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N.Y. WKC Law § 77 — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 6 / Section 77
Administration
Status: in_force

§ 77. Administration. The state insurance fund shall be administered\nby the commissioners of the state insurance fund, of whom there shall be\nten. The commissioner of labor shall, in addition, be a commissioner of\nsuch fund by virtue of his or her office. The commissioners shall elect\nannually from the appointive members a chair and a vice-chair who shall\nact as chair in the absence of the chair. The commissioner of labor may\ndesignate a deputy commissioner to act in his or her place and stead as\na commissioner of such fund. The commissioners shall be appointed by the\ngovernor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. One\ncommissioner shall be appointed by the governor upon recommendation by\nthe New York State American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial\nOrganizations, and one commissioner shall be appointed by the governor\nupon recommendation of the Business Council of the State of New York.\nThey shall be policyholders insured in the state insurance fund. The\ncommissioners shall be appointed for terms of three years each. They\nshall serve until their successors are appointed and have qualified.\nVacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms. Each commissioner\nshall before entering upon his or her duties, take and subscribe the\nconstitutional oath of office which shall be filed in the office of the\nsecretary of state.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 8600 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 86 / Section 8600
Intent and short title
Status: in_force

§ 8600. Intent and short title. It is the intent of this article,\nwhich may hereafter be known and cited as the "New York State Equal\nAccess to Justice Act", to create a mechanism authorizing the recovery\nof counsel fees and other reasonable expenses in certain actions against\nthe state of New York, similar to the provisions of federal law\ncontained in 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d) and the significant body of case law\nthat has evolved thereunder.\n
N.Y. EDP Law § 508 — New York Code / Act EDP / Article 5 / Section 508
Filing of appraisals; reports of other expert witnesses
Status: in_force

§ 508. Filing of appraisals; reports of other expert witnesses. In all\nproceedings hereunder, the respective judicial departments and the court\nof claims, shall adopt rules governing the time for filing and exchange\nof the written appraisal reports; provided, however, that in a claim for\ndamages arising from the acquisition of real property under subdivision\n(A) of section five hundred one of this chapter, the time within which\nthe condemnor must file its appraisal shall be computed from the date on\nwhich the attorney general shall have been served in the manner provided\nfor in section eleven of the court of claims act. Each judicial\ndepartment and the court of claims also shall adopt rules requiring at a\nreasonable time prior to trial, the filing of supplemental reports,\nrebuttal memoranda and all other reports of expected expert witnesses,\nintended to be relied upon at the trial, other than the valuation\nexperts.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 9-308 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 9 / Part 3 / Subpart 2 / Section 9-308
When Security Interest or Agricultural Lien Is Perfected; Continuity of Perfection
Status: in_force

Section 9--308. When Security Interest or Agricultural Lien Is\n                  Perfected; Continuity of Perfection.\n  (a) Perfection of security interest. Except as otherwise provided in\nthis section and Section 9--309, a security interest is perfected if it\nhas attached and all of the applicable requirements for perfection in\nSections 9--310 through 9--316 have been satisfied. A security interest\nis perfected when it attaches if the applicable requirements are\nsatisfied before the security interest attaches.\n  (b) Perfection of agricultural lien. An agricultural lien is perfected\nif it has become effective and all of the applicable requirements for\nperfection in Section 9--310 have been satisfied. An agricultural lien\nis perfected when it becomes effective if the applicable requirements\nare satisfied before the agricultural lien becomes effective.\n  (c) Continuous perfection; perfection by different methods. A security\ninterest or agricultural lien is perfected continuously if it is\noriginally perfected by one method under this article and is later\nperfected by another method under this article, without an intermediate\nperiod when it was unperfected.\n  (d) Supporting obligation. Perfection of a security interest in\ncollateral also perfects a security interest in a supporting obligation\nfor the collateral.\n  (e) Lien securing right to payment. Perfection of a security interest\nin a right to payment or performance also perfects a security interest\nin a security interest, mortgage, or other lien on personal or real\nproperty securing the right.\n  (f) Security entitlement carried in securities account. Perfection of\na security interest in a securities account also perfects a security\ninterest in the security entitlements carried in the securities account.\n  (g) Commodity contract carried in commodity account. Perfection of a\nsecurity interest in a commodity account also perfects a security\ninterest in the commodity contracts carried in the commodity account.\n  (h) Cooperative organization security interest. A cooperative\norganization security interest becomes perfected when the cooperative\ninterest first comes into existence and remains perfected so long as the\ncooperative interest exists.\n
N.Y. DCD Law § 133 — New York Code / Act DCD / Article 5 / Section 133
Petitioner's property still liable
Status: in_force

§ 133. Petitioner's property still liable. Notwithstanding such a\ndischarge, the judgment creditor in the execution has the same remedies,\nagainst the property of the petitioner, for any sum due upon his\njudgment, which he had before the execution was issued; but the\npetitioner shall not, except as is otherwise specially prescribed in the\nnext section, be again imprisoned by virtue of an execution upon the\nsame judgment, or arrested in an action thereupon.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 6607 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 66 / Section 6607
Duration of charter
Status: in_force

§ 6607. Duration of charter. Subject to the provisions of article\nseventy-four of this chapter, the charter of every co-operative\nproperty/casualty insurance company shall be perpetual.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 178 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 4-A / Section 178
Additional limitations on eligible investments
Status: in_force

§ 178. Additional limitations on eligible investments.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, including the provisions of\nthe administrative code of the city of New York, the trustee or trustees\nof a fund shall not have the power to invest in any insured mortgage or\nconventional mortgage of an unpaid principal amount at the time of\ninvestment of less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars; provided,\nhowever, that this limitation shall be inapplicable as to those\nmortgages pledged, assigned or transferred to the fund as collateral\nsecurity for the unpaid balance of the bonds and notes purchased from\nany bank, trust company, savings bank or savings and loan association\nauthorized by subdivision four of section one hundred seventy-seven of\nthis chapter; and provided further that, with respect to any fund\nadministered for employees of the city of New York, the trustee or\ntrustees of such a fund shall be authorized to invest in any insured\nmortgage or conventional mortgage of an unpaid principal amount at the\ntime of investment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars.\n
N.Y. PBL Law § 29 — New York Code / Act PBL / Article 2 / Section 29
Watershed conservation easements and watershed agricultural easements
Status: in_force

§ 29. Watershed conservation easements and watershed agricultural\neasements. Restriction on alienation. A watershed conservation easement\nor watershed agricultural easement held by the city of New York shall\nnot be transferred or conveyed by the city of New York unless the\nwritten consent of the record owner of the real property burdened by\nsuch easement is affixed to the instrument transferring or conveying\nsuch easement. For purposes of this section, the terms "watershed\nconservation easement" and "watershed agricultural easement" shall have\nthe same meanings as defined in section five hundred eighty-three of the\nreal property tax law.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 111 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 9 / Section 111
Issue of non-negotiable warehouse receipt not so marked
Status: in_force

§ 111. Issue of non-negotiable warehouse receipt not so marked.  Any\nperson who with intent to defraud issues or aids in issuing a\nnon-negotiable warehouse receipt without the words "not negotiable"\nplaced plainly upon the face thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 943 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 44 / Section 943
Utilization of other agency assistance
Status: in_force

§ 943. Utilization of other agency assistance. To effectuate the\npurposes of this article, any department, division, board, bureau,\ncommission or agency of the state or of any political subdivision\nthereof shall, at the request of the council, provide to the council\nsuch facilities, assistance and data as will enable the council properly\nto carry out its powers and duties.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 3-502 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 3 / Part 5 / Section 3-502
Unexcused Delay; Discharge
Status: in_force

Section 3--502. Unexcused Delay; Discharge.\n  (1) Where without excuse any necessary presentment or notice of\ndishonor is delayed beyond the time when it is due\n  (a) any indorser is discharged; and\n  (b) any drawer or the acceptor of a draft payable at a bank or the\nmaker of a note payable at a bank who because the drawee or payor bank\nbecomes insolvent during the delay is deprived of funds maintained with\nthe drawee or payor bank to cover the instrument may discharge his\nliability by written assignment to the holder of his rights against the\ndrawee or payor bank in respect of such funds, but such drawer, acceptor\nor maker is not otherwise discharged.\n  (2) Where without excuse a necessary protest is delayed beyond the\ntime when it is due any drawer or indorser is discharged.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1449-OOOO — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-F / Section 1449-OOOO
Returns to be secret
Status: in_force

* § 1449-oooo. Returns to be secret. 1. Except in accordance with\nproper judicial order or as otherwise provided by law, it shall be\nunlawful for the treasurer or any officer or employee of the county or\ntown, including any person engaged or retained on an independent\ncontract basis, to divulge or make known in any manner the particulars\nset forth or disclosed in any return required under a local law enacted\npursuant to this article. However, that nothing in this section shall\nprohibit the recording officer from making a notation on an instrument\neffecting a conveyance indicating the amount of tax paid. No recorded\ninstrument effecting a conveyance shall be considered a return for\npurposes of this section.\n  2. The officers charged with the custody of such returns shall not be\nrequired to produce any of them or evidence of anything contained in\nthem in any action or proceeding in any court, except on behalf of the\ncounty or town in any action or proceeding involving the collection of a\ntax due under a local law enacted pursuant to this article to which such\ncounty or town is a party, or a claimant, or on behalf of any party to\nany action or proceeding under the provisions of a local law enacted\npursuant to this article when the returns or facts shown thereby are\ndirectly involved in such action or proceeding, in any of which events\nthe court may require the production of, and may admit in evidence, so\nmuch of said returns or of the facts shown thereby, as are pertinent to\nthe action or proceeding and no more.\n  3. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the delivery to a\ngrantor or grantee of an instrument effecting a conveyance or the duly\nauthorized representative of a grantor or grantee of a certified copy of\nany return filed in connection with such instrument or to prohibit the\npublication of statistics so classified as to prevent the identification\nof particular returns and the items thereof, or the inspection by the\nlegal representatives of such county or town of the return of any\ntaxpayer who shall bring action to set aside or review the tax based\nthereon.\n  4. Any officer or employee of such county or town who willfully\nviolates the provisions of this section shall be dismissed from office\nand be incapable of holding any public office in this state for a period\nof five years thereafter.\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2050\n
N.Y. SLG Law § 20 — New York Code / Act SLG / Article 3 / Section 20
Construction
Status: in_force

§ 20. Construction. 1. Where a power granted by this statute relates\nto the property, affairs or government of a local government, its\ninclusion herein shall not be deemed to imply that the legislature has\nconstrued such power as not relating to the property, affairs or\ngovernment of such local government or as restricting the powers of such\nlocal government in relation to its property, affairs or government to\nthose powers included herein.\n  2. Nothing in this statute shall operate to restrict the meaning of or\ndiminish or impair any power granted to a local government by the\nconstitution or by any other law; nor shall the failure to include a\npower of a local government in this statute operate to restrict the\nmeaning of or diminish or impair such power.\n  3. No power granted in this statute shall be deemed repealed,\ndiminished, impaired or suspended by the enactment of any subsequent act\nof the legislature, unless such act shall be enacted and re-enacted as\nprescribed in paragraph one of subdivision (b) of section two of article\nnine of the constitution and section twelve of this statute and unless\nsuch act shall contain a specific reference to this statute.\n  4. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this statute\nshall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,\nsuch judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder\nthereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,\nparagraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy\nin which such judgment shall have been rendered.\n  5. Powers granted to local governments by this statute shall be\nliberally construed.\n  6. This chapter shall not affect or impair section sixteen hundred\nseven of chapter eight hundred seventy-nine of the laws of nineteen\nhundred thirty-six.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 196-A — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 6 / Section 196-A
When dower barred by dissolution of marriage
Status: in_force

§ 196-a. When dower barred by dissolution of marriage. In case of a\ndissolution of the marriage because of the absence of the wife for five\nsuccessive years, as provided in section seven-a of the domestic\nrelations law, she shall not be endowed.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 331 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 17 / Section 331
Control of trustees by corporate meetings
Status: in_force

§ 331. Control of trustees by corporate meetings. A corporate meeting\nof an incorporated United Methodist church, whose trustees are elective\nas such, may give directions, not inconsistent with law or with the\ndiscipline of The United Methodist Church, as to the manner in which any\nof the temporal affairs of the church shall be administered by the\ntrustees thereof; and such directions shall be followed by the trustees.\n
N.Y. TCP Law § 70 — New York Code / Act TCP / Article 6 / Section 70
Definition
Status: in_force

§ 70. Definition. A ferry corporation is a corporation organized to\noperate a ferry, wholly within or partly without this state.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1331 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 13 / Section 1331
Notice of pendency
Status: in_force

§ 1331. Notice of pendency.  The plaintiff, at least twenty days\nbefore a final judgment directing a sale is rendered, shall file in the\nclerk's office of each county where the mortgaged property is situated a\nnotice of the pendency of the action, which shall specify, in addition\nto other particulars required by law, the date of the mortgage, the\nparties thereto and the time and place of recording.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 2601 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 26 / Section 2601
Payment of money or securities into court
Status: in_force

§ 2601. Payment of money or securities into court. (a) Discharge of\nparty paying money into court. A party paying money into court pursuant\nto the direction of the court is discharged thereby from all further\nliability to the extent of the money so paid in.\n  (b) Delivery of money and securities to county treasurer; commissioner\nof finance of city of New York. All moneys and securities paid into\ncourt shall be delivered either by the party making the payment into\ncourt or when an officer other than the county treasurer first receives\nthem, by that officer, to the county treasurer of the county where the\naction is triable or to such other county treasurer as the court\nspecially directs. Where money or securities are received by an officer\nother than the county treasurer, he shall deliver them to the county\ntreasurer within two days after he receives them. The commissioner of\nfinance of the city of New York shall be considered the treasurer of\neach of the counties included within the city.\n  (c) Title to funds paid into court. Title for the benefit of\ninterested parties is vested in the county treasurer to whom any\nsecurity is transferred pursuant to this article.  Any security\npurchased by the county treasurer as an investment of money paid into\ncourt shall be purchased in the name of his office.  He may bring an\naction upon or in relation to a security in his official or\nrepresentative character.\n  (d) Subsequent control of money or securities paid into court. A court\nmay direct that money or securities in the custody of a county treasurer\npursuant to this section be transferred or invested as it deems proper.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 119-F — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 5-F / Section 119-F
Definition
Status: in_force

§ 119-f. Definition. The term "municipality" as used in this article\nshall mean a city, a village, a county on behalf of a county drainage\ndistrict, a town and a town acting on behalf of a town drainage\ndistrict.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 71 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 3 / Section 71
Duties imposed
Status: in_force

§ 71. Duties imposed. It shall be the duty of every railroad\ncorporation operating its road by steam:\n  1. To lay, in the construction of new and in the renewal of existing\nswitches, upon freight or passenger main line tracks, switches on the\nprinciple of either the so-called Tyler, Wharton, Lorenz, or split-point\nswitch, or some other kind of safety switch, which shall prevent the\nderailment of a train, when such switch is misplaced or a switch\ninterlocked with distant signals.\n  2. To erect and thereafter maintain such suitable warning signals at\nevery road, bridge, or structure which crosses the railroad above the\ntracks, where such warning signals may be necessary, for the protection\nof employees on top of cars from injury.\n  3. To use upon every new freight car, built or purchased for use,\ncouplers which can be coupled and uncoupled automatically, without the\nnecessity of having a person guide the link, lift the pin by hand, or go\nbetween the ends of the cars.\n  4. To attach to every car used for passenger transportation an\nautomatic air-brake or other form of safety-power brake, applied from\nthe locomotive, excepting cars attached to freight trains, the schedule\nrate of speed of which does not exceed twenty miles an hour.\n  5. To provide each closed car in use in every passenger train owned or\nregularly used upon a railroad, with such tools as the commissioner of\ntransportation may require, to be placed where directed by the\ncommissioner.\n  6. To provide, in each passenger car, where the line of road shall\nexceed forty continuous miles in length, a suitable receptacle for\nwater, with a cup or drinking utensil attached upon or near such\nreceptacle, and to keep such receptacle, while the car is in use,\nconstantly supplied with cool water.\n  Every corporation, person or persons, operating such railroad, and\nviolating any of the provisions of this section, except subdivision six,\nshall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense,\nand the further penalty of ten dollars for each day that it shall omit\nor neglect to comply with any of such provisions. For every violation of\nthe provisions of the sixth subdivision of this section every such\ncorporation shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each\noffense.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-A-511 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2-A / Part 5 / Section 2-A-511
Merchant Lessee's Duties as to Rightfully Rejected Goods
Status: in_force

Section 2-A-511. Merchant Lessee's Duties as to Rightfully Rejected\n                   Goods.\n  (1) Subject to any security interest of a lessee (Section 2-A-508(5)),\nif a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the\nmarket of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in his\nor her possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions\nreceived from the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In\nthe absence of those instructions, a merchant lessee shall make\nreasonable efforts to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the goods for\nthe lessor's account if they threaten to decline in value speedily.\nInstructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is\nnot forthcoming.\n  (2) If a merchant lessee (subsection (1)) or any other lessee (Section\n2-A-512) disposes of goods, he or she is entitled to reimbursement\neither from the lessor or the supplier or out of the proceeds for\nreasonable expenses of caring for and disposing of the goods and, if the\nexpenses include no disposition commission, to such commission as is\nusual in the trade, or if there is none, to a reasonable sum not\nexceeding 10 percent of the gross proceeds.\n  (3) In complying with this section or Section 2-A-512, the lessee is\nheld only to good faith. Good faith conduct hereunder is neither\nacceptance or conversion nor the basis of an action for damages.\n  (4) A purchaser who purchases in good faith from a lessee pursuant to\nthis section or Section 2-A-512 takes the goods free of any rights of\nthe lessor and the supplier even though the lessee fails to comply with\none or more of the requirements of this Article.\n