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N.Y. TWN Law § 293 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 17 / Section 293
Exception
Status: in_force

§ 293. Exception. All provisions of the preceding sections of this\narticle which are inconsistent with the provisions of chapter\nseventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended by\nchapter four hundred thirty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred\nninety-nine, shall not apply to Greenfield cemetery in Hempstead, Nassau\ncounty, or to the trustees or management thereof.\n
N.Y. ACA Law § 20.45 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title E / Article 20 / Section 20.45
Separability
Status: in_force

§ 20.45. Separability. If any provision of any section of this article\nand each special law enacted pursuant to this article or the application\nthereof to any person or circumstance shall be judged invalid by a court\nof competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined in\nits operation to the controversy in which it was rendered, and shall not\naffect or invalidate the remainder of any provision of any section of\nthis article and each such special law or the application thereof to any\nother person or circumstances, and to this end each provision of this\narticle and each such special law is hereby declared to be severable.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 130.43 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 7 / Part 7 / Section 130.43
Statute of limitations
Status: in_force

§ 130.43. Statute of limitations.  (a) A person charged with desertion\nor absence without leave in time of war, or with aiding the enemy or\nwith mutiny may be tried and punished at any time without limitation.\n  (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person charged\nwith desertion in time of peace or any of the offenses punishable under\nsections 130.112 and 130.113 shall not be liable to be tried by\ncourt-martial if the offense was committed more than three years before\nthe receipt of sworn charges and specifications by an officer exercising\nsummary court-martial jurisdiction over the command.\n  (c) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a person charged\nwith any offense shall not be liable to be tried by court-martial or\npunished under section 130.15 if the offense was committed more than two\nyears before the receipt of sworn charges and specifications by an\nofficer exercising summary court-martial jurisdiction over the command\nor before the imposition of punishment under section 130.15.\n  (d) Periods in which the accused was absent from territory in which\nthe state has the authority to apprehend him, or in the custody of civil\nauthorities, or in the hands of the enemy, shall be excluded in\ncomputing the period of limitation prescribed in this section.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 253 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 8 / Section 253
Clerk's fees upon naturalization
Status: in_force

§ 253. Clerk's fees upon naturalization. The clerk of any court, which\nhas jurisdiction to naturalize a noncitizen, is entitled, for the\nservices specified in this section, to the following fees:\n  For all services, upon the filing of a declaration of intention by a\nnoncitizen to become a citizen, including the oath or affirmation, the\nrecording of the same, and a certificate thereof delivered to the\nnoncitizen, twenty cents.\n  For all services, upon the admission of the noncitizen to be a\ncitizen, including the recording of the papers, and a certified copy of\nthe record, which must be delivered to any person requiring it, fifty\ncents.\n
N.Y. UJC Law § 1706 — New York Code / Act UJC / Article 17 / Section 1706
Appeals from appellate court
Status: in_force

§ 1706. Appeals from appellate court.\n  Appeals from the judgment or order of an appelate court, on appeal\nfrom this court, shall be governed by the CPLR.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 65 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 5 / Section 65
Register
Status: in_force

§ 65. Register. The attorney-general shall keep a register of all\nactions and proceedings prosecuted or defended by him, and of all\nproceedings in relation thereto, and shall deliver the same to his\nsuccessor.\n
N.Y. TCP Law § 17 — New York Code / Act TCP / Article 2 / Section 17
Construction over Indian reservation
Status: in_force

§ 17. Construction over Indian reservation. A gas corporation, an\nelectric corporation or a gas and electric corporation may contract with\nthe chiefs of any nation of Indians over whose lands it may be necessary\nto construct its gas or electric lines for the right to construct such\nlines upon such lands, but no such contract shall vest in the\ncorporation the fee of such lands nor the right to occupy the same for\nany purpose other than for the construction, operation and maintenance\nof such lines, nor shall such contract be valid or effectual until the\nsame has been ratified by the county court of the county in which the\nlands are situated and approved by the public service commission\npursuant to section sixty-eight of the public service commission law.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 170 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 7 / Section 170
Contracts prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 170. Contracts prohibited. 1. The commissioner shall not, nor shall\nany other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or\ntime of any incarcerated individual in any state or local correctional\nfacility in this state, or the product or profit of his or her work,\nshall be contracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to any person, firm,\nassociation or corporation; except that the incarcerated individuals in\nsaid correctional institutions may work for, and the products of their\nlabor may be disposed of to, the state or any political subdivision\nthereof, any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the\nstate, or any political subdivision thereof, provided that no\nincarcerated individual shall be employed or assigned to engage in any\nactivity that involves obtaining access to, collecting or processing\nsocial security account numbers of other individuals.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be lawful for\nan incarcerated individual of the department to work in an institution\nof the department in the manufacture and production of goods, including\nbut not limited to, license plates, identification plates and insignia\nfor vehicles, and for the department to sell or otherwise dispose of for\nprofit such goods to the government of the United States or to any state\nof the United States, or political subdivision thereof, or any public\ncorporation or eleemosynary association or corporation funded in whole\nor in part by any federal, state or local funds.\n  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an incarcerated\nindividual may be permitted to leave the institution under guard to\nvoluntarily perform work for a nonprofit organization. As used in this\nsection, the term "nonprofit organization" means an organization\noperated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes,\nno part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any\nprivate shareholder or individual.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 542 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 5 / Part 4 / Section 542
Order of filiation
Status: in_force

§ 542. Order of filiation.  (a) If the court finds the male party is\nthe father of the child, it shall make an order of filiation, declaring\npaternity. Such order shall contain the social security number of the\ndeclared father.\n  (b) If the respondent willfully fails to appear before the court\nsubsequent to the administration and analysis of a genetic marker test\nor DNA test administered pursuant to sections four hundred eighteen and\nfive hundred thirty-two of this act or section one hundred eleven-k of\nthe social services law, and if such test does not exclude the\nrespondent as being the father of the child or the court determines that\nthere exists clear and convincing evidence of paternity, the court shall\nenter an order of temporary support notwithstanding that paternity of\nsuch child has not been established nor an order of filiation entered\nagainst the respondent.  The respondent shall be prospectively relieved\nfrom liability for support under such order of temporary support upon\nthe respondent's appearance before the court.\n  (c) If the respondent willfully fails to comply with an  order made by\neither the court pursuant to sections four hundred eighteen and five\nhundred thirty-two of this act or by a social services official or\ndesignee pursuant to section one hundred eleven-k of the social services\nlaw, and willfully fails to appear before the court when otherwise\nrequired, the court shall enter an order of temporary support\nnotwithstanding that paternity of the subject child has not been\nestablished nor an order of filiation entered against the respondent.\nThe respondent shall be prospectively relieved from liability for\nsupport under such order of temporary support upon the respondent's\ncompliance with such order and subsequent appearance before the court.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 1082 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 10 / Part 8 / Section 1082
Approval, modification or denial of visitation rights
Status: in_force

§ 1082. Approval, modification or denial of visitation rights. 1.  (a)\nUpon receipt of a petition pursuant to subdivision four of section one\nthousand eighty-one of this part, the local department of social\nservices shall make inquiry of the state central register of child abuse\nand maltreatment to determine whether or not the petitioner is a subject\nof an indicated report of child abuse or maltreatment, as such terms are\ndefined in section four hundred twelve of the social services law, and\nshall further ascertain whether or not the petitioner is a respondent in\na proceeding under this article whereby the child with whom visitation\nis sought has been allegedly abused or neglected or has been adjudicated\nas an abused or neglected child.\n  (b) The department, the child's attorney and the respondent in a\nproceeding under this article, shall have the right to be heard with\nrespect to a petition for an order to enforce visitation rights under\nthis part.\n  2. Where the local department of social services or the child's\nattorney opposes a petition described in section one thousand eighty-one\nof this part, the department or the child's attorney as appropriate\nshall serve and file an answer to the petition. The court shall, upon\nthe filing of such answer, set a date for a hearing on such petition and\nshall notify the parents, grandparent or grandparents, the department\nand the child's attorney of such hearing date.\n  3. Whenever a hearing described in subdivision two of this section is\nto be held within ten court days of a dispositional hearing authorized\nunder this article, the court may in its discretion hear such petition\nas part of such dispositional hearing.\n  4. In any hearing under this section, the court shall approve such\npetition unless the court finds upon competent, relevant and material\nevidence that enforcement of visitation rights as described in the\norder, judgment or agreement would endanger the child's life or health.\nUpon such a finding, the court shall make an order denying such petition\nor make such other order affecting enforcement of visitation rights as\nthe court deems to be in the best interests of the child.\n  5. (a) Where a petition is approved pursuant to this section the\nparties may agree in writing to an alternative schedule of visitation\nequivalent to and consistent with the original or modified visitation\norder or agreement where such alternative schedule reflects changed\ncircumstances of the parties and is consistent with the best interests\nof the child.\n  (b) In the absence of such an agreement between the parties, the court\nmay, in its discretion, order an alternative schedule of visitation as\ndefined herein, where it determines that such schedule is necessary to\nfacilitate visitation and to protect the best interests of the child.\n
N.Y. DEA Law § 23-A — New York Code / Act DEA / Article 3 / Section 23-A
Authority of political subdivisions to provide facilities and materials essential to public safety
Status: in_force

§ 23-a. Authority of political subdivisions to provide facilities and\nmaterials essential to public safety.  Each political subdivision of the\nstate, the board of higher education in the city of New York, and, with\nrespect to property located in the state of New York, the port of New\nYork authority and the waterfront commission of New York harbor, shall\nhave power:\n  a. To acquire, construct, install and maintain shelters, including\nfallout shelters, and other civil defense facilities and to acquire,\nstore and maintain materials, such shelters, facilities and materials\nbeing for the protection, safety and health of students, faculty,\nadministrative staff, employees and the public at large during and\nsubsequent to attack, provided\n  i. such acquisition, construction, installation, maintenance and\nstorage is not inconsistent with the plan, regulations or orders of the\ncommission or with the applicable local plan promulgated pursuant to\nsubdivision one of section twenty-three of this act; and\n  ii. such acquisition, construction, installation, maintenance and\nstorage is effected by contract, let in the manner provided by law, by\nemployees of such political subdivision, board, authority or commission,\nby agreement for the effectuation thereof by the owner of the building,\nstructure or real property to be used in connection therewith or in any\nmanner authorized by other provisions of law.\n  b. To utilize any publicly owned building, structure, real property or\npersonal property in connection with such acquisition, construction,\ninstallation, maintenance and storage with the approval of the\nappropriate officer or agency having control thereof, subject to such\nterms and conditions as may be agreed to by such officer or agency.\n  c. To acquire in connection with such acquisition, construction,\ninstallation, maintenance and storage any real or personal property, or\nany interest therein, or the right to use the same for a temporary\nperiod by purchase, lease or other agreement with the owner thereof or\nby authorization to use without consideration. Nothing contained in this\nsection shall limit the power of such political subdivision, board,\nauthority or commission to condemn or otherwise acquire real or personal\nproperty for such purposes under other provisions of law.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 240 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 10 / Section 240
Scaffolding and other devices for use of employees
Status: in_force

§ 240. Scaffolding and other devices for use of employees. 1.  All\ncontractors and owners and their agents, except owners of one and\ntwo-family dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the\nwork, in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting,\ncleaning or pointing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect,\nor cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor,\nscaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys,\nbraces, irons, ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed,\nplaced and operated as to give proper protection to a person so\nemployed.\n  No liability pursuant to this subdivision for the failure to provide\nprotection to a person so employed shall be imposed on professional\nengineers as provided for in article one hundred forty-five of the\neducation law, architects as provided for in article one hundred\nforty-seven of such law or landscape architects as provided for in\narticle one hundred forty-eight of such law who do not direct or control\nthe work for activities other than planning and design. This exception\nshall not diminish or extinguish any liability of professional engineers\nor architects or landscape architects arising under the common law or\nany other provision of law.\n  2. Scaffolding or staging more than twenty feet from the ground or\nfloor, swung or suspended from an overhead support or erected with\nstationary supports, except scaffolding wholly within the interior of a\nbuilding and covering the entire floor space of any room therein, shall\nhave a safety rail of suitable material properly attached, bolted,\nbraced or otherwise secured, rising at least thirty-four inches above\nthe floor or main portions of such scaffolding or staging and extending\nalong the entire length of the outside and the ends thereof, with only\nsuch openings as may be necessary for the delivery of materials. Such\nscaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent it from\nswaying from the building or structure.\n  3. All scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear four times the\nmaximum weight required to be dependent therefrom or placed thereon when\nin use.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 207 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 12 / Section 207
Sale of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his lien
Status: in_force

§ 207. Sale of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his\nlien. Any keeper of a hotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn,\nboarding-house, rooming house or lodging-house, except an immigrant\nlodging-house, who shall have a lien for fare, lodging, accommodation or\nboard upon any goods, baggage or other chattel property, or, who, for a\nperiod of six months, shall have in custody any unclaimed trunk, box,\nvalise, package or parcel, or other chattel property, may, in the manner\nprovided by this section, sell the same at public auction to the highest\nbidder for cash, and out of the proceeds of such sale may, in case of\nlien, retain the amount of such lien and the expense of advertisement\nand sale, and the expense of storage, advertisement and sale thereof.\nNot less than fifteen days prior to the time of the sale, a notice of\nthe time and place of holding the sale, and containing a brief\ndescription of the goods, baggage and articles to be sold, shall be\npublished in a newspaper published in the city or town in which such\nhotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house, rooming-house or\nlodging-house is situated; but if there be none, then in such newspaper\npublished nearest such city or town; if the name and address of said\nguest, boarder, roomer or owner of such chattel articles and property,\nappears upon the records of such keeper, such notice shall also be\nmailed to said guest, boarder, roomer or owner, addressed to such\naddress; such notice shall be mailed in the manner aforesaid at least\nfifteen days prior to the time of the sale.\n
N.Y. VAW Law § 50 — New York Code / Act VAW / Article 4 / Section 50
Payments pending controversies
Status: in_force

§ 50. Payments pending controversies. In order that the benefits to be\npaid and provided under this chapter shall be paid promptly where such\nbenefits are conceded to be due to any person because of the death of or\ninjuries to a volunteer ambulance worker, but controversy exists as to\nwhich political subdivision or volunteer ambulance company is liable for\nthe payment thereof, the municipal corporations, volunteer ambulance\ncompanies and ambulance districts involved in such controversy and their\ninsurance carriers, if any, may agree that any one or more of such\nmunicipal corporations, volunteer ambulance company or ambulance\ndistricts or its insurance carrier shall pay or provide the benefits to,\nor in relation to, the person conceded to be entitled to such benefits\nwithout waiting for a final determination of the controversy, and may\ncarry out the provisions of such an agreement. Notwithstanding any such\npayment, any party to the agreement may seek a final determination of\nthe controversy in the same manner as if such benefits had not been paid\nor provided and any such payment or provision of benefits shall not\nprejudice any rights of the political subdivision, volunteer ambulance\ncompany or its insurance carrier paying or providing the same, nor be\ntaken as an admission against interest.  After a final determination the\nparties to the agreement shall make any necessary and proper\nreimbursement to conform to the determination.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 38-0105 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 38 / Section 38-0105
Distribution and sale of products containing chlorofluorocarbon compounds
Status: in_force

§ 38-0105. Distribution and sale of products containing\n             chlorofluorocarbon compounds.\n  3. The commissioner shall be prepared to implement regulations\ndeveloped pursuant to section 38-0107 of this chapter limiting or\nprohibiting the distribution, sale, or offer or exposure for sale of any\naerosol spray can containing a restricted use chlorofluorocarbon\ncompound as of January first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight should the\ncommissioner affirmatively find pursuant to that section that the\ndistribution, sale, or offer or exposure for sale of restricted use\nchlorofluorocarbon compounds will create significant environmental or\npublic health hazards.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 6-U — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 2 / Section 6-U
Charitable gifts reserve fund
Status: in_force

§ 6-u. Charitable gifts reserve fund. 1. The governing board of any\ncity with a population less than one million, town or village may\nestablish a reserve fund to be known as a charitable gifts reserve fund.\n  2. Such fund may receive unrestricted charitable monetary\ncontributions and the moneys in such fund shall be deposited and secured\nin the manner provided by section ten of this article. The governing\nboard, or the chief fiscal officer of such town, village or city, if the\ngoverning board shall delegate such duty to him or her, may invest the\nmoneys in such fund in the manner provided by section eleven of this\narticle. Any interest earned or capital gain realized on the money so\ndeposited or invested shall accrue to and become part of such fund. The\nseparate identity of such fund shall be maintained whether its assets\nconsist of cash or investments or both.\n  3. At the end of the fiscal year, the governing board of the town,\nvillage or city, within sixty days of the close of the fiscal year, may\ntransfer the funds to the general fund or other fund of the municipal\ncorporation, so that the funds may be used for charitable purposes.\n  4. The governing board shall establish a procedure for contributions\nto the charitable gifts reserve fund, which shall include the provision\nof a written acknowledgment of the gift to the contributor.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 895 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 39-DD / Section 895
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 895. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:\n  1. "Gun show" means an event sponsored, whether for profit or not, by\nan individual, national, state or local organization, association or\nother entity devoted to the collection, competitive use, sporting use,\nor any other legal use of firearms, rifles or shotguns, or an event at\nwhich (a) twenty percent or more of the total number of exhibitors are\nfirearm exhibitors or (b) ten or more firearm exhibitors are\nparticipating or (c) a total of twenty-five or more pistols or revolvers\nare offered for sale or transfer or (d) a total of fifty or more\nfirearms, rifles or shotguns are offered for sale or transfer. The term\ngun show shall include any building, structure or facility where\nfirearms, rifles or shotguns are offered for sale or transfer and any\ngrounds used in connection with the event.\n  2. "Firearm exhibitor" means any person, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or company that exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers,\nor exchanges firearms, rifles or shotguns at a gun show.\n  3. "Gun show operator" means any person, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or company that organizes, produces, sponsors or operates a\ngun show.\n  4. "Firearm" has the same meaning as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C.\n921(a)(3), but shall not include an "antique firearm" as that term is\ndefined in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(16).\n  5. "Rifle" has the same meaning as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C.\n921(a)(7).\n  6. "Shotgun" has the same meaning as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C.\n921(a)(5).\n