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N.Y. GBS Law § 609 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 29-I / Section 609
Private right of action
Status: in_force

§ 609. Private right of action. 1. Any consumer bailor damaged by an\nunlawful detention of his goods or any other violation of this article\nmay bring an action for recovery of damages and the return of his goods.\nJudgment may be entered in an amount not to exceed three times the\nactual damages plus reasonable attorneys fees.\n  2. Nothing in this article shall be construed so as to nullify or\nimpair any right or rights which a buyer may have against a seller at\ncommon law, by statute or otherwise.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 106 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 1 / Section 106
Civil and criminal prosecutions not merged
Status: in_force

§ 106. Civil and criminal prosecutions not merged. Where the violation\nof a right admits of both a civil and criminal prosecution, the one is\nnot merged in the other.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 275 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 17-A / Section 275
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 275. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  (a) "Name, mark or device" means any word, name, symbol, picture,\ndesign or any combination thereof, produced upon, and used by a person\nto indicate ownership of vessels, receptacles or utensils.\n  (b) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation,\nassociation, union or other organization.\n  (c) "Produced upon" means branded, stamped, stenciled, engraved,\netched, blown, embossed, impressed, or otherwise permanently placed upon\nany vessel, receptacle or utensil.\n  (d) "Vessels, receptacles and utensils" include all packages and\ncontainers and accessories used in selling or distributing any natural\nor processed product, compound, mixture, or substance, or any\ncombination thereof, and designed and intended for re-use by the person\nfiling hereunder in the normal course of trade, and includes, but is not\nlimited to, bottles, jars, milk or cream dispensers, siphons or siphon\nheads, kegs, pails, cans and closures therefor, boxes, cases, crates,\nfreezers, tubs, refrigeration boxes, blocks, moulds, trays, pans and\ntanks.\n  (e) For purposes of this article, a name, mark or device is "used in\nthis state" when it is produced upon the vessels, receptacles or\nutensils and the vessels, receptacles or utensils are placed in the\nchannels of trade.\n  (f) The use of the singular and plural shall be inclusive each of the\nother to carry out the intent and purpose of this article.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 98 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 4 / Section 98
Appointment of confidential stenographer and assistant deputy clerk in third and fourth judicial departments
Status: in_force

§ 98. Appointment of confidential stenographer and assistant deputy\nclerk in third and fourth judicial departments. The justices of the\nappellate division of the supreme court, in each of the third and fourth\njudicial departments, may appoint and at their pleasure remove a\nconfidential stenographer to the court, who shall also act as an\nassistant deputy and stenographer to the clerk of said court, at an\nannual salary to be fixed by said justices at not to exceed five\nthousand dollars per annum. The salary of each such confidential\nstenographer shall be certified by the presiding justice of the\ndepartment to which the stenographer is appointed to the state\ncomptroller who shall audit the same. The state department of taxation\nand finance shall pay such salaries in monthly installments and shall\napportion the amount of the salary of the confidential stenographer to\nthe appellate division of the supreme court in each of the third and\nfourth judicial departments among the counties comprising the third and\nfourth judicial departments respectively. Such counties shall reimburse\nthe state for such salaries. The time and method of such apportionment\nand the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as specified in\nsection seventy-four of this chapter.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 321 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 3 / Section 321
Medical information exchange centers
Status: in_force

§ 321. Medical information exchange centers. (a) Whenever any\ninsurance company (which is a member of a medical information exchange\ncenter or which otherwise may transmit medical information in whatever\nmanner to any other similar facility including but not limited to an\nelectronic data facility used by two or more insurance companies to\ndetermine or aid in determining the insurability of applicants) requests\nmedical information from any applicant for personal insurance, it shall\nnot transmit, nor be considered to have obtained the applicant's\ninformed consent to transmit, the information to any such facility\nunless such company furnishes such applicant with a clear and\nconspicuous notice disclosing:\n  (1) a description of such facility and its operations, including its\nname, address and telephone number where it may be contacted to request\ndisclosure of any medical information transmitted to it;\n  (2) the circumstances under which such facility may release such\nmedical information to other persons; and\n  (3) such applicant's rights to request such facility to arrange\ndisclosure of the nature and substance of any information in its files\npertaining to him, and to seek correction of any inaccuracies or\nincompleteness of such information.\n  (b) Such notice shall be given to all applicants when any application\nfor personal insurance is completed.\n  (c) No such facility shall release, transmit or otherwise communicate\nany medical information it may have to any other person unless such\nother person shall have in its possession a written instrument signed by\nthe person who is the subject of medical information (or by a parent or\nguardian if such subject is a minor) specifically naming such facility\nand authorizing such other person to obtain such medical information\nfrom such facility.\n  (d) No such facility shall maintain information about HIV related test\nresults pertaining to any individual unless such test results are\nincluded within a general code, which code is not designated solely for\nHIV related test results, and concerning which code no member of such\nfacility may request from such facility details sufficient to determine\nwhether the code was used to maintain information about HIV related test\nresults.\n  For purposes of this subsection, an "HIV related test" means any\nlaboratory test or series of tests for any virus, antibody, antigen or\netiologic agent whatsoever thought to cause or to indicate the presence\nof AIDS.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 28 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 2 / Section 28
Amendment of minutes of stenographer
Status: in_force

§ 28. Amendment of minutes of stenographer. After any ruling,\ndecision, remark or comment of a judge during a trial, duly objected to\nor excepted to, has been made, the same shall not be altered or amended\nin the minutes of such trial, furnished by the stenographer, by the\njudge presiding at the trial without the consent of the party objecting\nor excepting thereto whether the same is made during the charge of the\ncourt to the jury or at any other time during the trial.\n
N.Y. PBO Law § 115 — New York Code / Act PBO / Article 8 / Section 115
Application of chapter
Status: in_force

§ 115. Application of chapter. This chapter applies to civil officers\nonly.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 284 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 13-C / Section 284
Enforcement and remedies
Status: in_force

§ 284. Enforcement and remedies. 1. The village board of any village\nor the town board of any town, as the case may be, in which a\nresidential or residential and recreational area has been established\npursuant to this article, in which the use of buildings, structures and\nland for any industrial or commercial purpose is prohibited, restricted,\nregulated or controlled, or in which the use of all buildings,\nstructures and land is limited to use for one or two family residential\npurposes, or to use for one or two family residential and non-profit\nrecreational purposes may provide by such ordinance or local law for the\nenforcement thereof.\n  2. In the event that any building, structure or land in any\nresidential or residential and recreational area is used in violation of\nany ordinance or local law applying to such area, the board, in addition\nto other remedies, may institute or authorize an official, officer,\nemployee or agent of the village or town, as the case may be, to\ninstitute any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful\nuse, to restrain, correct or abate such violation or to prevent or abate\nany illegal act, conduct, business or use in, on or about such premises.\nAll issues in any action or proceeding for any of the purposes herein\nstated shall have preference over all other civil actions and\nproceedings.\n  3. Upon the failure or refusal of the board to institute or cause to\nbe instituted any such appropriate action or proceeding for a period of\nthirty days after written request by an owner of real property situate\nwithin such area so to proceed, any three owners of real property\nsituate within the area wherein such violation exists may institute such\naction or proceeding at their own expense in like manner as such board\nor an official, officer, agent or employee authorized by the village or\ntown board, as the case may be, is authorized to do.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 262 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 16 / Section 262
Center of river defined
Status: in_force

§ 262. Center of river defined. The center of such river is hereby\ndefined to be a line halfway between low-water mark on the east bank and\nlow-water mark on the west bank of such river. Where an island\nintervenes, having an icehouse or icehouses thereon, the center of the\nriver, for the purpose of this article, is hereby defined to be a line\nin each channel into which said river is thereby divided, halfway\nbetween low-water mark along the shore of such island bordering upon\nsuch channel and the banks of such river opposite such island. Where\nthere are, or shall be, dykes erected along both banks of said river, or\nalong either shore of such island and also along the bank of said river,\nopposite thereto, the center of said river is hereby defined to be a\nline halfway between said dykes. Where there is, or shall be erected, a\ndyke along one shore of such island, or along one bank of said river\nonly, the center of said river is hereby defined to be a line halfway\nbetween said dyke and low-water mark along the opposite bank of said\nriver, or along the opposite shore of such island, where an island\nintervenes.  Nothing in this article shall be construed to deprive the\npublic from the right to travel or drive over such ice for any or all\nlegitimate purposes whatever.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 1709 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 17 / Section 1709
Appointment of guardian by supreme court 1
Status: in_force

§ 1709. Appointment of guardian by supreme court\n  1. Where the supreme court appoints a guardian of an infant's person\nor property, or both, a certified copy of the order or decree appointing\nthe guardian and of the bond given by the guardian shall be filed in the\nsurrogate's court of the county in which the infant is domiciled, or if\nthe infant be a non-domiciliary of the state, in the county in which the\ninfant has property and a minute thereof made and indexed in the book\nkept by the court in which orders or decrees appointing guardians are\nentered.\n  2. Letters shall thereupon issue to the guardian from such court upon\nqualifying as provided in section 708.\n  3. A guardian so appointed shall be subject to all the duties and\nliabilities of a guardian specified in this article.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 239 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 13-B / Section 239
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 239. Definitions. As used in this article the term:\n  1. "Appraiser" shall mean any person or persons, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or association or any officer, director, employee or agent\nthereof who purports to ascertain and state the true value of property.\n  2. "Property" shall mean jewelry, watches, and objects made from or\ncontaining precious stones or metals. "Precious stones" shall be limited\nto diamonds, alexandrite, cymophane, ruby, sapphire, opal, amethyst,\nsmoky quartz, citrine, rose quartz, spinel, malachite, turquoise,\nemerald, aquamarine, morganite, garnet, lapis lazuli, jadeite, kunzite,\ntopaz, tourmaline, zircon, amber, jet, pearl, coral, tanzanite.\n"Precious metals" shall be limited to gold, silver, platinum, iridium,\nruthenium, osmium, or any alloys of any one or more of said metals.\n
N.Y. PTR Law § 121-105 — New York Code / Act PTR / Article 8-A / Section 121-105
Registered agent
Status: in_force

§ 121-105. Registered agent. (a) In addition to the designation of the\nsecretary of state, each limited partnership or authorized foreign\nlimited partnership may designate a registered agent upon whom process\nagainst the limited partnership may be served. The agent must be (i) a\nnatural person who is a resident of this state or has a business address\nin this state, or (ii) a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation\nauthorized to do business in this state.\n  (c) The registered agent of a limited partnership may resign as such\nagent. The registered agent shall file a certificate with the department\nof state entitled, "Certificate of resignation of registered agent of...\n(name of designating limited partnership) under subdivision (c) of\nsection 121-105 of the Revised Limited Partnership Act" which shall be\nexecuted by such registered agent. It shall set forth:\n  (1) The name of the limited partnership, and if it has been changed,\nthe name under which it was organized. A foreign limited partnership\nmust set forth its name and the fictitious name the foreign limited\npartnership has agreed to use in this state pursuant to section 121-902\nof this article.\n  (2) The date the certificate of limited partnership or certificate of\napplication for authority of the limited partnership was filed by the\ndepartment of state.\n  (3) That he resigns as registered agent for the limited partnership.\n  (4) That he has sent a copy of the certificate of resignation by\nregistered mail to the limited partnership at the post office address on\nfile in the department of state specified for the mailing of process or\nif such address is the address of the registered agent, then to the\noffice of the designating limited partnership and the jurisdiction of\nits organization.\n  (d) The designation of a registered agent shall terminate thirty days\nafter the filing by the department of state of the certificate of\nresignation. A certificate designating a new registered agent may be\ndelivered to the department of state by the limited partnership within\nthe thirty days or thereafter.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 970*2 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 48 / Section 970*2
Statement of purpose
Status: in_force

* § 970. Statement of purpose. It is the purpose of this article to\nensure:\n  1. that all federal and state funds utilized for job training and job\ndevelopment programs are spent in the most economical, efficient and\neffective manner;\n  2. that unnecessary duplication and overlapping among such programs is\neliminated; and\n  3. that the various job training and job development programs\nadministered or funded by state agencies are implemented in a\ncoordinated manner so as to maximize the effectiveness of each of these\nprograms individually and of their overall effectiveness.\n  * NB There are 2 § 970's\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 400.22 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 2 / Title L / Article 400 / Section 400.22
Evidence of imprisonment
Status: in_force

§ 400.22  Evidence of imprisonment.\n  The certificate of the commissioner of correction or of the warden or\nother chief officer of any prison, or of the superintendent or other\nchief officer of any penitentiary under the seal of his office\ncontaining name of person, a statement of the court in which conviction\nwas had, the date and term of sentence, length of time imprisoned, and\ndate of discharge from prison or penitentiary, shall be prima facie\nevidence of the imprisonment and discharge of any person under the\nconviction stated and set forth in such certificate for the purposes of\nany proceeding under section 400.20.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 130.68 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 7 / Part 9 / Section 130.68
Review in the office of the state judge advocate
Status: in_force

§ 130.68. Review in the office of the state judge advocate.  (a) The\nrecord of trial in each general court-martial that is not otherwise\nreviewed under section 130.65 of this article shall be examined in the\noffice of the state judge advocate if there is a finding of guilty and\nthe accused does not waive or withdraw his right to appellate review\nunder section 130.61 of this article. If any part of the findings or\nsentence is found to be unsupported in law or if reassessment of the\nsentence is appropriate, the state judge advocate may modify or set\naside the findings or sentence or both. If the state judge advocate so\ndirects, the record shall be reviewed by a board of military review\nunder section 130.65 of this article.\n  (b) The findings or sentence, or both, in a court-martial case not\nreviewed under subdivision (a) of this section or under section 130.65\nof this article may be modified or set aside, in whole or in part, by\nthe state judge advocate on the ground of newly discovered evidence,\nfraud on the court, lack of jurisdiction over the accused or the\noffense, error prejudicial to the substantial rights of the accused, or\nthe appropriateness of the sentence. If such a case is considered upon\napplication of the accused, the application must be filed in the\ndivision of military and naval affairs legal office by the accused on or\nbefore the last day of the two-year period beginning on the date the\nsentence is approved under subdivision (c) of section 130.60 of this\narticle, unless the accused established good cause for failure to file\nwithin that time.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 9110 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 91 / Section 9110
Motor vehicle law enforcement fee
Status: in_force

* § 9110. Motor vehicle law enforcement fee. (a) Every insurance\ncompany authorized to do business in this state shall annually collect,\nin addition to the applicable premium charge, a motor vehicle law\nenforcement fee charged to each holder of a policy issued in the state\nor for delivery in the state for motor vehicle liability insurance\ncoverage.\n  (b) The annual fee is hereby imposed at the rate of ten dollars per\ninsured motor vehicle registered pursuant to the provisions of paragraph\nb of subdivision one of section four hundred one of the vehicle and\ntraffic law. Provided, however, that such fee shall be reduced by fifty\npercent per insured motor vehicle registered pursuant to the provisions\nof paragraph b of subdivision one of section four hundred one of the\nvehicle and traffic law where a policy issued in the state or for\ndelivery in the state for motor vehicle liability insurance coverage is\nfor a term of six months or less. Such fee will be paid monthly by\ninsurance companies to the superintendent on or before the fifteenth of\nthe month next succeeding the month in which such collections are\nreceived.\n  (c) On or before the fifteenth day of February of each year, every\ninsurance company required to collect a fee imposed by this section\nshall file with the superintendent an annual statement in a manner the\nsuperintendent shall prescribe reporting the number and type of insured\nmotor vehicles and the aggregate fees collected during the immediately\npreceding year.\n  (d) In case any such company shall neglect or refuse to make and file\nsuch statement or pay over moneys collected from the fee imposed by this\nsection the provisions of section nine thousand one hundred nine of this\narticle shall apply.\n  (e) All moneys received by the superintendent which are collected from\npolicyholders of insurance on motor vehicles shall be paid by the tenth\nday of the month following receipt of such collections in the following\nmanner:\n  (1) Each fiscal year, the first four million seven hundred thousand\ndollars shall be paid to the motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud\nprevention fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-d of the\nstate finance law.\n  (2) All remaining moneys shall be paid to the state police motor\nvehicle law enforcement account established pursuant to section\nninety-seven-mm of the state finance law.\n  (g) The fees imposed by this section shall be applicable to motor\nvehicles insured under policies issued or renewed on or after July\nfirst, nineteen hundred ninety-two.\n  * NB There are 2 § 9110's\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 10-6.3 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 10 / Part 6 / Section 10-6.3
Exercise of a power of appointment; type of instrument
Status: in_force

§ 10-6.3 Exercise of a power of appointment; type of instrument\n  A power of appointment can be exercised only by a written instrument\nwhich would be sufficient to dispose of the estate intended to be\nappointed if the donee were the actual owner.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 173-B — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 5 / Section 173-B
Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices
Status: in_force

§ 173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial\ndistrict to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices.  The\njustices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district, or a\nmajority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the\nduties of a confidential law assistant to such justices. Such\nconfidential law assistant shall be an attorney and counsellor at law\nand shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by such justices, or a\nmajority of them. Such salary shall be audited by the state comptroller\nand paid by the state department of taxation and finance in equal\nsemi-monthly installments when certified to such comptroller by a\njustice of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district. Such\ndepartment shall apportion the amount of such salary among the counties\nof the eighth judicial district. Such counties shall reimburse the state\ntherefor. The time and method of such apportionment and the time and\nmethod of such reimbursement shall be as specified in section\nseventy-four of this chapter.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 705 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 7 / Section 705
Research grants
Status: in_force

§ 705. Research grants. 1. Upon approval of a proposal by the\ncommittee, the committee shall then enter into a contractual\nrelationship with the applicant for the research grant within the limit\nof the funds available therefor and subject to the following\nlimitations:\n  a. All grants so provided shall be used for the direct cost of\napproved projects and shall not be used to supplant funds otherwise\navailable to the applicant or to the institution with which the\napplicant is affiliated, or for the general cost recoveries that are\nrightfully the prior obligation of the institution to which the research\ngrant is made.\n  b. No funds shall be expended for the acquisition, construction or\nrenovation of capital facilities without specific prior written approval\nby the committee.\n  c. Payments shall be made upon certified vouchers submitted to the\ncommittee, prepared in a format satisfactory to the committee.\n  2. Copies of grant contracts shall be furnished to the commission, and\neach of the funds named in section seven hundred three of this article.\n