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N.Y. BNK Law § 372-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 9-A / Section 372-A
Superintendent authorized to examine
Status: in_force

§ 372-a. Superintendent authorized to examine. 1. For the purpose of\ndiscovering violations of this article or securing information lawfully\nrequired in this section, the superintendent may at any time, and as\noften as may be determined, either personally or by a person duly\ndesignated by the superintendent, investigate the cashing of checks by\nlicensees and examine the books, accounts, records, and files used\ntherein of every licensee.\n  2. For the purpose established in subdivision one of this section, the\nsuperintendent and his or her duly designated representatives shall have\nfree access to the offices and places of business, books, accounts,\npapers, records, files, safes and vaults of all such licensees. The\nsuperintendent shall have authority to require the attendance of and to\nexamine under oath all persons whose testimony may be required relative\nto such cashing of checks or such business.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 135.05 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title H / Article 135 / Section 135.05
Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree
Status: in_force

§ 135.05 Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree.\n  A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment in the second degree when\nhe restrains another person.\n  Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. TCP Law § 71 — New York Code / Act TCP / Article 6 / Section 71
Powers
Status: in_force

§ 71. Powers. Any such corporation shall have power to take by grant\nor by assignment a franchise or right to establish and operate a ferry\nor ferries, as specified in the certificate of incorporation, subject to\nthe rights of any person, or municipal or other corporation.\n  In any case when an application is made to the local governing body of\na county without the city of New York for a grant such local governing\nbody is authorized to make such grant if a public necessity therefor is\nshown. Whenever it is shown to such local governing body upon an\napplication for a grant that the tangible property of a ferry\ncorporation, employed or to be employed in the exercise of a ferry\nfranchise or right, is of the value of at least ten thousand dollars,\nsuch local governing body may grant such franchise or right for a period\nnot exceeding fifteen years.\n  A ferry corporation, now enjoying a grant from a county court or such\nlocal governing body for a shorter period, shall be entitled to an\nextension thereof for a period not exceeding fifteen years from the time\nof granting such extension, on application and due proof to the local\ngoverning body of a county that its tangible property, employed in the\nexercise of such ferry franchise or right, is of the value of at least\nten thousand dollars.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 2112 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 21-A / Section 2112
Filing of papers in the appellate division by electronic means
Status: in_force

§ 2112. Filing of papers in the appellate division by electronic\nmeans.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as\notherwise provided in subdivision (c) of section twenty-one hundred\neleven of this article, the appellate division in each judicial\ndepartment may promulgate rules authorizing a program in the use of\nelectronic means for: (i) appeals to such court from the judgment or\norder of a court of original instance or from that of another appellate\ncourt, (ii) making a motion for permission to appeal to such court,\n(iii) commencement of any other proceeding that may be brought in such\ncourt, and (iv) the filing and service of papers in pending actions and\nproceedings. Provided however, such rules shall not require an\nunrepresented party or any attorney who furnishes a certificate\nspecified in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph three of subdivision\n(b) of section twenty-one hundred eleven of this article to take or\nperfect an appeal by electronic means.  Provided further, however,\nbefore promulgating any such rules, the appellate division in each\njudicial department shall consult with the chief administrator of the\ncourts and shall provide an opportunity for review and comment by all\nthose who are or would be affected including city, state, county and\nwomen's bar associations; institutional legal service providers;\nnot-for-profit legal service providers; attorneys assigned pursuant to\narticle eighteen-B of the county law; unaffiliated attorneys who\nregularly appear in proceedings that are or have been affected by the\nprograms that have been implemented or who may be affected by\npromulgation of rules concerning the use of the electronic filing\nprogram in the appellate division of any judicial department; and any\nother persons in whose county a program has been implemented in any of\nthe courts therein as deemed to be appropriate by any appellate\ndivision. To the extent practicable, rules promulgated by the appellate\ndivision in each judicial department pursuant to this section shall be\nuniform and may apply to any appellate term established by an appellate\ndivision.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 744 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 14-B / Section 744
Acts prohibited
Status: in_force

* § 744. Acts prohibited. 1. No buy-now-pay-later lender shall take or\ncause to be taken any confession of judgment or any power of attorney to\nconfess judgment or to appear for the consumer in a judicial proceeding.\n  2. No buy-now-pay-later lender shall:\n  (a) employ any scheme, device, or artifice to defraud or mislead a\nborrower;\n  (b) engage in any deceptive or unfair practice toward any person or\nmisrepresent or omit any material information in connection with the\nbuy-now-pay-later loans, including, but not limited to, misrepresenting\nthe amount, nature or terms of any fee or payment due or claimed to be\ndue on the loan, the terms and conditions of the loan agreement or the\nborrower's obligations under the loan;\n  (c) misapply payments to the outstanding balance of any buy-now-pay-\nlater loan or to any related fees;\n  (d) provide inaccurate information to a consumer reporting agency; or\n  (e) make any false statement or make any omission of a material fact\nin connection with any information or reports filed with a governmental\nagency or in connection with any investigation conducted by the\nsuperintendent or another governmental agency.\n  * NB Effective upon the one hundred eightieth day after the\npromulgation of rules and/or regulations by the department of financial\nservices to effectuate certain provisions (see Ch. 58 of 2025, Part Y, §\n13)\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 703 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 20 / Section 703
Rights of employees
Status: in_force

§ 703. Rights of employees. Employees shall have the right of\nself-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to\nbargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and\nto engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective\nbargaining or other mutual aid or protection, free from interference,\nrestraint, or coercion of employers, but nothing contained in this\narticle shall be interpreted to prohibit employees from exercising the\nright to confer with their employer at any time, provided that during\nsuch conference there is no attempt by the employer, directly or\nindirectly, to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the\nexercise of the rights guaranteed by this section.\n  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for farm laborers the term\n"concerted activities" shall not include a right to strike or other\nconcerted stoppage of work or slowdown.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 6-O — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 2 / Section 6-O
Solid waste management facility reserve funds
Status: in_force

§ 6-o. Solid waste management facility reserve funds. The governing\nbody of a municipality may establish a fund, to be known as a solid\nwaste management facility reserve fund of such municipality. There shall\nbe deposited in such reserve fund such amounts as such governing body\nshall from time to time deem appropriate, which may include, but need\nnot be limited to, such percentage of fees received by such municipality\nfrom the operation of municipally owned or operated solid waste\nmanagement facilities as defined in title seven of article twenty-seven\nof the environmental conservation law, as deemed appropriate by such\nmunicipality. Moneys in the solid waste management facility reserve fund\nshall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of\nthis article and shall be appropriated only for the purpose of paying\namounts due for the design, construction and operation, of solid waste\nmanagement facilities owned or operated by such municipality, and for\nclosure, or post-closure care, including operation and maintenance\nexpenses of solid waste management facilities owned or operated by or on\nbehalf of such municipality. The management of a solid waste management\nfacility reserve fund established pursuant to this section and shall be\nsubject to the provisions of subdivision seven, eight and ten of section\nsix-h of this article and the investment of moneys therein shall be\nsubject to the provisions of section eleven of this article. The\ngoverning board of a municipality may authorize the transfer of funds\nfrom the solid waste management facility reserve fund to the credit of\nanother capital reserve fund if the unexpended balance remaining in the\nfund established for a specific capital improvement has been completed,\nafter deducting from such balance a sum sufficient to satisfy all\noutstanding claims arising from the construction, reconstruction or\nacquisition of such capital improvement. For the purposes of this\nsection the term "municipality" shall mean a municipal corporation, as\ndefined in section two of this chapter or any designated agency thereof,\nor a solid waste management district, public authority or public benefit\ncorporation having power to construct, operate and maintain a solid\nwaste management facility.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 220.43 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title M / Article 220 / Section 220.43
Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the\nfirst degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells:\n  1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances\ncontaining a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or\nsubstances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or\n  2.  methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred\neighty milligrams or more.\n  Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree is a class\nA-I felony.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 66-F — New York Code / Act STF / Article 5-A / Section 66-F
Certain interagency transfers authorized
Status: in_force

§ 66-f. Certain interagency transfers authorized.  The director of the\nbudget may, if necessary, authorize the transfer of monies from one\nstate department, agency or the city university of New York to pay for\ninstallment purchases or lease purchases made on its behalf, to another\nstate department, agency or the city university of New York under a\nmulti-agency installment purchase contract financed through the issuance\nof certificates of participation or similar instruments, but in no case\nshall the aggregate of state payments exceed the total amount actually\nappropriated for the underlying installment purchase obligations. The\ndirector of the budget shall file his approval of a certificate of\nallocation for such a transfer with the state comptroller and the chairs\nof the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means\ncommittee.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 190-A — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 7 / Section 190-A
When domestic or foreign corporation or joint-stock association deemed resident
Status: in_force

§ 190-a. When domestic or foreign corporation or joint-stock\nassociation deemed resident. For the purpose of determining jurisdiction\nunder section one hundred ninety, a domestic corporation or joint-stock\nassociation is deemed a resident of a county in which its principal\nplace of business is established by or pursuant to a statute or by its\narticles of association, or in which its principal place of business or\nany part of its plant, shops, factories or offices is actually located,\nor in the case of a railroad corporation, in which any portion of the\nroad operated by it is located, and a foreign corporation is to be\ndeemed a resident of a county if it maintains any plant, store, office,\nwarehouse or other facility for doing business within such county; and\npersonal service of a paper by which an action or special proceeding is\ncommenced, made within the county, as prescribed in the civil practice\nlaw and rules, is sufficient service thereof upon a domestic corporation\nwherever it is located.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 605 — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 13 / Section 605
Laws repealed
Status: in_force

§ 605. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto\nannexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed,\nexcept as provided in sections ninety-six and six hundred four.\n                        SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED\nPublic Housing      Article 1        Subdivision 14-a of section 3\nLaw                 Article 7        Sections 129, 130, 131, 134, 135\n                    Article 9        All\nLaws of             Chapter          Section\n     1941             892               All\n     1942             845               All\n     1943             234               All\n     1946             673               All\n     1947             840               All\n     1951             190               All\n     1955             407               All except section 2\n     1956             564               All\n     1956             832               All\n     1956             877               All\n     1957             218               All\n     1957             334               All\n     1957             608               All\n     1957             750               All\n     1957             971               All\n     1957             973               Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4\n     1958             364               All\n     1958             505               Sections 1 and 2\n     1958             656               All\n     1958             904               All\n     1958             957               Section 1\n     1959             486               All\n     1959             675               Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4\n     1959             727               All\n     1960             116               Sections 1 and 2\n     1960             359               Sections 4, 5 and 6\n     1960             669               All\n     1960             670               Sections 1, 2 and 3\n     1960             671               All except section 3\n     1960             694               All\n     1960             892               Section 3\n     1960             959               Section 2\n     1960             990               All\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1438-D — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-A-1 / Section 1438-D
Liability for tax
Status: in_force

* § 1438-d. Liability for tax. 1. The real estate transfer tax shall\nbe paid by the grantee. If the grantee has failed to pay the tax imposed\npursuant to this article or if the grantee is exempt from such tax, the\ngrantor shall have the duty to pay the tax. Where the grantor has the\nduty to pay the tax because the grantee has failed to pay the tax, such\ntax shall be the joint and several liability of the grantee and the\ngrantor.\n  2. For the purpose of the proper administration of this article and to\nprevent evasion of the tax hereby imposed, it shall be presumed that all\nconveyances are subject to the tax. Where the consideration includes\nproperty other than money, it shall be presumed that the consideration\nis the fair market value of the real property or interest therein. These\npresumptions shall prevail until the contrary is proven, and the burden\nof proving the contrary shall be on the person liable for payment of the\ntax.\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2026\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 403 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 19 / Section 403
Certificate of incorporation
Status: in_force

§ 403. Certificate of incorporation. (a) If the meeting held pursuant\nto section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society\nshall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the\ntwo inspectors of election shall execute a certificate entitled\n"Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to article nineteen of the\nReligious Corporations Law."  This certificate shall state:\n  (1) the name of the proposed corporation,\n  (2) a statement that it is a member of the Unitarian Universalist\nAssociation,\n  (3) the number of trustees thereof or that the number of trustees\nshall not be less than a stated minimum nor more than a stated maximum,\n  (4) the names and residences of the trustees until the first annual\nmeeting,\n  (5) the terms of office for which the trustees were respectively\nelected,\n  (6) the county, town, city or village in which the principal place of\nworship or office is or is intended to be located.\n  (b) On the filing and recording of such certificate the persons\nqualified to vote at such meeting and those persons who shall thereafter\nfrom time to time be qualified voters at the corporate meetings thereof\nshall be a corporation by the name stated in such certificate and the\npersons therein stated to be elected trustees of such society shall be\nthe trustees thereof for the terms for which they were respectively\nelected and until their respective successors shall be elected.\n
N.Y. EPT Law § 6-5.8 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 6 / Part 5 / Section 6-5.8
Heirs or distributees of life tenant take as purchasers
Status: in_force

§ 6-5.8 Heirs or distributees of life tenant take as purchasers\n  When a remainder is limited to the heirs, heirs of the body or\ndistributees of a person to whom a life estate in the same property is\ngiven, the persons who, on the termination of the life estate, are the\nheirs, heirs of the body or distributees of the life tenant take as\npurchasers.\n
N.Y. PBL Law § 36 — New York Code / Act PBL / Article 3 / Section 36
Issue of patents
Status: in_force

§ 36. Issue of patents.  On the production to the commissioner of\ngeneral services by the purchaser, his representative or assignee of any\ncertificate heretofore issued by the state engineer and a receipt\nshowing payment to the state of the whole of the purchase-money, the\npurchaser's bond on such sale shall be cancelled by the state department\nhaving custody of such bond and such commissioner shall deliver letters\npatent for the lands sold to the person entitled thereto.  If such\ncertificate be lost or wrongfully withheld by any person from the owner\nthereof, such commissioner may receive evidence of such loss or wrongful\ndetention, and issue a patent to the person who, on satisfactory proof,\nappears to him to be entitled thereto.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 95 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 5-A / Section 95
Incorporation of Christian Orthodox Catholic churches of the Eastern Confession
Status: in_force

§ 95. Incorporation of Christian Orthodox Catholic churches of the\nEastern Confession. An unincorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church\nof the Eastern Confession in this state may become incorporated as a\nchurch by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of\nincorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall be\nknown and the county, town, city or village where its principal place of\nworship is, or is intended to be located.\n  A certificate of incorporation of an unincorporated Christian Orthodox\nCatholic church of the Eastern Confession shall be executed and\nacknowledged by six lay members of such church.\n  On filing such certificate such church shall be a corporation by the\nname stated in the certificate.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 5524 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 55 / Section 5524
Entry of order; remittitur and further proceedings
Status: in_force

Rule 5524. Entry of order; remittitur and further proceedings. (a)\nEntry of order in appellate court. An order of a court to which an\nappeal is taken shall be entered in the office of the clerk of that\ncourt.\n  (b) Remittitur and further proceedings.  A copy of the order of the\ncourt to which an appeal is taken determining the appeal, together with\nthe record on appeal, shall be remitted to the clerk of the court of\noriginal instance except that where further proceedings are ordered in\nanother court, they shall be remitted to the clerk of such court.  The\nentry of such copy shall be authority for any further proceedings.  Any\njudgment directed by the order shall be entered by the clerk of the\ncourt to which remission is made.\n
N.Y. SCT Law § 42 — New York Code / Act SCT / Article 2 / Section 42
Advertisement of notice of unpaid taxes by county treasurer
Status: in_force

§ 42. Advertisement of notice of unpaid taxes by county treasurer.\nAfter the receipt of the tax rolls from the town tax receivers, the\ncounty treasurer shall cause a notice to be published in two consecutive\nissues of one newspaper in each town of the county of Suffolk, which\nnewspaper shall be designated by the county treasurer. Said notice to be\nsubstantially as follows:\n                           NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS\n  The County Treasurer has received the tax rolls from the town tax\nreceivers, indicating unpaid taxes therein and unless such unpaid taxes\nwith interest and accrued penalties be paid on or before (insert date)\nthe property against which said taxes are levied will be advertised and,\non the (insert date) thereafter sold. The tax rolls will remain open for\nexamination in the County Treasurer's office at Riverhead. Any taxpayer\ninterested may send a brief description of his property to the County\nTreasurer and the amount of the unpaid tax, if any, will be forwarded to\nhim.\n                                         .............. County Treasurer\nSuch notice shall be published in said newspapers in a conspicuous place\nmainly in agate or similar type in a space not exceeding three inches.\nSuch notice shall specify the date on which such property will be sold.\nThe county treasurer may likewise publish said notice in one or more\nother newspapers published within or without the county.  Failure to\nmail or publish such notice will not invalidate or affect the validity\nof any tax sale of property mentioned or described in said lists.\n