four hundred sixty-five of this article.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1439-H*2 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-A-2*2 / Section 1439-H*2
Designation of agents
Status: in_force

* § 1439-h. Designation of agents. The treasurer is authorized to\ndesignate the recording officer to act as his or her agent for purposes\nof collecting the tax authorized by this article. The treasurer shall\nprovide for the manner in which such person may be designated as his or\nher agent subject to such terms and conditions as the treasurer shall\nprescribe. The real estate transfer tax shall be paid to such agent as\nprovided in section fourteen hundred thirty-nine-c of this article.\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2027\n  * NB There are 3 § 1439-h's\n
N.Y. DCD Law § 30 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 2-A / Section 30
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 30. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context or\nsubject matter requires otherwise:\n  (a) "Liquidation proceeding" includes all assignments for the benefit\nof creditors, whether voluntary or by operation of law; equity\nreceiverships where the subject under receivership is insolvent; and any\nother proceedings for distribution of assets of any insolvent debtor,\nwhether a person, partnership, corporation or business association\nexcept proceedings under article seventy-four of the insurance law and\narticle thirteen of the banking law.\n  (b) "Liquidator" means any person administering assets in any\nliquidation proceedings.\n  (c) "Insolvent debtor" means any insolvent person, partnership,\ncorporation or business association involved in a liquidation\nproceeding.\n  (d) "Secured creditor" means a creditor who has either legal or\nequitable security for his debt upon any property of the insolvent\ndebtor of a nature to be liquidated and distributed in a liquidation\nproceeding, or a creditor to whom is owed a debt for which such security\nis possessed by some endorser, surety, or other person secondarily\nliable.\n  (e) "Creditor's sale" includes any sale effected by the secured\ncreditor by judicial process or otherwise under the terms of his\ncontract or the applicable law for the purpose of realizing upon his\nsecurity.\n
N.Y. BSW Law § 30 — New York Code / Act BSW / Section 30
Disposition of receipts
Status: in_force

* § 30. Disposition of receipts. All receipts of the commission shall\nbe paid into the state treasury. Provided, however, that receipts from\nthe tax imposed by article nineteen of the tax law shall be deposited as\nprovided by section one hundred seventy-one-a of the tax law.\n  * NB Repealed September 1, 2016\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 973 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 9 / Section 973
Report of disposition of proceeds
Status: in_force

§ 973. Report of disposition of proceeds. Within sixty days after the\nentry of final judgment, unless such time be extended by an order of the\ncourt entered in the office of the clerk within said sixty days, the\nofficer making the sale shall file with the clerk his report under oath\nof the disposition of the proceeds of the sale, accompanied by the\nvouchers of the persons to whom payments were ordered to be made.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 655 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 31 / Section 655
Restriction on conveyance of campgrounds
Status: in_force

§ 655. Restriction on conveyance of campgrounds. 1. No membership\ncampground operator shall convey or transfer a membership campground\nunless the transferee takes title or possession subject to all rights of\npurchasers; or the membership campground operator immediately\nsubstitutes for the use of purchasers another campground which is\nlocated within a fifty-mile radius and is at least as desirable for the\npurpose of camping and outdoor recreation as the campground being\nconveyed or transferred.\n  2. For the purpose of this section, the terms "convey" and "transfer"\nshall not include the granting of a security interest in or the pledging\nof the property for financing purposes, but shall include the assignment\nof any leasehold interest the campground operator may have in the\ncampground property.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1517 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 15 / Section 1517
Answer
Status: in_force

§ 1517. Answer. The defendant may, in his answer, deny any material\nallegation of the complaint controverted by him, or any knowledge or\ninformation thereof sufficient to form a belief, or may set forth facts\nconstituting a defense; and thereupon he may demand judgment dismissing\nthe complaint.  He may also set forth facts as a counterclaim for the\nsame cause of action; or the defendant may set forth facts showing that\nhe has an estate or interest in said property; and thereupon he may\ndemand any judgment to which he would be entitled in an action brought\nby him to recover that estate or to enforce in any manner the interest\nwhich he asserts in such property; or he may combine any two or more of\nsaid demands.\n
N.Y. COM Law § 143 — New York Code / Act COM / Article 4-C / Section 143
Responsibilities of other agencies
Status: in_force

§ 143. Responsibilities of other agencies. 1. Prior to awarding any\nprocurement contract, each agency shall submit to the commissioner\ninformation sufficient to enable publication of the notices of\nprocurement contract opportunities described in subdivision two of\nsection one hundred forty-two of this article. Such information shall be\nsubmitted to the commissioner in sufficient time to allow a minimum of\nfifteen business days between publication of such notice and the date on\nwhich a bid or proposal is due, except where a shorter period is\nspecifically authorized by law.\n  2. No agency shall award a procurement contract unless a notice of a\nprocurement contract opportunity as described in subdivision two of\nsection one hundred forty-two of this article has been published in the\nprocurement opportunities newsletter or unless such procurement contract\nis exempt from the requirements of this article in accordance with\nsection one hundred forty-four of this article.\n  3. At the time the agency determination of intent to award a\nprocurement contract is made, each agency shall submit to the\ncommissioner for inclusion in the procurement opportunities newsletter,\n(a) for procurement contracts let by the invitation for bid process, the\nresult of the bid opening including the names of bidding firms and the\namounts bid by each; (b) for procurement contracts let by the request\nfor proposal process, the names of firms submitting proposals and the\nproposal selected as the best value offer; and (c) for all other\nprocurement contracts, the name of the proposed awardee.\n  4. At the time an agency enters into a contract with a single or sole\nsource provider pursuant to section one hundred sixty-three of the state\nfinance law, for an amount in excess of fifty thousand dollars, such\nagency shall submit an announcement of the intended contract for\ninclusion in the procurement opportunities newsletter, and shall specify\nthe recipient of the contract.\n  5. At the time an agency enters into a contract, such agency shall\nsubmit an announcement of the intended contract for inclusion in the\nprocurement opportunities newsletter. Such announcement shall identify\nthe contract, specify the date of the award of the contract and provide\nthe name of and contact information for each recipient of the contract.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 329 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 25-AAAA / Section 329
Farmland viability program
Status: in_force

§ 329. Farmland viability program. The commissioner shall initiate and\nmaintain a state farmland viability program within the department which\nis intended to improve the profitability and efficiency of participating\nfarms. The program shall provide technical and financial assistance in\nthe form of matching grants to applicants for projects which contribute\nto overall farm profitability and sound environmental management.\n  1. The commissioner may award grants, within available funding, for\nthe following purposes:\n  a. to a county agricultural and farmland protection board for the\nimplementation of any component of its approved agricultural protection\nplan which addresses improved farm profitability;\n  b. to an applicant, other than a county agricultural and farmland\nprotection board, for the development of a farmland viability plan or a\nportion of such a plan, which shall assess overall farm profitability\nand identify potential strategies for improved farm profitability such\nas farm expansion, value added production, diversification,\nenvironmental management, or marketing and promotional activities, and\n  c. to an applicant, other than a county agricultural and farmland\nprotection board, for the implementation of any component of its\nfarmland viability plan which has been approved by the commissioner.\n  2. The commissioner shall consult with the college of agriculture and\nlife sciences at Cornell university and the state advisory council on\nagriculture to identify and coordinate available resources for the\nfarmland viability program.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 964-A — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 46 / Section 964-A
Powers of the council
Status: in_force

§ 964-a. Powers of the council. The council shall have the following\npowers:\n  1. To conduct or contract for necessary planning, scientific and\nenvironmental studies pertaining to the reserve, where insufficient data\nexists;\n  2. To utilize, to the extent feasible, the staff and facilities of\nstate and local agencies subject to the approval of such agencies to\ncarry out the provisions of this article; and\n  3. To contract within amounts appropriated for services deemed\nnecessary for the performance of the council's functions.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 311 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 7 / Section 311
Termination of qualification
Status: in_force

§ 311. Termination of qualification. 1. The commissioner of\ntransportation shall make and file an order terminating the\nqualification of a railroad redevelopment corporation if such\ncorporation or any affiliated corporation files an application for an\nincrease in the passenger fares and charges of such railroad\nredevelopment corporation either with the commissioner of transportation\nunder section one hundred nineteen of the transportation law, or with\nthe interstate commerce commission under section thirteen of title\nforty-nine of the United States code, and the acts amendatory thereof or\nsupplementary thereto.\n  2. A railroad redevelopment corporation, at any time not less than\nthree years after the date upon which it qualified as such, may\nterminate its qualification by amending its certificate of\nincorporation, by action pursuant to article eight of the business\ncorporation law, without requiring the consent and approval of the\ncommissioner of transportation, so as to delete therefrom the provision\nthat it elects to be qualified as a railroad redevelopment corporation.\n  3. Upon the termination of its qualification as a railroad\nredevelopment corporation, such corporation shall cease to be entitled\nto the benefits or subject to the obligations of a railroad\nredevelopment corporation; but such corporation shall continue to comply\nwith its agreement as to the setting aside and use of a separate fund in\naccordance with subparagraph (2) of paragraph (H) of subdivision two of\nsection three hundred three.\n