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N.Y. EXC Law § 135-A — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 6 / Section 135-A
Notary public or commissioner of deeds; acting without appointment; fraud in office
Status: in_force

§ 135-a. Notary public or commissioner of deeds; acting without\nappointment; fraud in office. 1. Any person who holds himself out to the\npublic as being entitled to act as a notary public or commissioner of\ndeeds, or who assumes, uses or advertises the title of notary public or\ncommissioner of deeds, or equivalent terms in any language, in such a\nmanner as to convey the impression that he is a notary public or\ncommissioner of deeds without having first been appointed as notary\npublic or commissioner of deeds, or\n  2. A notary public or commissioner of deeds, who in the exercise of\nthe powers, or in the performance of the duties of such office shall\npractice any fraud or deceit, the punishment for which is not otherwise\nprovided for by this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 160.15 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title J / Article 160 / Section 160.15
Robbery in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 160.15 Robbery in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree when he forcibly\nsteals property and when, in the course of the commission of the crime\nor of immediate flight therefrom, he or another participant in the\ncrime:\n  1. Causes serious physical injury to any person who is not a\nparticipant in the crime; or\n  2. Is armed with a deadly weapon; or\n  3. Uses or threatens the immediate use of a dangerous instrument; or\n  4. Displays what appears to be a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun,\nmachine gun or other firearm; except that in any prosecution under this\nsubdivision, it is an affirmative defense that such pistol, revolver,\nrifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm was not a loaded weapon\nfrom which a shot, readily capable of producing death or other serious\nphysical injury, could be discharged. Nothing contained in this\nsubdivision shall constitute a defense to a prosecution for, or preclude\na conviction of, robbery in the second degree, robbery in the third\ndegree or any other crime.\n  Robbery in the first degree is a class B felony.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 4-212 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 4 / Part 2 / Section 4-212
Right of Charge-Back or Refund
Status: in_force

Section 4--212. Right of Charge-Back or Refund.\n  (1) If a collecting bank has made provisional settlement with its\ncustomer for an item and itself fails by reason of dishonor, suspension\nof payments by a bank or otherwise to receive a settlement for the item\nwhich is or becomes final, the bank may revoke the settlement given by\nit, charge back the amount of any credit given for the item to its\ncustomer's account or obtain refund from its customer whether or not it\nis able to return the items if by its midnight deadline or within a\nlonger reasonable time after it learns the facts it returns the item or\nsends notification of the facts. These rights to revoke, charge-back and\nobtain refund terminate if and when a settlement for the item received\nby the bank is or becomes final (subsection (3) of Section 4--211 and\nsubsections (2) and (3) of Section 4--213).\n  (2) Within the time and manner prescribed by this section and Section\n4--301, an intermediary or payor bank, as the case may be, may return an\nunpaid item directly to the depositary bank and may send for collection\na draft on the depositary bank and obtain reimbursement. In such case,\nif the depositary bank has received provisional settlement for the item,\nit must reimburse the bank drawing the draft and any provisional credits\nfor the item between banks shall become and remain final.\n  (3) A depositary bank which is also the payor may charge-back the\namount of an item to its customer's account or obtain refund in\naccordance with the section governing return of an item received by a\npayor bank for credit on its books (Section 4--301).\n  (4) The right to charge-back is not affected by\n       (a) prior use of the credit given for the item; or\n       (b) failure by any bank to exercise ordinary care with respect to\n           the item but any bank so failing remains liable.\n  (5) A failure to charge-back or claim refund does not affect other\nrights of the bank against the customer or any other party.\n  (6) If credit is given in dollars as the equivalent of the value of an\nitem payable in a foreign currency the dollar amount of any charge-back\nor refund shall be calculated on the basis of the buying sight rate for\nthe foreign currency prevailing on the day when the person entitled to\nthe charge-back or refund learns that it will not receive payment in\nordinary course.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 89-F — New York Code / Act COR / Article 4-B / Section 89-F
Oversight
Status: in_force

§ 89-f. Oversight. The state commission of correction shall exercise\nthe same powers and duties concerning each alternate correctional\nfacility as the commission is required to exercise concerning a New York\nstate correctional facility. The commission shall prepare an annual\nreport on each alternate correctional facility which shall evaluate and\nassess the department's compliance with all rules and regulations\napplicable to that facility and the operation agreement and which shall\ninclude an analysis of the frequency and severity of all unusual\nincidents and assaults occurring in that facility. The annual reports\nshall be filed with the governor, the mayor of the city of New York, the\nchairman of the senate crime and correction committee, and the chairman\nof the assembly committee on correction no later than the first day of\nJune of each year.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 46 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 5 / Section 46
Rate of interest
Status: in_force

§ 46. Rate of interest. Notwithstanding any general or special\nstatutes, local laws and ordinances to the contrary, no collateral loan\nbroker shall ask, demand or receive any greater rate of interest than\nfour per centum per month, or any fraction of a month, and a notice\ncontaining a list of such rates of interest as herein provided and in\naccordance with the act of congress entitled "Truth in Lending Act" and\nthe regulations thereunder, as such act and regulations may from time to\ntime be amended shall be conspicuously displayed within the premises of\nsuch collateral loan broker. A minimum interest charge of twenty-five\ncents per month may be made on any loan.\n  No collateral loan broker shall receive or be entitled to any interest\nor charges as provided by this article on any loan for any period of\ntime exceeding fifteen months from the date of the making of such loan,\nprovided however that where a loan is extended at the direct request of\nthe pledgor, the collateral loan broker may receive and be entitled to\nany interest or charges provided by this article on such loan for any\nperiod of time not to exceed fifteen months from the date of such\nextension.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 200.22 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title L / Article 200 / Section 200.22
Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 200.22 Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of rewarding official misconduct in the first\ndegree when he knowingly confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any\nbenefit upon a public servant for having violated his duty as a public\nservant in the investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, or\nincarceration of any person for the commission or alleged commission of\na class A felony defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law\nor the attempt to commit any such class A felony.\n  Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree is a class C felony.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 153 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 4 / Section 153
Rules of procedure
Status: in_force

§ 153. Rules of procedure.  1. A power of the county, whether in terms\nvested in the county or in the board of supervisors shall, except as\notherwise expressly provided, be exercised through a local law or\nresolution duly adopted by the board.\n  2. A majority of the whole number of the members of the board of\nsupervisors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business,\nbut a less number may adjourn.\n  3. Each local law or resolution shall have a title prefixed concisely\nstating the contents.\n  4. Whenever in this chapter or other general, special or local law,\nthe board of supervisors is authorized or required to act, and no\nproportion of the voting strength for such action is otherwise\nprescribed, such action shall be taken by the affirmative vote of a\nmajority of the total membership of the board. A roll call shall be\ntaken and entered by the clerk in the minutes of its proceedings when\nrequired by law or upon request of any member of the board.\n  5. All resolutions shall become effective upon their adoption, or as\notherwise provided by this chapter or other law or as specified in the\nresolution.\n  6. Subject to the restrictions provided in this chapter or other law,\nthe board of supervisors shall have power to amend, repeal or supersede\nany local law or resolution theretofore adopted.\n  7. The board of supervisors shall have power to compel the attendance\nof members at regular and special meetings of the board and at committee\nmeetings. In all cases of absence during any regular or special meeting\nof the board, or any committee meeting called pursuant to written\nnotice, the board of supervisors may impose a penalty not exceeding\nfifty dollars for each non-attendance without sufficient excuse as the\nrules shall provide. Absence by reason of performance of official duty\nfor the county, or absence occasioned by attendance at a meeting of the\ntown board of a town, or absence occasioned by the performance of any\nother official duty, shall at all times be deemed a sufficient excuse.\n  8. Except as otherwise expressly provided, the board of supervisors of\neach county shall determine the rules of its own proceedings.  Unless\nthe rules of the board otherwise provide, no rule may be suspended\nexcept by the unanimous vote of the members present and voting at any\nregular or special meeting of the board.\n  9. The terms "whole number of the members of the board" and "whole\nnumber of its membership, " as used in this chapter, shall be construed\nto mean the total number which the board of supervisors would have were\nthere no vacancies and were none of the supervisors disqualified from\nacting.\n
N.Y. GCN Law § 40 — New York Code / Act GCN / Article 2 / Section 40
Property, real
Status: in_force

§ 40. Property, real. The term real property includes real estate,\nlands, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 156-D — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 6-C / Section 156-D
Thermal imaging camera grant program
Status: in_force

§ 156-d. Thermal imaging camera grant program. 1. Subject to available\nappropriation, there is hereby established in the office of fire\nprevention and control a thermal imaging camera grant program, under\nwhich grants shall be made available to fire organizations for the\npurchase of one thermal imaging camera each or for reimbursement to such\nfire organizations for public funds, other than state or federal funds,\nthat have been expended by such fire organizations on or after April\nfirst, two thousand for the purchase of a thermal imaging camera,\nprovided, however, no reimbursement, when combined with any required\nmatch, shall exceed the office of general services contract price per\ncamera. Such grants shall be made available upon application by such\nfire organizations. Fire organizations that are without a thermal\nimaging camera shall receive priority from the office of fire prevention\nand control for grants made pursuant to this section. The office of fire\nprevention and control may require, pursuant to such uniform standards\nas such office may prescribe, that applicants for such grants or\nreimbursement provide matching funds of up to, but not more than, the\namount awarded; provided, however, that a fire organization having an\nannual operating budget of one hundred fifty thousand dollars or less\nshall not be required to provide matching funds. The office of fire\nprevention and control shall promulgate such rules and regulations as\nare necessary to advance the purposes of this section. Such regulations\nshall establish, among other things, training requirements for the use\nof thermal imaging cameras by fire organizations.\n  2. As used in this section, "fire organizations" means a board of fire\ncommissioners, which operates a fire department pursuant to the town\nlaw, a fire department established pursuant to the village law or\ngeneral city law or a fire company located within a fire protection\ndistrict pursuant to the town law.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4308 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 43 / Section 4308
Prohibition on charging a fee to a donor's estate
Status: in_force

§ 4308. Prohibition on charging a fee to a donor's estate.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician, hospital or\nother health care provider may charge the donor's estate, family or\ninsurer for any cost incurred in testing or removing a human organ or\ntissue from a donor and such charge shall be void and unenforceable.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 670 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 19-A / Section 670
Statement of public policy; findings
Status: in_force

§ 670. Statement of public policy; findings.  The legislature of the\nstate of New York declares that it is the public policy of the state and\nthe purpose of this act that minimum wage standards shall apply to farm\nworkers, so as to eliminate as rapidly as practicable the employment of\nfarm workers at wages insufficient to provide adequate maintenance and\nprotection of health, without substantially curtailing opportunities for\nemployment or earning power.\n  The legislature hereby finds that the establishment of minimum wage\nstandards for farm laborers involves distinct and unusual problems; that\nthe agricultural labor force is made up of regular all-year workers as\nwell as short-term seasonal workers; that although some workers are paid\non an hourly basis, many are paid on a piecework, weekly, monthly, or\nother basis; and that the agricultural industry is particularly affected\nby weather and market conditions and by perishability of products.\nAccordingly, the legislature further declares that it is the purpose of\nthis act to provide a flexible approach with full consideration of the\nunusual problems involved.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 620 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 6 / Section 620
Bonds and notes as legal investments
Status: in_force

§ 620. Bonds and notes as legal investments. The bonds and notes of\nthe corporation are hereby made securities in which all public officers\nand bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal\nsubdivisions, all insurance companies and associations, and other\npersons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust\ncompanies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and\nloan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies\nand other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators,\nguardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other\npersons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest\nin bonds or in other obligations of the state, may properly and legally\ninvest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 319 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 11 / Section 319
Obstructions and their removal
Status: in_force

§ 319. Obstructions and their removal. 1. Obstructions, within the\nmeaning of this section, shall include trees which have been cut or have\nfallen either on adjacent lands or within the bounds of the highway, in\nsuch a manner as to interfere with public travel therein; limbs of trees\nwhich have fallen within the highway, or branches of trees overhanging\nthe highways so as to interfere with public travel therein; lumber, wood\nor logs piled within the bounds of the public highway; machines,\nvehicles and implements abandoned or habitually placed within the bounds\nof the highway; fences, buildings or other structures erected within the\nbounds of the highway; earth, stone or other material placed in any\nditch or waterway along the highway; telegraph, telephone, trolley and\nother poles, and the wires connected therewith, erected within the\nbounds of the highway in such a manner as to interfere with the use of\nthe highway for public travel.\n  2. It shall be the duty of each owner or occupant of lands situate\nalong the highway, to remove all obstructions within the bounds of the\nhighway, which have been placed there, either by themselves or by their\nconsent. It shall be the duty of all telephone, telegraph, electric\nrailway and other electrical companies, to remove and reset telephone,\ntelegraph, trolley and other poles and the wires connected therewith,\nwhen the same constitute obstructions to the use of the highway by the\ntraveling public. If temporary obstructions such as trees, lumber, wood,\nlogs, machinery, vehicles and similar obstructions are not removed\nwithin forty-eight hours after the service of a notice, personally or by\nmail, upon such owner or occupant, requesting the same to be done, the\ntown superintendent shall remove such obstruction. And if permanent\nobstructions, including, among others, telegraph, telephone, trolley and\nother poles and wires connected therewith, are not moved and reset\nwithin thirty days, the town superintendent shall move and reset such\npoles and wires. The expense thereby incurred shall be paid in the first\ninstance out of moneys levied and collected and available therefor, and\nthe amount thereof shall be charged against such owner, occupant or\ncompany, and levied and collected, as provided in section one hundred\nand fifty-seven.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 7113 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 71 / Section 7113
Transfer of deposits to surviving or consolidated company
Status: in_force

§ 7113. Transfer of deposits to surviving or consolidated company. If\nany constituent company in a merger or consolidation under the\nprovisions of this article shall have on deposit with the superintendent\nsecurities held for the benefit and protection of all of its\npolicyholders or policyholders and creditors within the United States,\nthe superintendent is authorized, upon the completion of such merger or\nconsolidation, to transfer residuary interest in such deposit of such\nconstituent company to the surviving or consolidated company, and to\nrelease such deposit or any part thereof if no longer required of such\nsurviving or consolidated company under the provisions of this chapter.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 97-UU — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 97-UU
Legislative computer services fund
Status: in_force

§ 97-uu. Legislative computer services fund. 1. There is hereby\nestablished in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the\ncommissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the\nlegislative computer services fund.\n  2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received from royalties and\nreceipts from computer related operations and all other moneys credited\nor transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.\n  3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may\nbe expended for services and expenses relative to research, development,\ntraining of personnel and acquisition of support services directly\nrelated to data processing capabilities of the legislature. Moneys shall\nbe paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of the state\ncomptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the temporary president\nof the senate or his or her designee and the speaker of the assembly or\nhis or her designee. Funds appropriated may be suballocated to any\nlegislative entity subject to the written approval of the temporary\npresident of the senate or his or her designee and the speaker of the\nassembly or his or her designee.\n
N.Y. VIL Law § 17-1716 — New York Code / Act VIL / Article 17 / Section 17-1716
Lamp or street lighting districts
Status: in_force

§ 17-1716 Lamp or street lighting districts. In every such village any\nlamp or street lighting districts created or organized under the\nprovisions of the town law, shall continue and the board of trustees\nshall be and they are hereby vested with the full management and control\nof such districts, and the lighting system thereof, and the assessment\nof the cost and expenses of such lighting, which lighting district shall\nuntil discontinued in the manner hereinafter provided, be managed,\ncontrolled and operated and may be extended or enlarged, by said board\nof trustees, in the manner provided in the town law; provided, however,\nthat the board of trustees of such village may, in its discretion, by\nresolution, discontinue any such lighting district, in which case the\nprovisions of the village law in relation to street lighting shall apply\nto any such village.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 113 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 6 / Section 113
Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits authorized
Status: in_force

§ 113. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed\nvisits authorized. The commissioner may permit any incarcerated\nindividual confined by the department except one awaiting the sentence\nof death to attend the funeral of his or her father, mother, guardian or\nformer guardian, child, brother, sister, husband, wife, grandparent,\ngrandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral aunt within the state, or to\nvisit such individual during his or her illness if death be imminent;\nbut the exercise of such power shall be subject to such rules and\nregulations as the commissioner shall prescribe, respecting the granting\nof such permission, duration of absence from the institution, custody,\ntransportation and care of the incarcerated individual, and guarding\nagainst escape. Any expense incurred under the provisions of this\nsection, with respect to any incarcerated individual permitted to attend\na funeral or visit a relative during last illness, shall be deemed an\nexpense of maintenance of the institution and be paid from moneys\navailable therefor; but the superintendent, if the rules and regulations\nof the commissioner shall so provide, may allow the incarcerated\nindividual or anyone in his or her behalf to reimburse the state for\nsuch expense.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 386 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 12 / Section 386
Appointment and compensation of court interpreters generally
Status: in_force

§ 386. Appointment and compensation of court interpreters generally.\nThe county judge and the district attorney of the county may appoint one\ninterpreter, who shall act as and be the court interpreter for such\ncounty. Such interpreter shall hold office during the pleasure of the\ncounty judge and district attorney and they shall appoint his successor\nin office. Said interpreter shall receive a salary to be fixed by the\nboard of supervisors of said county, which shall be a charge upon the\ncounty, to be paid monthly, in the same manner as other county officials\nare paid. Said interpreter so appointed shall, before entering upon his\nduties, file in the office of the county clerk, the constitutional oath\nof office. The provisions of this section, however, shall not apply to\nthe counties of New York, Kings and Queens, nor to any other county in\nwhich the appointment or compensation of court interpreters therein is\ngoverned by a special or local act or by any special provision of a\ngeneral act.\n