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N.Y. HAY Law § 117 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 6 / Section 117
Construction and reconstruction of county roads
Status: in_force

§ 117. Construction and reconstruction of county roads. Construction\nor reconstruction of such roads, including necessary grade and culvert\nwork, and any plans and specifications therefor, shall conform to an\noutline or general plan of the work, and such construction or\nreconstruction must be done under the immediate direct supervision of\nthe county superintendent or a competent foreman designated by him. All\nor any part of such construction or reconstruction may be done by\ncontract or by direct employment of labor and purchase of material, or\nboth. The machinery needed for work done under this article, unless\nfurnished by the contractor, shall be provided as follows:\n  The county superintendent may rent road machinery from any person,\ncompany, corporation, or from any town or towns in the county, or from\nany other county, and such rental shall be payable from the county road\nfund; or he may use road building machinery, equipment, tools and\nimplements purchased with county moneys, and whenever used for the\npurpose of this article, a charge therefor, in the nature of rental,\nshall be payable from the county road fund on itemized vouchers\ncertified by the county superintendent showing where the machinery was\nused, together with the amount chargeable to each appropriation or\nconstruction project. The provisions of subdivision three of section one\nhundred ninety-five, and of subdivisions four, five and six of section\none hundred ninety-four shall apply to work carried on pursuant to the\nprovisions of this article.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 1413 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 14-A / Section 1413
Applicability
Status: in_force

§ 1413. Applicability. This article shall apply to all causes of\naction accruing on or after September first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-five.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 233 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 13-A / Section 233
Quality marks; description
Status: in_force

§ 233. Quality marks; description.  All quality marks applied to any\narticle shall be equal in size and equally visible, legible, clear and\ndistinct and no quality mark which is false, deceptive or misleading\nshall be applied to any article or to any descriptive device therefor.\nNo more than one quality mark shall be applied to any article and such\nquality mark shall be applied to such article in only one place thereon\nexcept as elsewhere in this article specifically permitted.\n  Wherever in this article provision is made for marking the number of\nparts or percentage of metals, such number or percentage shall refer to\nweight and not to volume, thickness or any other basis.\n
N.Y. COM Law § 496 — New York Code / Act COM / Article 27 / Section 496
Powers and duties of the commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 496. Powers and duties of the commissioner. 1. The commissioner\nshall promulgate regulations establishing an application process and\neligibility criteria, that will be applied consistent with the purposes\nof this article, so as not to exceed the annual cap on tax credits set\nforth in section four hundred ninety-five of this article which,\nnotwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in the state\nadministrative procedure act, may be adopted on an emergency basis.\n  2. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the department of\ntaxation and finance, develop a certificate of tax credit that shall be\nissued by the commissioner to eligible businesses. Such certificate\nshall contain such information as required by the department of taxation\nand finance.\n  3. The commissioner shall solely determine the eligibility of any\napplicant applying for entry into the program and shall remove any\nbusiness entity from the program for failing to meet any of the\nrequirements set forth in section four hundred ninety-three of this\narticle, or for failing to meet the requirements set forth in\nsubdivision one of section four hundred ninety-four of this article.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 239-T — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 12-D / Section 239-T
Filing copies
Status: in_force

§ 239-t. Filing copies. One copy each of any resolution, ordinance or\nlocal law which has been, or which may hereafter be adopted, creating a\ncommission on human rights, or any amendment thereto, shall, on or\nbefore September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, or within five\ndays after its adoption, be filed with the division of human rights.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 5001 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 50 / Section 5001
Saving clause; construction
Status: in_force

§ 5001. Saving clause; construction. 1. Nothing contained in this act\nshall affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or\nacquired, or any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the\ntime when this act shall take effect, under or by virtue of the\nprovision or provisions of the public health law, as in force\nimmediately prior to the time this act shall take effect, but the same\nmay be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the\nsame extent as if this act shall not have taken effect.\n  2. An act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty-four\nwhich adds or purports to add a new article, section, subdivision or\nother provision of law to the public health law, as in force immediately\nprior to the time this act shall take effect, shall be deemed and\nconstrued as having been added to such law, as amended by this act, and\nshall be given full effect according to its context as if the same had\nbeen added expressly and in terms of such law, as amended by this act,\nand shall be deemed and construed to have been inserted in such law, as\namended by this act, in the appropriate respective position in regard to\nand as modifying the effect of the corresponding provision or provisions\nof such law, as amended by this act.\n  3. Reference in any act of the legislature of the year nineteen\nhundred fifty-four to an existing article, section, subdivision or other\nprovision of the public health law, as in force immediately prior to the\ntime this act shall take effect, shall be deemed and construed to refer\nto the corresponding article, section, subdivision or other provision of\nsuch law, as renumbered, modified or amended by this act.\n  4. Reference in any general, special or local law, rule, regulation or\npublic document to any provision or provisions of the public health law,\nas in force immediately prior to the time this act shall take effect,\nshall be deemed to be and construed as a reference to the corresponding\nprovision or provisions of such law, as renumbered, modified or amended\nby this act, irrespective of whether such provision or provisions is or\nare contained in one or more than one title, article, section,\nsubdivision or other part thereof.\n  5. The provisions of this chapter in so far as they are substantially\nthe same as the existing provisions of the public health law shall be\nconstrued as a continuation of the provisions of the former public\nhealth law and not as new enactments.\n  6. This chapter shall not affect pending actions or proceedings, civil\nor criminal, but the same may be prosecuted or defended in the same\nmanner and with the same effect as though this chapter had not been\npassed.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1439-OOO*2 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-A-4*2 / Section 1439-OOO*2
Returns to be secret
Status: in_force

* § 1439-ooo. 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, 2045\n  * NB There are 2 § 1439-ooo's\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1399-J — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13-D / Section 1399-J
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 1399-j. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. "Motel or hotel" shall mean establishments distinguished as hotels,\nmotels, bungalow colonies, or any other establishment comparable or\nequivalent to any of those previously mentioned. The term shall not\ninclude those places or facilities not having the general\ncharacteristics of a motel or hotel as that term is generally understood\nand the State Commissioner of Health shall have the power to except from\nthis article and the Sanitary Code a place or facility that is not\nwithin the intent of this definition of a motel or hotel.\n  2. "Officer" shall mean the health commissioner of a city of fifty\nthousand population and over or of a county or part-county health\ndistrict, or the state district health officer, in whose jurisdiction a\nhotel or motel is located or any county health director having all the\npowers and duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two of this\nchapter.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 674-A — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 17-A / Section 674-A
Manner of investigation when decedent is a donor of an anatomical gift
Status: in_force

§ 674-a. Manner of investigation when decedent is a donor of an\nanatomical gift. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the\ncontrary, if the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner\nor medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part\nof his body as defined in the public health law including properly\nexecuted consent, such body or part thereof being medically suitable for\ntransplant and the donation having been executed pursuant to the\nprovisions of the public health law, the coroner, the coroner's\nphysician or the medical examiner who has notice of such donation shall\nonly perform an autopsy and/or analysis of tissues or organs in a manner\nand within a time period compatible with the preservation for the\npurposes of transplantation of said donation.\n  2. A physician or surgeon authorized to remove the anatomical gift by\nthe public health law may remove the donated part or parts of said\ndonor's body for acceptance by a person authorized to become a donee by\nthe public health law under the following circumstances:\n  a. after completion of an autopsy and/or analysis of tissues or organs\nof said donor by the coroner, the coroner's physician or medical\nexaminer as provided in subdivision one of this section; or\n  b. after notice to the coroner or medical examiner, if such autopsy\nand/or analysis is not undertaken in the manner and within the time\nprovided in subdivision one of this section. The coroner, medical\nexaminer or representative thereof may be present during removal of the\nanatomical gift.\n  3. The physician performing a transplant from a donor under the\ncoroner's or medical examiner's jurisdiction shall file with such\ncoroner or medical examiner a report detailing the condition of and the\nrelationship to the cause of death of the part of the body that is the\nanatomical gift. If appropriate, such report shall include a biopsy or\nmedically approved sample from the anatomical gift.  Such report shall\nbecome part of the coroner's or the medical examiner's report.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 344-N*26 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 12 / Section 344-N*26
Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the "Sergeant Gary Beikirch Memorial Highway"
Status: in_force

* § 344-n. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the\n"Sergeant Gary Beikirch Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state\nhighway system constituting Latta Road, also known as state route\neighteen, between Long Pond Road, also known as county highway one\nhundred thirty-six, and state route three hundred ninety in the town of\nGreece, county of Monroe, shall be designated and known as the "Sergeant\nGary Beikirch Memorial Highway".\n  * NB There are 26 § 344-n's\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 13 — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 2 / Section 13
Removal
Status: in_force

§ 13. Removal.  Any member of the authority may be removed by the\ngovernor for cause after an opportunity to be heard. A statement of the\ncause of his removal shall be filed by the governor in the office of the\nsecretary of state.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 696 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 16 / Section 696
Tax incentives
Status: in_force

§ 696. Tax incentives. Upon the consent of the governing body of any\nmunicipality in which an urban development action area project is or is\nto be located, the real property of a project may be exempted from local\nand municipal taxes, other than assessments for local improvements and\nland value, to the extent of all or part of the value of the improvement\nincluded in such project, for a period of twenty years from the first\ndate on which taxes otherwise would become due in the absence of the\nexemption, during the last ten years of which the exemption shall be\ndecreased in equal annual or biennial decrements according to a formula\nestablished by the governing body at the time it gives its consent to\nthe tax exemption, pursuant to this section. If the project consists of\nnew construction, the land value for purposes of determining exemptions\npermitted by this section shall be the lesser of the assessed valuation\nimmediately prior to commencement of construction or the assessed\nvaluation of the land appearing on the assessment roll in the first year\nafter completion of construction. Such exemption may only be made\navailable where the urban development action area project includes the\nconstruction of a new structure or the renovation, rehabilitation or\nconversion of an existing structure where the cost of such renovation,\nrehabilitation or construction is at least equal to one hundred percent\nof the assessed value of such structure as determined in the tax year\nimmediately preceding the governing body's grant of tax exemption to\nsuch project. Any lease of real property and appurtenances thereto for a\nperiod not exceeding twenty years shall require payments to the\nmunicipality in lieu of taxes. Such additional payments shall be\nrequired to be in equal annual or biennial escalating amounts over the\nlife of any lease for a period not exceeding twenty years so as to\nensure that payments in lieu of taxes made during the final year of such\nlease shall be equal to all local and municipal taxes. All renewals of\nany lease shall include provision for payment of rental and in lieu of\ntax payments greater than or equal to those required during the final\nyear of the original lease. Any lease of real property and appurtenances\nthereto for a period in excess of twenty years but not exceeding\nninety-nine years shall require payments in lieu of taxes. Such payments\nshall commence in the tenth year of such lease and increase in equal\nannual or biennial amounts until the twentieth year so that such\npayments commencing in the twenty-first year and continuing until the\nconclusion of the lease shall be equal to all local and municipal taxes.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 230.10 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title M / Article 230 / Section 230.10
Prostitution and patronizing a person for prostitution; no defense
Status: in_force

§ 230.10 Prostitution and patronizing a person for prostitution; no\n           defense.\n  In any prosecution for prostitution or patronizing a person for\nprostitution, the sex of the two parties or prospective parties to the\nsexual conduct engaged in, contemplated or solicited is immaterial, and\nit is no defense that:\n  1. Such persons were of the same sex; or\n  2. The person who received, agreed to receive or solicited a fee was a\nmale and the person who paid or agreed or offered to pay such fee was a\nfemale.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 130-F — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 4-A / Section 130-F
Actions for accounting by minority groups; expenses thereof
Status: in_force

§ 130-f. Actions for accounting by minority groups; expenses thereof.\nIn any special proceeding or action brought by or on behalf of any\nminority bondholder or group of minority bondholders, or any person or\ngroup of persons not holding at least fifty-one per centum of the stock\nor bonds of the mortgage issue, but claiming an interest in the trust\nproperty, for a judicial accounting, the court may take into\nconsideration the information as to income and disbursements theretofore\nfurnished to bondholders, the merits and good faith of the proceeding or\naction, and whether the accounting will be of value to the bondholders,\nas well as the cost of such accounting, and the court may require that\nthe petitioner or plaintiff furnish a surety company bond to indemnify\nthe estate against the expenses of the accounting, including fees of the\nreferee to take the accounting, stenographic fees, and the expenses of\nthe trustee, and may direct that, if it should appear that the\naccounting result in any practical benefit to all the bondholders, the\ncourt should then, in its discretion, release the indemnity, and that if\nno such benefit accrue, the petitioner or plaintiff and his attorney\nshould receive no compensation, and the trust fund should be reimbursed\nfor the expenses saddled upon it by reason thereof.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1449-MM — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-D / Section 1449-MM
Apportionment
Status: in_force

* § 1449-mm. Apportionment. A local law adopted by any town in the\nPeconic Bay region, pursuant to this article, shall provide for a method\nof apportionment for determining the amount of tax due whenever the real\nproperty or interest therein is situated within and without the town.\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2050\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 176-D — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 11 / Section 176-D
Funding of fire districts
Status: in_force

§ 176-d. Funding of fire districts. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law to the contrary, a fire district may include as part of\nits budget an appropriation to fund an annual firefighters'\ninspection-dinner for each fire company within the fire district.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 447 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 28 / Section 447
Separability clause
Status: in_force

§ 447. Separability clause.  If any part or provision of this article\nor the application thereof to any person or circumstances 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 the application thereof to other persons or\ncircumstances and the legislature hereby declares that it would have\nenacted this article or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such\nprovision or application thereof been apparent.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 1417 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 14 / Section 1417
Renunciation by nominated executor; retraction thereof 1
Status: in_force

§ 1417. Renunciation by nominated executor; retraction thereof\n  1.  A person named as executor in a will may renounce his right to\nletters testamentary by an acknowledged instrument.\n  2.  A renunciation may be retracted by an instrument executed in like\nmanner as required for the execution of a renunciation at any time\nbefore letters testamentary or letters of administration with will\nannexed have been issued to any other person in his place or after they\nhave been so issued, if such letters have been revoked or the person to\nwhom they were issued has died or become an incompetent and there is no\nother acting executor or administrator.\n  3.  Where a retraction is so made letters testamentary may be issued\nto the person making it upon such notice as directed by the court.\n  4.  An instrument specified in this section must be filed in the court\nhaving jurisdiction over the estate.\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 49-DD — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 3-A / Section 49-DD
Posthumous schedule awards
Status: in_force

§ 49-dd. Posthumous schedule awards. If an employee shall die before\nhe shall have been removed from exposure to harmful noise for a period\nof at least three consecutive months as hereinbefore provided, an award\nmay be made payable in accordance with the provisions of subdivision\nfour of section fifteen of this chapter and such award shall not be\nbarred by the fact that the deceased shall not have been removed from\nharmful noise for a period of at least three consecutive months. In such\ncase the extent and degree of the employee's occupational loss of\nhearing, and the award, if any, to be paid for such loss under\nsubdivision three of section fifteen of this chapter, shall be\ndetermined upon the submission of proper proof of the occupational loss\nof hearing sustained by the deceased employee. The date of disablement\nshall be the date of the employee's death.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 500-L — New York Code / Act COR / Article 20 / Section 500-L
Release on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays
Status: in_force

§ 500-l. Release on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.  When the date of\nrelease from imprisonment in any county jail or jail farm, any city\nprison or workhouse, falls on Saturday or Sunday, it shall be deemed to\nfall on the preceding Friday. When the date of such release falls on a\nlegal holiday it shall be deemed to fall on the preceding day, except\nthat when such legal holiday falls on a Monday the date of release shall\nbe deemed to fall on the preceding Friday. This section shall also apply\nto civil prisoners confined in any jail or prison. This section shall\nnot apply to a sentence of intermittent imprisonment imposed pursuant to\narticle eighty-five or paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section 60.01\nof the penal law.\n
N.Y. LIE Law § 163 — New York Code / Act LIE / Article 7 / Section 163
Penalty
Status: in_force

§ 163. Penalty. A person who neglects or refuses to file and post such\nstatement as required in this article, or falsely states the pedigree of\nsuch stallion or bull in such statement, forfeits all fees for the\nservices of such stallion or bull and is liable to a person deceived or\ndefrauded thereby for the damages sustained.\n