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N.Y. AGM Law § 251-Z-2 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 20-C / Section 251-Z-2
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 251-z-2. Definitions. 1. The terms "food" and "food products" shall\ninclude all articles of food, drink, confectionery or condiment, whether\nsimple, mixed or compound, used or intended for use by man and shall\nalso include all substances or ingredients to be added to food for any\npurpose.\n  2. "Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership,\nassociation or other organized group of persons, or any business entity\nby whatever name designated and whether or not incorporated.\n  3. The term "food processing establishment" means any place which\nreceives food or food products for the purpose of processing or\notherwise adding to the value of the product for commercial sale. It\nincludes, but is not limited to, bakeries, processing plants, beverage\nplants and food manufactories. However, the term does not include: those\nestablishments that process and manufacture food or food products that\nare sold exclusively at retail for consumption on the premises; those\noperations which cut meat and sell such meat at retail on the premises;\nbottled and bulk water facilities; those food processing establishments\nwhich are covered by articles four, four-a, five-a, five-b, five-c,\nfive-d, seventeen-b, nineteen, twenty-b, and twenty-one of this chapter;\nservice food establishments, including vending machine commissaries,\nunder permit and inspection by the state department of health or by a\nlocal health agency which maintains a program certified and approved by\nthe state commissioner of health; establishments under federal meat,\npoultry or egg product inspection; or establishments engaged solely in\nthe harvesting, storage, or distribution of one or more raw agricultural\ncommodities which are ordinarily cleaned, prepared, treated or otherwise\nprocessed before being marketed to the consuming public.\n  4. The term "processing" means processing foods in any manner, such as\nby manufacturing, canning, preserving, freezing, drying, dehydrating,\njuicing, pickling, baking, brining, bottling, packing, repacking,\npressing, waxing, heating or cooking, or otherwise treating food in such\na way as to create a risk that it may become adulterated if improperly\nhandled.\n  5. The term "chain store" means a food processing establishment that\nis part of a network of subsidiaries, affiliates, or other member stores\nunder direct or indirect control of a corporation, partnership, limited\nliability company, or other organized entity.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 369-C — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 24-A / Section 369-C
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 369-c. Definitions. The following terms, as used in this article,\nare hereby defined as follows: "Producer" means grower, baker, maker,\nmanufacturer or publisher. "Commodity" means any subject of commerce.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 240-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 6 / Section 240-A
Electronic facilities
Status: in_force

§ 240-a. Electronic facilities. A savings bank may conduct a banking\nbusiness, at automated teller machines, point-of-sale terminals, and\nsimilar facilities subject to regulations which may be promulgated by\nthe superintendent of financial services. Such facilities shall not be\ndeemed to be branches and shall not be subject to any of the provisions\nof this chapter applicable to branches; provided however that\nnotwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision two of section two hundred forty of this chapter, such\nfacilities shall be deemed to be branches, and such facilities shall be\nsubject to the terms and conditions of section two hundred forty, and\nfor purposes of section twenty-eight-b of this chapter, such facilities\nshall be deemed to be branches.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 328 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 15-C / Section 328
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 328. Definitions. When used in this article:\n  1. "Licensing examination" means any test or examination that is given\nin New York and used to determine whether an applicant will be licensed,\ncertified, admitted, or otherwise permitted to practice any profession,\nbusiness, trade, activity, or pursuit.\n  2. "Test subject" means an individual to whom a test or examination is\nadministered.\n  3. "Day of religious observance" means any day or portion thereof on\nwhich a religious observance imposes a substantial burden on any test\nsubject's ability to participate in a licensing examination, or any\nparticular day or days or any portion thereof which any individual\nobserves as a sabbath or other holy day or days in accordance with the\nrequirements of his or her religion.\n  4. "Affected test subject" means a test subject for whom a day of\nreligious observance falls on the day or portion thereof that a\nlicensing exam is administered.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 750 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 20 / Section 750
County commissioner of public welfare; duties
Status: in_force

§ 750. County commissioner of public welfare; duties. The county\ncommissioner of public welfare shall perform the duties prescribed by\nlaw in the administration of welfare assistance.  He shall perform such\nadditional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed\nby the board of supervisors.\n
N.Y. CVR Law § 12 — New York Code / Act CVR / Article 2 / Section 12
Rights of persons accused of crime
Status: in_force

§ 12. Rights of persons accused of crime. In all criminal\nprosecutions, the accused has a right to a speedy and public trial, by\nan impartial jury, and is entitled to be informed of the nature and\ncause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him\nor her; and to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his or\nher favor.  A noncitizen is not entitled to a jury, composed in part of\nnoncitizens or strangers, in an action or special proceeding civil or\ncriminal.\n
N.Y. CCA Law § 1706 — New York Code / Act CCA / Article 17 / Section 1706
Appeals from appellate court
Status: in_force

§ 1706. Appeals from appellate court. Appeals from the judgment or\norder of an appellate court, on appeal from this court, shall be\ngoverned by the CPLR.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 617 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 22 / Part 2 / Section 617
Resident partners and shareholders of S corporations
Status: in_force

§ 617. Resident partners and shareholders of S corporations.  (a)\nPartner's and shareholder's modifications. In determining New York\nadjusted gross income and New York taxable income of a resident partner\nor a resident shareholder of an S corporation (other than an S\ncorporation which is a New York C corporation), any modification\ndescribed in subsections (b), (c) or (d) of section six hundred twelve,\nsubsection (c) of section six hundred fifteen or paragraphs (2) or (3)\nof subsection (d) of such section, which relates to an item of\npartnership or S corporation income, gain, loss or deduction shall be\nmade in accordance with the partner's distributive share or the\nshareholder's pro rata share, for federal income tax purposes, of the\nitem to which the modification relates.  Where a partner's distributive\nshare or a shareholder's pro rata share of any such item is not required\nto be taken into account separately for federal income tax purposes, the\npartner's or shareholder's share of such item shall be determined in\naccordance with his share, for federal income tax purposes, of\npartnership or S corporation taxable income or loss generally.  In the\ncase of a New York S termination year, his pro rata share of any such\nitem shall be determined under subsection (s) of section six hundred\ntwelve.\n  (b) Character of items. Each item of partnership and S corporation\nincome, gain, loss, or deduction shall have the same character for a\npartner or shareholder under this article as for federal income tax\npurposes. Where an item is not characterized for federal income tax\npurposes, it shall have the same character for a partner or shareholder\nas if realized directly from the source from which realized by the\npartnership or S corporation or incurred in the same manner as incurred\nby the partnership or S corporation.\n  (c) New York tax avoidance or evasion. Where a partner's distributive\nshare of an item of partnership income, gain, loss or deduction is\ndetermined for federal income tax purposes by special provision in the\npartnership agreement with respect to such item, and where the principal\npurpose of such provision is the avoidance or evasion of tax under this\narticle, the partner's distributive share of such item, and any\nmodification required with respect thereto, shall be determined as if\nthe partnership agreement made no special provision with respect to such\nitem.\n
N.Y. PBS Law § 48 — New York Code / Act PBS / Article 2 / Section 48
Emergency hotline
Status: in_force

§ 48. Emergency hotline. 1. The commission shall establish a toll free\nnumber, to be attended from nine o'clock a.m. to nine o'clock p.m. each\nbusiness day, which a residential customer may use to contact a\ncommission designee authorized to order the reconnection, continuation\nor initiation of residential gas or electric service whenever a\nreasonable question regarding the circumstances of a termination or\nrefusal of service exists or whenever the health and safety of a person\nis involved.\n  2. Each utility corporation or municipality shall designate an\nemployee who can be contacted by the commission's designee and who is\nauthorized to direct an ordered reconnection, continuation or initiation\nof service.\n  3. The commission may by regulation alter the time requirement for\noperation of the emergency hotline as set forth in this section if the\ncommission determines that such alteration continues to provide\nsubstantial emergency access to the commission by residential customers.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 202-L — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 7 / Section 202-L
Leave of absence for volunteer emergency responders
Status: in_force

§ 202-l. Leave of absence for volunteer emergency responders. 1.\nDuring the time that an emergency exists following a declaration of such\nemergency pursuant to section twenty-four or twenty-eight of the\nexecutive law, an employee may request and shall be granted a leave of\nabsence from his or her employer while engaged in the actual performance\nof his or her duties as, (a) a volunteer firefighter, or (b) an enrolled\nmember of a volunteer ambulance service pursuant to article thirty of\nthe public health law unless the employer determines that the employee's\nabsence would impose an undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's\nbusiness as defined by paragraph (d) of subdivision ten of section two\nhundred ninety-six of the executive law.\n  2. Subdivision one of this section shall apply only when:\n  (a) The employer has previously received written documentation from\nthe head of the employee's volunteer fire department or volunteer\nambulance service, as applicable, notifying the employer of the\nemployee's status as a volunteer firefighter or member of a volunteer\nambulance service; and\n  (b) The employee's duties as a volunteer firefighter or member of a\nvolunteer ambulance service are related to the declared emergency.\n  3. The entire period of the authorized leave of absence granted\npursuant to this section shall either be unpaid excused leave for\nemployees who are subject to the overtime provisions of this chapter,\nthe federal fair labor standards act and regulations promulgated\nthereunder, or may otherwise be charged against any other leave to which\nsuch employee is entitled, as determined by the employee.\n  4. Upon the employer's request, an employee who has been granted a\nleave of absence in accordance with this section shall provide his or\nher employer with a notarized statement from the head of the volunteer\nfire department or volunteer ambulance service, as applicable,\ncertifying the period of time, or times, that said employee responded to\nany emergency pursuant to this section.\n  5. Nothing set forth in this section shall be construed to impede,\ninfringe or diminish the rights and benefits which accrue to employees\nthrough bona fide collective bargaining agreements, or otherwise\ndiminish the integrity of the existing collective bargaining\nrelationship.\n  6. As used in this section, employer does not include the state.\nNothing set forth in this section shall be construed as superseding,\nlimiting, or otherwise affecting the provisions of section eighty-two-a\nof the civil service law, providing for authorized absences for public\nofficers and employees of the state.\n
N.Y. GCN Law § 45 — New York Code / Act GCN / Article 2 / Section 45
Seal, private as corporate seal
Status: in_force

§ 45. Seal, private as corporate seal. An instrument or writing duly\nexecuted, in the corporate name of a corporation, which shall not have\nadopted a corporate seal, by the proper officers of the corporation\nunder their private seals, shall be deemed to have been executed under\nthe corporate seal.\n
N.Y. TRA Law § 120 — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 5 / Section 120
Power of commissioner to order repairs or changes
Status: in_force

§ 120. Power of commissioner to order repairs or changes. If in the\njudgment of the commissioner, additional tracks, switches, terminals or\nterminal facilities, stations, motive power, or any other property,\nconstruction, apparatus, equipment, facilities or device for use by any\ncommon carrier in or in connection with the transportation of passengers\nor property ought reasonably to be provided or any repairs or\nimprovements to or changes in any thereof in use ought reasonably to be\nmade, or any additions to changes in construction should reasonably be\nmade thereto in order to promote the security or convenience of the\npublic or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or\nfacilities for the transportation of passengers or property, or to\novercome or to minimize except by change of motive power nuisances of\nsmoke, soot, or cinders, arising from the operation outside the\ncorporate limits of a city of such common carrier, such changes or\nadditions in equipment not to be in conflict with any federal statute or\nregulation, the commissioner shall, after a hearing either on his own\nmotion or after complaint, make and serve an order directing such\nrepairs, improvements, changes or additions to be made within a\nreasonable time and in a manner to be specified therein, and every\ncommon carrier shall make all repairs, improvements, changes and\nadditions required of it by any order of the commissioner served upon\nit. If any repairs, improvements, changes or additions which the\ncommissioner has determined to order require joint action by two or more\nof said carriers, the commissioner shall, before entry and service of\norder, notify the said carriers that such repairs, improvements, changes\nor additions will be required and that the same shall be made at their\njoint cost, and thereupon the said carriers shall have thirty days or\nsuch longer time as the commissioner may grant within which to agree\nupon the part or division of cost of such repairs, improvements, changes\nor additions which each shall bear. If at the expiration of such time\nsuch carriers shall fail to file with the commissioner a statement that\nan agreement has been made for a division or apportionment of such\nrepairs, improvements, changes or additions the commissioner shall have\nauthority, after further hearing, to fix in his order the proportion of\nsuch cost or expense to be borne by each such company and the manner in\nwhich the same shall be paid and secured. But this section shall not be\nconstrued to authorize the commissioner to require two or more railroad\ncompanies to unite in the erection of a union station.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 847-D — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 37 / Section 847-D
Compensation
Status: in_force

§ 847-d. Compensation. The members of such commission shall receive no\ncompensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for their\nexpenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of their\nduties hereunder within the amount available therefor by appropriation.\nNotwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, general, special or\nlocal, no officer or employee of the state or of any civil division\nthereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his office\nor employment by reason of his or her acceptance of membership on such\ncommission.\n
N.Y. CCA Law § 1810-A — New York Code / Act CCA / Article 18-A / Section 1810-A
Limitation on right to resort to commercial claims procedures
Status: in_force

§ 1810-A. Limitation on right to resort to commercial claims\nprocedures. If the clerk shall find that the procedures of the\ncommercial claims part are sought to be utilized by a claimant for\npurposes of oppression or harassment, as where a claimant has previously\nresorted to such procedures on the same claim and has been unsuccessful\nafter the hearing thereon, the clerk may in his discretion compel the\nclaimant to make application to the court for leave to prosecute the\nclaim in the commercial claims part.  The court upon such application\nmay inquire into the circumstances and, if it shall find that the claim\nhas already been adjudicated, or that the claim is sought to be brought\non solely for purposes of oppression or harassment and not under color\nof right, it may make an order denying the claimant the use of the\ncommercial claims part to prosecute the claim.\n
N.Y. NAV Law § 72 — New York Code / Act NAV / Article 4 / Part 3 / Section 72
Operation of pleasure vessels on Round Island lake, Orange county
Status: in_force

§ 72. Operation of pleasure vessels on Round Island lake, Orange\ncounty. Pleasure vessels as defined in this chapter, equipped with\ndetachable outboard motors or permanent inboard motors, except vessels\npropelled by electric motors of not over one-fourth rated horsepower,\nshall not be operated at any time on the waters of Round Island lake,\nOrange county.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 5207 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 52 / Section 5207
Assessments against members
Status: in_force

§ 5207. Assessments against members. (a) If at any time in the opinion\nof the board, the corporation shall require funds for the operation of\nits business, the board shall levy an assessment against the members of\nthe corporation.\n  (b) Each member shall be liable to the corporation for that portion of\nthe assessment which the net direct written premiums written by the\nmember, namely the gross direct written premiums less return premiums on\nsuch direct business, for policies insuring against legal liability\narising out of the ownership, operation or maintenance of motor vehicles\nwhich are principally garaged in this state, shall bear to the total or\naggregate of such net direct premiums written by all members in this\nstate in the last complete calendar year as shown by the records of the\nsuperintendent.\n  (c) In this section "member" also includes a former member which has\nwithdrawn from the state or whose license has been revoked or which has\nbeen merged into another corporation or has been placed in liquidation,\nand such member or its successor shall be liable for all assessments\nunder this section based upon premiums written by it in New York prior\nto the liquidation, withdrawal, revocation of license or merger.\n  (d) The assessment of self-insurers under sections three hundred\nsixteen and three hundred seventy of the vehicle and traffic law shall\nbe based upon the amount determined by dividing the amount of the annual\nassessment on insurers by the number of insured vehicles for the year\npreceding the determination.\n
N.Y. IND Law § 71 — New York Code / Act IND / Article 5 / Section 71
Exclusion of villages from reservations; lease of lands therein; certification of copies of leases granted by the Seneca nation of Indian...
Status: in_force

§ 71. Exclusion of villages from reservations; lease of lands therein;\ncertification of copies of leases granted by the Seneca nation of\nIndians and recording thereof. Those parts of the Allegany reservation\nincluded in the villages of Vandalia, Carrollton, Great Valley,\nSalamanca, West Salamanca and Red House, as surveyed, located and\nestablished pursuant to an act of congress approved February nineteenth,\neighteen hundred and seventy-five, have been constituted parts of the\nseveral towns within which they are located, and all the general laws of\nthe state are extended over and apply to the same; except that this\nsection shall not authorize the taxation of any Indian or the property\nof any Indian, not a citizen of the United States. Lands in such\nvillages held under lease from the Seneca nation of Indians shall be for\nall purposes considered a freehold estate, and the right of dower and\ntenancy by the courtesy shall attach thereto, and such lands, upon the\nintestacy of the holder, shall descend the same as a freehold of\ninheritance, except that solely for the purpose of taxation by the\nSalamanca Indian lease authority, the estate of a lessee shall be\nconsidered a chattel real. But the rights of the Indians in such leases\nshall descend as provided by the laws of the Seneca nation of Indians.\nWhen the original lease of any such lands already granted by the Seneca\nnation of Indians, pursuant to an act of Congress, and recorded in the\nbooks of Seneca national Indian leases kept by the clerk of said nation,\nor his successors or assigns in office, shall have been lost or\ndestroyed without the same having been recorded in the office of the\nclerk of the county of Cattaraugus, the owner of such lease, or any\nperson interested in the lands therein described, may apply to the clerk\nof said nation for a certified copy of such record of the same, and upon\nthe payment of the fees therefor, it shall be the duty of said clerk to\nfurnish such owner with a certified copy of said lease. Upon the\npresentation of a copy of any such lease, certified as aforesaid, to the\nclerk of Cattaraugus county, it shall be the duty of said clerk to\nrecord the same in the books provided in his office for the record of\nsuch Indian leases, upon the payment of the fees for recording the same.\nSuch copy of a lease certified as aforesaid shall be presumptive\nevidence of the facts set forth therein and shall be received in\nevidence on the trial of any action or proceeding in all the courts of\nthis state. The record of such a copy of a lease certified as aforesaid\nin the office of the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus shall have the\nsame force and effect as the record of the original lease, had it been\nrecorded. The said clerk shall receive for certifying the same the sum\nof one dollar and for making a copy of said lease the sum of twenty-five\ncents per folio, which fees shall belong to the said clerk.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 177.05 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title K / Article 177 / Section 177.05
Health care fraud in the fifth degree
Status: in_force

§ 177.05 Health care fraud in the fifth degree.\n  A person is guilty of health care fraud in the fifth degree when, with\nintent to defraud a health plan, he or she knowingly and willfully\nprovides materially false information or omits material information for\nthe purpose of requesting payment from a health plan for a health care\nitem or service and, as a result of such information or omission, he or\nshe or another person receives payment in an amount that he, she or such\nother person is not entitled to under the circumstances.\n  Health care fraud in the fifth degree is a class A misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. LFN Law § 1.00 — New York Code / Act LFN / Article 1 / Section 1.00
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1.00 Short title.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the\n"Local Finance Law."\n