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N.Y. TWN Law § 280 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 16 / Section 280
Permits for buildings in bed of mapped streets
Status: in_force

§ 280. Permits for buildings in bed of mapped streets. For the purpose\nof preserving the integrity of such official map or plan no permit shall\nhereafter be issued for any building in the bed of any street or highway\nshown or laid out on such map or plan, provided, however, that if the\nland within such mapped street or highway is not yielding a fair return\non its value to the owner, the board of appeals, or other similar board,\nin any town which has established such a board having power to make\nvariances or exceptions in zoning regulations, shall have power in a\nspecific case by the vote of a majority of its members to grant a permit\nfor a building in such street or highway which will as little as\npracticable increase the cost of opening such street or highway, or tend\nto cause a change of such official map or plan, and such board may\nimpose reasonable requirements as a condition of granting such permit,\nwhich requirements shall inure to the benefit of the town. Before taking\nany action authorized in this section, the board of appeals or similar\nboard shall give a hearing at which parties in interest and others shall\nhave an opportunity to be heard. At least ten days' notice of the time\nand place of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general\ncirculation in such town. Any such decision shall be subject to review\nin the same manner and pursuant to the same provisions as in appeals\nfrom the decisions of such board upon zoning regulations.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 130.23 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 7 / Part 5 / Section 130.23
Who may convene special courts-martial
Status: in_force

§ 130.23. Who may convene special courts-martial.  (a) Special\ncourts-martial may be convened by--\n  (1) any person who may convene a general court-martial;\n  (2) the commanding officer of a force of the organized militia, or of\na garrison, fort, camp, station, air base or other place where members\nof a force of the organized militia are on duty;\n  (3) the commanding officer of a division, brigade, detached or\nseparate battalion, or corresponding unit of the army national guard,\nthe New York guard or of any other land force of the organized militia;\n  (4) the commanding officer of a wing, group, detached or separate\nsquadron or corresponding unit of the air national guard;\n  (5) the commanding officer of any naval vessel, and the commanding\nofficer of any area, brigade, battalion, division, marine battalion or\nseparate marine company of the naval militia;\n  (6) the commanding officer of any separate or detached command or\ngroup of detached units of any of the forces of the organized militia\nplaced under a single commander; or\n  (7) the commanding officer or officer in charge of any other command\nwhen empowered by the adjutant general.\n  (b) When any such officer is an accuser, the court shall be convened\nby superior competent authority, and may in any case be convened by such\nauthority when deemed advisable by him.\n
N.Y. SAP Law § 306 — New York Code / Act SAP / Article 3 / Section 306
Evidence
Status: in_force

§ 306. Evidence. 1. Irrelevant or unduly repetitious evidence or\ncross-examination may be excluded. Except as otherwise provided by\nstatute, the burden of proof shall be on the party who initiated the\nproceeding. No decision, determination or order shall be made except\nupon consideration of the record as a whole or such portion thereof as\nmay be cited by any party to the proceeding and as supported by and in\naccordance with substantial evidence. Unless otherwise provided by any\nstatute, agencies need not observe the rules of evidence observed by\ncourts, but shall give effect to the rules of privilege recognized by\nlaw.  Objections to evidentiary offers may be made and shall be noted in\nthe record.  Subject to these requirements, an agency may, for the\npurpose of expediting hearings, and when the interests of parties will\nnot be substantially prejudiced thereby, adopt procedures for the\nsubmission of all or part of the evidence in written form.\n  2. All evidence, including records and documents in the possession of\nthe agency of which it desires to avail itself, shall be offered and\nmade a part of the record, and all such documentary evidence may be\nreceived in the form of copies or excerpts, or by incorporation by\nreference. In case of incorporation by reference, the materials so\nincorporated shall be available for examination by the parties before\nbeing received in evidence.\n  3. A party shall have the right of cross-examination.\n  4. Official notice may be taken of all facts of which judicial notice\ncould be taken and of other facts within the specialized knowledge of\nthe agency.  When official notice is taken of a material fact not\nappearing in the evidence in the record and of which judicial notice\ncould not be taken, every party shall be given notice thereof and shall\non timely request be afforded an opportunity prior to decision to\ndispute the fact or its materiality.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 646*2 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 23 / Section 646*2
Objectives
Status: in_force

* § 646. Objectives. The object of these fair treatment standards\nshall be to:\n  1. Ensure that crime victims are given information on the following:\n  (a) the role of the victims in the criminal justice process, including\nwhat they can expect from the system as well as what the system expects\nfrom them;\n  (b) stages in the criminal justice process of significance to a crime\nvictim, and the manner in which information about such stages can be\nobtained; and\n  (c) how the court can address the needs of the victims at sentencing.\n  2. Ensure routine notification of a victim or witness as to steps that\nthe court can take to protect victims and witnesses from intimidation,\nincluding the issuance of orders of protection and temporary orders of\nprotection.\n  3. Ensure notification of victims, witnesses, relatives of those\nvictims and witnesses who are minors, and relatives of homicide victims,\nif such persons provide the appropriate court official with a current\naddress and telephone number, either by phone or by mail, if possible,\nof judicial proceedings relating to their case, including:\n  (a) the initial appearance of an accused before a judicial officer;\n  (b) the release of an accused pending judicial proceedings;\n  (c) proceedings in the prosecution of the accused, including entry of\na plea of guilty, trial, sentencing, and where a term of imprisonment is\nimposed, specific information shall be provided regarding maximum and\nminimum terms of such imprisonment; and\n  (d) the reversal or modification of the judgment by an appellate\ncourt.\n  * NB There are 2 § 646's\n
N.Y. BSC Law § 1105 — New York Code / Act BSC / Article 11 / Section 1105
Contents of petition for judicial dissolution
Status: in_force

§ 1105. Contents of petition for judicial dissolution.\n  A petition for dissolution shall specify the section or sections of\nthis article under which it is authorized and state the reasons why the\ncorporation should be dissolved. It shall be verified by the petitioner\nor by one of the petitioners.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 260.25 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title O / Article 260 / Section 260.25
Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 260.25 Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically\n             disabled person in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or\nphysically disabled person in the first degree when he knowingly acts in\na manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare\nof a person who is unable to care for himself or herself because of\nphysical disability, mental disease or defect.\n  Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled\nperson in the first degree is a class E felony.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 260 — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 6-A / Section 260
Tax exemption
Status: in_force

§ 260. Tax exemption. The property of a community development\ncorporation and its income and operations shall be exempt from taxation.\n
N.Y. VAW Law § 53 — New York Code / Act VAW / Article 4 / Section 53
Enforcement of payment
Status: in_force

§ 53. Enforcement of payment. 1. The provisions of section twenty-six\nof the workers' compensation law, other than the portions relating to\nsection fourteen-a, subdivision eight of section fifteen and section\nfifty of the workers' compensation law, shall be applicable as fully as\nif set forth in this chapter.\n  2. The provisions of section fifty-four-b of the workers' compensation\nlaw shall be applicable as fully as if set forth in this chapter.\n
N.Y. VET Law § 28 — New York Code / Act VET / Article 1 / Section 28
New York state silver rose veterans service certificate
Status: in_force

§ 28. New York state silver rose veterans service certificate. The\ncommissioner, in consultation with the adjutant general, is hereby\nauthorized to present in the name of the legislature of the state of New\nYork, a certificate, to be known as the "New York State Silver Rose\nVeterans Service Certificate", bearing a suitable inscription to any\nperson:\n  1. who is a citizen of the state of New York; or\n  2. who was a citizen of the state of New York while serving in the\nuniformed services of the United States, and who while serving in the\nuniformed services of the United States, or the organized militia on\nactive duty was exposed to dioxin or phenoxy herbicides, as evinced by a\nmedical diagnosis of a disease associated with dioxin or phenoxy\nherbicides, and any other proof determined by the adjutant general to be\nnecessary; or\n  3. who was honorably discharged or released under honorable\ncircumstances.\n  Not more than one New York state silver rose veterans certificates\nshall be awarded or presented, under the provisions of this section, to\nany person whose entire service subsequent to the time of the receipt of\nsuch certificate shall not have been honorable. In the event of the\ndeath of any person during or subsequent to the receipt of such\ncertificate it shall be presented to such representative of the deceased\nas may be designated. The commissioner, in consultation with the\nadjutant general, shall make such rules and regulations as may be deemed\nnecessary for the proper presentation and distribution of such\ncertificates.\n
N.Y. LIE Law § 74 — New York Code / Act LIE / Article 3-A / Section 74
Authority of trustee in administering trust funds
Status: in_force

§ 74. Authority of trustee in administering trust funds. 1. Subject to\nsubdivisions two and three of this section, the trustee is authorized to\ndetermine the order and manner of payment of any trust claims and to\napply any trust asset to any purpose of the trust.\n  2. The authority of the trustee provided in this section shall\nterminate with respect to any trust assets as to which an order for\ndistribution is made as provided in section seventy-seven and before the\nmaking of an order for distribution may be terminated or limited by\norder of the court pursuant to subdivision three of section\nseventy-seven.\n  3. This section does not limit the effect of any proceeding or order\ntherein by which jurisdiction of the trust assets, or any of them, is\nvested in a court or by which a particular application of any asset or\nof all trust assets is enforced or directed.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 95 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 3 / Section 95
Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of existing crossings
Status: in_force

§ 95. Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of\nexisting crossings. The commissioner of transportation may, in the\nabsence of any application therefor, when in his opinion public interest\nrequires an alteration in an existing grade crossing or a change in any\nexisting structure above or below grade, institute proceedings on his\nown motion for any alteration in an existing grade crossing or structure\nfor which a municipal corporation may petition under section ninety-one,\nupon such notice as he shall deem reasonable, of not less than ten days\nhowever, to the railroad company, the municipal corporation and the\nperson or persons interested, and proceedings shall be conducted as\nprovided in section ninety-one. Notwithstanding any other provision of\nlaw the commissioner of transportation shall not, within areas which\nwere within the jurisdiction of the transit commission on March\nthirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-three, order the elevation of any\nrailroad running longitudinally on a right-of-way in, upon or along a\nstreet, avenue, highway or road without the concurrent approval of the\nlocal authorities of the city on which the railroad or such part thereof\nis located. The changes in existing grade crossings or structures\nauthorized or required by the commissioner of transportation in any one\nyear shall be so distributed and apportioned over and among the\nrailroads and the municipalities of the state as to produce such\nequality of burden upon them for their proportionate part of the\nexpenses as herein provided for as the nature and circumstances of the\ncases before it will permit.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 240.00 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title N / Article 240 / Section 240.00
Offenses against public order; definitions of terms
Status: in_force

§ 240.00 Offenses against public order; definitions of terms.\n  The following definitions are applicable to this article:\n  1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial\ngroup of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to,\nhighways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement,\nparks, playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies and other\nportions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or\napartments designed for actual residence.\n  2. "Transportation facility" means any conveyance, premises or place\nused for or in connection with public passenger transportation, whether\nby air, railroad, motor vehicle or any other method. It includes\naircraft, watercraft, railroad cars, buses, school buses as defined in\nsection one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and air,\nboat, railroad and bus terminals and stations and all appurtenances\nthereto.\n  3. "School grounds" means in or on or within any building, structure,\nschool bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle\nand traffic law, athletic playing field, playground or land contained\nwithin the real property boundary line of a public or private\nelementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high\nschool.\n  4. "Hazardous substance" shall mean any physical, chemical,\nmicrobiological or radiological substance or matter which, because of\nits quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious\ncharacteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in\nmortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating\nreversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to\nhuman health.\n  5. "Age" means sixty years old or more.\n  6. "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that\nsubstantially limits a major life activity.\n  7. "Gender identity or expression" means a person's actual or\nperceived gender-related identity, appearance, behavior, expression, or\nother gender-related characteristic regardless of the sex assigned to\nthat person at birth, including, but not limited to, the status of being\ntransgender.\n  8. "Place of religious worship" means any building or structure that a\nreasonable person would know that religious adherents collectively\nrecognize as a place to regularly gather for or hold religious services,\nobservance, prayer, assembly, education, instruction, or devotional\npractice, including community centers, and shall include its entrance,\nentryway, exit, parking lot, parking lot entrance, driveway, driveway\nentrance, or sidewalk that touches such places.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 513 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15 / Section 513
Findings by the commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 513. Findings by the commissioner. 1. No loan, subsidy or grant\nshall be made by the state for an urban renewal program unless the\ncommissioner shall find that:\n  (a) the municipality or agency, as the case may be, has entered into a\ncontract to receive capital grants, or loans and grants, from the\nfederal government under which the municipality is obligated to make\nlocal grants-in-aid, or the governing body has found that such federal\nfinancial assistance is not necessary for the undertaking and successful\ncompletion of the program;\n  (b) in the case of a state loan, the state loan for which application\nis made will not exceed one-half of such local grants-in-aid;\n  (c) in the case of a state capital grant, the state capital grant for\nwhich application is made will not exceed one-half of the municipality's\nshare of the net project cost, or, if the municipality has not applied\nto or entered into a contract with the federal government for advances,\nloans or grants for a specific project, such grant shall not in any\nevent exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000);\n  (d) adequate provision has been made in a relocation program to\nprovide housing for the persons and families to be displaced by the\nurban renewal program;\n  (e) such program is in conformity with a plan or undertaking for the\nclearance, replanning, reconstruction and rehabilitation of substandard\nand insanitary areas and for recreational and other facilities\nincidental or appurtenant thereto, and\n  (f) the estimated funds available to the municipality or agency, as\nthe case may be, including any federal loans and grants for the urban\nrenewal program, the local grants-in-aid and the state loan or capital\ngrant will be sufficient to cover all probable costs of the program.\n  2. Such findings shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein\ncontained except upon proof of fraud or willful misfeasance by the\ncommissioner.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 325 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 13 / Section 325
Proceedings on pardon or commutation of sentence
Status: in_force

§ 325. Proceedings on pardon or commutation of sentence. Should said\nconvicted person be pardoned, or his sentence be commuted, the court\nshall direct the committee to transfer to him, after his discharge from\nprison, all of said property remaining in his hands not lawfully applied\nor used as herein provided for, and upon the death of such convicted\nperson not pardoned or commuted as aforesaid, the court shall direct the\ndistribution of such property as upon the natural death of a person not\nconvicted.\n
N.Y. SCT Law § 65 — New York Code / Act SCT / Article 2 / Section 65
Record of transfers of tax liens
Status: in_force

§ 65. Record of transfers of tax liens. The county treasurer shall\nenter and record in his office his proceedings upon such sales, and all\ncertificates granted by him, and all assignments of certificates, and\nreleases of lots authorized by section fifty hereof, and all redemptions\nand all proceedings whereby sales are defeated or discharged. He shall\nalso file and record all notices of sales published by him, together\nwith his own affidavit, or that of the publishers aforementioned of the\npapers in which said advertisements were published, of the publication\nof said notices, and all other notices which have been given by him; and\nhe shall keep a record of all certificates and evidence made by him,\nunder this act.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 2214 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 22 / Section 2214
Property of estate to be delivered on order 1
Status: in_force

§ 2214. Property of estate to be delivered on order\n  1.  The court has jurisdiction to compel a fiduciary or the fiduciary\nor successor of any deceased fiduciary at any time to deliver any of the\nproperty of the estate which has come into his possession or is under\nhis control and if it be delivered over after a decree must allow such\ncredit upon the decree as justice shall require.\n  2.  The court has jurisdiction when a fiduciary has died, absconded,\nbecome incompetent, has been removed or his letters have been revoked to\ndirect him or any person, firm or corporation having possession or\ncontrol of any property belonging to the estate to deliver it to the\ncourt or a successor appointed by the court or as directed by the decree\nmade pursuant to 2207 or CPLR 2510.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 7561 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 75-A / Section 7561
Use of depositions; enforcement of discovery procedures
Status: in_force

§ 7561. Use of depositions; enforcement of discovery procedures. (a)\nOn application of a party to the arbitration, the chairperson may permit\nthe deposition of a witness to be used as evidence, in accordance with\nthe provisions of rule three thousand one hundred seventeen of this\nchapter.\n  (b) Depositions shall be taken in the manner prescribed by law for the\ntaking of depositions in civil actions.\n  (c) The chairperson may enforce the failure of parties to comply with\napplicable discovery obligations in the same manner as a court, pursuant\nto section three thousand one hundred twenty-six of this chapter,\nincluding through the imposition of costs, payable to the arbitration\nfund, provided, however, that the chairperson shall not have the power\nto find a party in contempt.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 4-205 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 4 / Part 2 / Section 4-205
Supplying Missing Indorsement; No Notice From Prior Indorsement
Status: in_force

Section 4--205. Supplying Missing Indorsement; No Notice From Prior\n                  Indorsement.\n  (1) A depositary bank which has taken an item for collection may\nsupply any indorsement of the customer which is necessary to title\nunless the item contains the words "payee's indorsement required" or the\nlike. In the absence of such a requirement a statement placed on the\nitem by the depositary bank to the effect that the item was deposited by\na customer or credited to his account is effective as the customer's\nindorsement.\n  (2) An intermediary bank, or payor bank which is not a depositary\nbank, is neither given notice nor otherwise affected by a restrictive\nindorsement of any person except the bank's immediate transferor.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 286-A — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 12-A / Section 286-A
Records and reports of transportation of motor fuel and diesel motor fuel
Status: in_force

§ 286-a. Records and reports of transportation of motor fuel and\ndiesel motor fuel. Every person transporting motor fuel or diesel motor\nfuel within this state, whether such transportation originates within or\nwithout this state, when required by the commissioner, shall keep a true\nand accurate record of all motor fuel and diesel motor fuel so\ntransported, including ingredients which may be manufactured or\ncompounded into motor fuel or diesel motor fuel, showing such facts with\nrelation to such fuel and ingredients and their transportation as the\ncommissioner may require. Such record shall be open to inspection by the\nrepresentatives of the department at any time and the commissioner may\nrequire from any such person sworn returns of all or any part of the\ninformation shown by such records.\n