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N.Y. PBL Law § 12 — New York Code / Act PBL / Article 2 / Section 12
Certain patents and grants ratified
Status: in_force

§ 12. Certain patents and grants ratified.  All patents of lands\nissued before July eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, pursuant\nto resolutions of the commissioners of the land office, and sold by them\nat private sale to purchasers in good faith, purporting to convey the\nright, title and interest of the people of this state in and to any\nstate lands, except lands under water in the bay or harbor of New York\nor adjacent thereto, have been ratified and confirmed, to as full an\nextent as though the same had been sold at public auction, according to\nlaw, but not so as to affect any action pending July eleventh, eighteen\nhundred and eighty-one, or to impair, release or discharge any right,\nclaim or interest of any person in and to such lands.  All grants made\nby the commissioners of the land office prior to March twenty-fifth,\neighteen hundred and forty-one, of parts of lots for which payments were\nmade and certified in the manner prescribed by law, have been confirmed.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 819 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 27 / Section 819
Applicability
Status: in_force

§ 819. Applicability. 1. No provision of this article shall be\nconstrued to prohibit any local government from adopting and enforcing\nland use and development controls for lands, other than those owned by\nthe state.\n  2. Any local land use program which has been validly enacted or\nadopted by a municipality shall be valid and enforceable notwithstanding\nits not having been approved by the agency, and any new land use or\ndevelopment or subdivision of land shall be subject to the provisions of\nsuch local land use program and to the shoreline restrictions contained\nin section eight hundred six. If the agency has project review\njurisdiction over any such land use or development or subdivision of\nland under section eight hundred nine, such land use, development or\nsubdivision shall, in addition to its being subject to the provisions of\nany such local land use program, be subject to such agency jurisdiction.\nThe project sponsor may not undertake or continue such land use,\ndevelopment or subdivision, however, or any part thereof,\nnotwithstanding the granting of a permit therefor by the agency, unless\nsuch undertaking or continuance is also permitted by the municipality\nunder and in accordance with the provisions of its local land use\nprogram.\n  3. No provision of this article shall be deemed to prohibit any land\nuse and development or subdivision of land existing prior to the\neffective date of this article, including those uses and development and\nsubdivisions of land expressly not subject to agency review as provided\nin section eight hundred eleven.\n  4. Nothing in this article shall be construed to empower the agency to\nacquire any interest in real property by purchase or condemnation. No\nright of first refusal or first option to purchase in favor of the\nagency, the department of environmental conservation or any other state\nagency shall in any way be created by this article or the land use and\ndevelopment plan.\n  5. Nothing in this article shall be construed to supersede or replace\nor diminish in any way any regulatory or review authority of any other\nstate agency.\n
N.Y. VIL Law § 7-702 — New York Code / Act VIL / Article 7 / Section 7-702
Districts
Status: in_force

§ 7-702 Districts. For any or all of said purposes the board of\ntrustees may divide the village into districts of such number, shape and\narea as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this\narticle; and within such districts it may regulate and restrict the\nerection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or use of\nbuildings, structures or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for\neach class or kind of buildings throughout each district but the\nregulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 200.35 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title L / Article 200 / Section 200.35
Receiving unlawful gratuities
Status: in_force

§ 200.35 Receiving unlawful gratuities.\n  A public servant is guilty of receiving unlawful gratuities when he\nsolicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit for having engaged in\nofficial conduct which he was required or authorized to perform, and for\nwhich he was not entitled to any special or additional compensation.\n  Receiving unlawful gratuities is a class A misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 189-F — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 11-A / Section 189-F
Powers of board of commissioners
Status: in_force

§ 189-f. Powers of board of commissioners. The board of commissioners\nshall have and exercise, with respect to such district, the applicable\npowers and duties of a board of fire district commissioners as\nprescribed by the town law, with respect to similar functions of a fire\ndistrict in a town and all of the provisions of article eleven of this\nchapter shall be applicable to a joint fire district created pursuant to\nthis article. Such powers and duties of the board of district\ncommissioners are subject to the following restriction:\n  No real property or easement therein shall be acquired by the board of\ncommissioners without the approval of the village board or boards and\nthe town board or boards of each village or town in which any portion of\nthe district is situated. But this restriction shall not apply if, at\nthe meeting for the establishment of any such district hereafter\nestablished, a resolution to that effect is adopted in the same manner\nas the resolution for the establishment of the district is adopted.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 130.84 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 7 / Part 10 / Section 130.84
Contempt towards officials
Status: in_force

§ 130.84. Contempt towards officials.  Any person subject to this code\nwho uses contemptuous words against the president, the governor or the\nlegislature shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 1507 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 15 / Section 1507
Management of controlled insurers
Status: in_force

§ 1507. Management of controlled insurers. (a) Notwithstanding the\ncontrol of an authorized insurer by any person, the insurer's officers\nand directors shall not thereby be relieved of any obligation or\nliability to which they would otherwise be subject by law, and the\ninsurer shall be managed so as to assure its separate operating identity\nconsistent with this chapter.\n  (b) Nothing herein shall preclude an authorized insurer from having or\nsharing a common management or cooperative or joint use of personnel,\nproperty or services with one or more other persons under arrangements\nmeeting the standards of subsection (a) of section one thousand five\nhundred five of this article.\n
N.Y. DEA Law § 85 — New York Code / Act DEA / Article 6 / Section 85
Powers of peace officers
Status: in_force

§ 85. Powers of peace officers.  Any peace officer or any person\nemployed as watchman, guard or in a supervisory capacity on premises\nposted in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-three of this\nact may stop any person found on any premises so posted and may detain\nhim for the purpose of demanding, and may demand, of him his name,\naddress and reason for being in such place. If such peace officer or\nemployee has reason to believe from the answers of the person so\ninterrogated or from his behavior or other attendant facts or\ncircumstances that such person does not have permission to be in such\nplace, such peace officer may forthwith arrest such person without a\nwarrant on the charge of violating the provisions of such section or\nsuch employee may forthwith turn him over to a peace officer, who may\narrest him without a warrant on the charge of violating the provisions\nof such section.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 16-115 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 16 / Section 16-115
Proceedings with respect to utilizing certain buildings as polling places
Status: in_force

§ 16-115. Proceedings with respect to utilizing certain buildings as\npolling places.  The supreme court or a justice thereof, in a proceeding\ninstituted by any board or body empowered to designate polling places,\nmay compel by order, any person or entity which owns or operates a\nbuilding or facility which is required by this chapter to be made\navailable as a place of registration and voting to make such building or\nfacility available for such purposes and in a proceeding instituted by\nany person or entity which owns or operates such a building or facility,\nmay vacate a determination by such a board or body that such a building\nis suitable for registration and voting upon a finding that such\nbuilding is not required to be made available as a place of registration\nand voting.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1449-EEEEE — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-G / Section 1449-EEEEE
Exemptions
Status: in_force

§ 1449-eeeee. Exemptions. 1. The following shall be exempt from\npayment of the real estate transfer tax:\n  (a) The state of New York, or any of its agencies, instrumentalities,\npolitical subdivisions, or public corporations (including a public\ncorporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state\nor the Dominion of Canada).\n  (b) The United Nations, the United States of America and any of its\nagencies and instrumentalities.\n  The exemption of such governmental bodies or persons shall not,\nhowever, relieve a grantee from them of liability for the tax.\n  2. The tax shall not apply to any of the following conveyances:\n  (a) Conveyances to the United Nations, the United States of America,\nthe state of New York, or any of their instrumentalities, agencies or\npolitical subdivisions (or any public corporation, including a public\ncorporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state\nor the Dominion of Canada);\n  (b) Conveyances which are or were used to secure a debt or other\nobligation;\n  (c) Conveyances which, without additional consideration, confirm,\ncorrect, modify or supplement a prior conveyance;\n  (d) Conveyances of real property without consideration and otherwise\nthan in connection with a sale, including conveyances conveying realty\nas bona fide gifts;\n  (e) Conveyances given in connection with a tax sale;\n  (f) Conveyances to effectuate a mere change of identity or form of\nownership or organization where there is no change in beneficial\nownership, other than conveyances to a cooperative housing corporation\nof the real property comprising the cooperative dwelling or dwellings;\n  (g) Conveyances which consist of a deed of partition;\n  (h) Conveyances given pursuant to the federal bankruptcy act;\n  (i) Conveyances of real property which consist of the execution of a\ncontract to sell real property without the use or occupancy of such\nproperty or the granting of an option to purchase real property without\nthe use or occupancy of such property; and\n  (j) Conveyances of an option or contract to purchase real property\nwith the use or occupancy of such property where the consideration is\nless than two hundred thousand dollars and such property was used solely\nby the grantor as his personal residence and consists of a one, two or\nthree-family house, an individual residential condominium unit or the\nsale of stock in a cooperative housing corporation in connection with\nthe grant or transfer of a proprietary leasehold covering an individual\nresidential cooperative unit.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 100 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 3 / Section 100
Mandatory referendum
Status: in_force

§ 100. Mandatory referendum.  When a resolution of the board of\nsupervisors is subject to a mandatory referendum, such board shall by\nresolution cause such resolution to be submitted to a vote of the\nqualified electors of the county for their approval or disapproval at a\ngeneral or special election. Except as otherwise provided by law, the\nresolution shall fix a date not less than forty-five days after its\nadoption on which the proposition is to be submitted at such general or\nspecial election.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 417 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 27 / Section 417
Separability clause
Status: in_force

§ 417. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article\nor the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged\ninvalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be\nconfined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly\ninvolved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been\nrendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of\nthis article or application thereof to other persons or circumstances\nand the legislature hereby declares that it would have enacted this\narticle or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such provision or\napplication thereof been apparent.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4616 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 46 / Section 4616
Appointment of a caretaker
Status: in_force

§ 4616. Appointment of a caretaker. Upon a determination by the\ncommissioner that there exists operational deficiencies in a continuing\ncare retirement community that show:\n  1. a condition or conditions in substantial violation of the standards\nfor health, safety or patient care established under federal or state\nlaw or regulations; or\n  2. that there exists in the facility a pattern or practice of habitual\nviolation of the standards of health, safety or patient care established\nunder federal or state law or regulations, the commissioner shall take\nthe actions prescribed by section forty-six hundred fifteen of this\narticle, and, where the commissioner deems it to be in the public\ninterest, the commissioner shall petition a court of competent\njurisdiction to appoint a caretaker as defined in section twenty-eight\nhundred one of this chapter. The petition, the proceedings, and the\nprocedures for appointment of a caretaker shall be governed by the\nprovisions of section forty-six hundred seventeen of this article, and\nthe powers, duties and rights of a caretaker appointed pursuant to such\nsection shall be the same as those authorized by subdivision four of\nsuch section.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 50-EE — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 3-B / Section 50-EE
Certificate of incorporation
Status: in_force

§ 50-ee. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide\nthat such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated church or\ncongregation of the Holy Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of\nincorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the\narchbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator, the vicar-general\nand the chancellor of Metropolitan Synod Holy Orthodox Church in\nAmerica, the rector or vicar of the church or congregation and by the\nlaymen trustees that have been elected, and by the clerk of the\ncorporation, and the said certificate of incorporation shall contain the\nfollowing:\n  (a) The name of the proposed corporation;\n  (b) The number of laymen trustees thereof, the names of the persons\nelected as laymen trustees, the terms of office for which they were\nrespectively elected as laymen trustees;\n  (c) An exact copy of the resolution which provides for the clerical\ntrustees by virtue of their offices;\n  (d) The county and town, city or village in which the principal place\nof worship is or is intended to be located.\n  2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the\ncounty in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church\nshall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate, and the\npersons therein stated to be elected clerical and laymen trustees of\nsuch church shall be the trustees therefor for their respective terms\nand until their successors are elected.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-106 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2 / Part 1 / Section 2-106
Definitions
Status: in_force

Section 2--106. Definitions. "Contract"; "Agreement"; "Contract for\n                  Sale"; "Sale"; "Present Sale"; "Conforming" to\n                  Contract; "Termination"; "Cancellation"; "Hybrid\n                  Transaction".\n  (1) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires, "contract"\nand "agreement" are limited to those relating to the present or future\nsale of goods. "Contract for sale" includes both a present sale of goods\nand a contract to sell goods at a future time. A "sale" consists in the\npassing of title from the seller to the buyer for a price (Section\n2--401). A "present sale" means a sale which is accomplished by the\nmaking of the contract.\n  (2) Goods or conduct including any part of a performance are\n"conforming" or conform to the contract when they are in accordance with\nthe obligations under the contract.\n  (3) "Termination" occurs when either party pursuant to a power created\nby agreement or law puts an end to the contract otherwise than for its\nbreach. On "termination" all obligations which are still executory on\nboth sides are discharged but any right based on prior breach or\nperformance survives.\n  (4) "Cancellation" occurs when either party puts an end to the\ncontract for breach by the other and its effect is the same as that of\n"termination" except that the cancelling party also retains any remedy\nfor breach of the whole contract or any unperformed balance.\n  (5) "Hybrid transaction" means a single transaction involving a sale\nof goods and:\n  (a) the provision of services;\n  (b) a lease of other goods; or\n  (c) a sale, lease, or license of property other than goods.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 343-Y*2 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 12 / Section 343-Y*2
Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the "Police Officer Michael J
Status: in_force

* § 343-y. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the\n"Police Officer Michael J. Califano Memorial Bridge". The Glen Cove Road\nbridge overpass which goes across Interstate-495 in the village of Old\nWestbury, county of Nassau, shall be designated and known as the "Police\nOfficer Michael J. Califano Memorial Bridge".\n  * NB There are 5 § 343-y's\n
N.Y. SCC Law § 40 — New York Code / Act SCC / Article 4 / Section 40
Regulations of duties of officers
Status: in_force

§ 40. Regulations of duties of officers. The common council may, by\nordinance passed by three-fourths of all its members, not inconsistent\nwith this chapter, or other laws of the state, regulate the powers and\nduties of any city officer or department; and it has power to\ninvestigate all city officers and departments and shall have access to\nall records and papers kept by every city officer or department, and has\npower to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books,\npapers or other evidence at any meeting of the common council or of any\ncommittee thereof, and for that purpose may issue subpoenas signed by\nthe president.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1021 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 10 / Section 1021
Damages may be recovered; how estimated
Status: in_force

§ 1021. Damages may be recovered; how estimated. Where a widow\nrecovers, in an action therefor, dower in property, of which her husband\ndied seized, she may also recover, in the same action, damages for\nwithholding her dower, to the amount of one-third of the annual value of\nthe mesne profits of the property, with interest; to be computed, where\nthe action is against the heir, from her husband's death, or, where it\nis against any other person, from the time when she demanded her dower\nof the defendant; and in each case, to the time of the trial, or\napplication for judgment, as the case may be; but not exceeding six\nyears in the whole. The damages shall not include any thing for the use\nof permanent improvements, made after the death of the husband.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 509 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 5 / Section 509
Reserve fund
Status: in_force

§ 509. Reserve fund. 1. The corporation shall create and establish a\nspecial fund (herein referred to as the capital reserve fund), and shall\npay into such capital reserve fund:\n  a. Any moneys appropriated and made available by participating\ncounties for the purpose of such capital reserve fund;\n  b. Any proceeds of sale of bonds or notes to the extent provided in\nthe resolution or resolutions of the corporation authorizing the\nissuance thereof; and\n  c. Any other moneys that may be made available to the corporation for\nthe purpose of such capital reserve fund from any other source or\nsources. All moneys held in the capital reserve fund, except as\nhereinafter provided, shall be used solely for the payment of the\nprincipal of bonds of the corporation, the payment of interest on such\nbonds, or the payment of any redemption premium required to be paid when\nsuch bonds are redeemed prior to maturity; provided, however, that\nmoneys in such capital reserve fund shall not be withdrawn therefrom at\nany time in such amount as would reduce the amount of such fund to less\nthan the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming\ndue in any succeeding fiscal year of the corporation on all bonds of the\ncorporation then outstanding, except for the purpose of paying principal\nof and interest on such bonds of the corporation maturing and becoming\ndue and for the payment of which other moneys of the corporation are not\navailable. Any income or interest earned by, or increment to, the\ncapital reserve fund due to the investment thereof may be transferred to\nother funds or accounts to the extent it does not reduce the amount of\nthe capital reserve fund below the maximum amount of principal and\ninterest maturing and becoming due in any such succeeding fiscal year on\nall bonds of the corporation then outstanding.\n  2. The corporation shall not issue bonds at any time if the maximum\namount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in a\nsucceeding fiscal year of the corporation on such bonds then to be\nissued and on all other bonds of the corporation then outstanding will\nexceed the amount of the capital reserve fund at the time of issuance of\nsuch bonds, unless the corporation, at the time of issuance of such\nbonds, shall deposit in the capital reserve fund from the proceeds of\nthe bonds so to be issued, or otherwise, an amount which, together with\nthe amount then in such fund, will not be less than the maximum amount\nof principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any such\nsucceeding fiscal year on such bonds then to be issued and on all other\nbonds of the corporation then outstanding.\n  3. For the purposes of computing the amount of the capital reserve\nfund, any securities in which any portion of such fund is invested shall\nbe valued at the par value thereof or at the cost thereof to the\ncorporation if such cost was less than said par value.\n
N.Y. NAV Law § 49-D — New York Code / Act NAV / Article 4 / Part 1 / Section 49-D
Application
Status: in_force

§ 49-d. Application. Sections forty-seven, forty-seven-b, forty-eight,\nforty-nine-a and forty-nine-b of this chapter shall apply to any vessel\noperated on privately or publicly owned underground non-navigable\nwaterways with no navigable inlet or outlet that carry passengers for\ncompensation, either received directly or where provided as an\naccommodation, advantage, facility or privilege at any place of public\naccommodation, resort or amusement.\n