N.Y. SOS Law § 131-AAA — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 131-AAA
Availability of adverse childhood experiences services
Status: in_force

§ 131-aaa. Availability of adverse childhood experiences services.\nEach local social services district shall be required to make available\nto applicants and recipients of public assistance who are a parent,\nguardian, custodian or otherwise responsible for a child's care,\neducational materials developed pursuant to subdivision two of section\nthree hundred seventy-c of this article to educate them about adverse\nchildhood experiences, the importance of protective factors and the\navailability of services for children at risk for or suffering from\nadverse childhood experiences. The educational materials may be made\navailable electronically and shall be offered at the time of application\nand recertification.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 32 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 3 / Title 1 / Section 32
Alcoves
Status: in_force

§ 32. Alcoves. 1. Every alcove, except a lawful cooking space, opening\nfrom any room in any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth,\nnineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be separately lighted and ventilated\nas provided for other rooms in section thirty. It shall have a floor\narea of at least seventy square feet, a least horizontal dimension of at\nleast seven feet and an opening at least sixty square feet in area into\nthe room which it adjoins.\n  2. Except for cubicles permitted in lodging houses, no part of any\nroom in any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen\nhundred twenty-nine, shall be enclosed or subdivided at any time, wholly\nor in part, by a curtain, portiere, fixed or movable partition or other\ncontrivance or device, unless each such enclosure or subdivision shall\ncontain a separate window as required for a room by section thirty and a\nfloor space of at least seventy square feet.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 105 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 4 / Title 1 / Section 105
Separation and ventilation of stairs
Status: in_force

§ 105. Separation and ventilation of stairs. 1. In a dwelling in which\none or more passenger elevators are maintained and operated opening upon\na public hall at every story, all stairs, fire-stairs and fire-towers\nshall be completely separated from one another and from every elevator\nshaft by fireproof walls. They shall be constructed of fireproof\nmaterial throughout and shall contain no wood or other inflammable\nmaterial of any kind, except that handrails of hardwood may be provided.\n  2. Access to stairs, fire-stairs and fire-tower balconies from any\npublic vestibule or other public hall shall be through fireproof doors\nand assemblies, with the doors self-closing and at least three feet\nwide, or through pairs of such doors at least four feet wide, containing\nin either case a fixed sash glazed with wire glass at least three\nhundred sixty square inches in area.\n  3. Every stair hall shall be ventilated by a window, or by movable\nlouvres in the skylight having an opening of at least one hundred\nforty-four square inches, or by an opening of at least one hundred\nforty-four square inches near the top of the stair shaft and\ncommunicating directly with the outer air. If a window is provided which\ndoes not open upon a street or yard, it shall be fireproof and glazed\nwith wire glass of good quality and have no pane more than three hundred\nsixty square inches in area.\n
N.Y. ACA Law § 60.02 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title V-1 / Article 60 / Section 60.02
Certificate of authenticity; contents
Status: in_force

§ 60.02. Certificate of authenticity; contents. 1. Whenever a dealer,\nin selling or offering to sell in or from this state a collectible to a\nconsumer, provides a description of such collectible as being\nautographed, he shall furnish to the consumer at the time of sale a\ncertificate of authenticity. Such certificate of authenticity shall be\nin writing and signed by such dealer, his or her authorized agent or his\nor her supplier. The certificate shall be in at least ten point boldface\ntype and shall contain the dealer's or supplier's true legal name and\nstreet address. Each certificate of authenticity shall:\n  (a) describe the collectible and the name of the sports personality\nwho signed it; and\n  (i) specify the purchase price and date of sale; or\n  (ii) be accompanied by a separate invoice that specifies the purchase\nprice and date of sale;\n  (b) contain an express warranty, which shall be presumed to be part of\nthe basis of the bargain, of the authenticity of the autographed\ncollectible. Such warranty shall not be negated or limited because the\ndealer or the supplier in the certificate does not use formal words such\nas "warranty", or "guarantee", or because such dealer or supplier does\nnot have a specific intention or authorization to make a warranty or\nbecause any statement relevant to the autographed collectible is, or\npurports to be, or is capable of being, merely the dealer's or the\nsupplier's opinion; and\n  (c) unless such information appears in legible fashion on the\ncollectible itself, specify whether the collectible is offered as one of\na limited edition and, if so:\n  (i) how the collectible and the edition are numbered, and\n  (ii) the size of the edition and the size of any prior or anticipated\nfuture edition, if any. If the size of any prior or anticipated future\nedition is not known, the certificate shall contain an explicit\nstatement to that effect.\n  2. If a dealer offers collectibles at auction, the requirement for a\ncertificate of authenticity may be met if the dealer at the time of\nsale:\n  (a) provides the buyer a catalog which (i) is available to the public,\n(ii) contains a picture and description of the collectible, and (iii)\ncontains a warranty and information which meet the requirements of\nparagraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision one of this section; and\n  (b) provides a separate invoice that specifies the purchase price and\ndate of sale.\n  The dealer shall be required to maintain a copy of such catalog and\ninformation regarding the sale of items described therein for a period\nof five years following the year of such sale.\n  3. In those instances in which the provisions of this section are met\nin accordance with subdivision two of this section by use of a catalog,\nany warranty contained in such catalog shall not be more restrictive\nthan the provisions of this article.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2997-A — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-D / Title 1 / Section 2997-A
Public access
Status: in_force

§ 2997-a. Public access. Nothing in this title shall abridge public\naccess to information currently available or permitted by any other\nprovision or rule of law. Nothing in this title shall not authorize the\ndisclosure of otherwise confidential information, except pursuant to the\nexpress terms of this title.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2502 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 1 / Section 2502
Report of certain conditions
Status: in_force

§ 2502. Report of certain conditions.  Any nurse-midwife, nurse or\nother person having the care of an infant within the age of two weeks\nwho neglects or omits to report immediately to the health officer or to\na legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or place\nwhere such child is being cared for, the fact that one or both eyes of\nsuch infant are inflammed or reddened whenever such shall be the case,\nor who applies any remedy therefor without the advice, or except by the\ndirection of such officer or physician is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3301 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 1 / Section 3301
Legislative findings and purpose
Status: in_force

§ 3301. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature hereby finds\nand declares as follows:\n  1. Currently, the Westchester County Medical Center is a public\nhospital owned and operated by the county of Westchester.\n  2. The Westchester County Medical Center encompasses the Medical\nCenter Hospital, the Ruth Taylor Geriatric and Rehabilitation Institute,\nthe Psychiatric Institute and the Westchester Institute for Human\nDevelopment.\n  3. The Medical Center Hospital is the tertiary care facility for\nWestchester and the six other counties of the lower Hudson Valley.\n  4. The needs of the residents of the state of New York and of the\ncounty of Westchester can best be served by the operation of the\nWestchester County Medical Center by a public benefit corporation having\nthe legal, financial and managerial flexibility to take full advantage\nof opportunities and challenges presented by the evolving health care\nenvironment.\n  5. In order to accomplish the purposes recited in this section to\nprovide health care services and health facilities for the benefit of\nthe residents of the state of New York and the county of Westchester,\nincluding persons in need of health care services without the ability to\npay as required by law, a public benefit corporation to be known as the\nWestchester county health care corporation shall be created to provide\nsuch services and facilities and to otherwise carry out such purposes;\nthat the creation and operation of the Westchester county health care\ncorporation, as hereinafter provided, is in all respects for the benefit\nof the people of the state of New York and of the county of Westchester,\nand is a state, county and public purpose; and that the exercise by such\ncorporation of the functions, powers and duties as hereinafter provided\nconstitutes the performance of an essential public and governmental\nfunction.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 343 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 7-A / Section 343
Notice
Status: in_force

§ 343. Notice. 1. Each test agency shall provide, along with the\nregistration form or score report for a test, the following information:\n  a. the purposes for which the test is constructed and is intended to\nbe used;\n  b. statements designed to provide information for interpreting test\nresults, including but not limited to, explanations of the test score\nscale, the standard error of measurement of the test, and a list of\navailable correlations between test scores and grades, successful\ncompletion of a course of study and parental income; however, where a\nrange of the correlations of such studies is given, a median correlation\nmust also be provided;\n  c. how the test scores will be reported, whether the raw test scores\nwill be converted in any way before being reported to the test subject\nand whether and how the test agency will use the test score in raw or\ntransformed form by itself or together with any other information about\nthe test subject to predict in any way the subject's future academic\nperformance for any post secondary educational institution;\n  d. a complete description of any promises or covenants that the test\nagency makes to the test subject with regard to accuracy of scoring,\ntimely forwarding of information, policies for notifying test subjects\nregarding inaccuracies in scoring or score reporting, any procedures to\nincrease fairness and equity with respect to race, ethnicity and\nlinguistic background and gender for test subjects with regard to test\nquestions and test forms, procedures for reviewing challenges by test\nsubjects, their representatives or user institutions to the keying,\nscoring, wording or any aspect of a test question or questions used to\ncalculate test subjects' raw scores, and privacy of information relating\nto the test subject;\n  e. whether or not the test scores are the property of the test\nsubject, the time period during which the results will be retained by\nthe test agency, and policies regarding storage, disposal and future use\nof test score data; and\n  f. how the test subject may obtain the information required to be\ndislcosed under section three hundred forty-two of this article.\n  g. how the test subject may obtain information required to be\navailable under section three hundred forty-four-b of this article;\n  h. a clear, easily understood written description of each section of\nthe test, including an indication of whether the test contains sections\nof equating questions together with a statement of the purpose of such,\nand an indication of whether the test contains sections of pretest\nquestions together with a statement of the purpose of such;\n  i. a description of all services which will be provided at the\nlocation of the test administration to accommodate handicapped or\ndisabled test subjects;\n  j. a concise summary of test administration procedures which provides\nessential information to the test subject about the conduct of the test\nincluding the duties and responsibilities of the test proctor or\nsupervisor and the actions a test subject may take in the event of any\nproblems which may arise in the course of taking the test;\n  k. a statement of the test agency's recommendations as to how test\nscores shall be used by an institution to which scores are reported,\nincluding any recommendation regarding the importance that the\ninstitution should give to such scores relative to other factors, such\nas prior academic record, in making any decision affecting a test\nsubject;\n  l. a description of how test subjects can receive additional\ninformation from test sponsors about the appropriate use of test scores;\n  m. information which clearly describes the test subjects' rights\nincluded in section three hundred forty-four-c of this article; and\n  n. information documenting procedures used by the test agency to\ninsure that the test is fair to all test takers regardless of racial,\nethnic, gender or regional background.\n  2. Any institution which is a test score recipient shall be provided\nwith the information specified in this section. The test agency shall\nprovide such information prior to or coincident with the first reporting\nof a test score or scores to a recipient institution. Such institution\nshall be encouraged to provide interpretive processing by qualified\npersonnel where such personnel are available.\n  4. Each public postsecondary institution shall include in its catalog\nor bulletin a statement whether applicants for undergraduate admission\nare required to submit test scores. Such statement shall clearly state\nhow test scores are used in the decision process, how multiple score\nreports are treated, whether component scores are summed or averaged,\nand how test scores are used in placement decisions.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3305 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 1 / Section 3305
General powers of the corporation
Status: in_force

§ 3305. General powers of the corporation. Except as limited by this\ntitle, the public health law, the mental hygiene law, the social\nservices law, the education law or any other applicable law or\nregulation, the corporation shall have power:\n  1. to sue and be sued;\n  2. to have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;\n  3. to borrow money and issue bonds for any of its corporate purposes\nor its projects, or to refund the same, and to provide for the rights of\nthe holders thereof;\n  4. to make and alter by-laws for its organization and management, and,\nsubject to agreements with its bondholders, to make and alter rules and\nregulations governing the exercise of its powers and the fulfillment of\nits purposes under this title;\n  5. (a) to acquire by purchase, grant, lease, gift, or otherwise and to\nhold and use property necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out\nits corporate purposes, and to sell, convey, mortgage, lease, pledge,\nexchange or otherwise dispose of any such property in such manner as the\ncorporation shall determine;\n  (b) to acquire by condemnation pursuant to the provisions of the\neminent domain procedures law any real property within Westchester\ncounty required by the corporation to carry out the powers granted by\nthis title with the approval of both the county board of legislators and\nthe county executive;\n  6. to acquire, construct, lease, expand, improve, maintain, equip,\nfurnish, operate one or more projects and, if necessary, to pay or\nfinance the cost thereof;\n  7. to accept gifts, grants, loans or contributions of funds or\nproperty or financial or other aid in any form from, and enter into\ncontracts or other transactions with, the federal government, the state\nor any public corporation or any other source, and to use any such\ngifts, grants, loans or contributions for any of its corporate purposes;\n  8. to grant options to renew any lease with respect to any project or\nprojects and to grant options to buy any project at such price as the\ncorporation may deem desirable;\n  9. to designate the depositories of its money;\n  10. to establish its fiscal year;\n  11. to enter into contracts and to execute all instruments necessary\nor convenient or desirable for the purposes of the corporation to carry\nout any powers expressly given to it in this title;\n  12. to appoint such officers, employees and agents as the corporation\nmay require for the performance of its duties and to fix and determine\ntheir qualifications, duties, and compensation subject to the provisions\nof the civil service law and any applicable collective bargaining\nagreement, and to retain or employ counsel, auditors, engineers and\nprivate consultants on a contract basis or otherwise for rendering\nprofessional, management or technical services and advice;\n  13. to use employees, agents, consultants and facilities of the\ncounty, paying the county its agreed proportion of the compensation or\ncosts pursuant to an agreement with the county;\n  14. to make and adopt plans, surveys and studies necessary, convenient\nor desirable to the effectuation of the purposes and powers of the\ncorporation and to prepare recommendations in regard thereto;\n  15. except as limited by state law or regulation, to fix and collect\nrates, rentals, fees and other charges for the services rendered by or\nfor use of the facilities or in the exercise of the powers of the\ncorporation;\n  16. to enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of\nthe corporation may be necessary, convenient or desirable for the\npurpose of making surveys, soundings, borings and examinations to\naccomplish any purpose  authorized by this title, the corporation being\nliable for actual damage done;\n  17. the corporation may covenant and consent that the interest on any\nof its bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title shall be includable,\nunder the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the\n"code") or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue law of the\nUnited States, in gross income of the holders of the bonds or notes to\nthe same extent and in the same manner that the interest on bills,\nbonds, notes or other obligations of the United States is includable in\nthe gross income of the holders thereof under the code or any such\nsubsequent law;\n  18. to insure or otherwise to provide for the insurance of the\ncorporation's property or operations and also contract against such\nother risks as the corporation may deem advisable, including the\ninterest rate risk for obligations it issues bearing interest at a\nfloating or otherwise adjustable rate which prevents the actual rate\nover the term of the debt from being ascertained at the date of its\nincurrence, and including the power to make any payments with respect\nthereto; and\n  19. to do all things necessary, convenient or desirable, including\nancillary and incidental activities, to carry out its purposes and for\nthe exercise of the powers granted in this title.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 37-0105 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 37 / Title 1 / Section 37-0105
Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

§ 37-0105. Rules and regulations.\n  The department is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and\nregulations pertaining to the storage and release to the environment of\nsubstances hazardous or acutely hazardous to public health, safety or\nthe environment. Such rules and regulations may require the users of\nsubstances which may meet the criteria upon which the lists referred to\nin paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision one of section 37-0103 of this\nchapter are based to furnish to the department for the public record any\ninformation regarding such substances which the said user may have, and\nthe nature and extent of research performed by said user concerning the\neffects of such substances on human health and the environment. Prior to\npromulgation of rules and regulations hereunder, public hearings shall\nbe held upon notice in two newspapers in the locality of said public\nhearings, at least two times per week in each of three successive weeks.\nSuch hearings shall be conducted not less than sixty (60) days following\nthe date of last publication.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 505-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 11 / Section 505-A
Election of retired teacher member of board
Status: in_force

§ 505-a. Election of retired teacher member of board.  1. Election of\nretired teacher member. An election shall be held during the month of\nOctober, nineteen hundred ninety-three, and thereafter during the month\nof October immediately preceding the expiration of a term in office as\nprescribed in this section, for the purpose of electing the retired\nteacher member of the retirement board from among the retired members of\nthe retirement system. All retired members of the retirement system who\nare retired as of October first in the year in which such election is\nheld shall be eligible to vote. Such election shall be by secret ballot\nheld in accordance with the provisions of this section and such rules\nand regulations as may be adopted by the retirement board. A retired\nteacher member elected to the retirement board pursuant to the\nprovisions of this section shall serve for a term of three years\ncommencing on the first day of January next following said election.\n  2. Nominations. Nominations of candidates for the position of retired\nteacher member of the retirement board shall be by petition on forms\nprovided pursuant to this subdivision. The retirement board shall\nprepare printed forms for nominating petitions for candidates for the\noffice of retired teacher member of the retirement board. Such forms\nshall be available to retired members of the retirement system not later\nthan July first of a year in which an election is to be held. Each\ncandidate's petition shall be signed by not less than one hundred\nretired members of the retirement system and shall be filed with the\nretirement board not later than August fifteenth in such year. Each such\npetition shall contain the position and term of office, together with\nthe name and address of the candidate, and shall also contain the name\nand address of the retired member of the retirement system who shall be\nthe alternate candidate in the event of a vacancy caused by the death,\ndisability, disqualification or withdrawal of the candidate occurring\nprior to the election. Each petition shall be accompanied by a notarized\nwritten acceptance of the nomination by the candidate named in the\npetition and by a notarized written statement of the retired member\nnamed as alternate candidate that, in the event of the death,\ndisability, disqualification or withdrawal of the candidate prior to the\nelection or in the event of the death, disability, disqualification or\nresignation of the candidate from the position of retired teacher member\nof the retirement board following election, he or she will accept the\nnomination or serve on the retirement board in such a contingency. The\nretirement board shall implement one mailing for each qualified\ncandidate that so requests and makes payment therefor prior to the time\nof mailing by bank or certified check. The board shall establish\nprocedures to merge mailings for more than one qualified candidate in\norder to reduce postage costs and for administrative convenience if each\naffected candidate approves.  Nothing in this subdivision or in this\nsection shall be construed to impair existing law preserving the\nconfidentiality of the home addresses of retirees of the retirement\nsystem.\n  3. Election procedures. Such election shall be in the form of a mail\nreferendum with appropriate provisions, such as the use of double\nenvelopes, made to insure that the identity of the individual retired\nmembers will not be disclosed as their marked ballots are submitted and\ncounted. The retirement board shall prepare and mail a ballot and\ninstructions for voting to each eligible retired member by first class\nmail not earlier than October first and not later than October\nfifteenth. The names of candidates and alternate candidates listed on\nthe ballot shall be in the order in which the petitions are filed with\nthe retirement board. The ballots shall be such that they may be machine\ncounted. Such ballots shall be returned to the address within the state\nof New York designated by the retirement board and shall be postmarked\nnot later than October thirty-first.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the\nretirement board may by resolution establish an alternative procedure\nfor the conduct of an election pursuant to this section by electronic,\ntelephonic or other means which provide comparable security and\nconvenience for voting by retired teacher members.\n  4. Board of elections. At the time of filing a petition or not later\nthan September fifteenth, each candidate shall appoint two active or\nretired members of the retirement system to a board of elections. Such\nboard of elections shall consist of such appointees of the candidates\nand one member of the retirement system named by the president of the\nretirement board, who shall act as its chairman. Members of the board of\nelections shall not themselves be candidates or alternate candidates.\nSuch board of elections shall supervise the election.  Such board of\nelections shall meet at the location within the state designated by the\nretirement board at one o'clock in the afternoon on the second Monday in\nNovember to certify the election of the candidate receiving the largest\nnumber of valid votes cast. The retired member so elected shall be\nnotified of such election by the chairman of the board of elections\nwithin five days of such certification.  The ballots shall be kept in\nthe custody of the retirement board for at least ninety days after such\ncertification. Members of the board of elections shall be reimbursed by\nthe retirement board for reasonable expenses actually incurred, in\naccordance with rules and regulations adopted by the retirement board.\n  5. Special election. In the event that no candidate can be certified\nas having won the election as the result of a tie vote, then the board\nof elections shall order a special election with the ballot containing\nonly the names of such candidates with a tie vote. Such special election\nshall be conducted in the same general manner as the regular election.\nBallots shall be mailed during the month of November as soon as\nreasonably practical after the tie vote has been determined and shall be\nreturned to a location within the state designated by the retirement\nboard, postmarked no later than the fourteenth day of December.  The\nboard of elections shall meet at the location within the state\ndesignated by the retirement board on a mutually selected date prior to\nJanuary first to certify the election of the candidate receiving the\nlargest number of valid votes cast.\n  6. Suspension of election. In the event that only one candidate is\nnominated, then no election shall be held and such candidate shall be\ndeemed to be elected effective at the same time as if an election had\nbeen held.\n  7. Vacancies. A vacancy occurring during the term of a retired teacher\nmember of the retirement board shall be filled by the retired member who\nwas the alternate candidate at the time such retired teacher member was\nlast elected to the board. In the event that such alternate candidate\nhas died, become disqualified, or is unwilling or unable to serve or in\nthe event that the alternate candidate dies, is disqualified, becomes\ndisabled, or resigns after entering upon the position of retired teacher\nmember of the retirement board, then the vacancy shall be filled by the\nconcurrent appointment of a successor from among the retired members of\nthe system by the members of the retirement board who were elected from\namong the active members of the retirement system.  Such alternate\ncandidate or such appointee, as applicable, shall serve out the\nunexpired term of the retired teacher member.\n  8. Certain expenses of alternate candidate. The retired member who was\nthe alternate candidate at the time a retired teacher member was last\nelected to the position of the retired teacher member of the retirement\nboard shall be entitled to be reimbursed from the expense fund for\nactual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with attendance at\nthe annual meeting and stated meetings of the retirement board pursuant\nto subdivision one of section five hundred six of this article.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 394-D — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 1-A / Section 394-D
Child care creation and expansion tax credit
Status: in_force

§ 394-d. Child care creation and expansion tax credit. 1. A business\nentity in the child care creation and expansion tax credit program that\nmeets the eligibility requirements of section three hundred\nninety-four-b of this title may be eligible to claim a credit for the\nportion of the service year in which the child care program was in\noperation, equal to the sum of: (a) the product of the number of infant\nchild care seats that have been created or expanded and twenty percent\nof the child care rate for such infant child care seats and (b) the\nproduct of the number of toddler child care seats that have been created\nor expanded and twenty percent of the child care rate for such toddler\nchild care seats; provided that such infant and toddler child care seats\nare child care seats that are occupied. Notwithstanding the preceding\nsentence, a credit shall not be allowed for more than twenty-five child\ncare seats that are occupied, and the amount of such credit may be\nreduced as a result of an allocation of available funds, as described in\nsection three hundred ninety-four-e of this title.\n  2. The credit shall be allowed as provided in section forty-eight,\nsubdivision fifty-nine of section two hundred ten-B, subsection (ooo) of\nsection six hundred six and subdivision (ee) of section fifteen hundred\neleven of the tax law.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 166 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 166
Signalmen
Status: in_force

§ 166. Signalmen. 1. When used in this section "signalman" means:\n  a. A telegraph or telephone operator reporting trains to another\noffice or to a train dispatcher;\n  b. A telegraph or telephone leverman who manipulates interlocking\nmachines in railroad yards or on main tracks on the lines;\n  c. A train dispatcher whose duties pertain to the movement of cars,\nengines or trains, by telegraph or telephone in dispatching or reporting\ntrains or receiving or transmitting train orders.\n  2. When used in this section "railroad" means: any portion of a\nsurface, subway or elevated railroad situated wholly or partly in this\nstate and operated by a corporation or receiver on which portion at\nleast twenty freight trains on the average or nine regular passenger\ntrains pass each way in every twenty-four hours.\n  3. No signalman shall be employed on any railroad for more than eight\nhours in any day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by\naccident, fire, flood or danger to life or property and he shall be paid\nfor each hour of such overtime at least one-eighth of his daily\ncompensation.\n  4. Every signalman and every towerman or gateman performing duties\nsimilar to those of a signalman, who is employed for eight hours or more\nevery day shall be allowed at least two days of rest of twenty-four\nhours each in every calendar month with the regular compensation, except\nin cases of extraordinary emergency caused by accident, fire, flood, or\ndanger to life or property, when in addition to his regular compensation\nhe shall be paid for every hour so employed at least one-eighth of his\ndaily compensation.\n  5. The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees engaged\nin interstate commerce.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 504 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 504
Preparation of assessment roll
Status: in_force

§ 504. Preparation of assessment roll. 1. The commissioner shall adopt\nrules and regulations for the preparation and use of the assessment roll\nand shall advise with and instruct assessors and other officers as to\ntheir duties with respect thereto. The assessors shall prepare the roll\nin the form prescribed or approved by the commissioner and in accordance\nwith the rules and regulations adopted by such commissioner relative\nthereto.\n  2. (a) Except in special assessing units, where a parcel separately\nassessed for general municipal purposes lies partly within a special\ndistrict the portion within such special district shall be separately\nassessed for special district purposes.\n  (b) In a special assessing unit, where a parcel separately assessed\nfor general municipal purposes lies partly within a special district,\nschool district or village, the portion within each such special\ndistrict, school district or village shall be separately assessed for\nspecial district, school district or village purposes, as the case may\nbe.\n  3. Real property of a railroad company which has elected to have the\nprovisions of title two-a of article four of this chapter apply to such\ncompany shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of section\nfour hundred eighty-nine-c of this chapter.\n  4. Whenever a map is filed with a county clerk, pursuant to article\nnine of the real property law, subdividing a tract of land, the assessor\nshall enter each lot on that map as a separate parcel on the next\ntentative assessment roll, unless the assessor determines the separate\nassessment of one or more lots to be impracticable.\n  5. Prior to filing the tentative assessment roll in accordance with\nthe provisions of section five hundred six of this title, the assessor\nmay correct any erroneous entries on such roll by making such changes as\nmay be necessary and by executing a verified list of such corrections\nand filing such list at the same time as the tentative roll is filed.\nThe assessor shall, at the same time, forward a copy of the verified\nlist of corrections to the county director of real property tax\nservices. Any corrections of erroneous entries shall be of no force or\neffect unless such corrections are included on the verified list of\ncorrections and the duplicate copy of such list filed with the county\ndirector of real property tax services.\n  5-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, real property\nowned by a homeowners' association may be separately assessed to that\nassociation or may be incorporated in the assessments of the parcels of\nthe members of that association. Whenever any real property is so\nincorporated, the inventory maintained for each parcel shall describe\nhow the value of that real property has been incorporated in the\nassessment of such parcel.\n  6. If in the preparation of the roll an error or omission is made in\nthe description of a parcel of real property or in entering or failing\nto enter the name of the owner, last known owner or reputed owner, such\nerror or omission shall not prevent the levy, collection and enforcement\nof the payment of the taxes thereon if the parcel can be identified and\nlocated with reasonable certainty.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 378 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 14 / Title 1 / Section 378
Washrooms
Status: in_force

§ 378. Washrooms. Every mercantile establishment, every restaurant,\nevery office of a telegraph or messenger company in a city and every\nstation, terminal or car barn where women employees of a street,\nsurface, electric, subway or elevated railroad report for duty shall\nprovide and maintain for employees adequate and convenient washrooms or\nwashing facilities, separate for each sex wherever required by the rules\nof the board.  Every washroom shall be adequately ventilated and heated\nand shall be lighted by artificial means where necessary.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2951 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-A / Title 1 / Section 2951
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 2951. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:\n  1.  "Rural  area"  shall  mean  any  county with less than two hundred\nthousand population or any town which has a population of less than  two\nhundred persons per square mile or, if approved by the commissioner, any\ntown  which  has a population of less than two hundred fifty persons per\nsquare mile.\n  2. "Rural health network" shall mean an  affiliation  of  health  care\nproviders  serving  a  rural  area,  pursuant  to  a  contract, joint or\ncooperative agreement,  or  organized  pursuant  to  the  not-for-profit\ncorporation law and approved pursuant to subdivision fourteen of section\ntwenty-eight  hundred  one-a of this chapter, which provides or arranges\nfor the provision of health care services pursuant to a network plan  to\nresidents  of  a  rural  area  or  the  provision  of  administrative or\nmanagement services among such health care providers.  Such health  care\nservices  may  include,  but  need not be limited to: acute and tertiary\ncare; medical/surgical care; pre-hospital emergency services; swing  bed\ncare;  mental health and substance abuse services; physical medicine and\nrehabilitation; primary and preventive care;  home  health  and  skilled\nnursing  care;  laboratory,  radiological  or other diagnostic services;\nhospice; respite care; illness prevention; or any  other  outpatient  or\nrelated  services  responding  to  community  need or for the purpose of\nimproving community health status.  Such administrative  and  management\nservices  may  include,  but  need  not be limited to: emergency medical\nservices  or  other  professional  training;   credentialing,   payroll,\npurchasing and billing services; recruitment of qualified professionals;\ninformation   management   services;   medical  transportation;  quality\nassurance; risk management; peer review; electronic  data  sharing;  and\nmanaged care systems; performance of studies; planning; and solicitation\nand  acceptance of grants, and receipt of reimbursement for planning and\ncoordination of services and  coordination  of  experimental  and  other\npayment  methods,  such  as  global  budget,  pooling  arrangements,  or\ncapitation payments for inpatient hospital services and ambulatory  care\nservices provided by the component entities of the network.\n  3. "Network plan" shall mean a written plan prepared by a rural health\nnetwork or rural providers planning to form a rural health network, with\nthe   involvement   of   consumers,   submitted  initially  and  updated\nperiodically as needed, to the  commissioner  for  approval  to  receive\ngrant  funds  pursuant  to section twenty-nine hundred fifty-two of this\narticle.\n  4. "Upgraded diagnostic and treatment center" shall mean a  diagnostic\nand  treatment  center  established  pursuant to article twenty-eight of\nthis chapter which has received such  designation  pursuant  to  section\ntwenty-nine hundred fifty-six of this article.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1021-S — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-B / Section 1021-S
Severability
Status: in_force

§ 1021-s. Severability. The provisions of this title are severable,\nand if any clause, sentence, paragraph, action or part of this title, or\nthe application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be adjudged\nby any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable,\nsuch judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of\nthis title or the application of such provision to any other person or\ncircumstance, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,\nsentence, paragraph, section or part thereof or person or circumstance\ndirectly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have\nbeen rendered.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 139 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 139
Right of way
Status: in_force

§ 139. Right of way.  The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to\nproceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or\npedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and\nproximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants\nprecedence to the other.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 102-B — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 102-B
Bicycle path
Status: in_force

§ 102-b. Bicycle path. A path physically separated from motorized\nvehicle traffic by an open space or barrier and either within the\nhighway right-of-way or within an independent right-of-way and which is\nintended for the use of bicycles.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 859 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 18-A / Title 1 / Section 859
Financial records
Status: in_force

§ 859. Financial records. 1. (a) Each agency shall maintain books and\nrecords in such form as may be prescribed by the state comptroller.\n  (b) Within ninety days following the close of its fiscal year, each\nagency or authority shall prepare a financial statement for that fiscal\nyear in such form as may be prescribed by the state comptroller. Such\nstatement shall be audited within such ninety day period by an\nindependent certified public accountant in accordance with government\naccounting standards established by the United States general accounting\noffice. The audited financial statement shall include supplemental\nschedules listing all straight-lease transactions and bonds and notes\nissued, outstanding or retired during the applicable accounting period\nwhether or not such bonds, notes or transactions are considered\nobligations of the agency. For each issue of bonds or notes such\nschedules shall provide the name of each project financed with proceeds\nof each issue, and whether the project occupant is a not-for-profit\ncorporation, the name and address of each owner of each project, the\nestimated amount of tax exemptions authorized for each project, the\npurpose for which each bond or note was issued, date of issue, interest\nrate at issuance and if variable the range of interest rates applicable,\nmaturity date, federal tax status of each issue, and an estimate of the\nnumber of jobs created and retained by each project. For each\nstraight-lease transaction, such schedules shall provide the name of\neach project, and whether the project occupant is a not-for-profit\ncorporation, the name and address of each owner of each project, the\nestimated amount of tax exemptions authorized for each project, the\npurpose for which each transaction was made, the method of financial\nassistance utilized by the project, other than the tax exemptions\nclaimed by the project and an estimate of the number of jobs created and\nretained by each project.\n  (c) Within thirty days after completion, a copy of the audited\nfinancial statement shall be transmitted to the commissioner of the\ndepartment of economic development, the state comptroller and the\ngoverning body of the municipality for whose benefit the agency was\ncreated.\n  (d) An agency with no bonds or notes issued or outstanding and no\nprojects during the applicable accounting period may apply to the state\ncomptroller for a waiver of the required audited financial statement.\nApplication shall be made on such form as the comptroller may prescribe.\n  (e) If an agency or authority shall fail to file or substantially\ncomplete, as determined by the state comptroller, the financial\nstatement required by this section, the state comptroller shall provide\nnotice to the agency or authority. The notice shall state the following:\n  (i) that the failure to file a financial statement as required is a\nviolation of this section, or in the case of an insufficient financial\nstatement, the manner in which the financial statement submitted is\ndeficient;\n  (ii) that the agency or authority has thirty days to comply with this\nsection or provide an adequate written explanation to the comptroller of\nthe agency's or authority's reasons for the inability to comply; and\n  (iii) that the agency's or authority's failure to provide either the\nrequired financial statement or an adequate explanation will result in\nthe notification of the chief executive officer of the municipality for\nwhose benefit the agency or authority was created of the agency's\nnoncompliance with this section. Where such agency or authority has\nfailed to file the required statement, the comptroller shall\nadditionally notify the agency or authority that continued failure to\nfile the required statement may result in loss of the agency's or\nauthority's authority to provide exemptions from state taxes.\n  (iv) If an agency or authority after thirty days has failed to file\nthe required statement or the explanation in the manner required by\nsubparagraph (i) of this paragraph, or provides an insufficient\nexplanation, the comptroller shall notify the chief executive officer of\nthe municipality for whose benefit the agency or authority was created\nand the agency of the agency's or authority's noncompliance with this\nsection. Such notice from the state comptroller shall further delineate\nin what respect the agency or authority has failed to comply with this\nsection. If the agency or authority has failed to file the required\nstatement, the notice shall additionally state that continued failure to\nfile the required statement may result in loss of the agency's or\nauthority's authority to provide exemptions from state taxes.\n  (v) If, thirty days after notification of the chief executive officer\nof the municipality for whose benefit the agency or authority was\ncreated of the agency's or authority's noncompliance, the agency or\nauthority fails to file the required statement, the comptroller shall\nnotify the chief executive officer of the municipality for whose benefit\nthat agency or authority was created and the agency or authority that if\nsuch report is not provided within sixty days, that the agency or\nauthority will no longer be authorized to provide exemptions from state\ntaxes.\n  (vi) If, sixty days after the notification required by subparagraph\n(v) of this paragraph, the comptroller has not received the required\nstatement, the agency or authority shall not offer financial assistance\nwhich provides exemptions from state taxes until such financial\nstatement is filed and the comptroller shall so notify the agency or\nauthority and the chief executive officer of the municipality for whose\nbenefit the agency was created. Provided, however, that nothing\ncontained in this paragraph shall be deemed to modify the terms of any\nexisting agreements.\n  (f) Within thirty days after completion, a copy of an audited\nfinancial statement which contains transactions of or bonds or notes of\ncivic facilities as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision thirteen of\nsection eight hundred fifty-four of this article, shall be transmitted\nby the agency to the commissioner of health, the chair of the senate\nfinance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee,\nthe chair of the senate health committee and the chair of the assembly\nhealth committee.\n  2. On or before September first of each year, the commissioner of the\ndepartment of economic development shall prepare and submit to the\ngovernor, speaker of the assembly, majority leader of the senate, and\nthe state comptroller, a report setting forth a summary of the\nsignificant trends in operations and financing by agencies and\nauthorities; departures from acceptable practices by agencies and\nauthorities; a compilation by type of the bonds and notes outstanding; a\ncompilation of all outstanding straight-lease transactions; an estimate\nof the total number of jobs created and retained by agency or authority\nprojects; and any other information which in the opinion of the\ncommissioner bears upon the discharge of the statutory functions of\nagencies and authorities.\n  3. On or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, the\ncommissioner shall submit to the director of the division of the budget,\nthe temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the\nchairman of the senate finance committee, the chairman of the assembly\nways and means committee, the chairman of the senate local government\ncommittee, the chairman of the senate committee on commerce, economic\ndevelopment and small business, the chairman of the assembly committee\non commerce, industry and economic development, the chairman of the\nassembly local governments committee and the chairman of the assembly\nreal property taxation committee an evaluation of the activities of\nindustrial development agencies and authorities in the state prepared by\nan entity independent of the department. Such evaluation shall identify\nthe effect of agencies and authorities on: (a) job creation and\nretention in the state, including the types of jobs created and\nretained; (b) the value of tax exemptions provided by such agencies and\nauthorities; (c) the value of payments received in lieu of taxes\nreceived by municipalities and school districts as a result of projects\nsponsored by such entities; (d) a summary of the types of projects that\nreceived financial assistance; (e) a summary of the types of financial\nassistance provided by the agencies and authorities; (f) a summary of\ncriteria for evaluation of projects used by agencies and authorities;\n(g) a summary of tax exemption policies of agencies and authorities; and\n(h) such other factors as may be relevant to an assessment of the\nperformance of such agencies and authorities in creating and retaining\njob opportunities for residents of the state. Such evaluation shall also\nassess the process by which agencies and authorities grant exemptions\nfrom state taxes and make recommendations for the most efficient and\neffective procedures for the use of such exemptions. Such evaluation\nshall further include any recommendations for changes in laws governing\nthe operations of industrial development agencies and authorities which\nwould enhance the creation and retention of jobs in the state.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 14-127 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 14 / Title 1 / Section 14-127
Notice of civil penalty to authorizing candidate
Status: in_force

§ 14-127. Notice of civil penalty to authorizing candidate. If any\nperson fails to file a statement of campaign receipts and expenditures\nfor a candidate authorized political committee, and thereafter said\nperson is a party to recovery of a civil penalty in a special proceeding\nor civil action brought by the state board of elections or other board\nof elections under section 14-126 of this article, said board of\nelections shall also provide the authorizing candidate with actual\nnotice of the civil penalty, and the special proceeding or civil action\nby certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 409-L — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 9 / Section 409-L
Posting child abuse hotline telephone number
Status: in_force

§ 409-l. Posting child abuse hotline telephone number. 1. Every public\nschool including charter schools shall post in English and in Spanish\nthe toll-free telephone number operated by the office of children and\nfamily services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect established\nunder section four hundred twenty-two of the social services law and\ndirections for accessing the office of children and family services\nwebsite.\n  2. The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations relating to the\nposting required by subdivision one of this section.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3102-A — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-A / Title 1 / Section 3102-A
Industrial technology extension service
Status: in_force

§ 3102-a. Industrial technology extension service. 1. There is hereby\nestablished within the foundation an industrial technology extension\nservice program.\n  2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the terms:\n  (a) "Industrial technology extension service" shall mean a network of\nregional organizations which provide technical and management assistance\nthrough field agents, as well as feasibility studies and productivity\nassessments by contract, to eligible businesses, especially small and\nmedium sized firms in New York state. Agents will assist firms in\nresearching, evaluating and implementing opportunities for technology\nand or management related productivity improvements.\n  (b) "Director" shall mean the executive director of the New York State\nScience and Technology Foundation.\n  (c) "Foundation" shall mean the New York State Science and Technology\nFoundation.\n  (d) "Regional organization" shall mean a not-for-profit organization\nwhich contracts with the foundation to serve as the industrial\ntechnology extension service for the region within which it operates.\n  (e) "Industrial firm" shall mean a firm involved with extracting,\nsmelting, recovering, developing, preparing, compounding, converting,\nassembling or producing in any manner, minerals, raw materials, products\nor substances of any kind or nature, and shall include facilities\nrelated thereto for storage, warehousing or distribution, for research\nand development or for the discovery of new, and refinement of known,\nsubstances, processes, and products.\n  (f) "Medium-sized industrial firm" shall mean an industrial firm that\nemploys less than five hundred persons within the state on a full-time\nbasis.\n  (g) "Small-sized industrial firm" shall mean an industrial firm that\nemploys one hundred or less persons within the state on a full-time\nbasis.\n  3. Purpose. The purposes of the industrial technology extension\nservice program shall be:\n  (a) to improve the competitiveness and increase the market share of\nviable New York state industries and firms through increased knowledge\nof new technologies and other innovations;\n  (b) to build a technology dissemination transfer and educational\nservice based on current research and development strengths in New York\nstate in the area of industrial technologies;\n  (c) to assist industrial firms with the introduction of improved\nmanagement and production processes in order to enhance their\nproductivity and competitiveness;\n  (d) to provide industrial effectiveness field services pursuant to\narticle seven of the economic development law; and\n  (e) to assist in the retention and expansion of industrial firms and\nemployment in New York state.\n  4. Contracting process. The foundation shall, on an annual basis\ncontract with regional organizations to provide industrial technology\nextension services on a regional basis. Initial selection shall be based\non the foundation's assessment of the ability of the regional\norganization to meet the objectives specified in subdivision three of\nthis section, to conduct outreach services, to service the technical\nneeds of industrial firms in the region and to coordinate its activities\nwith other concerned organizations within a region. The director shall\nreview, on an annual basis, the performance of regional organizations\nwhich have been selected to provide services in meeting these\nrequirements and, upon completion of its review, the foundation shall\nmake a determination concerning the advisability of continuing to\ncontract with the regional organization based on the outcome of the\nreview. However, upon a finding by the board of the foundation, made\nupon a recommendation from the department of economic development and\nthe director of the foundation, that the purposes of this section would\nmore appropriately be served by an individual rather than an\norganization, the foundation shall contract with an individual pursuant\nto the provisions of this subdivision.\n  5. Responsibilities of field agents. Field agents shall:\n  (a) Contact firms within the region and develop assessments of their\ntechnology related needs;\n  (b) Assist firms in researching, evaluating and implementing\nopportunities for technology related productivity improvements;\n  (c) Where appropriate, recommend to the department of economic\ndevelopment that it make available productivity assessments and\nfeasibility studies through the industrial effectiveness program\npursuant to article seven of the economic development law to industrial\nfirms that have requested such assistance. The following factors shall\nbe considered in determining whether to recommend the provision of a\nproductivity assessment or feasibility study to an industrial firm: (i)\nthe potential viability of the company; (ii) the commitment of\nmanagement and labor to jointly participate in a\nproductivity-improvement program; and (iii) whether interests of the\nemployees of the firm are served by such assistance.  The foundation\nshall, in cooperation with the department of economic development,\ndevelop procedures for such referrals;\n  (d) Provide referrals to appropriate local, regional and state level\norganizations and programs which deliver services or provide information\nor assistance;\n  (e) Provide information on state-sponsored programs offering financial\nor technical assistance to industrial firms and aid such firms in\napplying for assistance;\n  (f) Identify public and private sources of expertise available to\nassess productivity problems of industrial firms;\n  (g) Organize, promote and operate seminars and workshops addressing\nindustry technological needs, as well as, design and conduct seminars\nand workshops to inform industrial managers, union leaders, trade\nassociations, and other appropriate individuals and organizations, of\nindustrial productivity-improvement methods and approaches and to\ndemonstrate their successful adoption in similar firms;\n  (h) Promote the services and assistance available under this section\nfor industrial firms, to such firms and to municipal officials and\nagencies, regional and local economic development entities, technology\ndevelopment organizations, trade associations, business and labor\norganizations and the appropriate entities; and\n  (i) Coordinate industrial expansion and retention activities with the\nregional offices of the department of economic development pursuant to\narticle eleven of the economic development law and other activities with\nother state operated and supported business assistance programs.\n  6. Rules and regulations. The director shall promulgate rules and\nregulations for the operation of the industrial technology extension\nservice program.\n  7. Exemption from disclosure requirements. To the fullest extent\npermitted under subdivision two of section eighty-seven of the public\nofficers law, all information regarding the financial condition,\nmarketing plans, manufacturing processes, production costs, productivity\nrates, customer lists, or other trade secrets and proprietary\ninformation of a person or entity requesting assistance from the\nfoundation, which is submitted by such person or entity to the\nfoundation in connection with an application for assistance or with a\nproductivity assessment or feasibility study, shall be confidential and\nexempt from public disclosure.\n  8. Program plan. The foundation shall cooperate with the department of\neconomic development in preparation of a program plan pursuant to\nsubdivision nineteen of section one hundred of the economic development\nlaw.\n  9. Reporting. The director shall, on or before October first, nineteen\nhundred ninety-one and on or before each October first thereafter,\nsubmit a report to the governor and the legislature on the operation and\naccomplishments of the industrial technology extension service program.\n  10. For any positions opened as a result of a project conducted\npursuant to this section businesses so assisted shall first consider\npersons eligible to participate in federal job training partnership act\n(P.L. 97-300) programs who shall be referred to the business by\nadministrative entities of service delivery areas created pursuant to\nsuch act or by the job service division of the department of labor.\n  11. Evaluation. The director shall submit to the director of the\nbudget, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the chairman of\nthe assembly ways and means committee an evaluation of the success of\nthe industrial technology extension service program prepared by an\nentity independent of the foundation. Such evaluation shall include, but\nnot be limited to, determining whether the services provided have helped\nclient firms to improve their competitiveness or increase their market\nshare relative to other firms in the specific industry; and shall assess\nthe effect, if any, of the program on the continued location and growth\nof industrial firms within the state. Such evaluation shall be submitted\nby September first, nineteen hundred ninety-two and by September first\nevery two years thereafter.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 345 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 7-A / Section 345
Regulations
Status: in_force

§ 345. Regulations.  The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to\nimplement the provisions of this article.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 149 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 149
Through highway
Status: in_force

§ 149. Through highway.  Every highway or portion thereof on which\nvehicular traffic is given preferential right of way, and at the\nentrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is\ncontrolled by traffic-control signals or is required by law to yield the\nright of way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to a\nflashing red signal, a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signals or\nsigns are erected as provided in this chapter.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 374-F — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 1 / Section 374-F
Authority to enter into leases for dwelling units
Status: in_force

§ 374-f. Authority to enter into leases for dwelling units. Any\ninconsistent provisions of this chapter or any other law\nnotwithstanding, a public welfare official authorized to operate agency\nboarding homes or group homes is hereby empowered to rent or lease\ndwelling units in his capacity as a public welfare official, as lessee,\nin any federal project, state project or municipal project, as defined\nin the public housing law, or in any municipally-aided project or\nstate-aided project, or other project, as defined in the private housing\nfinance law, or elsewhere, for the purpose of operating therein such\nagency boarding homes or group homes, and is hereby empowered to\ncontract, in his capacity as a public welfare official, as contractor,\nwith individuals for their services in conducting such homes and caring\nfor children or minors placed in such homes.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2995 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-D / Title 1 / Section 2995
Structure and definitions
Status: in_force

§ 2995. Structure and definitions. 1. Structure. * (a) The department\nshall undertake an initiative for the purposes of increasing the\ninformation available to patients about health care providers and health\ncare plans, and improving the quality of health care in this state, by\ncreating a statewide health information system, collecting health\ninformation for dissemination by means of such system, and studying\nadditional uses of such information. Such moneys as may be necessary to\neffect the purpose of this section may be appropriated to the department\nfor its expenses.\n  * NB Effective until March 31, 2029\n  * (a) The department shall undertake an initiative for the purposes of\nincreasing the information available to patients about health care\nproviders and health care plans, and improving the quality of health\ncare in this state, by creating a statewide health information system,\ncollecting health information for dissemination by means of such system,\nand studying additional uses of such information. Such moneys as may be\nnecessary to effect the purpose of this section may be appropriated to\nthe department for its expenses, but in no event shall funds be diverted\nfrom existing uses of the office of professional medical conduct in\norder to fulfill the purposes of this section.\n  * NB Effective March 31, 2029\n  (b) The department shall promulgate rules for the purpose of\nimplementing the provisions of this title.\n  2. Definitions. For the purposes of this title:\n  (a) "Health care plan" shall mean a health maintenance organization,\nas defined by subdivision one of section forty-four hundred one of this\nchapter, a health service corporation licensed pursuant to article\nforty-three of the insurance law, a prepaid health services plan\nlicensed pursuant to section forty-four hundred three-a of this chapter,\nor an integrated delivery system licensed pursuant to section forty-four\nhundred eight-a of this chapter.\n  (b) "Health information" shall mean physician data, hospital data, and\nhealth care plan data, to the extent such data is disclosable pursuant\nto any provision of law. Such term shall not include individual patient\ndata, except to the extent such data is disclosable pursuant to any\nother provision of law.\n  (c) "Individual patient data" shall mean any information concerning an\nindividual patient, whether held orally or recorded in any form or\nmedium, including, but not limited to, information derived from a\nbiological sample from the patient, the sample itself or genetic\ninformation that:\n  (i) relates to the physical or mental health of the patient, the\nprovision of health care to the patient, or the payment for the\nprovision of health care to the patient; and\n  (ii) (A) identifies the individual patient;\n  (B) could forseeably be used or manipulated to identify the individual\npatient; or\n  (C) could forseeably be linked or matched to any other information\ndescribed in clause (A) or (B) of this subparagraph.\n  (d) "Statewide health information system" shall mean a collection of\nhealth information to be publicly available on an ongoing basis for the\npurpose of making statewide comparisons.\n  (e) "Preferred provider organization data" shall mean data collected\nfrom an insurance company subject to article thirty-two of the insurance\nlaw, a corporation subject to article forty-three of the insurance law,\nor a municipal cooperative health benefit plan certified pursuant to\narticle forty-seven of the insurance law, with respect to preferred\nprovider organization (PPO) products, as defined by the commissioner in\nconsultation with the superintendent, offered by such entities.\n  (f) "Health care practitioner" shall mean a physician, nurse\npractitioner, or physician assistant licensed or certified pursuant to\ntitle eight of the education law.\n  (g) "Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" shall mean sudden,\nunexpected death in patients with epilepsy, with or without evidence of\na seizure.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 11-102 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 11 / Title 1 / Section 11-102
Special presidential voters; change of residence; special qualifications
Status: in_force

§ 11-102. Special presidential voters; change of residence; special\nqualifications.  Any person who shall change his residence from this\nstate to another state or from one county or city of this state to\nanother such county or city, after the thirtieth day next preceding any\npresidential election shall be entitled to vote for president and vice\npresident of the United States in such election, provided, however, that\nsuch person may not vote for any candidate for any other office or any\nquestion to be voted for at such election, and provided further that\n  a. Such person was duly qualified and registered to vote in this state\nimmediately prior to such change of residence;\n  b. Such person is neither qualified nor able to qualify to vote for\nsuch electors either in the state, or in the county or city of this\nstate, or at the residence within the county or city of this state to\nwhich such person has removed; and\n  c. Such person has applied for a special ballot for president and vice\npresident, as provided by this article.\n
N.Y. ACA Law § 60.04 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title V-1 / Article 60 / Section 60.04
Disclosure required
Status: in_force

§ 60.04. Disclosure required. 1. No dealer shall sell or offer for\nsale in or from this state an autographed sports collectible to any\nconsumer unless, at the location where the sale occurs, in close\nproximity to the merchandise, he places a conspicuous sign that reads:\n                 SALE OF AUTOGRAPHED SPORTS MEMORABILIA\n         AS REQUIRED BY LAW A DEALER WHO SELLS TO A CONSUMER\n         ANY SPORTS MEMORABILIA DESCRIBED AS BEING PERSONALLY\n         AUTOGRAPHED FOR TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS OR MORE MUST\n         PROVIDE A WRITTEN CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AT THE\n         TIME OF SALE.\n  2. (a) Any dealer engaged in a mail-order or telephone order business\nwho sells or offers for sale in or from this state an autographed sports\ncollectible to any consumer shall include in any written advertisement\nrelating to any such item, in type of conspicuous size, the disclosure\nrequired by subdivision one of this section or language substantially\nequivalent to the disclosure required by subdivision one of this\nsection.\n  (b) When an offer for sale of an autographed sports collectible takes\nthe form of a televised broadcast, such offer shall include a written\non-screen message that shall be prominently displayed and clearly\nvisible for no less than five seconds at the beginning of each segment\nof broadcast for each item offered for sale and displayed thereafter for\nno less than five seconds at ten minute intervals during said segment,\nthat reads:\n                  A WRITTEN CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY\n                    IS PROVIDED WITH EACH AUTOGRAPHED\n                    COLLECTIBLE, AS REQUIRED BY LAW.\n  (c) When such offer for sale takes the form of a radio advertisement,\nsuch advertisement shall include as part of the oral message the\ndisclosure required by paragraph (b) of this subdivision.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 218 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 218
Alterations
Status: in_force

§ 218. Alterations. 1. Any non-fireproof tenement erected after May\nfifteenth, nineteen hundred two, having apartments extending from street\nto yard and having one or more outer courts on a side lot line four feet\nor more in width or inner courts which alone or together with adjoining\ncourts are eight feet or more in width and twelve feet six inches or\nmore in depth, may be altered into apartments opening either on the\nstreet or the yard, provided all such altered apartments also have\nwindows opening on such a court. All such altered apartments shall be\nprovided with a second means of egress as required by section two\nhundred thirty-one. The entrance and stair halls of such tenement shall\nbe fire-retarded.\n  2. No room in the cellar or basement of any tenement shall be\nconstructed or altered to be occupied for living purposes unless all of\nthe conditions of section thirty-four and of subdivision eight of\nsection twenty-six in regard to multiple dwellings erected after April\neighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, are complied with, except that\nthe minimum depths of yards and courts prescribed for tenements in\nsubdivision one of section two hundred twelve shall be substituted for\nthe minimum depths referred to in section thirty-four.\n  3. Any additional room or hall constructed or created in a tenement\nshall comply in all respects with the provisions of this article\nrespecting rooms or halls in tenements erected after April eighteenth,\nnineteen hundred twelve, except that in any tenement erected after April\nfourteenth, nineteen hundred three, such rooms or halls may be of the\nsame height as the other rooms or halls on the same story.\n  4. The number of apartments or suites of rooms on any story in any\ntenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, may be\naltered so as to increase or decrease the number of living rooms\nprovided such dwelling shall conform with the applicable provisions of\nsections two hundred thirty-five and two hundred thirty-six.\n  5. If the number of apartments or suites of rooms in any old-law\ntenement is increased, the entrance hall and both sides of the walls of\nthe stair halls adjoining the altered apartment shall be fire-retarded,\nthe stairs shall extend to the roof and there shall be no inside stairs\nfrom the entrance story to a cellar, or to a basement or other story\nbelow the entrance story. However, such inside stair may be permitted\nprovided such stair is constructed of incombustible material, has closed\nrisers, is enclosed between the entrance story and the next lowest story\nwith fireproof materials having a standard fire-resistive rating of at\nleast three hours, and has fireproof doors and door assemblies at the\ntop and bottom with the doors and door assemblies at the top and bottom\nwith the doors self-closing. The soffit of any stair immediately above\nan inside cellar stair shall be fire-retarded and the jib partitions\nenclosing such cellar stair at the first story shall be of incombustible\nmaterial or fire-retarded on both sides with materials having a standard\nfire-resistive rating of at least one hour.\n  6. If any old-law tenement shall be so altered as to increase the\nnumber of rooms therein by one-third or more, or if such tenement is\nincreased both in number of rooms and in height and after such\nalteration is more than four stories or parts of stories above the curb\nlevel, or if such tenement is over three stories in height and is\ncombined with another old-law tenement and the combined area on any\nstory exceeds three thousand square feet, the stair halls, entrance\nhalls and other public halls of the whole dwelling shall be made to\nconform to the requirements of subdivision two of section two hundred\nthirty-three and sections two hundred thirty-four to two hundred\nthirty-eight inclusive, except that such combined tenements, if over\nthree stories in height, shall have in the roof a fireproof bulkhead\nwith a fireproof self-closing door.\n  7. In lieu of fire retarding required under subdivision five, there\nmay be installed in public halls an automatic dry pipe valve system or,\nwhere halls are heated, an automatic wet pipe system. Where a sprinkler\nsystem is installed it shall be equipped on each story with heads in\nsuch number and spaced to protect the complete area of the public halls\nand stairs and shall be constructed, located and arranged on every stair\nand entrance hall and in every closet opening therefrom in such a manner\nas the department may require. Such sprinkler system shall be maintained\ncontinuously in good repair and serviceable condition.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 238-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 1 / Section 238-A
Statewide resource centers for geriatric education
Status: in_force

§ 238-a. Statewide resource centers for geriatric education. 1. There\nis hereby established in the state university of New York, under the\njurisdiction of its board of trustees, a statewide resource center for\ngeriatric education as established by chapter seven hundred\nseventy-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-one, and the acts\nsupplemental thereto.\n  2. The state university board of trustees is hereby authorized within\nannual appropriations made for this purpose to designate the SUNY Health\nScience Center at Syracuse and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York\ncity to implement the provisions of this section.\n  3. The statewide resource centers for geriatric education shall be\ncharged with developing a clearinghouse based on information gathered on\neducational programs in existence throughout the state and nation. The\ncenters shall make available information on model curricula, textbooks,\nresource materials, medical residencies, internships, clinical\nrotations, conferences, continuing education programs, funding for\nresearch and training and other information that may be useful in\nimproving geriatric training in medical schools within the state. They\nmay also provide such services to allied professions.\n  4. The centers shall periodically disseminate information of interest\nto each of the medical schools and allied professions within the state.\nThe centers shall also be available to assist the medical schools and\nallied professions within the state with individual requests for\nimproving their programs in geriatric education. Efforts should be made\nto utilize an interdisciplinary approach in disseminating the centers'\ninformation.\n  5. The board of trustees shall submit a report annually to the\ngovernor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the\ndirector of the state office for the aging and the commissioner of\nhealth.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 72-0101 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 72 / Title 1 / Section 72-0101
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

§ 72-0101. Declaration of policy.\n  The legislature of the state of New York hereby declares that\ncomprehensive environmental regulatory management programs are essential\nto protect New York state's environmental resources and the public's\nhealth and welfare. It further declares that those regulated entities\nwhich use or have an impact on the state's environmental resources\nshould bear the costs of the regulatory provisions which permit the use\nof these resources in a manner consistent with the environmental,\neconomic and social needs of the state. The legislature further declares\nthat regulatory fees are an appropriate mechanism to pay a portion of\nthe costs of the department's regulatory functions and programs and a\nportion of the costs to fund the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste\ndisposal sites and that such fees should be borne by the state's\nregulated entities in order to further strengthen the state's\ncapabilities to achieve its environmental quality objectives.  The\nlegislature further declares that the department's regulatory programs\nand corresponding costs vary according to certain relevant technical\ncriteria which shall be considered in determining adjustments to fees as\nprovided in this chapter.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2500-C — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 1 / Section 2500-C
Special programs with respect to diethylstilbestrol
Status: in_force

§ 2500-c. Special programs with respect to diethylstilbestrol. 1. For\nthe purpose of identifying persons who have been exposed to the\npotential hazards and afflictions of diethylstilbestrol, and for the\npurpose of educating the public concerning the symptoms and prevention\nof associated malignancies, the commissioner shall establish, promote\nand maintain a public information campaign on diethylstilbestrol. Such\ncampaign shall be conducted throughout the state and shall include but\nnot be limited to a concerted effort at reaching those persons or the\noffspring of persons who have been exposed to diethylstilbestrol in\norder to encourage them to seek medical care for the prevention or\ntreatment of any malignant condition.\n  2. (a) The commissioner shall designate and enter into contracts with\nproviders of health care for the purpose of establishing regional\nscreening programs for diethylstilbestrol exposed persons. In\ndetermining the provider with which to contract, the commissioner shall\nconsider such provider's compliance with state and federally mandated\nstandards, the location in relation to the geographical distribution of\npersons exposed to diethylstilbestrol, and the capacity of such provider\nto properly screen for breast cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer,\nvaginal adenosis, testicular cancer and any other malignancy and\nabnormal conditions resulting from DES exposure.\n  (b) Each contract for a regional screening program shall be upon such\nterms and conditions as the commissioner determines, provided, however,\nthat expenses incurred shall be reimbursed by the state after applying\nagainst the total cost of screening and diagnosis the amounts received\nfrom third party payers and less any fee charged each person receiving\nsuch services where the commissioner shall determine a sliding fee scale\nbased on ability to pay.\n  3. Each provider of health care that enters into a contract as\nprovided for in this section shall conduct a training program in\nconjunction with the department for purposes of instructing physicians,\nphysician assistants and nurses within the respective health systems\nagency in the detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of\ndiethylstilbestrol exposed persons.\n  4. The bureau of cancer control within the health department shall\nestablish and maintain a registry of women who took diethylstilbestrol\nduring pregnancy and their offspring who were exposed to\ndiethylstilbestrol prenatally for the purpose of follow-up care and\ntreatment of long term problems associated with diethylstilbestrol\nexposure. Enrollment in the registry shall be upon a voluntary basis.\n  5. The commissioner may request and shall receive from any department,\ndivision, board, bureau, commission or agency of the state or of any\npolitical subdivision thereof such assistance and data as will enable\nhim to properly carry out his activities hereunder and effectuate the\npurposes herein set forth. The commissioner may also enter into any\ncontract for services as he deems necessary with a private agency or\nconcern upon said terms and conditions as he deems appropriate.\n  7. Special programs as provided for in this section shall be conducted\nwithin the appropriation made therefor.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 134-B — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 134-B
Radar detector
Status: in_force

§ 134-b. Radar detector. Any instrument designed to detect the\npresence of microwaves at frequencies specifically assigned by the\nfederal communications commission for the purpose of maintaining\nvehicular speed.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1001 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 1001
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

§ 1001. Declaration of policy. Those parts of the Niagara and Saint\nLawrence rivers within the boundaries of the state of New York are\nhereby declared to be natural resources of the state for the use and\ndevelopment of commerce and navigation in the interest of the people of\nthis state and the United States. In order to provide for the most\nbeneficial use of these natural resources, for the creation and\ndevelopment of hydroelectric power in the interest of the people of this\nstate, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of the Niagara\nFalls and river, such natural resources, including the beds and waters\nof the said rivers as instrumentalities of commerce and navigation, and\nthe beds, waters, power and power sites in, upon or adjacent to or\nwithin the watersheds of the said rivers, owned or controlled by the\npeople of the state, or which may hereafter be recovered by or come\nwithin their ownership, possession and control, shall always remain\ninalienable to, and ownership, possession and control thereof shall\nalways be vested in, the people of the state.\n  It is further declared that the need for obtaining and maintaining a\ncontinuous and adequate supply of dependable electric power and energy\nis a matter of public concern to the people of the state; that the\nmaximum capacity of the hydroelectric developments on the Niagara and\nSaint Lawrence rivers of the authority can be best utilized and\nadditional public benefit derived therefrom by provision for\nsupplemental base load nuclear generating facilities or facilities\nutilizing new energy technologies and that for the purposes (i) of so\nutilizing such capacity and of deriving such additional benefit, (ii) of\nproviding additional low cost power and energy to attract and expand\nhigh load factor industry, (iii) of continuing an adequate supply of\npower and energy for the future needs of its municipal electric systems\nand rural electric cooperative customers, and (iv) of assisting in the\ndevelopment of additional dependable hydroelectric power from other\nwaters of the state and in the development of advanced facilities having\nsubstantial prospects of reducing electricity production costs, the\npublic interest requires that the authority participate in the\ngeneration of supplemental electric power and energy by energy storage,\nhydroelectric and nuclear means and new energy technologies to the\nextent authorized in this title.\n  It is further declared that there is a shortage of dependable power\ncapacity in the southeastern part of the state and that the public\ninterest requires that the authority assist in alleviating such shortage\nby providing such base load generating facilities as may be necessary or\ndesirable to contribute to the maintenance of an adequate and dependable\nsupply of electricity for the metropolitan transportation authority, its\nsubsidiary corporations, the New York city transit authority, the port\nauthority of New York and New Jersey, the city of New York, the state of\nNew York, the United States, other public corporations and electric\ncompanies within the metropolitan area of the city of New York within\nthe state of New York.\n  It is further declared (i) that there should be full cooperation among\nprivate and public entities including the authority, municipal\ncorporations and rural electric cooperatives engaged in power\ngeneration, transmission and distribution and in associated\ndevelopmental and service activities, (ii) that it is desirable that the\nauthority and the utilities which with the authority constitute the New\nYork power pool exchange comparable cost, performance and operating data\nwith respect to generation by nuclear means particularly reflecting the\neffect of the authority's tax-free status, (iii) that it is desirable\nand reasonable that the authority sell power and energy from its\nprojects other than the Niagara and Saint Lawrence hydroelectric\nprojects, not needed for its high load factor industrial, municipal,\nrural electric cooperative and public transportation customers to other\nmembers of the New York power pool for resale without discrimination\nunder their respective tariffs, (iv) that it is desirable that the\nauthority give its fullest cooperation to the energy research and\ndevelopment authority in advancing and promoting the development and\nimplementation of new energy technologies, and shall fulfill its\nresponsibilities for the development and maintenance of increased base\nload for New York state to the greatest extent possible by utilizing new\nenergy technologies made available by the energy research and\ndevelopment authority to the extent deemed advisable by the trustees\nand, (v) that upon certification by the public service commission of the\ncommercial and economic feasibility of a new electrical energy\ngenerating technology the power authority shall, in a manner consistent\nwith its powers and purposes, promptly plan and construct a facility to\ndemonstrate such new technology; except, however, the authority may plan\nand construct such demonstration facility in the absence of such\ncertification.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 490.01 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 4 / Title Y-1 / Article 490 / Section 490.01
Liability protection
Status: in_force

§ 490.01 Liability protection.\n  1. Any person who makes a qualified disclosure of suspicious behavior\nshall be immune from civil and criminal liability for reporting such\nbehavior.\n  2. For purposes of this article, "qualified disclosure of suspicious\nbehavior" means any disclosure of allegedly suspicious behavior of\nanother individual or individuals to any person that is made in good\nfaith and with the reasonable belief that such suspicious behavior\nconstitutes, is indicative of, or is in furtherance of a crime or an act\nof terrorism.\n  3. An action alleging that a statement or disclosure by a person of\nany suspicious transaction, activity or occurrence indicating that an\nindividual may be engaging in or preparing to engage in suspicious\nbehavior which constitutes, is indicative of, or is in furtherance of, a\ncrime or an act of terrorism was not made in good faith and with the\nreasonable belief that such suspicious behavior constitutes, is\nindicative of, or is in furtherance of, a crime or an act of terrorism\nmust be pled with particularity pursuant to subdivision (b) of rule\nthree thousand sixteen of the civil practice law and rules.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 212 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 212
Yards and courts
Status: in_force

§ 212. Yards and courts. 1. No tenement shall be enlarged or its lot\ndiminished in any way which would leave any yard or court less in any\ndimension than the minimum dimensions prescribed for yards or courts in\nsection twenty-six.\n  The restrictions of this subdivision shall not apply to tenements\nerected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, on lots which run\nthrough from one street to another street and do not exceed one hundred\nfeet in depth.\n  2. Any court constructed on or after December fifteenth, nineteen\nhundred sixty-one in a tenement to ventilate any room, public hall,\nwater-closet compartment or bathroom shall be of the dimensions\nprescribed in section twenty-six, and such court shall under no\ncircumstances be roofed or covered over at the top. Every such court, if\nan inner court, shall be provided at the bottom with one or more\nhorizontal air-intakes constructed as provided in section twenty-six.\n  3. Any shaft or court constructed after April eighteenth, nineteen\nhundred twenty-nine, which is used to light or ventilate any room\noccupied for living purposes in any old-law tenement shall be at least\ntwenty-five square feet in area and four feet in width in every part,\nand shall under no circumstances be roofed or covered over at the top.\nEvery such shaft shall be provided at the bottom with a horizontal\nair-intake or duct at least four square feet in area communicating\ndirectly with a street or yard and so arranged as to be easily cleaned.\n  4. In every old-law tenement there shall be a door at the bottom of\nevery shaft and inner court giving access to the shaft or court and\nwhenever the shaft or inner court is less than two hundred square feet\nin area or ten feet in any dimension, such door and its assembly shall\nbe fireproof with the door self-closing. Where a window or door existing\non April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, gives proper access\nto such a shaft or court, such window or door shall be deemed\nsufficient.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 888 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 18-A / Title 1 / Section 888
Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded
Status: in_force

§ 888. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded. Insofar as\nthe provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any\nother act, general or special, or of any local laws of the municipality,\nthe provisions of this title shall be controlling except in cases of\ninconsistency with the Indian law.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 679-J — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 14 / Part 2 / Subpart 4 / Section 679-J
The New York state teacher loan forgiveness program
Status: in_force

§ 679-j. The New York state teacher loan forgiveness program. 1.\nPurpose. The president shall grant student loan forgiveness awards for\nthe purpose of increasing the number of teachers serving in the state.\n  2. Eligibility. To be eligible for an award pursuant to this\nsubdivision, applicants shall (a) be certified as a teacher; (b) be\nemployed full time in this state in an elementary or secondary school;\n(c) comply with subdivisions three and five of section six hundred\nsixty-one of this part; (d) have an outstanding student loan debt; and\n(e) meet one of the following criteria:\n  (i) teach in a shortage subject area;\n  (ii) teach in a hard to staff district; or\n  (iii) the applicant is economically disadvantaged, as defined by the\ncorporation.\n  3. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term "shortage\nsubject area" shall mean a curriculum subject matter or practice of\nteaching where there is a shortage of teachers in New York state, as\ndesignated by the department, and the term "hard to staff school\ndistricts" shall mean school districts that have a shortage of teachers,\nas designated by the department.\n  4. Priority. Such awards shall be made annually to applicants in the\nfollowing priority:\n  (a) First priority shall be given to applicants who have received\npayment of an award pursuant to this section in a prior year and who, in\nthe year prior to application, are teachers in (i) a subject shortage\narea, or (ii) a hard to staff school district;\n  (b) Second priority shall be given to applicants who have not received\npayment of an award pursuant to this section in a prior year and who are\nteachers in (i) a subject shortage area, or (ii) hard to staff school\ndistrict in the year prior to such application; and\n  (c) Third priority shall be given to applicants who are economically\ndisadvantaged as defined by the corporation.\n  5. Awards. The corporation shall grant awards pursuant to the amount\nappropriated for such purpose and based on availability of funds in an\namount up to five thousand dollars to individuals who are employed\nfull-time as teachers for the school year prior to such application,\nprovided that no recipient shall receive an award that exceeds the total\nremaining balance of the student loan debt pursuant to this section, in\nexcess of twenty thousand dollars.\n  6. Rules and regulations. The corporation is authorized to promulgate\nrules and regulations and may promulgate emergency regulations necessary\nfor the implementation of the provisions of this section. In the event\nthat there are more applicants who have the same priority, as provided\nin subdivision four of this section, than there are remaining awards,\nthe corporation shall provide in regulation the method of distributing\nthe remaining number of such awards, which may include a lottery or\nother form of random selection.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 15-0109 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 15 / Title 1 / Section 15-0109
General jurisdiction
Status: in_force

§ 15-0109. General jurisdiction.\n  The department shall exercise its powers and perform its duties in any\nmatter affecting the construction of improvements to or developments of\nwater resources for the public health, safety or welfare, including but\nnot limited to the supply of potable waters for the various\nmunicipalities and inhabitants thereof, the use of water for industrial\nand agricultural operations, the developed and undeveloped water power\nof the state, the facilitation of proper drainage and the regulation of\nflow and improvement of the rivers of the state.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-P*2 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A* / Section 1020-P*2
Duty of authority to maintain and operate
Status: in_force

* § 1020-p. Duty of authority to maintain and operate. It shall be the\nduty of the authority, subject to any limitation on the amount of\nrevenues to be expended for such purpose, to maintain and operate and\nwhere necessary to reconstruct its properties.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1020-p's\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 165 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 165
Steam and other railroads
Status: in_force

§ 165. Steam and other railroads. 1. No person or corporation\noperating a steam or electric surface, subway or elevated railroad of\nthirty miles or more in length, wholly or partly within this state,\nexcept where the mileage system of running trains is in operation, shall\npermit or require a conductor, engineer, fireman, trainman, motorman or\nassistant motorman, engaged in or connected with the movement of any\ntrain on such railroad, to be or remain on duty for a longer period than\nsixteen consecutive hours.  Whenever any such employee shall have been\ncontinuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall not be required or\npermitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive\nhours off duty. No such employee who has been on duty sixteen hours in\nthe aggregate in any twenty-four hour period shall be required or\npermitted to continue or again go on duty without having had at least\neight consecutive hours off duty.\n  2. This section shall not apply to any such employee when he is\nprevented from reaching his terminal by casualty occurring after he has\nstarted on his trip or by accident to or unexpected delay of trains\nscheduled to make connection with the train on which he is serving, or\nwhen he is engaged in interstate commerce.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 151-A — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 151-A
Tractor
Status: in_force

§ 151-a. Tractor. A motor vehicle designed and used as the power unit\nin combination with a semitrailer or trailer, or two such trailers in\ntandem. Any such motor vehicle shall not carry cargo except that a\ntractor and semitrailer engaged in the transportation of automobiles may\ntransport motor vehicles on part of the power unit.\n
N.Y. MRE Law § 254 — New York Code / Act MRE / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 254
Egress from dwellings
Status: in_force

§ 254. Egress from dwellings. 1. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes\nfor the aged and boarding and nursery schools, two stories in height\nerected after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, child caring\ninstitutions, two stories in height, erected after July first, nineteen\nhundred sixty-two and all dwellings three or more stories in height\nshall have at least two means of egress and, except as otherwise\nprovided in the case of a pitched or sloped roof, shall extend to the\nroof from an entrance story, street, court or yard. The entrances to\nsuch means of egress at every story shall be at least fifteen feet\ndistant from each other unless they are on opposite sides of a public\nhall. One means of egress shall be a stair constructed as provided in\nsection two hundred fifty-seven. The other means of egress shall be\neither another such stair or a fire-stair or a fire-escape constructed\nas provided in section one hundred thirty-three.\n  2. If the number of living rooms on any story, or in any section of\nany story, above the entrance story exceeds twenty, there shall be an\nadditional stair or a fire-stair extending from the entrance story to\nthe roof for each twenty rooms or fraction thereof on such story or\nsection thereof in excess of twenty, except that no additional stair\nshall be required for such excess on any story or section thereof if the\nnumber of living rooms thereon does not exceed thirty and if in addition\none stair serving such story or section and every entrance hall or other\npublic hall connected therewith is everywhere four feet six inches or\nmore in clear width.\n  3. There shall be accessible from every apartment two means of egress\nfrom the dwelling, one of which shall be an enclosed stair complying\nwith the provisions of section two hundred fifty-seven within fifty feet\nfrom a means of egress from such apartment.\n  4. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and boarding\nand nursery schools, one story in height, erected after July first,\nnineteen hundred fifty-seven, and child caring institutions, one story\nin height, erected after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, shall\nhave at least two means of egress from the dwelling accessible to every\napartment providing free and unobstructed egress by a door opening to\nthe outer air.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 608-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 13 / Section 608-A
Military enhanced recognition, incentive and tribute ("MERIT") scholarships
Status: in_force

§ 608-a. Military enhanced recognition, incentive and tribute\n("MERIT") scholarships. 1. Eligible persons. a.  Children, spouses and\nfinancial dependents of members of the armed forces or state organized\nmilitia who at any time on or after the second day of August, nineteen\nhundred ninety, while in service in the armed forces of the United\nStates, as defined by subdivision eight of section one of the military\nlaw, or in a force of the state organized militia, as defined by\nsubdivision nine of section one of the military law: (i) while a legal\nresident of New York state, died, became severely and permanently\ndisabled or was classified as missing in action in a combat theater or\ncombat zone of operations as part of military operations related to such\nmilitary service or died as a result of injury or illness suffered or\nincurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of\nNew York state, died or became severely and permanently disabled as a\nresult of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military\ntraining operations in preparation for duty in a combat theater or\ncombat zone of operations.\n  b. A member of the armed forces of the United States who: (i) became\nseverely and permanently disabled as a result of service in the armed\nforces of the United States, as defined by subdivision eight of section\none of the military law, in a combat theater or combat zone of\noperations as part of military operations at any time on or after the\nsecond day of August, nineteen hundred ninety; and (ii) was a legal\nresident of New York state at the time of military service.\n  c. A member of the armed forces of the United States who: (i) became\nseverely and permanently disabled as a result of injury or illness\nsuffered or incurred during military training operations in preparation\nfor duty in a combat theater or combat zone of operations; and (ii) was\na legal resident of New York state at the time of military service.\n  d. A member of the state organized militia who: (i) became severely\nand permanently disabled as a result of injury or illness suffered or\nincurred during active military service, as defined in subdivision six\nof section one of the military law; and (ii) was a legal resident of New\nYork state at the time of military service.\n  2. Awards under this section shall be payable for each of not more\nthan four academic years of undergraduate study or five years if a\nprogram normally requires five years, as defined by the commissioner\npursuant to this article.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 830 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 8 / Title 1 / Section 830
Review of final determinations of commissioner relating to county equalization rates
Status: in_force

§ 830. Review of final determinations of commissioner relating to\ncounty equalization rates. A final determination of the commissioner\nrelating to county equalization rates established pursuant to this title\nmay be reviewed by the supreme court in the manner provided by article\nseventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules upon application of an\naffected city or town. The issue in such a proceeding shall be that\ndescribed in subdivision four of section seven thousand eight hundred\nthree of the civil practice law and rules.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 56-0107 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 56 / Title 1 / Section 56-0107
Powers and duties of a municipality
Status: in_force

§ 56-0107. Powers and duties of a municipality.\n  A municipality shall have the power and authority to:\n  1.  Undertake and carry out any project for which state assistance\npayments pursuant to contract are received or are to be received\npursuant to this article and maintain and operate such project;\n  2.  Expend money received from the state pursuant to this article for\ncosts incurred in conjunction with the approved project; and\n  3.  Perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper or\ndesirable to carry out a project or obligation, duty or function related\nthereto.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 693 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 14 / Part 5 / Section 693
Repayment of loans
Status: in_force

§ 693. Repayment of loans. 1. Terms of repayment. The terms of\nrepayment of education loans made under this program shall be\nestablished in rules and regulations promulgated by the corporation\nsubject to the approval of the state of New York mortgage agency or\nother public benefit corporation authorized to issue bonds under the\npublic authorities law for purposes of this program with respect to\nloans that are expected to be financed by such entity.\n  2. Grace period. The terms of any grace period for education loans\nmade under this program shall be established in rules and regulations\npromulgated by the corporation subject to the approval of the state of\nNew York mortgage agency or other public benefit corporation authorized\nto issue bonds under the public authorities law for purposes of this\nprogram with respect to loans that are expected to be financed by such\nentity. Notwithstanding, the grace period established shall be no less\nthan six months.\n  3. Forbearance and deferments. Education loans made under this program\nshall be eligible for in-school and military deferments pursuant to\nrules and regulations promulgated by the corporation, or pursuant to\nsuch additional deferments and/or forbearance as offered by an eligible\nlender, in each case, subject to the approval of the state of New York\nmortgage agency, or other authorized public benefit corporation\nauthorized to issue bonds under the public authorities law for purposes\nof this program, with respect to loans that are expected to be financed\nby such entity. Upon the assignment of a defaulted education loan made\nunder this program for collection as described in subdivision five of\nthis section, the borrower shall no longer be eligible for any\nforbearance or deferments while such loan remains in default.\n  4. Delinquency. A borrower shall be considered delinquent on an\neducation loan under this program after thirty days of non-payment. The\nholder shall notify the corporation promptly after the first day of\ndelinquency and the corporation shall undertake actions to return the\nborrower to repayment pursuant to rules and regulations established by\nthe corporation. Such actions shall include, but not be limited to,\nattempts at: (i) locating and contacting the borrower and/or co-signer,\nas applicable, regarding the delinquent status of their loan; (ii)\nexplaining the account history and clarifying any discrepancies; (iii)\ncounseling the borrower and/or co-signer, as applicable, regarding all\navailable repayment options, inducing deferments, and any public\nassistance available to them; (iv) providing the borrower and/or\nco-signer, as applicable, with documentation in connection with their\nloan or loans; (v) informing the borrower and/or co-signer, as\napplicable, of the consequences of default; and (vi) any other\nassistance that would prevent a default by a borrower.\n  5. Default. Any education loan under this program that is delinquent\nfor one hundred eighty days shall be deemed in default. Upon default,\nthe holder shall file a claim with the corporation and, if applicable,\nthe state of New York mortgage agency, for payment from the New York\neducation loan program variable rate default reserve fund, the New York\neducation loan program fixed rate default reserve fund, or the state of\nNew York mortgage agency New York education loan program default reserve\nfund, as described in subdivision seven of section six hundred ninety\ntwo of the education law, as applicable, pursuant to regulations\npromulgated by the corporation. Upon receipt of a claim, the corporation\nshall notify the borrower that their loan is being assigned to the\ncorporation for collection. The lender, or holder shall be paid one\nhundred percent of the outstanding principal, and of the capitalized and\nunpaid accrued interest. Upon such payment, this amount shall be the\nprincipal owed by the borrower.\n  All collection payments received by the corporation from a borrower,\nor on behalf of borrowers, in default on loans made under this program,\nexcept collection fees shall be deposited into a designated account\nwithin the New York higher education loan program variable rate default\nreserve fund, New York higher education loan program fixed rate default\nreserve fund, or the state of New York mortgage agency New York higher\neducation loan program default reserve fund, as applicable.\n  6. Collection fee. The corporation shall assess a collection fee, in\nan amount to be determined by the corporation at least annually, on all\ndefaulted education loans under this program. This fee shall be retained\nby the corporation for the administration of the program. The aggregate\nannual revenue generated by such fee shall not exceed the actual costs\nincurred by the corporation, in the preceding year, in collecting a\ndefaulted loan under this program on which the corporation has paid a\nclaim, except in the initial year for which such fee shall not exceed\nthe fee charged by the corporation for the collection of defaulted loans\nunder the federal family education loan program. Any amounts in excess\nof actual cost shall be used to reduce the fee charged in the subsequent\nyear.\n  7. Administrative wage garnishment. (a) Notwithstanding any provision\nof law to the contrary, the corporation shall be entitled to garnish the\ndisposable pay of an individual to collect the amount owed by the\nindividual, if such individual fails to make required voluntary payments\nunder a repayment agreement with the corporation, provided that:\n  (i) The amount deducted for any pay period does not exceed fifteen\npercent of disposable pay. However, the amount deducted for any period\nmay exceed fifteen percent with the written consent of the individual;\n  (ii) Prior to garnishment the individual shall have been given thirty\ndays written notice to the individual's last known address advising such\nindividual of the nature of the obligation, amount of the loan\nobligation, the corporation's intent to garnish and an explanation of\nthe individual's rights under this section including the right to\ninspect and copy records relating to the debt;\n  (iii) The individual shall have been given an opportunity within the\naforementioned thirty days to enter into a written repayment agreement\nwith the corporation to avoid garnishment of wages;\n  (iv) The individual shall have been provided an opportunity for a\nhearing pursuant to the requirements of paragraph (f) of this\nsubdivision.\n  (b) The individual's employer shall pay to the corporation amounts as\ndirected in the withholding order and shall be liable for failure to\ncomply with said order. The corporation may sue an employer in a court\nof competent jurisdiction to recover from such employer the amount the\nemployer fails to withhold from the individual's wages following receipt\nof the order of withholding with interest thereon plus attorneys' fees\nand costs;\n  (c) The notice of withholding served upon the employer shall contain\nonly such information as is necessary for the employer to comply with\nthe withholding order.\n  (d) No amount may be deducted from the wages of an individual who has\nbeen involuntarily separated from employment and has not been\ncontinuously employed for twelve months. An individual must prove that\nseparation from employment was involuntary. Separation due to\nincarceration shall not qualify as involuntary separation.\n  (e) An employer may not discharge from employment, take disciplinary\naction against or refuse to employ an individual by reason of the fact\nthat such individual's wages are subject to an order of withholding.\nSuch individual may take action against said employer in a court of\ncompetent jurisdiction for reinstatement, back pay or such further\nrelief as may be just and necessary.\n  (f) A hearing as described in subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of\nthis subdivision shall be provided prior to an order of withholding if\nthe individual submits a written request for a hearing on or before the\nfifteenth day following the notice described in subparagraph (ii) of\nparagraph (a) of this subdivision in accordance with procedures set\nforth by the corporation. If an individual fails to submit a written\nrequest in the time frame provided, the corporation shall still provide\na hearing upon receipt of a written request, but such hearing need not\nbe provided prior to an order of withholding being issued to the\nemployer. The hearing shall not be conducted by a party under the\nsupervision or control of the corporation except that nothing shall\nprohibit the corporation from appointing an administrative law judge. A\nhearing decision shall be issued no later than sixty days after the\nfiling of the petition requesting the hearing.\n  (g) For purposes of this section "disposable pay" shall mean that part\nof the compensation of any individual from an employer remaining after\ndeduction of amounts required to be withheld by law.\n  (h) All funds received through administrative wage garnishment shall\nbe deposited into a designated account within the New York higher\neducation loan program variable rate default reserve fund, the New York\nhigher education loan program fixed rate default reserve fund, or the\nstate of New York mortgage agency New York higher education loan program\ndefault reserve fund, as applicable.\n  8. New York state tax offset. The corporation shall be entitled to\nreceive credits of New York state tax overpayments pursuant to section\none hundred seventy-one-d and paragraph three of subdivision (e) of\nsection six hundred ninety-seven of the tax law with respect to\ndefaulted education loans under this program. All funds, or credits,\nreceived through such tax offsets shall be deposited into a designated\naccount within the New York higher education loan program variable rate\ndefault reserve fund, the New York higher education loan program fixed\nrate default reserve fund, or the state of New York mortgage agency New\nYork higher education loan program default reserve fund, as applicable.\n  9. Data share. The corporation shall be entitled to receive data from\nthe New York state department of taxation and finance pursuant to\nsection one hundred seventy-one-a and paragraph three of subdivision (e)\nof section six hundred ninety-seven of the tax law with respect to\ndefaulted education loans under this program.\n  10. Statute of limitation. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the\ncontrary, there shall be no statute of limitations to bring suit or\notherwise collect an education loan under this program. Judgments in\nfavor of the corporation under this program shall not expire and there\nshall be no statute of limitations upon which to enforce or collect said\njudgment.\n  11. Capacity of minors. Any person otherwise qualifying for an\neducation loan under this program shall not be disqualified by reason of\nhis or her being under the age of eighteen years and for the purposes of\napplying for, receiving and repaying such a loan, any such person shall\nbe deemed to have full legal capacity to act. The corporation, in\ncollecting education loans under this program, shall not be subject to a\ndefense raised by any borrower based on a claim of infancy.\n  12. Usury. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary the\nrate or amount of interest or fees payable on education loans made under\nthis program shall not exceed twenty-five per centum per annum or its\nequivalent rate for a longer or shorter period.\n  13. Death and disability discharge. Upon the death of a student, for\nthe funding of whose higher education expenses an education loan was\nmade, the education loan made under this program shall be deemed\ndischarged.  If such a student becomes totally and permanently disabled,\nthe education loan under this program shall be deemed discharged. A\ntotal or permanent disability shall mean a condition of an individual\nwho is unable to work and earn money because of an injury or illness\nthat is expected to continue indefinitely or result in death. The holder\nof such discharged education loans shall be paid the outstanding\nprincipal, capitalized and unpaid accrued interest due from the New York\nhigher education loan program variable rate default reserve fund, the\nNew York higher education loan program fixed rate default reserve fund,\nor the state of New York mortgage agency New York higher education loan\nprogram default reserve fund, as applicable.\n  14. Bankruptcy. Education loans under this program shall be considered\nnon-dischargeable pursuant to section 523(a)(8) of the U.S. Bankruptcy\nCode.\n  15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, other than section one\nthousand six hundred eighty two and section two thousand four hundred\nfive-a of the public authorities law, a security interest in education\nloans shall be perfected only by the filing of a financing statement in\nthe manner provided under section 9-310 of the uniform commercial code,\nand shall attach and be assigned priority in the manner provided under\nthe uniform commercial code with respect to security interests perfected\nby such a filing, and a description of collateral consisting of\neducation loans in any financing statement shall be conclusively deemed\nto be legally sufficient if it refers to records identifying such loans\nretained by the corporation, provided that any such security interest\nshall be subject to any applicable lien under section two thousand four\nhundred five-a of the public authorities law. The owner of any education\nloan shall advise the corporation of any sale or assignment of such loan\nat the time and in the manner required by the corporation.\n  16. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any eligible public\ncollege or public career education institution is hereby authorized to\nenter into one or more agreements with the corporation and any entity\nauthorized to finance education loans pursuant to the public authorities\nlaw providing for the participation of such college or career education\ninstitution in the program and to perform or contract the performance of\nits obligations under any such agreement. Such obligations may include\nwithout limitation the payment obligations described in this title.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 394-C — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 1-A / Section 394-C
Application and approval process
Status: in_force

§ 394-c. Application and approval process. 1. A business entity must\nsubmit a complete application as prescribed by the commissioner by the\nthirty-first of January after the end of the service year.\n  2. The commissioner shall establish procedures for a business entity\nto submit applications. As part of the application, each business entity\nmust:\n  (a) provide evidence in a form and manner prescribed by the\ncommissioner of their business eligibility;\n  (b) provide the license or registration issued to the business entity,\ndirectly or through a third party, by the office to operate a child care\nprogram indicating the number of child care seats created or, in the\ncase of a child care program that has experienced an expansion of child\ncare seats, the license or registration issued by the office\ndemonstrating such expansion;\n  (c) provide evidence in a form and manner prescribed by the\ncommissioner establishing:\n  (i) the total number of child care seats that were occupied during the\nservice year;\n  (ii) of such total number of child care seats that were occupied, the\nnumber of infant child care seats that were occupied and the number of\ntoddler child care seats that were occupied;\n  (iii) that, to the extent the business entity, directly or through a\nthird party, has expanded child care, the number of child care seats in\nexistence before such expansion and the number of such child care seats\nthat were occupied before such expansion; and\n  (iv) that the costs imposed on the business entity's employees for\nsuch child care program do not exceed forty percent of the child care\nrate;\n  (d) agree to allow the department of taxation and finance to share the\nbusiness entity's tax information relevant to the administration of this\ntitle with the office. However, any information shared as a result of\nthis title shall not be available for disclosure or inspection under the\nstate freedom of information law;\n  (e) allow the office and its agents access to any and all books and\nrecords the office may require to monitor compliance; and\n  (f) agree to provide any additional information required by the office\nrelevant to this title.\n  3. After reviewing a business entity's completed final application and\ndetermining that the business entity meets the eligibility criteria as\nset forth in this title, the office may issue to that business entity a\ncertificate of tax credit, which shall set forth the amount of the\ncredit that may be claimed and the service year.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 153 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 153
Traffic control devices
Status: in_force

§ 153. Traffic control devices.  All signs, signals, markings, and\ndevices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by\nauthority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the\npurpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3320 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 1 / Section 3320
Separability
Status: in_force

§ 3320. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or\npart of this title shall be adjudged by any court of competent\njurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or\ninvalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation\nto the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof involved in\nthe controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 257 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 2 / Section 257
Acceptance of conditional gift
Status: in_force

§ 257. Acceptance of conditional gift.  By majority vote at any\nelection or at a meeting of the electors, duly held, any municipality or\ndistrict or by three-fourths vote of its council any city, or any\nlibrary or any designated branch thereof if so authorized by such vote\nof a municipality, district or council, or any combination of such\nvoting bodies, may accept gifts, grants, devises or bequests for library\npurposes or for kindred affiliated educational, social and civic\nagencies on condition that a specified annual appropriation shall\nthereafter be made for the maintenance of a library or branches thereof,\nor of such kindred affiliated agencies, by the municipality or district\nor combination so authorizing such acceptance, or upon such other\nconditions as may be stipulated in the terms of the gift.  Such\nacceptance when approved by the regents of the university under seal and\nrecorded in its book of charters shall be a binding contract, and such\nmunicipality or district shall levy and collect yearly in the manner\nprescribed for other taxes the amount stipulated and shall maintain any\nso accepted gift, grant, devise or bequest intact and make good any\nimpairment thereof, and shall comply with all other conditions set forth\nin the stated terms of the gift.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3110 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-A / Title 1 / Section 3110
Actions
Status: in_force

§ 3110. Actions. Except in an action for wrongful death, an action\nagainst the authority founded on tort shall not be commenced more than\none year and ninety days after the cause of action therefor shall have\naccrued, nor unless a notice of claim shall have been served on the\nauthority within the time limited by, and in compliance with all the\nrequirements of section fifty-e of the general municipal law. An action\nagainst the authority for wrongful death shall be commenced in\naccordance with the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of\ntitle eleven of article nine of this chapter.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1300 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13 / Title 1 / Section 1300
Nuisances; general powers of commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 1300. Nuisances; general powers of commissioner.  1. The\ncommissioner shall have all necessary powers to make investigations and\nexaminations into nuisances, or questions affecting the security of life\nand health in any locality.\n  2. The commissioner may from time to time employ competent persons to\nrender sanitary service, and make or supervise practical and scientific\ninvestigations and examinations requiring expert skill, and prepare\nplans and reports relative thereto.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 7-106 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 7-106
Money deposited or advanced for certain installations; waiver void
Status: in_force

§ 7-106. Money deposited or advanced for certain installations; waiver\nvoid. 1. Whenever any non-public moneys shall be deposited or advanced\nby the owner of an occupied residential dwelling on a contract for the\ninstallation of a private connection to a public sewer line as security\nfor payments or to be applied to payments upon such contract when due,\nsuch money, with interest accruing thereon, if any, until repaid or so\napplied, shall continue to be the money of the person making such\ndeposit or advance and shall be a trust fund in the possession of the\nperson with whom such deposit or advance shall be made and shall be\ndeposited in a bank, trust company, savings bank, savings and loan\nassociation, federal savings and loan association or federal mutual\nsavings bank and shall not be mingled with other funds or become an\nasset of such trustee.\n  2. Any provision of a contract whereby a person who has deposited or\nadvanced money on a contract for the installation of a private\nconnection to a public sewer line as security for payments or to be\napplied to payments upon such contract when due waives any provision of\nthis section is absolutely void.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 251 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 2 / Section 251
Transfers from state officers
Status: in_force

§ 251. Transfers from state officers.  The librarian of any library\nowned by the state, or the officer in charge of any state department,\nbureau, board, commission or other office may, with the approval of the\nregents, transfer to the permanent custody of the state library or\nmuseum any books, papers, maps, manuscripts, specimens or other articles\nwhich, because of being duplicates or for other reasons, will in his\njudgment be more useful to the state in the state library or museum than\nif retained in his keeping.\n
N.Y. MRE Law § 62 — New York Code / Act MRE / Article 4 / Title 1 / Section 62
Miscellaneous provisions
Status: in_force

§ 62. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. An existing sprinkler installation,\nfire alarm, watchman's clock or fire-detecting system which has been\napproved or accepted by the department having jurisdiction and installed\nbefore July first, nineteen hundred fifty-two, in conformity with rules\nand regulations adopted by the commission, shall, after inspection by\nthe said department, be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements\nof this chapter.\n  2. Where a sprinkler system is required by this article, such system\nshall be constructed to fuse at a temperature not higher than one\nhundred sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit, spaced so as to protect the area\nwhich is required to be sprinklered.\n  3. In furnace, boiler, laundry rooms and other parts of the dwelling\nwhere high temperature usually prevails, sprinkler heads may fuse at a\nhigher temperature. Where such rooms are located at least thirty feet\ndistant from such dwelling, no sprinklers shall be required.\n  4. Except as otherwise provided in sections fifty-two and fifty-five,\nan approved fire-detecting system shall be accepted as meeting any\nrequirement for a sprinkler system under this article.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 346-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 7-A / Section 346-A
Advisory committee
Status: in_force

§ 346-a. Advisory committee.  1. There shall be created a temporary\ncommittee to advise the legislature and make findings and\nrecommendations with respect to the effect of standardized tests used in\nthe process of post secondary admissions on test subjects of varying\nracial, ethnic, linguistic background and gender and consider other\npossible analytical methods to assure the fairness and equity of such\ntests.\n  2. The committee shall consist of ten members to be appointed as\nfollows: three each shall be appointed by the temporary president of the\nsenate and by the speaker of the assembly, and two each by the minority\nleader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly. At least\none of the members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders\nshall be an individual with expertise in measurement and standardized\ntesting. Such committee shall be broadly representative of persons or\ngroups residing in the state of New York interested in and affected by\nstandardized admissions tests which may include, but is not limited to,\ntest subjects, test agencies, representatives of consumers of\nstandardized test, post-secondary administrators and faculty and\nrepresentatives of civil rights organizations.\n  3. The committee shall select a chairperson from its membership and\nmay select professional staff, other than the data analysis researchers\nor organizations described herein, who shall have expertise in\nmeasurement and standardized testing to design and conduct the study.\nThe committee shall prepare a design for the analysis of the data\nrequired for collection pursuant to this section.  The study design\nshall be available upon request for comment for a period for thirty days\nafter which time the committee shall select or solicit one or more\nresearchers or organizations to do the data analysis. The analyses shall\nexamine the differences in test performance between the subgroups\nindicated in section three hundred forty-one-a of this article and\nconsider the impact upon those differences of using alternative methods\nof item selection. Such professional staff, researchers and\norganizations shall not have any direct financial ties, within five\nyears prior to the effective date of this section, to standardized\ntesting, nor to any source that has by personal testimony promoted or\nopposed regulation of standardized testing, or from any source which has\nbeen engaged in litigation, within five years prior to the effective\ndate of this section, against any entity engaged in the standardized\ntesting industry. The committee shall meet at least two times annually\nand shall expire on the first day of September, nineteen hundred\nninety-one. The committee members shall receive no compensation for\ntheir services, but shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually\nand necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties\nunder this article.\n  4. The committee may accept any state grants or appropriations, or as\nagent of the state, any grant, including federal grants, or any gift for\nany of the purposes of this article; provided however, that the\ncommittee shall not accept any grant or gift, directly or indirectly,\n(a) from the standardized testing industry or from any source currently\nreceiving funds from the standardized testing industry, or (b) from any\nsource that has promoted or opposed regulation of standardized testing\nor from any source that has been engaged in litigation within five years\nprior to the effective date of this section against any entity engaged\nin the standardized testing industry or from any source currently\nreceiving funds from any such sources. Any monies so received may be\nexpended by the committee to effectuate any purpose of this article,\nsubject to standard limitations as to approval of expenditures and\naudit.\n  5. The committee shall report its finding to the state legislature no\nlater than the thirty-first of March, nineteen hundred ninety.\n  6. The committee shall pursue the aforementioned research if adequate\nfunds have been committed by the first day of July, nineteen hundred\neighty-nine to further the purposes of this article. Prior to February\nfirst, nineteen hundred eighty-nine, the committee shall notify the\nchairs of the assembly ways and means and senate finance committees\nregarding funds received for the purposes of this article and shall\nsubmit a request for such appropriations as may be necessary to\neffectuate the purposes of this section. If no such funds have been\ncommitted, the committee shall dissolve.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 9-100 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 9 / Title 1 / Section 9-100
Canvass; required
Status: in_force

§ 9-100. Canvass; required. At the close of the polls the inspectors\nof election shall, in the order set forth herein, close polls, account\nfor the paper ballots, canvass the machine, cast and canvass all the\nballots, canvass and ascertain the total vote and they shall not adjourn\nuntil the canvass be fully completed.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1021-P — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-B / Section 1021-P
Website
Status: in_force

§ 1021-p. Website. The authority shall make accessible to the public,\nvia its official or shared internet website, documentation pertaining to\nits mission, current activities, most recent annual financial reports,\ncurrent year budget and its most recent independent audit report unless\nsuch information is covered by subdivision two of section eighty-seven\nof the public officers law.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 12-104 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 12 / Title 1 / Section 12-104
Electoral college; meeting and organization
Status: in_force

§ 12-104. Electoral college; meeting and organization. The electors\nshall convene at the state capitol upon notice from, and at a place\nfixed by the secretary of state on the first Tuesday after the second\nWednesday in December next following their election. Those of them who\nshall be assembled at twelve o'clock noon of that day shall immediately\nat that hour fill, by majority vote, all vacancies in the electoral\ncollege occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend\nat that hour, of any elector, or any vacancies occasioned by an equal\nnumber votes having been given for two or more candidates. The electoral\ncollege being thus completed, they shall then choose a president and one\nor more secretaries from their own body.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1300-C — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13 / Title 1 / Section 1300-C
Farming activities
Status: in_force

§ 1300-c. Farming activities.  Notwithstanding any other provision of\nlaw, the agricultural activities conducted on a farm, as defined in\nsection six hundred seventy-one of the labor law, shall not be\nconsidered a private nuisance, provided such agricultural activities\nwere commenced prior to the surrounding activities, have not increased\nsubstantially in magnitude or intensity and have not been determined to\nbe the cause of conditions dangerous to life or health as determined by\nthe commissioner, the local health officer or local board of health\npursuant to sections thirteen hundred, thirteen hundred-a, thirteen\nhundred three and thirteen hundred four of this chapter.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-D*2 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A* / Section 1020-D*2
Powers of the authority
Status: in_force

* § 1020-d. Powers of the authority. The power conferred by this title\nshall be exercised by the members of the authority, subject to the terms\nof this title. In the exercise of those powers, either directly or\nthrough its officers and employees, the members may do the following\nthings, among others, and the following list of powers shall not be\ndeemed complete or exclusive, or to deny the existence of other powers,\nwhether similar or different, so long as they are reasonably necessary\nfor accomplishing the purposes declared and indicated in this title:\n  1. To determine the location, type, size, construction, lease,\npurchase, ownership, acquisition, use and operation of any facilities or\nother structure or property, within or without the territorial limits of\nthe district;\n  2. To acquire on behalf and in the name of the authority, whether by\nagreement with and purchase from the owner or owners, or within the\ndistrict by eminent domain, or by lease, the whole or any part of any\nexisting facilities or of any other property which it is authorized to\nacquire under this title; provided, however, that the authority may not\nacquire real property of a municipality or a political subdivision of\nthe state unless such municipality or political subdivision shall\nconsent thereto; and in connection with the purchase of such properties\nthe authority may assume any obligations of the owner of such properties\nand, to the extent required by the terms of any indentures or other\ninstruments under which such obligations were issued, the authority may\nassume and agree to perform covenants and observe restrictions contained\nin such instruments; and furthermore the owner of any properties, which\nthe authority is authorized to acquire, is hereby authorized to sell or\notherwise transfer the same to the authority. In the exercise of the\npower of eminent domain, as herein provided, the property being acquired\nshall be deemed, when so determined by the authority, to be for a public\nuse;\n  3. To develop, acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate and\nimprove facilities for the transmission or distribution of light, heat,\npower or any connected service;\n  4. To maintain, operate and manage, and contract for the maintenance,\noperation and management of properties of the authority;\n  5. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal,\nstate and local governments for such licenses, permits or approvals for\nits plans and projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and upon\nsuch terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate to accept, in its\ndiscretion, such licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered to it\nby such agencies and officials;\n  6. To enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of\nthe authority shall be necessary for the purpose of making surveys,\nsoundings, borings and examinations to accomplish any purpose authorized\nby this title, the authority being liable only for actual damages done;\n  7. Subject to its agreement with the village, to supply and sell\nlight, heat and power and any connected services within the district, to\nfix rates and charges for the furnishing or rendition of light, heat or\npower or of any connected service, and to collect through bills therefor\nthe revenues derived therefrom, so as to provide revenues to the\nauthority sufficient at all times to pay, as the same shall become due,\nthe principal of and interest on the bonds of the authority together\nwith the maintenance of proper reserves therefor, in addition to paying\nas the same shall become due the expense of operating and maintaining\nthe properties of the authority together with proper reserves for\nmaintenance, contingencies and all other obligations and indebtedness of\nthe authority;\n  8. To adopt, revise and amend bylaws for the management of its affairs\nand, subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the sale of\nlight, heat or power or of any connected service, and the collection of\nrates and charges therefor. A copy of such rules and bylaws, and all\namendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary of the authority,\nshall be filed in the office of the clerk of the village;\n  9. To enter into cooperative agreements with other authorities,\nmunicipalities, utility companies, individuals, firms or corporations\nfor the interconnection of facilities and the exchange of interchange or\nservices and commodities, upon such terms and conditions as shall be\ndetermined to be reasonable;\n  10. To execute contracts, borrow money, issue bonds and sell or\ndispose of the same in such amounts and at such rates of interest as may\nbe advisable;\n  11. To appoint and remove a secretary and such clerical, engineering,\nlegal and other professional assistants as it may deem necessary for the\npurposes of this title and to fix their compensation, subject to the\nprovisions of the civil service law;\n  12. To appoint and remove all employees, to transfer employees from\ntheir positions to other positions and to consolidate or abolish such\npositions, subject to the provisions of the civil service law;\n  13. To make any plans, studies or investigation which it may deem\nnecessary, convenient or desirable to enable it effectually to carry out\nthe provisions of this title;\n  14. Within ninety days of the first sale of light, heat or power or\nany connected service, to promulgate regulations granting to residential\ncustomers, the protections afforded by article two of the public service\nlaw and section one hundred thirty-one-s of the social services law; and\n  15. To do whatever may be necessary to give effect to the purposes of\nthis title, and in general to have and exercise all other powers\nnecessary or incidental to the purposes of this title.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1020-d's\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-G — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A / Section 1020-G
Powers to provide and maintain generating, transmission and resource recovery waste to energy facilities
Status: in_force

§ 1020-g. Powers to provide and maintain generating, transmission and\nresource recovery waste to energy facilities. Without limiting the\ngenerality of the powers conferred upon the authority by section one\nthousand twenty-f of this title, the authority shall have the specific\npower:\n  (a) Subject to the provisions of subdivision one of section ten\nhundred twenty-s of this title, to acquire, construct, improve,\nrehabilitate, maintain and operate such generating, transmission and\nrelated facilities as the authority deems necessary or desirable to\nmaintain an adequate and dependable supply of gas and electric power\nwithin the service area;\n  (b) Subject to the provisions of subdivision one of section ten\nhundred twenty-s of this title, to acquire, construct, improve,\nrehabilitate, maintain and operate such hydroelectric or energy storage\nprojects within the state as it deems necessary or desirable to\ncontribute to the adequacy, economy and reliability of the supply of\nelectric power and energy or to conserve fuel;\n  (c) Subject to the provisions of subdivision one of section ten\nhundred twenty-s of this title, to determine the location, type, size,\nconstruction, lease, purchase, ownership, acquisition, use and operation\nof any generating, transmission or other related facility, provided,\nhowever, that in making such determinations relating to electric power\nfacilities the authority shall give primary consideration to the\nconstruction of energy efficient facilities, energy conservation, load\nmanagement programs, and cogeneration in the service area;\n  (d) To proceed with the physical construction or completion of any\ngenerating, transmission or related facility;\n  (e) To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal\nand state governments, for such licenses, permits or approval of its\nplans or projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and to accept\nsuch licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered to it by such\nagencies or officials, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem\nappropriate;\n  (f) To institute suit, or to apply to any legislative body for\nlegislation, or to take such other action as it may deem necessary or\nadvisable in the furtherance of the purposes of this title and for the\nprotection of its rights, if for any reason the authority shall fail to\nsecure any such license, permit or approval as it may deem necessary or\nadvisable;\n  (g) To study means of maintaining the customer base in, and attracting\ncommerce and industry to the service area;\n  (h) To implement programs and policies designed to provide for the\ninterconnection of: (i) (A) solar electric generating equipment owned or\noperated by residential customers, (B) farm waste electric generating\nequipment owned or operated by customer-generators, (C) solar electric\ngenerating equipment owned or operated by non-residential customers, (D)\nmicro-combined heat and power generating equipment owned, leased or\noperated by residential customers, (E) fuel cell electric generating\nequipment owned, leased or operated by residential customers, and (F)\nmicro-hydroelectric generating equipment owned, leased or operated by\ncustomer-generators and for net energy metering consistent with section\nsixty-six-j of the public service law, to increase the efficiency of\nenergy end use, to shift demand from periods of high demand to periods\nof low demand and to facilitate the development of cogeneration; and\n(ii) wind electric generating equipment owned or operated by\ncustomer-generators and for net energy metering consistent with section\nsixty-six-l of the public service law.\n  (i) To develop, with public participation, a comprehensive least-cost\nplan which shall consider practical and economical use of conservation,\nrenewable resources, and cogeneration for providing service to its\ncustomers;\n  (j) To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements with\nprivate utility companies or public entities:\n  (i) with respect to the construction and operation of facilities by\nthe authority and the sale of all or part of the output therefrom;\n  (ii) with respect to the construction, completion, acquisition,\nownership and/or operation of generating facilities, fuel, docks,\nsidings, loading or unloading equipment, storage facilities and other\nsubsidiary facilities and the disposition of the output of such\ngenerating facilities; and\n  (iii) with respect to the construction, acquisition, ownership,\noperation and/or use of transmission facilities;\n  (k) To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements with\nmunicipalities with respect to the construction, improvement,\nrehabilitation, ownership and/or operation of generating facilities;\n  (l) To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements with\nthe New York state energy research and development authority in\nconnection with the planning, siting, development, construction,\noperation and maintenance of generating facilities of the authority\nutilizing new energy technologies;\n  (m) Subject to the provisions of section ten hundred twenty-aa of this\ntitle, to construct, maintain and operate resource recovery waste to\nenergy facilities; and\n  (n) After the establishment of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and\nthe commencement of its function as a utility, LIPA shall acquire from\nLILCO all franchise and utility service responsibilities for all\nultimate consumers of gas and electricity within LILCO's former service\nterritory, including the responsibility to provide safe and adequate\nservice.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 1001 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 15 / Title 1 / Section 1001
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 1001. Definitions. In this article, unless the context otherwise\nrequires:\n  1. "Corporation" means and includes all banks, trust companies, safe\ndeposit companies, investment companies, mutual trust investment\ncompanies, and, to the extent not provided otherwise under any\nregulation of the superintendent of financial services promulgated\npursuant to the provisions of section fourteen-e of this chapter,\nstock-form savings banks and stock-form savings and loan associations.\n  2. "Director" means any member of the governing board of a\ncorporation, whether designated as director, trustee, manager, governor,\nor by any other title. The term "board" means "board of directors".\n  3. "Foreign corporation" means a corporation which is licensed by the\nsuperintendent under the provisions of article two of this chapter to do\nbusiness in this state or is applying for such license and a corporation\nauthorized to conduct business in this state pursuant to article five-C\nof this chapter or is applying for such authorization.\n  4. "Office" means in the case of a bank or trust company its principal\noffice, in the case of a safe deposit company, investment company or\nmutual trust investment company, its principal place of business and in\nthe case of a foreign corporation the place of business designated in\nits license or its authorization pursuant to article five-C of this\nchapter, as the case may be, for the oldest agency or branch in this\nstate of such foreign corporation.\n  5. "Organization certificate" includes (a) the original organization\ncertificate or any other instrument filed or issued under any statute to\nform a corporation or foreign corporation, as amended, supplemented or\nrestated by certificates of amendment, merger or consolidation or other\ncertificates or instruments filed or issued under any statute; or (b) a\nspecial act or charter creating a corporation or foreign corporation, as\namended, supplemented or restated by special acts or by certificates of\namendment, merger or consolidation or other certificates or instruments\nfiled or issued under any statute.\n  6. "Treasury shares" means shares which have been issued, have been\nsubsequently acquired, and are retained uncancelled by the corporation.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-J — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A / Section 1020-J
Notes of the authority
Status: in_force

* § 1020-j. Notes of the authority. The authority shall have the power\nand is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable notes\nin conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code\nfor any corporate purpose and to refund from time to time any notes by\nthe issuance of new notes, whether the notes to be refunded have or have\nnot matured. The authority may issue notes partly to refund notes or to\ndischarge other obligations then outstanding and partly for any other\ncorporate purpose of the authority. The notes may be authorized, sold,\nexecuted and delivered in the same manner as bonds. Any resolution or\nresolutions authorizing notes of the authority or any issue thereof may\ncontain any provisions which the authority is authorized to include in\nany resolution or resolutions authorizing bonds of the authority or any\nissue thereof, and the authority may include in any notes any terms,\ncovenants or conditions which it is authorized to include in any bonds.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1020-j's\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 13 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 2 / Section 13
Policies and guidelines
Status: in_force

§ 13. Policies and guidelines. The board of education and the trustees\nor sole trustee of every school district shall create policies,\nprocedures and guidelines that shall include, but not be limited to:\n  1. Policies and procedures intended to create a school environment\nthat is free from harassment, bullying and discrimination, that include\nbut are not limited to provisions which:\n  a. identify the principal, superintendent or the principal's or\nsuperintendent's designee as the school employee charged with receiving\nreports of harassment, bullying and discrimination;\n  b. enable students and parents to make an oral or written report of\nharassment, bullying or discrimination to teachers, administrators and\nother school personnel that the school district deems appropriate;\n  c. require school employees who witness harassment, bullying or\ndiscrimination, or receive an oral or written report of harassment,\nbullying or discrimination, to promptly orally notify the principal,\nsuperintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee not later\nthan one school day after such school employee witnesses or receives a\nreport of harassment, bullying or discrimination, and to file a written\nreport with the principal, superintendent or the principal or\nsuperintendent's designee not later than two school days after making\nsuch oral report;\n  d. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or\nsuperintendent's designee to lead or supervise the thorough\ninvestigation of all reports of harassment, bullying and discrimination,\nand to ensure that such investigation is completed promptly after\nreceipt of any written reports made under this section;\n  e. require the school, when an investigation reveals any such verified\nharassment, bullying or discrimination, to take prompt actions\nreasonably calculated to end the harassment, bullying or discrimination,\neliminate any hostile environment, create a more positive school culture\nand climate, prevent recurrence of the behavior, and ensure the safety\nof the student or students against whom such harassment, bullying or\ndiscrimination was directed. Such actions shall be consistent with the\nguidelines created pursuant to subdivision four of this section;\n  f. prohibit retaliation against any individual who, in good faith,\nreports, or assists in the investigation of, harassment, bullying or\ndiscrimination;\n  g. include a school strategy to prevent harassment, bullying and\ndiscrimination;\n  h. require the principal to make a regular report on data and trends\nrelated to harassment, bullying and discrimination to the\nsuperintendent;\n  i. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or\nsuperintendent's designee, to notify promptly the appropriate local law\nenforcement agency when such principal, superintendent or the\nprincipal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any harassment,\nbullying or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct;\n  j. include appropriate references to the provisions of the school\ndistrict's code of conduct adopted pursuant to section twenty-eight\nhundred one of this chapter that are relevant to harassment, bullying\nand discrimination;\n  k. require each school, at least once during each school year, to\nprovide all school employees, students and parents with a written or\nelectronic copy of the school district's policies created pursuant to\nthis section, or a plain-language summary thereof, including\nnotification of the process by which students, parents and school\nemployees may report harassment, bullying and discrimination. This\nsubdivision shall not be construed to require additional distribution of\nsuch policies and guidelines if they are otherwise distributed to school\nemployees, students and parents;\n  l. maintain current versions of the school district's policies created\npursuant to this section on the school district's internet website, if\none exists;\n  2. Guidelines to be used in school training programs to discourage the\ndevelopment of harassment, bullying and discrimination, and to make\nschool employees aware of the effects of harassment, bullying,\ncyberbullying and discrimination on students and that are designed:\n  a. to raise the awareness and sensitivity of school employees to\npotential harassment, bullying and discrimination, and\n  b. to enable employees to prevent and respond to harassment, bullying\nand discrimination; and\n  3. Guidelines relating to the development of nondiscriminatory\ninstructional and counseling methods, and requiring that at least one\nstaff member at every school be thoroughly trained to handle human\nrelations in the areas of race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic\ngroup, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation,\ngender, and sex; and\n  4. Guidelines relating to the development of measured, balanced and\nage-appropriate responses to instances of harassment, bullying or\ndiscrimination by students, with remedies and procedures following a\nprogressive model that make appropriate use of intervention, discipline\nand education, vary in method according to the nature of the behavior,\nthe developmental age of the student and the student's history of\nproblem behaviors, and are consistent with the district's code of\nconduct; and\n  5. Training required by this section shall address the social patterns\nof harassment, bullying and discrimination, as defined in section eleven\nof this article, including but not limited to those acts based on a\nperson's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin,\nethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual\norientation, gender or sex, the identification and mitigation of\nharassment, bullying and discrimination, and strategies for effectively\naddressing problems of exclusion, bias and aggression in educational\nsettings.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1311 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13 / Title 1 / Section 1311
Hand washing facilities at certain public establishments featuring animals
Status: in_force

§ 1311. Hand washing facilities at certain public establishments\nfeaturing animals. 1. All public establishments including, but not\nlimited to, carnivals, fairs and amusement parks, as such terms are\ndefined in section eight hundred seventy-c of the labor law, farms, and\nfarmers' markets, as such term is defined in section two hundred sixty\nof the agriculture and markets law, which feature displays of live\nanimals that patrons may reasonably be expected to come into physical\ncontact with for the purpose of touching, holding or petting shall\nprovide hand washing or hand cleansing facilities for such patrons. Hand\nwashing or hand cleansing facilities may be temporary or permanent\nfixtures and shall include one or more of the following: soap and\nrunning water; anti-bacterial fluids, foams or gels; or anti-bacterial\nor antiseptic wipes or towels.\n  2. Signs shall be conspicuously posted and shall state in a clear and\nlegible typeface, the following: "Animals may carry germs and bacteria\nthat can cause disease to people. It is strongly recommended that\npersons wash or cleanse their hands after touching, holding or petting\nthe animals." Such signs shall also indicate where the hand washing or\nhand cleansing facility is located.\n  3. The commissioner may make rules guarding against the spread of\nbacteria and viruses at public establishments that feature animals as\nprovided in subdivision one of this section, to persons employed at or\nto patrons of such establishments where such establishments are located\noutside the city of New York, and where such establishments are located\nwithin the city of New York, the commissioner of public health of the\ncity of New York may make and enforce such rules.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 490.40 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 4 / Title Y-1 / Article 490 / Section 490.40
Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the second degree
Status: in_force

§ 490.40 Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon\n           in the second degree.\n  A person is guilty of criminal possession of a chemical weapon or\nbiological weapon in the second degree when he or she possesses any\nchemical weapon or biological weapon with intent to use such weapon to:\n  1. (a) cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, another\nperson; and\n  (b) (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;\n  (ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or\ncoercion; or\n  (iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,\nassassination, or kidnapping.\n  2. cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, more than two\npersons.\n  Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the\nsecond degree is a class B felony.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4360 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 43-B / Title 1 / Section 4360
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 4360. Definitions. The following words or phrases, used in this\narticle, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise\nrequires:\n  1. "Bank" or "storage facility" means any person or facility, which\nprocures, stores or arranges for the storage of (a) non-transplant\norgans, or (b) tissue for transplantation, therapy, education, research,\nor fertilization purposes, including autologous procedures. An organ\nprocurement organization shall not constitute a bank or storage facility\nsolely by virtue of storing or arranging for the storage of heart\nvalves, nor shall any person or entity which stores non-transplant\norgans or tissues solely for the purpose of research and/or education\nconducted by such person or entity be deemed a bank or storage facility.\n  2. "Controlling person" means any person who by reason of a direct or\nindirect ownership interest (whether of record or beneficial) has the\nability, acting either alone or in concert with others with ownership\ninterests, to direct or cause the direction of the management or\npolicies of said corporation, partnership, or other entity. Neither the\ncommissioner nor any employee of the department nor any member of a\nlocal legislative body of a county or municipality, nor any county or\nmunicipal official, shall, by reason of his or her official position, be\ndeemed a controlling person of any corporation, partnership, or other\nentity, nor shall any person who serves as an employee of any\ncorporation, partnership, or other entity be deemed to be a controlling\nperson of such corporation, partnership, or other entity as a result of\nsuch position or his or her official actions in such position.\n  3. "Non-transplant organ" means an organ procured for education or\nresearch purposes.\n  4. "Organ" means a human kidney, heart, heart valve, lung, pancreas,\nliver or any other organ designated by the commissioner in regulation in\nconsultation with the transplant council.\n  5. "Organ procurement organization" or "procurement organization"\nmeans a person, facility, or institution engaged in procuring organs for\ntransplantation or therapy purposes, but does not include (a) facilities\nor institutions which permit procurement activities to be conducted on\ntheir premises by employees or agents of an approved organ procurement\norganization, or (b) facilities or consortia of facilities which conduct\ntransplantation activities in accordance with article twenty-eight of\nthis chapter when the organ is procured through an approved organ\nprocurement organization, licensed bank or storage facility, or a living\ndonor. A bank or storage facility shall not constitute an organ\nprocurement organization solely by virtue of procuring heart valves.\n  6. "Person" means an individual, corporation, government or\ngovernmental subdivision or agency other than the office of mental\nhealth, business trust, estate trust, partnership or association, or any\nother legal entity.\n  7. "Principal stockholder" means any person who owns (whether of\nrecord or as beneficiary), holds or has the power to vote, ten percent\nor more of any class of securities issued by a corporation.\n  8. "Procure" or "procurement activity" means any activity which is\nnecessary for the procurement of organs or tissue for transplantation,\nresearch, education, therapy, fertilization, or autologous purposes\nincluding solicitation, retrieval, donor selection and testing, clinical\nlaboratory testing, including typing, preservation, transportation,\nallocation, distribution, storage, and payment activities.\n  9. "Service area" means the geographic area of service approved by the\nsecretary of health and human services, or, in the absence of such\napproval, by the department.\n  10. "Tissue" means a human eye, skin, bone, bone marrow, heart valve,\nspermatozoon, ova, artery, vein, tendon, ligament, pituitary gland or a\nfluid other than blood or a blood derivative.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 490.28 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 4 / Title Y-1 / Article 490 / Section 490.28
Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 490.28 Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first\n           degree.\n  A person is guilty of the crime of domestic act of terrorism motivated\nby hate in the first degree when, acting with the intent to cause the\ndeath of, or serious physical injury to, five or more other persons, in\nwhole or in substantial part because of the perceived race, color,\nnational origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression,\nreligion, religious practice, age, disability, or sexual orientation of\nsuch other person or persons, regardless of whether that belief or\nperception is correct, he or she, as part of the same criminal\ntransaction:\n  1. causes the death of at least one other person, provided that the\nvictim or victims are not a participant in the criminal transaction; and\n  2. causes or attempts to cause the death of four or more additional\nother persons, provided that the victims are not a participant in the\ncriminal transaction; and\n  3. the defendant was more than eighteen years old at the time of the\ncommission of the crime.\n  Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree is a\nclass A-I felony.\n  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a person is convicted\nof domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree, the\nsentence shall be life imprisonment without parole.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 675 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 14 / Part 2 / Subpart 3 / Section 675
Empire state challenger scholarships for teachers
Status: in_force

§ 675. Empire state challenger scholarships for teachers.  1. Number\nand certification. Three hundred twelve Empire state challenger\nscholarships for teachers shall be awarded each year. Such scholarships\nshall be allocated as provided in article thirteen of this chapter to\neligible students as certified to the president by the commissioner.\n  2. Duration. Such scholarship shall entitle the recipient to an annual\naward for not more than four academic years while matriculated in an\napproved program, as defined by the commissioner pursuant to article\nthirteen of this chapter. In order to be eligible for an award, a\nrecipient must be enrolled in an approved program no later than the\nbeginning of the junior year.\n  3. Amount. The president shall make academic year awards up to a\nmaximum amount of three thousand dollars in reimbursement for tuition\nand fees. An award shall not exceed the amount of such tuition and fees.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 807-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 17 / Section 807-A
Fire inspections
Status: in_force

§ 807-a. Fire inspections. 1. It shall be the duty of the school\nauthorities in general charge of the operation of any public or private\nschool to cause the buildings of such school containing classroom,\ndormitory, laboratory, physical education, dining or recreational\nfacilities for student use to be inspected at least annually for fire\nhazards which might endanger the lives of students, teachers and\nemployees therein.\n  2. The annual fire inspection shall be made prior to the first day of\nDecember of every school year and the report thereof shall be filed by\nthe school authorities in the places required by subdivision five of\nthis section no later than the sixteenth day of December of every such\nyear.\n  3. a. The school authorities shall cause any fire inspection pursuant\nto this section to be made by one of the following methods, or any\ncombination of such methods:\n  (1) Requesting inspection by the fire department of any city, town,\nvillage or fire district in which the building is located.\n  (2) Requesting inspection by a fire corporation which is subject to\nthe provisions of section fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit\ncorporation law, if such building is located within the area described\nin the certificate of incorporation of any such corporation.\n  (3) Requesting inspection by the county fire coordinator, or the\nofficer performing the powers and duties of a county fire coordinator\npursuant to a local law, of the county in which the building is located,\nor by any deputy county fire coordinator or deputy of such other officer\nso performing the powers and duties of a county fire coordinator\ndesignated to make the inspection by the county fire coordinator or such\nother officer so performing the powers and duties of a county fire\ncoordinator, if the building is located outside a city, town, village,\nor fire district, which has its own fire department and outside the area\ndescribed in the certificate of incorporation of any fire corporation\nwhich is subject to the provisions of section fourteen hundred two of\nthe not-for-profit corporation law.\n  (4) Requesting inspection by a fire inspector, who holds a valid\ncertification.\n  b. If any fire department, certified fire inspector or fire\ncorporation described in subparagraphs one, two, and four of paragraph a\nof this subdivision shall fail or refuse to make a fire inspection\npromptly after having been requested to do so by the school authorities,\nthe request shall be denied in writing to the school authorities with an\nexplanation of why such request was denied. In no event may an authority\nwho is otherwise required by law to conduct fire inspections in such\nmunicipality or a county fire coordinator refuse a request by a school\nauthority for such inspection.\n  c. Regardless of the method or methods used to accomplish the\ninspection required by this section, the authority making the inspection\nshall file the report thereof with the school authorities no later than\nthe first day of December.\n  4. The state fire administrator shall prescribe the form of the fire\ninspection report and the commissioner shall furnish a supply of such\nform to school authorities annually, either by mail or electronically.\nIn prescribing such form the state fire administrator shall consider\nstandards for fire safety set forth in the state building construction\ncode, the state building conservation and fire prevention code, the\nregulations of the commissioner and other safety standards.\n  5. a. The report of any fire inspection shall be filed in the office\nof the school authorities and with the commissioner. All such reports\nfiled in any public office shall be kept as public records for at least\nthree years after which period they may be destroyed.\n  b. Within twenty days after the report is filed with the school\nauthorities, the school authorities shall cause public notice of the\nfiling of such report to be given in substantially the following form:\n"Notice is hereby given that the annual inspection for      (year) of\nthe                      school building (or of the\nand        school buildings) of (name of school district or private\nschool) for fire hazards which might endanger the lives of students,\nteachers and employees therein, has been completed and the report\nthereof is available at the office of (school district or private\nschool) at        for inspection by all interested persons". If the\ninspection was not made for the school authorities by the fire\ndepartment or fire company responsible for fire protection of the\nbuilding, such authorities shall cause a copy of such notice to be\nmailed or electronically transmitted to the chief of such fire\ndepartment or company.\n  c. The school authorities of public schools shall cause such notice to\nbe published on the school's website or at least once in the official\nnewspaper, or if there is no official newspaper, in a newspaper having\ngeneral circulation in the school district, and if there is no newspaper\nhaving general circulation in the district, shall cause such notice to\nbe posted in ten conspicuous places in the district. Proof of\npublication or posting of such notice and of the mailing of a copy of\nsuch notice to the fire chief shall be filed in the office of the\ndistrict.\n  d. The school authorities of private schools shall cause such notice\nto be published on the school's website or at least once in a newspaper\nhaving general circulation in the postal area in which the school\nbuilding is located, and if there is no newspaper having general\ncirculation in such postal area, shall cause such notice to be posted in\nten conspicuous places in such postal area. Proof of posting or\npublication of such notice and of the mailing of a copy of such notice\nto the fire chief shall be filed in the school office.\n  e. If the report shows any alleged deficiencies, the school\nauthorities shall provide the details of such deficiencies and the\nproposed actions to be taken to correct such deficiencies to the local\ngovernment that administers and enforces the uniform fire prevention and\nbuilding code for the municipality in which the building is located.\n  6. a. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to ascertain annually\nwhether the inspections of school buildings required by this section\nhave been made and the reports of the inspection have been filed in\ntheir respective offices. The commissioner shall review the reports of\ninspection filed pursuant to this section and may make recommendations\nto the school authorities with respect to any problems relating to\nschool fire safety noted in such reports. The commissioner shall require\na re-inspection of school buildings where a report of inspection\nidentified violations until it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of\nthe commissioner that said violations have been corrected. In the event\nthat a public school fails to correct violations following a\nre-inspection, the commissioner may deny an annual certificate of\noccupancy to such school building. The commissioner may inspect or cause\nto be inspected at any reasonable time for fire prevention and fire\nprotection purposes the school buildings required to be inspected by\nthis section.\n  b. In the event a private school has failed to file an annual fire\nsafety report with the department within ninety days of the sixteenth of\nDecember, the commissioner shall inspect or request an appropriate local\nauthority, described in subdivision seven of this section, to inspect\nthe school. If a private school either refuses access for an inspection\npursuant to this paragraph, or does not correct violations identified in\nsuch report in a timely manner, the commissioner shall immediately\nnotify, in writing, the local government who issues the certificate of\noccupancy for the school of their failure to file a fire safety report.\n  7. a. Every public or private school required to be inspected as\nhereinabove provided may be inspected for fire prevention and fire\nprotection purposes at any reasonable time by:\n  (1) the chief of the fire department of the city, town, village or\nfire district in which the school is located,\n  (2) the chief of a fire corporation having its headquarters outside a\nvillage or fire district, if the school is located in the area described\nin the certificate of incorporation of such company,\n  (3) the chief of the fire department or fire company affording fire\nprotection to a fire district, fire protection district, or fire alarm\ndistrict pursuant to a contract, if the school is located in any such\ndistrict,\n  (4) the member of any fire department or fire company listed in\nsubparagraph one, two or three of this paragraph assigned by the chief\nthereof the duty of inspecting school buildings,\n  (5) the fire inspector, who holds a valid certification, of any city,\ntown, village or fire district in which the building is located.\n  b. In no event shall the school authorities of any public or private\nschool, required to be inspected as hereinabove provided, refuse access\nat any reasonable time to any person described in subparagraphs one,\ntwo, three, four or five of paragraph a of this subdivision, who appears\nfor the purpose of conducting an inspection for fire prevention or fire\nprotection purposes; provided, however, that the administrator or the\ndesignee of the administrator of the school to be inspected shall be\ngiven the opportunity to be present during the inspection.\n  8. The term "school authorities", as used in this section, means, in\nrelation to public schools, the trustees, or board of education, or\ncorresponding officers, whether one or more, and by whatever name known\nof a city school district, or other school district however created, or,\nin relation to private schools, the board of trustees, board of\ndirectors, or other governing board in general charge of the operation\nof any such school.\n  9. The term "private school", as used in this section, means:\n  a. Any nursery school or kindergarten attended by six or more pupils\nthree years of age or older which may apply for registration by the New\nYork state education department pursuant to part one hundred twenty-five\nof title eight of the official compilation of codes, rules and\nregulations of the state of New York; provided, however, that this\nsection shall not apply to day care facilities possessing a valid permit\nas required by section three hundred ninety of the social services law;\nor\n  b. Any establishment, other than a public school, attended by\ntwenty-five or more pupils for the purpose of receiving the instruction\nof academic grade at the elementary or secondary level required by part\none of article sixty-five of this chapter.\n  10. This section shall not apply to the school authorities in the\ncities of New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers or to\ncolleges and universities.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 232 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 1 / Section 232
Departments and their government
Status: in_force

§ 232. Departments and their government.  The state library and state\nmuseum shall be departments of the university, and the regents may\nestablish such other departments and divisions therein as they shall\ndeem useful in the discharge of their duties.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 158 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 158
Truck
Status: in_force

§ 158. Truck.  Every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained\nprimarily for the transportation of property.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 460 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 460
Declaration of policy and statement of purpose
Status: in_force

§ 460. Declaration of policy and statement of purpose. Residential\ncare programs for adults and children of the highest quality,\nefficiently produced and properly utilized at a reasonable cost, are a\nmatter of vital concern to the people of this state. In order to more\neffectively protect and assure the life, health, safety and comfort of\nadults and children who must be cared for away from their own homes, the\ndepartment of social services acting directly or through social services\ndistricts, and with the cooperation of other state agencies, shall have\nthe comprehensive responsibility for the development and administration\nof programs, standards and methods of operation, and all other matters\nof state policy, with respect to residential care programs for children\nand adults and all facilities and agencies, whether public or private,\nwhich are subject to the provisions of this article. For the purposes of\nthis article, with respect to residential care programs for children,\nthe term "department" shall mean the office of children and family\nservices and with respect to residential care programs for adults, the\nterm shall mean the office of children and family services in relation\nto family type homes for adults and residential programs for victims of\ndomestic violence, the office of temporary and disability assistance in\nrelation to shelters for adults and shelters for families; and the\ndepartment of health in relation to all other residential care programs\nfor adults.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 107-B — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 107-B
Commercial towing
Status: in_force

§ 107-b. Commercial towing. The moving or removing of disabled,\nillegally parked, or abandoned motor vehicles or motor vehicles involved\nin accidents, by another motor vehicle, for which there is direct or\nindirect compensation. Commercial towing shall also include towing by a\nperson, firm, corporation, or other entity pursuant to a contract or\nother agreement with a political subdivision.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4904 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 49 / Title 1 / Section 4904
Appeal of adverse determinations by utilization review agents
Status: in_force

§ 4904. Appeal of adverse determinations by utilization review agents.\n1. An enrollee, the enrollee's designee and, in connection with\nretrospective adverse determinations, an enrollee's health care\nprovider, may appeal an adverse determination rendered by a utilization\nreview agent.\n  1-a. An enrollee or the enrollee's designee may appeal an\nout-of-network denial by a health care plan by submitting: (a) a written\nstatement from the enrollee's attending physician, who must be a\nlicensed, board certified or board eligible physician qualified to\npractice in the specialty area of practice appropriate to treat the\nenrollee for the health service sought, that the requested\nout-of-network health service is materially different from the health\nservice the health care plan approved to treat the insured's health care\nneeds; and (b) two documents from the available medical and scientific\nevidence that the out-of-network health service is likely to be more\nclinically beneficial to the enrollee than the alternate recommended\nin-network health service and for which the adverse risk of the\nrequested health service would likely not be substantially increased\nover the in-network health service.\n  1-b. An enrollee or the enrollee's designee may appeal a denial of an\nout-of-network referral by a health care plan by submitting a written\nstatement from the enrollee's attending physician, who must be a\nlicensed, board certified or board eligible physician qualified to\npractice in the specialty area of practice appropriate to treat the\nenrollee for the health service sought, provided that: (a) the\nin-network health care provider or providers recommended by the health\ncare plan do not have the appropriate training and experience to meet\nthe particular health care needs of the enrollee for the health service;\nand (b) recommends an out-of-network provider with the appropriate\ntraining and experience to meet the particular health care needs of the\nenrollee, and who is able to provide the requested health service.\n  2. A utilization review agent shall establish an expedited appeal\nprocess for appeal of an adverse determination involving:\n  (a) continued or extended health care services, procedures or\ntreatments or additional services for an enrollee undergoing a course of\ncontinued treatment prescribed by a health care provider home health\ncare services following discharge from an inpatient hospital admission\npursuant to subdivision three of section forty-nine hundred three of\nthis title; or\n  (b) an adverse determination in which the health care provider\nbelieves an immediate appeal is warranted except any retrospective\ndetermination; or\n  * (c) potential court-ordered mental health and/or substance use\ndisorder services pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two of\nsection forty-nine hundred three of this title. Such process shall\ninclude mechanisms which facilitate resolution of the appeal including\nbut not limited to the sharing of information from the enrollee's health\ncare provider and the utilization review agent by telephonic means or by\nfacsimile. The utilization review agent shall provide reasonable access\nto its clinical peer reviewer within one business day of receiving\nnotice of the taking of an expedited appeal. Expedited appeals shall be\ndetermined within two business days of receipt of necessary information\nto conduct such appeal except, with respect to inpatient substance use\ndisorder treatment provided pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision\nthree of section forty-nine hundred three of this title, expedited\nappeals shall be determined within twenty-four hours of receipt of such\nappeal. Expedited appeals which do not result in a resolution\nsatisfactory to the appealing party may be further appealed through the\nstandard appeal process, or through the external appeal process pursuant\nto section forty-nine hundred fourteen of this article as applicable.\nProvided that the enrollee or the enrollee's health care provider files\nan expedited internal and external appeal within twenty-four hours from\nreceipt of an adverse determination for inpatient substance use disorder\ntreatment for which coverage was provided while the initial utilization\nreview determination was pending pursuant to paragraph (c) of\nsubdivision three of section forty-nine hundred three of this title, a\nutilization review agent shall not deny on the basis of medical\nnecessity or lack of prior authorization such substance use disorder\ntreatment while a determination by the utilization review agent or\nexternal appeal agent is pending.\n  * NB Effective until January 1, 2027\n  * (c) potential court-ordered mental health and/or substance-related\nand addictive disorder services pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision\ntwo of section forty-nine hundred three of this title. Such process\nshall include mechanisms which facilitate resolution of the appeal\nincluding but not limited to the sharing of information from the\nenrollee's health care provider and the utilization review agent by\ntelephonic means or by facsimile. The utilization review agent shall\nprovide reasonable access to its clinical peer reviewer within one\nbusiness day of receiving notice of the taking of an expedited appeal.\nExpedited appeals shall be determined within two business days of\nreceipt of necessary information to conduct such appeal except, with\nrespect to inpatient substance-related and addictive disorder treatment\nprovided pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section\nforty-nine hundred three of this title, expedited appeals shall be\ndetermined within twenty-four hours of receipt of such appeal. Expedited\nappeals which do not result in a resolution satisfactory to the\nappealing party may be further appealed through the standard appeal\nprocess, or through the external appeal process pursuant to section\nforty-nine hundred fourteen of this article as applicable. Provided that\nthe enrollee or the enrollee's health care provider files an expedited\ninternal and external appeal within twenty-four hours from receipt of an\nadverse determination for inpatient substance-related and addictive\ndisorder treatment for which coverage was provided while the initial\nutilization review determination was pending pursuant to paragraph (c)\nof subdivision three of section forty-nine hundred three of this title,\na utilization review agent shall not deny on the basis of medical\nnecessity or lack of prior authorization such substance-related and\naddictive disorder treatment while a determination by the utilization\nreview agent or external appeal agent is pending.\n  * NB Effective January 1, 2027\n  3. A utilization review agent shall establish a standard appeal\nprocess which includes procedures for appeals to be filed in writing or\nby telephone. A utilization review agent must establish a period of no\nless than forty-five days after receipt of notification by the enrollee\nof the initial utilization review determination and receipt of all\nnecessary information to file the appeal from said determination. The\nutilization review agent must provide written acknowledgment of the\nfiling of the appeal to the appealing party within fifteen days of such\nfiling and shall make a determination with regard to the appeal within\nthirty days of the receipt of necessary information to conduct the\nappeal and, upon overturning the adverse determination, shall comply\nwith subsection (a) of section three thousand two hundred twenty-four-a\nof the insurance law as applicable. The utilization review agent shall\nnotify the enrollee, the enrollee's designee and, where appropriate, the\nenrollee's health care provider, in writing, of the appeal determination\nwithin two business days of the rendering of such determination. The\nnotice of the appeal determination shall include:\n  (a) the reasons for the determination; provided, however, that where\nthe adverse determination is upheld on appeal, the notice shall include\nthe clinical rationale for such determination; and\n  (b) a notice of the enrollee's right to an external appeal together\nwith a description, jointly promulgated by the commissioner and the\nsuperintendent of financial services as required pursuant to subdivision\nfive of section forty-nine hundred fourteen of this article, of the\nexternal appeal process established pursuant to title two of this\narticle and the time frames for such external appeals. A utilization\nreview agent shall have procedures for obtaining an enrollee's, or\nenrollee's designee's, preference for receiving notifications, which\nshall be in accordance with applicable federal law and with guidance\ndeveloped by the commissioner. Written and telephone notification to an\nenrollee or the enrollee's designee under this section may be provided\nby electronic means where the enrollee or the enrollee's designee has\ninformed the organization in advance of a preference to receive such\nnotifications by electronic means. An organization shall permit the\nenrollee and the enrollee's designee to change the preference at any\ntime. To the extent practicable, written and telephone notification to\nthe enrollee's health care provider shall be transmitted electronically,\nin a manner and in a form agreed upon by the parties. The utilization\nreview agent shall retain documentation of preferred notification\nmethods and present such records to the commissioner upon request.\n  4. Both expedited and standard appeals shall only be conducted by\nclinical peer reviewers, provided that any such appeal shall be reviewed\nby a clinical peer reviewer other than the clinical peer reviewer who\nrendered the adverse determination.\n  5. Failure by the utilization review agent to make a determination\nwithin the applicable time periods in this section shall be deemed to be\na reversal of the utilization review agent's adverse determination.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 131-T — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 131-T
Periodic reporting
Status: in_force

§ 131-t. Periodic reporting. A social services official shall require\neach public assistance or food stamp household which currently is\nreceiving or received earned income to submit periodic reports relating\nto factors affecting eligibility, to the extent and in the manner\nrequired by department regulations.\n
N.Y. ELD Law § 201 — New York Code / Act ELD / Article 2 / Title 1 / Section 201
Office for the aging; director
Status: in_force

§ 201. Office for the aging; director. 1. There is hereby created\nwithin the executive department an office for the aging.\n  2. The head of such office shall be a director, who shall be appointed\nby the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and\nshall hold office during the pleasure of the governor. The director\nshall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the governor within the\namount available therefor by appropriation. The director shall also be\nentitled to receive reimbursement for expenses actually and necessarily\nincurred by him or her in the performance of his or her duties.\n  3. The director may appoint such officers, employees, agents,\nconsultants and special committees as he or she may deem necessary,\nprescribe their duties, fix their compensation and provide for\nreimbursement of their expenses within the amounts available therefor by\nappropriation. The director, with the advice of the advisory committee\nfor the aging, may promulgate, adopt, amend or rescind rules and\nregulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.\n  4. In carrying out its powers and duties under this title, the office\nis organized and operated to have as a primary purpose informing and\ninstructing the public, especially the elderly themselves, on subjects\nbeneficial to the community which relate to the needs, abilities,\nresources, opportunities, rights, entitlements, and other issues\naffecting older people in New York state.\n  5. For the purposes of this chapter, "office" shall refer to the state\noffice for the aging created pursuant to this section, and "director"\nshall refer to the director of the state office for the aging\nestablished by this section.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 408 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 4 / Title 1 / Section 408
Hospitals; admission of patients; in general
Status: in_force

§ 408. Hospitals; admission of patients; in general. 1. If in the\njudgment of the director of a hospital in the department the number of\npatients of the hospital at any time so far exceeds its proper capacity\nthat suitable care, training or discipline cannot be given to additional\npatients, or for other reasons the admission of such additional patients\nis impracticable, the commissioner in his discretion, may suspend the\nadmission of patients to such hospital until such time as they may\nproperly be admitted.\n  2. The commissioner shall promptly notify courts and other public\nofficers empowered to commit persons to such hospital of any such\nsuspension of admission and of its termination. A person committed to\nsuch hospital before the court receives notice of such a suspension may\nbe recommitted to another hospital to which he might have been lawfully\ncommitted in the first instance.\n  3. In the admission of patients to such hospital the several counties\nand the city of New York shall, so far as practicable, be entitled to\nhave in such hospital, patients in the ratio which their respective\npopulations bear to the population of the state as ascertained by the\nlatest federal census or state enumeration.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 501-C — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 19-G / Title 1 / Section 501-C
Confidentiality
Status: in_force

§ 501-c. Confidentiality. 1.(a) Records or files of youths kept by the\ndivision for youth shall be deemed confidential and shall be safeguarded\nfrom coming to the knowledge of and from inspection or examination by\nany person other than one authorized to receive such knowledge or to\nmake such inspection or examination: (i) by the division pursuant to its\nregulations; (ii) or by a judge of the court of claims when such records\nare required for the trial of a claim or other proceeding in such court;\nor (iii) by a federal court judge or magistrate, a justice of the\nsupreme court, a judge of the county court or family court, or a grand\njury when such records are required for a trial or proceeding in such\ncourt or grand jury. No person shall divulge the information thus\nobtained without authorization to do so by the division, or by such\njustice, judge or grand jury.\n  (b) The division shall not release information which would reasonably\nidentify such youth as ever being in the custody of the division, except\nas provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.\n  (c) Nothing in this subdivision shall limit a person's or agency's\nresponsibility or authority to report suspected child abuse or\nmaltreatment pursuant to title six of article six of the social services\nlaw.\n  (d) Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to prevent access by a\nparent or legal guardian of a youth to records or files of such youth\nwhere access is otherwise specifically authorized by law.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the official\ncase records produced and maintained by the division shall be made\navailable to a probation department, upon written request, where an\norder of the court has been issued directing such department to conduct\nan investigation pursuant to the provisions of sections 390.20 and\n720.20 of the criminal procedure law and section 351.1 of the family\ncourt act. Any written requests for records shall be accompanied by a\ncopy of the court order and shall request only a copy of the youth's\nofficial case record. The division shall be granted a minimum of ten\ndays to produce such records. The division shall be required to forward\nonly records less than three years old in its possession, or copies\nthereof, relating to a youth less than twenty-one years of age at the\ntime of the request. The division may impose a fee upon a probation\ndepartment for its costs in photocopying records provided under this\nsubdivision. A probation department shall retain copies of records\nreceived or information obtained therein under the same conditions of\nconfidentiality that apply to the investigation and any report on the\ninvestigation which was the basis for obtaining such records.\n