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N.Y. GBS Law § 750-W — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 35-C / Section 750-W
Separability clause
Status: in_force

§ 750-w. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article\nor the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged\ninvalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be\nconfined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly\ninvolved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been\nrendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of\nthis article or the application thereof to other persons or\ncircumstances and the legislature hereby declares that it would have\nenacted this article or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such\nprovision or application thereof been apparent.\n
N.Y. LSA Law § 11 — New York Code / Act LSA / Section 11
No title
Status: in_force

§ 11. Any animal impounded pursuant to this act which is unclaimed may\nbe delivered to an individual eighteen years of age or older for the\npurpose of harboring such animal as a companion animal.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 262 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 11 / Section 262
Expenses of officers
Status: in_force

§ 262.  Expenses of officers.  Recording officers and county\ntreasurers shall severally be entitled to receive all their necessary\nexpenses for the purposes of this article, including printing, hire of\nclerks and assistants, being first approved and allowed by the tax\ncommission and, after audit by the comptroller, shall be retained by\nthem out of the moneys coming into their hands.  In counties wholly\nwithin the city of New York for the purposes of retirement the recording\nofficers, clerks and assistants shall be considered as in the city\nservice to the same extent as though their salaries had actually been\npaid by the city of New York.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 706 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 7 / Section 706
Removal of directors
Status: in_force

§ 706. Removal of directors.\n  (a) Except as limited in paragraph (c), any or all of the directors\nmay be removed for cause by vote of the members, or by vote of the\ndirectors provided there is a quorum of not less than a majority present\nat the meeting of directors at which such action is taken.\n  (b) Except as limited in paragraph (c), if the certificate of\nincorporation or the by-laws so provide, any or all of the directors may\nbe removed without cause by vote of the members.\n  (c) The removal of directors, with or without cause, as provided in\nparagraphs (a) and (b) is subject to the following:\n  (1) In the case of a corporation having cumulative voting, no director\nmay be removed when the votes cast against his removal would be\nsufficient to elect him if voted cumulatively at an election at which\nthe same total number of votes were cast and the entire board, or the\nentire class of directors of which he is a member, were then being\nelected; and\n  (2) When by the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or the\nby-laws the members of any class or group, or the holders of bonds,\nvoting as a class, are entitled to elect one or more directors, any\ndirector so elected may be removed only by the applicable vote of the\nmembers of that class or group, or the holders of such bonds, voting as\na class.\n  (d) An action to procure a judgment removing a director for cause may\nbe brought by the attorney-general or by ten percent of the members\nwhether or not entitled to vote. The court may bar from re-election any\ndirector so removed for a period fixed by the court.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 858 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 26 / Section 858
Application of labor laws
Status: in_force

§ 858. Application of labor laws. The laws of the state and its\npolitical subdivisions with respect to employment conditions shall apply\nto incarcerated individuals participating in work release programs.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 152 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 3-A / Section 152
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 152. Definitions. The following words and phrases, as used in this\narticle, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning\nis plainly required by the context:\n  1. "Beneficiary" shall mean a person who is receiving a benefit from a\npublic retirement system of the state or who has met all the conditions\nprecedent for the actual receipt of a benefit from a public retirement\nsystem of the state, and the monies are due and owing to such person by\nthe public retirement system of the state.\n  2. "Retired member" shall mean a person who is retired from and who is\nreceiving a retirement allowance from a public retirement system of the\nstate.\n  3. "Member" shall mean a member of any public retirement system of the\nstate.\n  4. "Head of the retirement system" shall mean the state comptroller,\nwith respect to the New York state and local employees' retirement\nsystem and the New York state and local police and fire retirement\nsystem, and the retirement board of the other public retirement systems\nof the state.\n  5. "Public employee pension plan" shall mean any plan, fund, or\nprogram which was heretofore or is hereafter established or maintained,\nin whole or in part, by a public employer of the state, as the term\npublic employer is defined in article fourteen of the civil service law,\nand administered by a public retirement system of the state, which\nprovides retirement income to employees or their beneficiaries.\n  6. "Public retirement system of the state" shall mean the New York\nstate and local employees' retirement system, New York state and local\npolice and fire retirement system, New York state teachers' retirement\nsystem, New York city employees' retirement system, New York city\nteachers' retirement system, New York city police pension fund, New York\ncity fire department pension fund and the New York city board of\neducation retirement system.\n  7. "Total accumulated plan benefits" shall mean an interest obtained\nby a member in that part of a public employee pension plan which arises\nfrom the member's continued service for a public employer based on\nservice to date.\n  8. "Vested pension benefit" shall mean an interest obtained by a\nmember in that part of a public employee pension plan which arises from\nthe member's continued service for a public employer and which would not\nbe forfeited under the terms and provisions of the plan if the member\nwere to terminate employment.\n
N.Y. IND Law § 97 — New York Code / Act IND / Article 7 / Section 97
Indian trespassers
Status: in_force

§ 97. Indian trespassers.  Any Indian who shall cut or destroy timber\nor trees on any of the timbered lands of such nation, or without the\nconsent of such chiefs, shall be liable to a penalty of twice the value\nof the timber so cut down or destroyed, recoverable by such chiefs, in\nthe name of the nation.\n
N.Y. CAN Law § 8 — New York Code / Act CAN / Article 2 / Section 8
Establishment of an office of cannabis management
Status: in_force

§ 8. Establishment of an office of cannabis management. There is\nhereby established, within the division of alcoholic beverage control,\nan independent office of cannabis management, which shall have exclusive\njurisdiction to exercise the powers and duties provided by this chapter,\nexcept as expressly authorized in sections sixteen-a of this article and\none hundred thirty-one of this chapter. The office shall exercise its\nauthority by and through an executive director.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 576-E — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 11 / Section 576-E
Municipal housing assistance fund
Status: in_force

§ 576-e. Municipal housing assistance fund. 1. A municipality may\ncreate and establish a fund to be known as the "municipal housing\nassistance fund". Such a fund shall be created and established in the\nsupervising agency.\n  2. There may be paid into such municipal housing assistance fund (a)\nany moneys appropriated and made available by the municipality for the\npurposes of such fund, (b) notwithstanding the provisions of the local\nfinance law or any other provisions of law, any moneys received in\nrepayment of loans from such fund, and (c) any other moneys which may be\navailable for the purpose of such fund from any other source or sources.\n  3. The purpose of such fund shall be to make loans to housing\ndevelopment fund companies which have agreed to acquire residential\nproperties by deed from the commissioner of finance of a municipality\nand to operate and manage such properties in accordance with a\nregulatory agreement with the municipality until the properties are\ntransferred to a new owner approved by the municipality.\n  4. The supervising agency may make loans from the fund to enable such\nhousing development fund companies to pay development costs and any\nother expenses incurred by the housing development fund company and\napproved by the supervising agency.\n  5. Any housing development fund company which receives a loan pursuant\nto this section shall execute a note and regulatory agreement. The note\nmay provide that it shall be reduced to zero over a period of continued\ncompliance with either the regulatory agreement required pursuant to\nthis section or such other regulatory agreement as the supervising\nagency shall require. The loan shall be reduced to zero only if prior to\nor simultaneously with delivery of such note, the supervising agency has\nmade a written determination that such reduction would be necessary to\nensure the continued affordability or economic viability of the project.\nSuch written determination shall document the basis upon which the loan\nwas determined eligible for evaporation.\n  6. A regulatory agreement pursuant to this section may terminate upon\nsuch terms and conditions as provided by the supervising agency.\n  7. A housing development fund company which receives a loan pursuant\nto this section shall provide in its certificate of incorporation that\nthe supervising agency shall have the power if in its discretion it\ndetermines that the company has defaulted in its obligations to the\nmunicipality to appoint to the board of such corporation a number of new\ndirectors which number shall be sufficient to constitute a majority of\nthe board, notwithstanding any other provisions of such certificate or\nof any other provision of law.\n
N.Y. LEG Law § 63 — New York Code / Act LEG / Article 4 / Section 63
Expenses of committees
Status: in_force

§ 63. Expenses of committees. Whenever by resolution of either house,\na committee or joint committee duly appointed pursuant thereto shall be\ndirected to conduct an investigation or take testimony, the comptroller\nshall draw his warrant for the payment of the actual and necessary\nexpenses of the committee or subcommittee having in charge such\ninvestigation, inquiry or taking of testimony, and of the officers and\nemployees authorized to accompany them, upon the rendition of an\nitemized bill of such expenses certified by the chairman of the\ncommittee, and approved by the temporary president of the senate in the\ncase of a senate committee, or the speaker of the assembly in the case\nof an assembly committee, or by both such officers in the case of a\njoint committee, or by his or their designee or designees, respectively,\nand upon proof by affidavit or otherwise that the same is due.\n  Such designation shall be in writing and filed in the office of such\nofficer or officers and in the office of the comptroller and shall\nremain in effect during the term of office of such officer or officers\nunless sooner revoked. The approval of any such designee shall be for\nexpenses other than personal service and in amounts not to exceed the\nsum fixed in such designation for any such item.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 3-3.2 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 3 / Part 3 / Section 3-3.2
Competence of attesting witness who is beneficiary; application
Status: in_force

§ 3-3.2 Competence of attesting witness who is beneficiary; application\n          to nuncupative will\n  (a) An attesting witness to a will to whom a beneficial disposition or\nappointment of property is made is a competent witness and compellable\nto testify respecting the execution of such will as if no such\ndisposition or appointment had been made, subject to the following:\n  (1) Any such disposition or appointment made to an attesting witness\nis void unless there are, at the time of execution and attestation, at\nleast two other attesting witnesses to the will who receive no\nbeneficial disposition or appointment thereunder.\n  (2) Subject to subparagraph (1), any such disposition or appointment\nto an attesting witness is effective unless the will cannot be proved\nwithout the testimony of such witness, in which case the disposition or\nappointment is void.\n  (3) Any attesting witness whose disposition is void hereunder, who\nwould be a distributee if the will were not established, is entitled to\nreceive so much of his intestate share as does not exceed the value of\nthe disposition made to him in the will, such share to be recovered as\nfollows:\n  (A) In case the void disposition becomes part of the residuary\ndisposition, from the residuary disposition only.\n  (B) In case the void disposition passes in intestacy, ratibly from the\ndistributees who succeed to such interest. For this purpose, the void\ndisposition shall be distributed under 4-1.1 as though the attesting\nwitness were not a distributee.\n  (b) The provisions of this section apply to witnesses to a nuncupative\nwill authorized by 3-2.2.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 17 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 2 / Section 17
Delegation of powers
Status: in_force

§ 17. Delegation of powers.  (a) The commissioner may delegate any of\nhis powers to, or direct any of his duties to be performed by, a deputy\ncommissioner or the director of a bureau and, except where it is\notherwise provided in this chapter or the context otherwise requires,\nmay delegate any of such powers to any officer or employee of the\ndepartment.\n  (b) The commissioner, except when it is otherwise provided in this\nchapter or the context otherwise requires, may also delegate to an\nofficer or employee of the United States department of agriculture,\nengaged within this state in joint or cooperative state-federal\nprograms, any of the powers invested in him by article five of this\nchapter for the control, suppression or eradication of communicable\ndiseases in domestic animals or domestic fowls, any of the powers\ninvested in him by article five-B of this chapter relative to\nante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of animals slaughtered for food\npurposes and processing inspection of meat, meat by-products and meat\nfood products, any of the powers invested in him by article five-D of\nthis chapter relative to ante-mortem inspection of poultry slaughtered\nfor human food, post-mortem inspection of poultry carcasses and\ninspection of poultry and poultry products, any of the powers invested\nin him by article fourteen of this chapter in the control or eradication\nof injurious insects or plant diseases, and any of the powers invested\nin him by subdivisions four and five of section sixteen of this chapter\nrelative to the collection, analysis and publication of primary\nstatistical data relating to agricultural products of this state. Such\ndelegation shall be in writing and shall state the specific limits of\nthe powers so delegated.\n  (c) Whenever by the education law or other statute the commissioner is\nmade a member by virtue of his office of the board of visitors, managers\nor trustees or other similar body of a state institution, he may in\nwriting authorize and empower a deputy commissioner, the secretary of\nthe department or the director of a bureau to act in his place and stead\nat any meeting or meetings of any such board or body.\n
N.Y. STT Law § 103-C — New York Code / Act STT / Article 1 / Section 103-C
State agency websites; mobile friendly websites
Status: in_force

* § 103-c. State agency websites; mobile friendly websites. All state\nagency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this chapter,\nshall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made available for all\nmobile devices that support such technology, provided that such\nrequirement shall only apply to websites created or modified with\nchanges to form or function after the effective date of this section and\nprior to January first, two thousand twenty-seven, and to all state\nagency websites thereafter. For the purposes of this section, "mobile\nfriendly" shall mean, with respect to a website, that such website is\nconfigured in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed and\naccessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. For\nthe purposes of this section, "changes to form or function" shall mean\nmodifications to the visual presentation, informational organization,\nwebsite infrastructure, or user utility of the website, including but\nnot limited to:\n  1. redesigns of site layout, color schemes, graphics, branding\nelements, or other aesthetic components; or\n  2. integration of dynamic interfaces.\n  * NB There are 2 § 103-c's\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 4-A-505 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 4-A / Part 5 / Section 4-A-505
Preclusion of Objection to Debit of Customer's Account
Status: in_force

Section 4-A-505. Preclusion of Objection to Debit of Customer's\n                   Account.\n  If a receiving bank has received payment from its customer with\nrespect to a payment order issued in the name of the customer as sender\nand accepted by the bank, and the customer received notification\nreasonably identifying the order, the customer is precluded from\nasserting that the bank is not entitled to retain the payment unless the\ncustomer notifies the bank of the customer's objection to the payment\nwithin one year after the notification was received by the customer.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 201-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 5 / Section 201-A
Rights and privileges of foreign banking corporation under license; effect of revocation
Status: in_force

§ 201-a. Rights and privileges of foreign banking corporation under\nlicense; effect of revocation. 1. When the superintendent shall have\nissued a license as provided in section twenty-six of this chapter to\nany such foreign banking corporation, it may engage in the business\nspecified in sections two hundred and two hundred one of this article\neither as an agency or as a branch at the location specified in such\nlicense for a period not exceeding one year from the date of such\nlicense or, if such license so provides, until such license is\nsurrendered or revoked. A license issued for a period not exceeding one\nyear may, upon the approval of the superintendent, be renewed as\nprovided in section twenty-six of this chapter. No such license shall be\ntransferable or assignable. Every such license shall be at all times\nconspicuously displayed in the place of business specified therein. In\nthe event that such license shall have been revoked by the\nsuperintendent, as provided in article two of this chapter, it shall be\nsurrendered to the superintendent within twenty-four hours after such\ncorporation has received written notice of such revocation.\n  2. Whenever the superintendent shall have revoked any such license and\nshall have taken the action to make such revocation effective specified\nin article two of this chapter, all the rights and privileges of such\nforeign banking corporation to transact the business thus licensed shall\nforthwith cease and determine.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 61 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 3 / Section 61
Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected
Status: in_force

§ 61. Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected. If any passenger\nshall refuse to pay his fare the conductor of the train, and the\nservants of the corporation, may put him and his baggage out of the\ncars, using no unnecessary force, on stopping the train, at any usual\nstopping place, or near any dwelling house, as the conductor may elect.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 100-A — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 5-A / Section 100-A
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

§ 100-a. Declaration of policy.  It is hereby declared to be the\npolicy of this state that this article shall be construed in the\nnegotiation of contracts for public works and public purchases to which\npolitical subdivisions or and district therein is a party so as to\nassure the prudent and economical use of public moneys for the benefit\nof all the inhabitants of the state and to facilitate the acquisition of\nfacilities and commodities of maximum quality at the lowest possible\ncost.\n
N.Y. TRA Law § 473 — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 21 / Section 473
Powers and duties of municipalities
Status: in_force

* § 473. Powers and duties of municipalities. A municipality is hereby\nauthorized:\n  1. To undertake and carry out any municipal transportation\ninfrastructure project for which state assistance is received or is to\nbe received pursuant to this article.\n  2. To expend money received from the state together with other moneys\navailable to it for costs incurred for any such project.\n  3. To contract with any person, firm, corporation or agency, either\ngovernmental or private, for the purpose of accomplishing the purposes\nof this article.\n  4. To apply for and receive moneys of the state, federal and local\ngovernments and other public or private sources for the purpose of\naccomplishing projects undertaken or to be undertaken pursuant to this\narticle.\n  5. To perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper\nor desirable in order to carry out municipal transportation\ninfrastructure projects or any obligation, duty or function relating\nthereto.\n  * NB Not effective due to defeat of the Transportation Bond Act of\n2000\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 222 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 11 / Section 222
Application of other laws
Status: in_force

§ 222. Application of other laws.  For the purposes of the application\nof the lien law, the general corporation law, and except as in this\nchapter otherwise provided, for the purposes of the application of any\ngeneral, special or local law imposing a tax, an authority shall be\ndeemed a municipal corporation.  The term "public corporation" used in\nthe lien law shall be deemed to include an authority. The term "public\nimprovement" used in the lien law shall be deemed to include an\nimprovement upon real property belonging to an authority and the term\n"public contract" in such law shall be deemed to include contracts made\nby the authority; the secretary of the authority shall, for the purposes\nof the lien law be deemed to be the financial officer of the authority\nand the officer of the department, bureau, subdivision or commission\nhaving charge of the construction of an improvement and being charged\nwith the custody and disbursement of the funds applicable to the public\ncontract or public improvement under, upon or for which goods or\nmaterials are furnished or work was done.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 134 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 6 / Section 134
Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals
Status: in_force

§ 134. Existing county, town, city or village public general\nhospitals. Whenever a county, town, city or village has, previous to the\npassage of this act, established a public general hospital, the\ngoverning board of said county, town, city or village may by resolution\nprovide that thereafter such hospital shall be controlled and maintained\nin accordance with the provisions of this act. Any public general\nhospital which may hereafter be established by any governing board of\nany county, town, city or village shall be subject to all the provisions\nof sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-four,\ninclusive, of this chapter.\n