N.Y. EDN Law § 212-B — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 1 / Section 212-B
Return of tuition for colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools
Status: in_force

§ 212-b. Return of tuition for colleges, universities, professional,\nproprietary and graduate schools. Any person who pays tuition to a\ncollege, university, professional, proprietary or graduate school and\nwho demands its refund in writing before the thirtieth day before the\ncommencement of the term for which the tuition was paid shall be\nentitled to one hundred percent reimbursement of such tuition within\nsixty days of receipt of such demand by the college, university,\nprofessional, proprietary or graduate school; provided, however, that no\ndeposit on tuition payable upon acceptance shall be governed by the\nprovisions of this section. The provisions of this section shall not\napply if a college, university, professional, proprietary or graduate\nschool enters into a nonrevokable contract for special or extraordinary\ninstructional services after receipt of tuition and in reliance of the\nprospective attendance of the person paying such tuition so long as such\nperson was given notice before paying tuition that such a contract would\nbe entered into.\n  A violator of the provisions of this section shall be liable for a\ncivil penalty not to exceed ten percent of the amount of tuition which\nwas not refunded as herein provided.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 481 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 10-B / Section 481
Plans and specifications
Status: in_force

§ 481. Plans and specifications.  1. (a) No combined occupancy\nstructure shall be acquired, leased, erected, repaired, enlarged or\nremodeled by the fund until the detailed plans and specifications and\ncost estimates for the school portion thereof have been submitted to the\nboard of education and its approval has been endorsed thereon.\n  (b) The board of education shall also review and approve the\narchitectural concept, including an outline of the plans and\nspecifications therefor, of the non-school portion of any combined\noccupancy structure to be erected, repaired, enlarged or remodeled in\naccordance with the provisions of any lease or other agreement between\nthe fund and any developer.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law applicable to the city\nschool district of the city of Yonkers or the board of education of the\ncity of Yonkers, such district and such board shall only be required to\nsubmit an outline of the plans and specifications for a combined\noccupancy structure, and for the school portion thereof, to the\ncommissioner of education for his information.\n  3. Every contract, lease or other agreement executed by or on behalf\nof the fund which makes provision for the construction, acquisition,\nreconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the school portion of\nany combined occupancy structure shall include a provision that the\narchitect who designed the facility, or an architect or engineer\nretained specifically for the purpose of supervision, shall supervise\nthe work to be performed through to completion and shall see to it that\nthe materials furnished are in accordance with the drawings, plans,\nspecifications and contractual provisions therefor.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 935 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 32 / Title 1 / Section 935
Practice by license holder
Status: in_force

§ 935. Practice by license holder. 1. A mold assessment license holder\nwho intends to perform mold assessment on a mold remediation project\nshall prepare a work analysis for the project. The mold assessment\nlicense holder shall provide the analysis to the client before the mold\nremediation begins and such plan must include the analysis as defined in\nsection nine hundred forty-five of this article.\n  2. A mold remediation license holder who intends to perform mold\nremediation shall prepare a work plan providing instructions for the\nremediation efforts to be performed for the mold remediation project.\nThe mold remediation license holder shall provide the work plan to the\nclient before the mold remediation begins. The mold remediation license\nholder shall maintain a copy of the work plan at the job site where the\nremediation is being performed.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 553 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 12 / Section 553
Installments
Status: in_force

§ 553. Installments.  The amount to be apportioned to a qualifying\nschool in any current year shall be paid in two equal installments, the\nfirst to be made on or before January fifteenth and the other not later\nthan June fifteenth of such year, except that for the school year\ncommencing July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one such apportionment\nshall be made in one payment on or before June fifteenth, nineteen\nhundred seventy-two.  The commissioner may provide for later payments\nfor the purpose of adjusting and correcting apportionments.  The amount\nto be apportioned to a qualifying school shall be payable on order and\nwarrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the\ncommissioner in the manner provided by law.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 1309 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 13 / Title 1 / Section 1309
Severability and preemption
Status: in_force

§ 1309. Severability and preemption. 1. If any clause, sentence,\nsubparagraph, paragraph, subdivision, section, article or other portion\nof this article or the application thereof to any person or\ncircumstances shall be held to be invalid, such holding shall not\naffect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this article or the\napplication of such portion held invalid to any other person or\ncircumstances, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,\nsentence, paragraph, subparagraph, subdivision, section, article or\nother portion thereof directly involved in such holding or to the person\nor circumstance therein involved.\n  2. If any provision of this article is inconsistent with, in conflict\nwith, or contrary to any other provision of law, such provision of this\narticle shall prevail over such other provision and such other provision\nshall be deemed to be superseded to the extent of such inconsistency or\nconflict. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the\ncontrary, no local government unit of this state may enact or enforce\nany ordinance or resolution conflicting with any provision of this\narticle or with any policy of this state expressed or implied herein,\nwhether by exclusion or inclusion. The commission shall have exclusive\njurisdiction over all matters delegated to it or within the scope of its\npowers under the provisions of this article.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-Q — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A / Section 1020-Q
Payments in lieu of taxes
Status: in_force

* § 1020-q. Payments in lieu of taxes. 1. Each year after property\ntheretofore owned by LILCO is acquired by the authority by any means\nauthorized by this title and, as a consequence, is removed from the tax\nrolls, the authority shall make payments in lieu of taxes to\nmunicipalities and school districts equal to the taxes and assessments\nwhich would have been received from year to year by each such\njurisdiction if such acquisition had not occurred, provided, however,\nthat for the calendar year starting on January first, two thousand\nfifteen, and for each calendar year thereafter, such payments in lieu of\ntaxes shall not exceed the in lieu of tax payments made to such\nmunicipalities and school districts in the immediately preceding year by\nmore than two percent.\n  2. The authority shall also make payments in lieu of taxes for those\ntaxes which would otherwise be imposed pursuant to sections one hundred\neighty-six-a and one hundred eighty-six-c of the tax law, and to former\nsection one hundred eighty-six-b of the tax law as such section was in\neffect on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and any\ntaxes imposed by a city pursuant to the authorization granted by section\ntwenty-b of the general city law.\n  3. No municipality or governmental subdivision, including a school\ndistrict or special district, shall be liable to the authority or any\nother entity for a refund of property taxes originally assessed against\nthe Shoreham plant. Any judicial determination that the Shoreham plant\nassessment was excessive, unequal or unlawful for any of the years from\nnineteen hundred seventy-six to the effective date of this title shall\nnot result in a refund by any taxing jurisdiction of taxes previously\npaid by LILCO pursuant to such Shoreham plant assessment. The authority\nshall discontinue and abandon all proceedings, brought by its\npredecessor in interest, which seek the repayment of all or part of the\ntaxes assessed against the Shoreham plant.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1020-q's\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 912-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 19 / Section 912-A
Urine analysis; drug detection
Status: in_force

§ 912-a. Urine analysis; drug detection. 1. The school authorities of\neach school district within the state may cause all children attending\ngrades seven through twelve, inclusive, in the public and private\nschools located within such districts, to be separately and carefully\nexamined in order to ascertain whether any such children are making use\nof dangerous drugs.\n  2. Such examination may be made only upon the written request or\nconsent of a parent of, or person in parental relation to, a child. Such\nexamination shall be conducted without notice to the child and shall\ninclude the supervised taking of a urine sample which shall be analyzed\nfor such drugs and in accordance with such standards as shall be\nacceptable to the New York state office of alcoholism and substance\nabuse services, or its successor agency. The results of such examination\nshall be promptly forwarded to the school authorities. If it should be\nascertained, upon such test or examination, that any child is making use\nof dangerous drugs, the school authorities shall report same to the\nsocial services department for the social services district wherein such\nschool is located and to the parent of, or person in parental relation\nto, such child together with a statement to such parent or person in\nparental relation as to available programs and facilities to combat such\ndangerous drug usage. The local social services department shall be\nempowered, in an appropriate case, to take such action and offer such\nprotective social services as are prescribed by title six of article six\nof the social services law.\n  3. Except as required in this section, information resulting from an\nexamination conducted pursuant to this section shall be kept\nconfidential and shall not be used for law enforcement purposes but may\nbe utilized only for statistical, epidemiological or research purposes.\n  4. Any record or information compiled from such examination which\nidentifies an individual student as a user of dangerous drugs shall be\nmaintained separate and apart from such student's other educational\nrecords and in appropriate confidence and shall be destroyed upon such\nstudent's graduation or final severance from the secondary educational\nschool system in this state.\n  Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, no such\nexamination shall be required where a student objects thereto on the\ngrounds that such examinations conflict with their genuine and sincere\nreligious beliefs.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 277 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 2 / Section 277
Authority to raise and receive money for school library
Status: in_force

§ 277. Authority to raise and receive money for school library.  Each\ncity and school district in the state is hereby authorized to raise\nmoneys by tax in the same manner as other school moneys are raised, or\nto receive moneys by gift or devise, for starting, extending or caring\nfor the school library.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 122 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 122
Local authorities
Status: in_force

§ 122. Local authorities.  Every county, municipal or other local\nboard, body or officer, county park commission, parkway authority,\nbridge authority, bridge and tunnel authority, the office of parks and\nrecreation, the New York state thruway authority or similar body or\nperson having authority to enact laws or regulations relating to traffic\nunder the constitution and laws of this state.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 212-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 1 / Section 212-A
Return of deposits for professional and graduate schools
Status: in_force

§ 212-a. Return of deposits for professional and graduate schools.\nAny person who makes a deposit on tuition to a professional or graduate\nschool for the fall semester next following the making of the deposit\nand who demands return of the deposit in writing by the April first\nprevious to such fall semester shall be entitled to the return of such\ndeposit within thirty days of receipt of such demand by the school, and\nsuch professional or graduate school shall return the deposit within\nthirty days.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 609 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 13 / Section 609
Tuition, aid and placement report
Status: in_force

§ 609. Tuition, aid and placement report. In academic year two\nthousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen, all non-public institutions of\nhigher education, recognized and approved by the regents of the\nuniversity of the state of New York, which provide a course of study\nleading to the granting of a four year post-secondary degree or diploma,\nexcept for a non-public degree-granting institution that does not offer\na program of study that leads to a baccalaureate degree, or at a\nregistered not-for-profit business school qualified for tax exemption\nunder section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code for federal income\ntax purposes that does not offer a program of study that leads to a\nbaccalaureate degree, shall report to the senate and assembly chairs of\nthe higher education committees on or before August fifteenth, two\nthousand sixteen, on the following: factors that drive cost increases;\ntuition trends for the past six years and percentage of year to year\nincreases; total cost of fees; if the institution has an endowment and\nthe amount of such endowment; the average institutional financial aid\npackage by income bracket as defined by the National Center for\nEducation Statistics' Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System;\ngraduation rates for four, five and six years; enrollment trends over\nthe past six years; the amount spent to educate students per FTE; the\npercentage of students who are TAP and Pell eligible; administrative and\noperating costs and the percentage of those costs funded by tuition; and\ncost saving measures implemented over the past six years, if any.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1020-C — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-A / Section 1020-C
Long Island power authority; creation
Status: in_force

* § 1020-c. Long Island power authority; creation. 1. For the purpose\nof effectuating the policy declared in section one thousand twenty-a of\nthis title, there is hereby created a corporate municipal\ninstrumentality of the state to be known as the "Long Island power\nauthority", which shall be a body corporate and politic and a political\nsubdivision of the state, exercising essential governmental and public\npowers.\n  2. The area of operations of the authority shall be the service area.\n  3. The authority is not created or organized, and its operations shall\nnot be conducted, for the purpose of making a profit. No part of the\nrevenues or assets of the authority shall inure to the benefit of or be\ndistributable to its trustees or officers or any other private persons,\nexcept as herein provided for actual services rendered.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1020-c's\n
N.Y. MRE Law § 56 — New York Code / Act MRE / Article 4 / Title 1 / Section 56
Exit and directional signs
Status: in_force

§ 56. Exit and directional signs. Every means of egress shall be\nindicated by a sign reading "EXIT" in red letters at least eight inches\nhigh on a white background, or vice versa, illuminated at all times\nduring the day and night by a red light of at least twenty-five watts or\nequivalent illumination.  Such light shall be maintained in a keyless\nsocket. On all stories where doors, openings or passageways giving\naccess to any means of egress are not visible from all portions of such\nstories, directional signs shall be maintained in conspicuous locations,\nindicating in red on a white background, or vice versa, the direction of\ntravel to the nearest means of egress. At least one sign shall be\nvisible from the doorway of each room or suite of rooms. Existing signs\nand illumination may be accepted if, in the opinion of the department,\nsuch existing signs and illumination serve the intent and purpose of\nthis section.  Supplementary stairs, fire-stairs or fire-escapes which\ndo not lead to the entrance story or to a street or to a yard or court,\nleading to a street, shall be clearly marked "NOT AN EXIT" in black\nletters at least four inches high on a yellow background, and at the\ntermination of each such stair, fire-stair or fire-escape, there shall\nbe a directional sign indicating the nearest means of egress leading to\na street. All signs shall be constructed, located and illuminated in a\nmanner satisfactory to the department.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2955 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-A / Title 1 / Section 2955
Restraint of trade by networks and network participants
Status: in_force

§ 2955.  Restraint of trade by networks and network participants.  The\nactivities of rural health networks and providers participating therein,\nundertaken  in  furtherance  of  planning,  implementing  or operating a\nnetwork or promoting the efficient delivery of health care services in a\nrural area, shall be exempt from the provisions and penalties of article\ntwenty-two of the  general  business  law  respecting  arrangements  and\nagreements  in  restraint  of  trade.    No hospital, physician or other\nlicensed or certified health care provider operating in  good  standing,\nserving  the  area  of  the  network,  and willing to meet the terms and\nconditions of the network as defined  in  the  network  plan,  shall  be\ndenied  the  ability  to  participate  therein. Nothing contained herein\nshall be construed to require a hospital to grant  admitting  privileges\nto  a  physician  solely because such physician is a participant in or a\nmember of the network.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 916-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 19 / Section 916-A
Pupils with allergies
Status: in_force

§ 916-a. Pupils with allergies.  1. (a) The board of education or\ntrustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational\nservices shall allow pupils who have been diagnosed by a physician or\nother duly authorized health care provider with an allergy to carry and\nuse a prescribed epinephrine device for the emergency treatment of\nallergic reactions during the school day on school property and at any\nschool function as such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions\none and two of section eleven of this chapter, with the written\npermission of a physician or other duly authorized health provider, and\nwritten parental consent. The written permission shall include an\nattestation by the physician or the health care provider confirming the\nfollowing: (i) the pupil's diagnosis of an allergy for which an\nepinephrine device is needed; and (ii) that the pupil has demonstrated\nthat such pupil can self-administer the prescribed epinephrine device\neffectively. The written permission shall also include the circumstances\nwhich may warrant the use of the epinephrine device. A record of such\nconsent and permission shall be maintained in the student's cumulative\nhealth record. In addition, upon the written request of a parent or\nperson in parental relation, the board of education or trustees of a\nschool district and board of cooperative educational services shall\nallow such pupils to maintain an extra epinephrine device for the\nemergency treatment of allergies in the care and custody of a licensed\nnurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician employed by\nsuch district or board of cooperative educational services, and shall be\nreadily accessible to such pupil. Nothing in this section shall require\na school district or board of cooperative educational services to retain\na licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician\nsolely for the purpose of taking custody of a spare epinephrine device\nfor the emergency treatment of allergic reactions, or require that a\nlicensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician be\navailable at all times in a school building for taking custody of the\nepinephrine device. In addition, the epinephrine device provided by the\npupil's parents or persons in parental relation will be made available\nto the pupil as needed in accordance with the school district's or board\nof cooperative educational services' policy and the orders prescribed in\nthe written permission of the physician or other authorized health care\nprovider.\n  (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine\ndevice" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.\n  2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or\ntheir agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as\na result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person\ncaused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 379 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 14 / Title 1 / Section 379
Dressing rooms
Status: in_force

§ 379. Dressing rooms. In every mercantile establishment or restaurant\nwhere more than five women are employed and in every terminal or car\nbarn where more than five women employees of a street, surface,\nelectric, subway or elevated railroad report for duty a sufficient\nnumber of dressing rooms conveniently located shall be provided for\ntheir use. All dressing rooms shall be separated from waterclosets by\npartitions, shall have adequate floor space in proportion to the number\nof employees, shall be provided with seats and with suitable means for\nhanging clothes and shall be constructed, heated, ventilated, lighted\nand maintained in accordance with the rules of the board.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 310 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 3 / Title 1 / Section 310
Local boards of health; modification of orders by commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 310. Local boards of health; modification of orders by commissioner.\nThe commissioner may annul or modify an order, regulation, by-law or\nordinance of a local board of health concerning a matter which in his\njudgment affects the public health beyond the territory over which such\nlocal board of health has jurisdiction.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2997-J — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-D / Title 1-A / Section 2997-J
Dissemination of best practices, examples of sample safe patient handling policies and other resources and tools
Status: in_force

§ 2997-j. Dissemination of best practices, examples of sample safe\npatient handling policies and other resources and tools. The\ncommissioner shall disseminate best practices, examples of sample safe\npatient handling policies, and other resources and tools to health care\nfacilities, taking into consideration the recommendations of the safe\npatient handling workgroup. Such best practices, examples of sample safe\npatient handling policies, and other resources and tools shall be made\navailable to all facilities covered by this title on or before January\nfirst, two thousand sixteen.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 687 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 14 / Part 4 / Section 687
Separability
Status: in_force

§ 687. Separability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,\nsection or part of this article be adjudged by any court of competent\njurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or\ninvalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation\nto the clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof\ndirectly involved in the controversy in which said judgment shall have\nbeen rendered.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2997-F-1 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-D / Title 1 / Section 2997-F-1
Provision of information relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Status: in_force

§ 2997-f-1. Provision of information relating to sudden unexpected\ndeath in epilepsy. 1. Any health care practitioner who is treating a\npatient diagnosed with epilepsy and at elevated risk for sudden\nunexpected death in epilepsy, who has primary responsibility for the\ntreatment and care of the patient for epilepsy, other than a health care\npractitioner treating such patient in an emergency situation, shall\nprovide such patient with the following written information:\n  (a) current and evidence-based information about sudden unexpected\ndeath in epilepsy risk factors and conditions reviewed and approved by\none or more professional not-for-profit organizations with expertise in\nneurology and epilepsy; and\n  (b) contact information for nonprofit organizations that provide\ninformation and support services for epilepsy conditions.\n  2.(a) The commissioner shall provide written information to health\ncare practitioners necessary to implement subdivision one of this\nsection, and shall post such information on the department's website.\n  (b) The commissioner shall ensure that such information is culturally\nand linguistically appropriate for all recipients.\n  (c) Any local or national organization that provides education or\nservices related to epilepsy conditions may request that the\ncommissioner include such organization's informational material and\ncontact information on the department's website. Once such a request is\nmade, the commissioner may add the information to the department's\nwebsite at his or her discretion.\n  (d) The commissioner shall, in consultation with local and national\norganizations that provide education or services related to epilepsy\nconditions, provide guidance to health care practitioners to assist\nhealth care practitioners in determining whether a patient is at\nelevated risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, including but not\nlimited to, whether the patient has had convulsive seizures, the\nfrequency and recency of such seizures, and whether the patient's\nsymptoms have subsided in response to medicinal or surgical treatment.\n  3. A health care practitioner found to be in violation of this section\nshall be issued a warning and shall suffer no further civil penalty or\ndiscipline on any first offense, provided such violation was not\ncommitted willfully and knowingly.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 377 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 14 / Title 1 / Section 377
Drinking water
Status: in_force

§ 377. Drinking water. Every mercantile establishment, restaurant, and\nevery station, terminal or car barn where women employees of a street,\nsurface, electric, subway or elevated railroad report for duty shall\nprovide at all times for the use of employees a sufficient supply of\nclean and pure drinking water, and if placed in receptacles, the same\nshall be properly covered and kept clean.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 29 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 3 / Title 1 / Section 29
Painting of courts and shafts
Status: in_force

§ 29. Painting of courts and shafts. The exterior surface of all walls\nof all courts and shafts of multiple dwellings, except of outer courts\nopening on a street, and courts having dimensions of at least fifty\npercent in excess of the minimum set forth in section twenty-six, shall\nbe of a lightcolored brick or stone, or be thoroughly whitewashed or\npainted a light color by the owner and be so maintained. Such whitewash\nor paint shall be renewed whenever necessary, as may be determined and\nrequired by the department.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4368 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 43-B / Title 1 / Section 4368
New York state gift of life medal of honor
Status: in_force

§ 4368. New York state gift of life medal of honor. The governor shall\nestablish a program for public recognition of organ, tissue and bone\nmarrow donors and their families for their life saving contributions.\nThe governor shall commission the design, with the advice and consent of\nthe department and the transplant council established pursuant to\nsection forty-three hundred sixty-one of this article, of the "New York\nState gift of life medal of honor". Such medal shall be awarded annually\nto honor the memory of all individual organ donors or the gifts of donor\nfamilies. Persons who donate bone marrow shall also be eligible to be\nawarded the medal. The department and the transplant council shall be\nresponsible for nominating and choosing recipients, and for overseeing\nand maintaining such program.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 856 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 18-A / Title 1 / Section 856
Organization of industrial development agencies
Status: in_force

§ 856. Organization of industrial development agencies. 1. (a) Upon\nthe establishment of an industrial development agency by special act of\nthe legislature, the governing body of the municipality for whose\nbenefit such agency is established shall file within six months after\nthe effective date of the special act of the legislature establishing\nsuch agency or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred\nsixty-nine, whichever date shall be later, in the office of the\nsecretary of state, a certificate setting forth: (1) the date of passage\nof the special act establishing the agency; (2) the name of the agency;\n(3) the names of the members and their terms of office, specifying which\nmember is the chairman; and (4) facts establishing the need for the\nestablishment of an agency in such municipality.\n  (b) Every such agency shall be perpetual in duration, except that if\n(1) such certificate is not filed with the secretary of state within six\nmonths after the effective date of the special act of the legislature\nestablishing such agency or before the first day of July, nineteen\nhundred sixty-nine, whichever date shall be later, or if (2) at the\nexpiration of ten years subsequent to the effective date of the special\nact, there shall be outstanding no bonds or other obligations\ntheretofore issued by such agency or by the municipality for or in\nbehalf of the agency, then the corporate existence of such agency shall\nthereupon terminate and it shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall be\ndissolved.\n  (c) On or before March first of each year, the secretary of state\nshall prepare a list of agencies which failed to file a certificate in\naccordance with provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivision within\nthe preceding calendar year and transmit a copy of such list to the\nstate comptroller and the commissioner of the department of economic\ndevelopment. On or before March first of each year the commissioner of\nthe department of economic development shall prepare a list of agencies\nwhich have dissolved pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision or\nhave ceased to exist pursuant to section eight hundred eighty-two of\nthis chapter and shall transmit a copy of such list to the state\ncomptroller.\n  2. An agency shall be a corporate governmental agency, constituting a\npublic benefit corporation. Except as otherwise provided by special act\nof the legislature, an agency shall consist of not less than three nor\nmore than seven members who shall be appointed by the governing body of\neach municipality and who shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing\nauthority. Such members may include representatives of local government,\nschool boards, organized labor and business. A member shall continue to\nhold office until his successor is appointed and has qualified. The\ngoverning body of each municipality shall designate the first chairman\nand file with the secretary of state a certificate of appointment or\nreappointment of any member. Such members shall receive no compensation\nfor their services but shall be entitled to the necessary expenses,\nincluding traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of their duties.\n  3. A majority of the members of an agency shall constitute a quorum.\n  4. Any one or more of the members of an agency may be an official or\nan employee of the municipality. In the event that an official or an\nemployee of the municipality shall be appointed as a member of the\nagency, acceptance or retention of such appointment shall not be deemed\na forfeiture of his municipal office or employment, or incompatible\ntherewith or affect his tenure or compensation in any way. The term of\noffice of a member of an agency who is an official or an employee of the\nmunicipality when appointed as a member thereof by special act of the\nlegislature creating the industrial development agency shall terminate\nat the expiration of the term of his municipal office.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 1112 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 23 / Part 2 / Section 1112
Courses of study and qualifications of teachers
Status: in_force

§ 1112. Courses of study and qualifications of teachers.  The courses\nof instruction to accomplish the purposes of part two of this article\nare to be approved by the commissioner of education.  The qualifications\nof the teachers, directors, assistants and supervisors employed by the\ncounty commission for special education must conform to the regulations\nof the regents of the university and the commissioner of education.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 916 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 19 / Section 916
Pupils with asthma or another respiratory disease requiring rescue inhaler treatment
Status: in_force

§ 916. Pupils with asthma or another respiratory disease requiring\nrescue inhaler treatment. 1. The board of education or trustees of each\nschool district and board of cooperative educational services shall\nallow pupils who have been diagnosed by a physician or other duly\nauthorized health care provider with an asthmatic condition or another\nrespiratory disease to carry and use a prescribed inhaler and\nself-administer inhaled rescue medications to alleviate respiratory\nsymptoms or to prevent the onset of exercise induced asthmatic symptoms\nduring the school day on school property and at any school function as\nsuch terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of\nsection eleven of this chapter, with the written permission of a\nphysician or other duly authorized health care provider, and written\nparental consent. The written permission shall include an attestation by\nthe physician or the health care provider confirming the following: (a)\nthe pupil is diagnosed with asthma or another respiratory disease for\nwhich inhaled rescue medications are prescribed to alleviate respiratory\nsymptoms or to prevent the onset of exercise induced asthmatic symptoms;\nand (b) that the pupil has demonstrated that he or she can\nself-administer the prescribed inhaled rescue medication effectively.\nThe written permission shall also include the name of the prescribed\ninhaled rescue medication, the dose, the times when the medication is to\nbe taken, the circumstances which may warrant the use of the medication\nand the length of time for which the inhaler is prescribed. A record of\nsuch consent and permission shall be maintained in the student's\ncumulative health record. In addition, upon the written request of a\nparent or person in parental relation, the board of education or\ntrustees of a school district and board of cooperative educational\nservices shall allow such pupils to maintain an extra such inhaler in\nthe care and custody of a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician\nassistant, or physician employed by such district or board of\ncooperative educational services, and shall be readily accessible to\nsuch pupil. Nothing in this section shall require a school district or\nboard of cooperative educational services to retain a licensed nurse,\nnurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician solely for the\npurpose of taking custody of a spare inhaler for the treatment of asthma\nor a respiratory disease requiring rescue medication treatment, or\nrequire that a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant,\nor physician be available at all times in a school building for the\npurpose of taking custody of the inhaler. In addition, the medication\nprovided by the pupil's parents or persons in parental relation shall be\nmade available to the pupil as needed in accordance with the school\ndistrict's or board of cooperative educational services' policy and the\norders prescribed in the written permission of the physician or other\nauthorized health care provider.\n  2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or\ntheir agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as\na result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person\ncaused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 800 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 8 / Title 1 / Section 800
County equalization agency
Status: in_force

§ 800.  County equalization agency.  The board of supervisors of each\ncounty shall be the county equalization agency except that the board of\nsupervisors of any county may by resolution determine that commissioners\nof equalization, appointed as provided in section eight hundred two of\nthis chapter, shall be the county equalization agency.\n
N.Y. DOM Law § 75-M — New York Code / Act DOM / Article 5-A / Title 1 / Section 75-M
Consideration of blindness during guardianship, custody or visitation proceedings
Status: in_force

§ 75-m. Consideration of blindness during guardianship, custody or\nvisitation proceedings. 1. The court may not deny or decide a petition\nfor guardianship, custody or visitation solely on the basis that the\npetitioner is blind. The blindness of the petitioner shall be considered\nrelevant only to the extent that the court finds, based on evidence in\nthe record, that the blindness affects the best interests of the child\nwhose guardianship, custody or visitation is the subject of the\npetition.\n  2. As used in this section, "blind" or "blindness" means:\n  a. vision that is 20/200 or less in the best corrected eye; or\n  b. vision that subtends an angle of not greater than twenty degrees in\nthe best corrected eye.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 930 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 32 / Title 1 / Section 930
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 930. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Department" means the\ndepartment of labor.\n  2. "Mold" means any indoor multi-cellular fungi growth capable of\ncreating toxins that can cause pulmonary, respiratory, neurological or\nother major illnesses after minimal exposure, as such exposure is\ndefined by the environmental protection agency, centers for disease\ncontrol and prevention, national institute of health, or other federal,\nstate, or local agency organized to study and/or protect human health.\n  3. "Mold remediation" means conducting the business of removal,\ncleaning, sanitizing, or surface disinfection of mold, mold containment,\nand waste handling of mold and materials used to remove mold from\nsurfaces by a business enterprise, including but not limited to, sole\nproprietorships. Mold remediation for the purposes of this article shall\nnot include remediation of the underlying sources of moisture that may\nbe the cause of mold that requires expertise not specific to acts\nauthorized under this article.\n  4. "Mold assessment" means an inspection or assessment of real\nproperty that is designed to discover mold, conditions that facilitate\nmold, indicia of conditions that are likely to facilitate mold, or any\ncombination thereof.\n  5. "Mold abatement" means the act of removal, cleaning, sanitizing, or\nsurface disinfection of mold, mold containment, and waste handling of\nmold and materials used to remove mold from surfaces by an individual.\n  6. "Project" means mold remediation, mold assessment, or mold\nabatement, of areas greater than ten square feet, but does not include\n(a) routine cleaning or (b) construction, maintenance, repair or\ndemolition of buildings, structures or fixtures undertaken for purposes\nother than mold remediation or abatement.\n  7. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of labor.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 901 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 19 / Section 901
School health services to be provided
Status: in_force

§ 901. School health services to be provided. 1. School health\nservices, as defined in subdivision two of this section, shall be\nprovided by each school district for all students attending the public\nschools in this state, except in the city school district of the city of\nNew York, as provided in this article. School health services shall\ninclude the services of a registered professional nurse, if one is\nemployed, and shall also include such services as may be rendered as\nprovided in this article in examining students for the existence of\ndisease or disability and in testing the eyes and ears of such students.\n  2. School health services for the purposes of this article shall mean\nthe several procedures, including, but not limited to, medical\nexaminations, dental inspection and/or screening, scoliosis screening,\nvision screening and audiometer tests, designed to determine the health\nstatus of the child; to inform parents or other persons in parental\nrelation to the child, pupils and teachers of the individual child's\nhealth condition subject to federal and state confidentiality laws; to\nguide parents, children and teachers in procedures for preventing and\ncorrecting defects and diseases; to instruct the school personnel in\nprocedures to take in case of accident or illness; to survey and make\nnecessary recommendations concerning the health and safety aspects of\nschool facilities and the provision of health information.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 488 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 10-B / Section 488
State and city's right to require redemption of bonds
Status: in_force

§ 488. State and city's right to require redemption of bonds.\nNotwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption of\nbonds which may be contained in any contract with the holders of the\nbonds, either the state or the city of Yonkers may, upon furnishing\nsufficient funds therefor, require the fund to redeem, prior to\nmaturity, as a whole, any issue of bonds on any interest payment date\nnot less than twenty years after the date of the bonds of such issue at\none hundred five per centum of their face value and accrued interest or\nat such lower redemption price as may be provided in the bonds in case\nof the redemption thereof as a whole on the redemption date.  Notice of\nsuch redemption shall be published in at least two newspapers published\nand circulating in the city of Yonkers at least twice, the first\npublication to be at least thirty days before the date of redemption.\n
N.Y. PAB Law § 8 — New York Code / Act PAB / Title 1 / Section 8
Ineligible local agencies
Status: in_force

* § 8. Ineligible local agencies. To the extent that any allocation of\nthe local agency set-aside would be made by this act to a local agency\nwhich is ineligible to receive such allocation under the code or under\nregulations interpreting the state volume ceiling provisions of the\ncode, such allocation shall instead be made to the political subdivision\nfor whose benefit that local agency was created.\n* NB Repealed January 1, 1991\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 710 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 710
Consolidation of proceedings
Status: in_force

§ 710.  Consolidation of proceedings.  A justice before whom separate\npetitions to review assessments of real property are pending may on his\nown motion consolidate or order to be tried together two or more\nproceedings where the same grounds of review are asserted and a common\nquestion of law or fact is presented, except that a proceeding to review\na special franchise assessment for the year nineteen hundred fifty-four\nor any year thereafter shall not be consolidated or ordered to be tried\ntogether with a proceeding to review a special franchise assessment for\nthe year nineteen hundred fifty-three or any year prior thereto.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 145 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 145
Fire-escapes
Status: in_force

§ 145. Fire-escapes. Every fire-escape shall be located, arranged,\nconstructed and maintained as provided in section fifty-three.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3300 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 1 / Section 3300
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 3300. Short title. This title may be cited as the "Westchester\ncounty health care corporation act".\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 143-A — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 143-A
Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail instalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies
Status: in_force

§ 143-a. Information to be given to public welfare officials by retail\ninstalment sellers, small loan companies and sales finance companies.\nIf requested by an authorized representative of the department or by an\nauthority charged with the duty of administering laws relating to public\nassistance or care in any village, town, city or county, the officials\nor executives of any corporation or partnership and all persons engaged\nin selling goods or furnishing services to retail buyers for a time sale\nprice payable in instalments, or in making personal loans whether as a\nlicensed lender under the banking law or otherwise, and any sales\nfinance company as defined in article ten of the banking law, shall\nfurnish to such representatives or authority such information of which\nsuch officials, executives or persons shall have cognizance relating to\ntransactions with a recipient of or an applicant for public assistance\nor care named in such request.  Such facts shall include a description\nof the goods or services sold and the amount of the obligation incurred\ntherefor, the amount of any loan made, the amounts paid and the balance\nowing, the place of employment, the wages, salaries, earnings or other\nincome, guarantors or co-signers, and all other information furnished by\nthe persons named for the purpose of obtaining credit.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 490.70 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 4 / Title Y-1 / Article 490 / Section 490.70
Limitations
Status: in_force

§ 490.70 Limitations.\n  1. The provisions of sections 490.37, 490.40, 490.45, 490.47, 490.50,\nand 490.55 of this article shall not apply where the defendant possessed\nor used:\n  (a) any household product generally available for sale to consumers in\nthis state in the quantity and concentration available for such sale;\n  (b) a self-defense spray device in accordance with the provisions of\nparagraph fourteen of subdivision a of section 265.20 of this chapter;\n  (c) a chemical weapon solely for a purpose not prohibited under this\nchapter, as long as the type and quantity is consistent with such a\npurpose; or\n  (d) a biological agent, toxin, or delivery system solely for\nprophylactic, protective, bona fide research, or other peaceful\npurposes.\n  2. For the purposes of this section, the phrase "purposes not\nprohibited by this chapter" means the following:\n  (a) any peaceful purpose related to an industrial, agricultural,\nresearch, medical, or pharmaceutical activity or other peaceful\nactivity;\n  (b) any purpose directly related to protection against toxic chemicals\nand to protection against chemical weapons;\n  (c) any military purpose of the United States that is not connected\nwith the use of a chemical weapon or that is not dependent on the use of\nthe toxic or poisonous properties of the chemical weapon to cause death\nor other harm; and\n  (d) any law enforcement purpose, including any domestic riot control\npurpose and including imposition of capital punishment.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 15-101 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 15 / Title 1 / Section 15-101
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 15-101. Definitions. In this title, unless otherwise expressly\nstated, "obligation" does not include a liability in tort; "obligor"\ndoes not include a person liable for a tort; "obligee" does not include\na person having a right based on a tort. "Several obligors" means\nobligors severally bound for the same performance.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 205 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 2 / Title 1 / Section 205
Commissioner; compensation and expenses
Status: in_force

§ 205. Commissioner; compensation and expenses.  The commissioner\nshall receive an annual salary not to exceed an amount appropriated\ntherefor by the legislature and his expenses actually and necessarily\nincurred in the performance of his official duties, unless otherwise\nprovided by the legislature.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1021-Q — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-B / Section 1021-Q
Prevailing wage
Status: in_force

§ 1021-q. Prevailing wage. Whenever the authority enters into any\ncontract, subcontract, lease, grant, bond, covenant or other agreement\nfor or in connection with any construction, demolition, reconstruction,\nexcavation, rehabilitation, repair, renovation, alteration, or\nimprovement project, such project shall be deemed to be a public works\nproject for the purposes of article eight of the labor law, and all of\nthe provisions of article eight of the labor law shall be applicable to\nall the work involved in the construction, demolition, reconstruction,\nexcavation, rehabilitation, repair, renovation, alteration, or\nimprovement of such project. Funds, financial assistance, or any other\nbenefits provided pursuant to this article shall not be utilized for or\nin connection with the construction, demolition, reconstruction,\nexcavation, rehabilitation, repair, renovation, alteration, or\nimprovement of any project to which the provisions of article eight of\nthe labor law are not applicable.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1008 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 1008
Consent of state
Status: in_force

§ 1008. Consent of state. The state of New York hereby consents to the\noccupation and use by the authority of any and all property of the state\nof whatever kind or character on the Niagara river or within the\ninternational rapids section of the Saint Lawrence river, and hereby\nvests the authority with and delegates to it the right to exercise any\nand every right and power of the state in connection therewith, whether\nproprietary or sovereign in character, which the state itself might\nexercise, provided that such consent and delegation of power shall not\npermit the impairment or limit or prevent the future improvement of the\nnavigability of the Niagara river or the international rapids section of\nthe Saint Lawrence river, consistent with the maintenance of such\nprojects, but on the contrary the projects shall be such as will improve\nand benefit commerce and navigation therein and provided further that\nthe authority shall have no power to limit, waive or surrender any right\nor interest of the state of New York in such rivers or the use thereof.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 152-B — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 152-B
Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care; unclaimed funds
Status: in_force

§ 152-b. Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance and care;\nunclaimed funds. If, after the full amount expended by a public welfare\ndistrict for the assistance and care of a deceased or other former\nrecipient of public assistance and care, including the federal and state\nshares thereof, as determined in accordance with regulations of the\ndepartment, and any authorized amount expended for the burial of such\ndeceased recipient, shall have been recovered and deducted from the net\nproceeds of assets which have been transferred or assigned to the public\nwelfare official by or on behalf of such recipient to insure repayment\nof the cost of his assistance and care, any balance or surplus remains,\nit shall be credited forthwith by the public welfare district to the\nestate or persons entitled thereto; but if unclaimed within four years\nthereafter by those entitled thereto it shall be deemed abandoned\nproperty and be paid to the state comptroller pursuant to section\nthirteen hundred five of the abandoned property law.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 383 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 1 / Section 383
Care and custody of children
Status: in_force

§ 383. Care and custody of children. 1. The parent of a child remanded\nor committed to an authorized agency shall not be entitled to the\ncustody thereof, except upon consent of the court, public board,\ncommission, or official responsible for the commitment of such child, or\nin pursuance of an order of a court or judicial officer of competent\njurisdiction, determining that the interest of such child will be\npromoted thereby and that such parent is fit, competent and able to duly\nmaintain, support and educate such child. The name of such child shall\nnot be changed while in the custody of an authorized agency.\n  2. The custody of a child placed out or boarded out and not legally\nadopted or for whom legal guardianship has not been granted shall be\nvested during his minority, or until discharged by such authorized\nagency from its care and supervision, in the authorized agency placing\nout or boarding out such child and any such authorized agency may in its\ndiscretion remove such child from the home where placed or boarded.\n  3. Any adult husband and his adult wife and any adult unmarried\nperson, who, as foster parent or parents, have cared for a child\ncontinuously for a period of twelve months or more, may apply to such\nauthorized agency for the placement of said child with them for the\npurpose of adoption, and if said child is eligible for adoption, the\nagency shall give preference and first consideration to their\napplication over all other applications for adoption placements.\nHowever, final determination of the propriety of said adoption of such\nfoster child shall be within the sole discretion of the court, as\notherwise provided herein.\n  Foster parents having had continuous care of a child, for more than\ntwelve months, through an authorized agency, shall be permitted as a\nmatter of right, as an interested party to intervene in any proceeding\ninvolving the custody of the child. Such intervention may be made\nanonymously or in the true name of said foster parents.\n  4. An adult married person who has executed a legally enforceable\nseparation agreement or is a party to a marriage in which a valid decree\nof separation has been entered and who becomes or has been the custodian\nof a child placed in their care as a result of court ordered foster care\nmay apply to such authorized agency for placement of said child with\nthem for the purpose of adoption. Applications filed pursuant to this\nsubdivision by persons who, as foster parents, have cared for a child\ncontinuously for a period of twelve months or more shall be entitled to\nthe same consideration and preference as are given to applications filed\npursuant to subdivision three of this section. Final determination of\nthe propriety of said adoption of such foster child, however, shall be\nwithin the sole discretion of the court, as otherwise provided herein.\n  5. Any proceeding brought in connection with the provisions of this\nsection shall have preference over all other causes in all courts.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 808 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 8 / Title 1 / Section 808
Correction of clerical errors in county equalizations
Status: in_force

§ 808. Correction of clerical errors in county equalizations. If it\nappears to the board of supervisors of any county that a clerical error\nhas been made by the county equalization agency and that by reason of\nsuch error injustice has been done to one or more cities or towns and\nthat two years have not elapsed since the equalization, the error may be\ncorrected by the board of supervisors. If the equalization cannot be\ncorrected before taxes are levied on the basis thereof, such board shall\ndetermine the amount of county taxes paid or payable by any such city or\ntown under such equalization in excess of or less than that which such\ncity or town would have paid under such equalization as corrected. The\nexcess shall be subtracted, or the deficiency shall be added, from or to\nthe next county tax levy in such city or town as the situation may\nrequire.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 3-0113 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 3 / Title 1 / Section 3-0113
The New York State Conservationist
Status: in_force

§ 3-0113. The New York State Conservationist.\n  1. To the end that there shall be promoted a wider understanding of\nthe problems affecting conservation of natural resources in this state,\nit is declared advisable to authorize the agents who issue hunting,\nfishing and trapping licenses to sell annual subscriptions to the\nofficial magazine of the department, "The New York State\nConservationist."\n  2. Any entity which is authorized by section 11-0713 of this chapter\nto sell hunting, trapping and fishing licenses is hereby authorized, but\nnot required, to sell annual subscriptions to the department's official\nmagazine, "The New York State Conservationist." The fee to be charged\nfor a subscription to such magazine shall be such fee as the\ncommissioner may, after consultation with the division of the budget,\ndeem necessary for the best interest of the state. Such fee shall be\ncollected from each subscriber at the time of receiving application for\nsubscription. All collected fees, minus a 5.5 percent commission, shall\nbe remitted monthly, on a schedule to be determined by the department.\nAll receipts of the department from subscriptions shall be deposited in\nan account in the miscellaneous special revenue fund-other. The\ncomptroller is authorized and directed to permit interest earnings on\nany balances to accrue to the benefit of this account.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 57-0133 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 57 / Title 1 / Section 57-0133
Affect on other laws
Status: in_force

§ 57-0133. Affect on other laws.\n  Except as otherwise provided in the provisions of this title, this\ntitle shall not affect:\n  1. the police powers, local planning powers, zoning powers or\nauthority to regulate land uses by villages and towns within the Long\nIsland Pine Barrens maritime reserve; or\n  2. the police power of the state to regulate any activity carried upon\nany lands, in the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve; or\n  3. the authority of any state or public agency in the management of\nany state or public lands in the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime\nreserve.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 157 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 157
Trolley bus or trolley coach
Status: in_force

§ 157. Trolley bus or trolley coach.  Any motor vehicle not operated\non rails or tracks which is propelled by electric power received from\noverhead trolley wires and which is operated by a person or corporation\nsubject to the jurisdiction of the public service commission, pursuant\nto local consent and a certificate, permission and approval, or\nauthority granted by the commission.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 57-0137 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 57 / Title 1 / Section 57-0137
Severability
Status: in_force

§ 57-0137. Severability.\n  The provisions of this title shall be severable and if any portion\nthereof or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances\nshall be held invalid, the remainder of this title and the application\nthereof shall not be affected thereby.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 11-101 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 11 / Title 1 / Section 11-101
Compensation for injury caused by the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor
Status: in_force

§ 11-101. Compensation for injury caused by the illegal sale of\nintoxicating liquor. 1. Any person who shall be injured in person,\nproperty, means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person, or\nby reason of the intoxication of any person, whether resulting in his\ndeath or not, shall have a right of action against any person who shall,\nby unlawful selling to or unlawfully assisting in procuring liquor for\nsuch intoxicated person, have caused or contributed to such\nintoxication; and in any such action such person shall have a right to\nrecover actual and exemplary damages.\n  2. In case of the death of either party, the action or right of action\ngiven by this section shall survive to or against his or her executor or\nadministrator, and the amount so recovered by either a husband, wife or\nchild shall be his or her sole and separate property.\n  3. Such action may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction.\n  4. In any case where parents shall be entitled to such damages, either\nthe father or mother may sue alone therefor, but recovery by one of such\nparties shall be a bar to suit brought by the other.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 109 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 3 / Part 1 / Section 109
Any person, association, organization or corporation may be permitted to use the auditorium in the state education building at Albany for...
Status: in_force

§ 109.  Any person, association, organization or corporation may be\npermitted to use the auditorium in the state education building at\nAlbany for such purposes as may be authorized by regulations of the\ncommissioner of education upon payment of such fee as may be required\npursuant to a schedule for such purpose adopted by the commissioner of\neducation and approved by the director of the division of the budget.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 1129 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 23-B / Section 1129
Penalties for failure to comply
Status: in_force

§ 1129. Penalties for failure to comply. 1. Willful failure of an\nemployee to prepare and submit a written report of an allegation of\nchild abuse as required by this article shall be a class A misdemeanor.\n  2. (a) Willful failure of a school administrator or superintendent to\nsubmit a written report of child abuse to an appropriate law enforcement\nauthority, as required by this article, shall be a class A misdemeanor.\n  (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, any failure to\nsubmit a written report of child abuse to an appropriate law enforcement\nauthority as required by this article, shall be punishable by a civil\npenalty not to exceed five thousand dollars upon an administrative\ndetermination by the commissioner.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1021-L — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-B / Section 1021-L
Exemption of the authority from taxation
Status: in_force

§ 1021-l. Exemption of the authority from taxation. 1. It is hereby\nfound and declared that the operation of the authority is primarily for\nthe benefit of the people of the participating municipalities, counties\nand the state, for the improvement of their health, welfare and\nprosperity, and is a public purpose, and the authority shall be regarded\nas performing an essential governmental function in carrying out the\nprovisions of this title.\n  2. The authority shall be required to pay no taxes nor assessments\nupon any of the property acquired or controlled by it or upon its\nactivities in the operation and maintenance thereof or upon income\nderived therefrom, provided that nothing herein shall prevent the\nauthority from entering into agreements to make payments in lieu of\ntaxes.\n  3. The authority shall make payments in lieu of taxes to\nmunicipalities and school districts equal to the taxes and assessments\nwhich would have been received from year to year by such jurisdiction.\n  4. The authority shall also make payments in lieu of taxes for those\ntaxes which would otherwise be imposed upon a utility corporation\npursuant to: (a) section one hundred eighty-six-a and former section one\nhundred eighty-six of the tax law as such sections were in effect on\nDecember thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine; (b) any taxes\nimposed by a city within the authority's service area pursuant to the\nauthorization granted by section twenty-b of the general city law; and\n(c) any taxes imposed by a village within the authority's service area\npursuant to authorization granted by section 5-530 of the village law.\n  5. Notwithstanding the exemption in subdivision two of this section,\nthe authority shall also be subject to the assessments imposed pursuant\nto section eighteen-a of the public service law.\n  6. The securities issued by the authority, and the income therefrom\nshall, at all times, be free from taxation, except for estate and gift\ntaxes.\n  7. Nothing in this article shall relieve the authority from its\nobligations to register for sales tax purposes, collect state or local\nsales and compensating use taxes imposed by or pursuant to the authority\nof articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of the tax law, and otherwise\ncomply with those articles on its sale of property or services.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2404-D — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 24 / Title 1 / Section 2404-D
Breast cancer; duty to provide extended hours
Status: in_force

§ 2404-d. Breast cancer; duty to provide extended hours. 1.\nApplicability. This section shall apply to any general hospital or\nextension clinic that is certified as a mammography facility pursuant to\nthe federal mammography quality standards act (MQSA).\n  2. Extended service hours. Any general hospital or extension clinic\ncertified as a mammography facility pursuant to the MQSA shall provide\nextended hours, i.e. in the early morning, evening, or weekend hours,\nfor screening mammography services. Extended hours for screening\nmammography services shall be provided on at least two days each week,\nfor at least two hours each day offered, for a total of at least four\nhours each week, including but not limited to the following times:\n  (a) Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM;\n  (b) Monday through Friday, between the hours of 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM;\nor\n  (c) Saturday or Sunday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM.\n  3. Waiver. (a) A facility may submit an application for a waiver from\nthe requirements of this section, in whole or in part, if it can\ndemonstrate, to the department's satisfaction, that the facility:\n  (i) does not have sufficient staff to provide extended hours for\nscreening mammography services in accordance with this section, and that\nit is making diligent efforts to obtain staffing such that it can\nprovide extended hours;\n  (ii) is in the process of discontinuing screening mammography\nservices, as part of a consolidation or similar change; or\n  (iii) is subject to such other hardships as the department deems\nappropriate.\n  (b) The department may deny, grant or extend a waiver pursuant to\nparagraph (a) of this subdivision for ninety days, or more if the\ndepartment determines appropriate, in its sole discretion.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 494 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 10-B / Section 494
Article not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective
Status: in_force

§ 494. Article not affected if in part unconstitutional or\nineffective.  If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause\nor provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective\nin whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or\nineffective, it shall be valid or effective and no other section,\nsubdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision shall on account\nthereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 276 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 5 / Part 2 / Section 276
Existing rules continued in force
Status: in_force

§ 276. Existing rules continued in force.  All existing provisions of\nlaw and rules established by the commissioner of education for the\nmanagement of public school libraries shall hold good as to the\nmanagement of such school libraries until altered by or in pursuance of\nlaw.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 627 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 1 / Article 13-B / Section 627
Standards for preferred lender lists
Status: in_force

§ 627. Standards for preferred lender lists. A covered institution\nthat provides or makes available a preferred lender list must comply\nwith the following standards:\n  1. A preferred lender list must disclose the process by which the\ncovered institution selected lending institutions for such preferred\nlender list, including, but not limited to, the method and criteria used\nto choose the lending institutions and the relative importance of those\ncriteria;\n  2. A preferred lender list must state in the same font size and same\nmanner as the predominant text on the document that borrowers have the\nright and ability to select the education loan provider of their choice,\nare not required to use any of the lenders on such preferred lender\nlist, and will suffer no penalty for choosing a lender that is not on\nsuch preferred lender list;\n  3. The covered institution's decision to include a lending institution\non any preferred lender list and the covered institution's decision as\nto where on the preferred lender list the lending institution's name\nappears shall be determined solely by consideration of the best\ninterests of the borrowers who may use such preferred lender list\nwithout regard to the pecuniary interests of the covered institution;\n  4. The contents of any preferred lender list shall be reviewed and\nupdated no less than annually;\n  5. No lending institution shall be placed on a preferred lender list\nunless such lending institution provides assurance to the covered\ninstitution and to borrowers who take out loans from such lending\ninstitution that the advertised benefits upon repayment will continue to\ninure to the benefit of borrowers regardless of whether the lending\ninstitution's loans are sold;\n  6. No lending institution that, to the covered institution's knowledge\nafter reasonable inquiry, has an agreement to sell its loans to another\nunaffiliated lending institution shall be included on a preferred lender\nlist unless such agreement is disclosed therein in the same font size\nand same manner as the predominant text on the document in which the\npreferred lender list appears;\n  7. No lending institution shall be placed on a covered institution's\npreferred lender lists or in favored placement on a covered\ninstitution's preferred lender lists for a particular type of loan, in\nexchange for benefits provided to the covered institution or to the\ncovered institution's students in connection with a different type of\nloan.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 570 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15-B / Title 1 / Section 570
Syracuse urban renewal agency
Status: in_force

§ 570. Syracuse urban renewal agency.  An urban renewal agency, to be\nknown as the Syracuse urban renewal agency, is hereby established for\nthe accomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified in articles\nfifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter and in accordance with article\neighteen of the constitution of the state of New York. It shall\nconstitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in duration and\nconsist of three members consisting of the mayor, the president of the\ncommon council and the commissioner of finance of the city of Syracuse\nand its secretary shall be the commissioner of urban improvement of such\ncity. It shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred by\narticle fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It\nshall be organized in the manner prescribed by and be subject to the\nprovisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter and the agency, its\nmembers, officers and employees and its operations and activities shall\nin all respects be governed by the provisions of such article.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 11-107 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 11 / Title 1 / Section 11-107
Compensation for harm to a guide, hearing or service dog
Status: in_force

§ 11-107. Compensation for harm to a guide, hearing or service dog. In\naddition to any other right of action or recovery otherwise available\nunder law, a disabled person whose guide, hearing or service dog is\ninjured due to the negligence of the owner of another dog in handling\nthat other dog may recover damages from the owner or custodian of the\nnon-guide, hearing or service dog that causes injury to the guide,\nhearing or service dog. Such damages may include, but are not limited to\nveterinarian fees, the cost of retraining or replacing the guide,\nhearing or service dog, and lost wages or damages due to loss of\nmobility incurred while retraining or replacement is taking place.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1306 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13 / Title 1 / Section 1306
Nuisances; abatement expenses
Status: in_force

§ 1306. Nuisances; abatement expenses.  1. The expense of suppression\nor removal of a nuisance or conditions detrimental to health shall be\npaid by the owner or occupant of the premises, or by the person who\ncaused or maintained such nuisance or other matters, and the board of\nhealth of the municipality or county wherein the premises are located\nmay maintain an action in the name of the municipality or county to\nrecover such expense, and the same when recovered shall be paid to the\ntreasurer of the municipality or county, or if it has no treasurer to\nits chief fiscal officer, to be held and used as the funds of the\nmunicipality or county.\n  2. Whenever the suppression or removal of such nuisance or conditions\ndetrimental to health demand the immediate expenditure of money, every\nlocal board of health, local health officer of a health district having\nno board of health or county health commissioner shall be authorized to\nuse for such purpose any money in the hands of the board, or may call on\nthe governing body of the municipality or county as the case may be for\nsuch money. All such moneys so expended shall be immediately repaid to\nthe fund or source whence they were received on the recovery of the same\nby action or otherwise from the persons responsible for the expenses of\nsuppression or removal.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1004 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 1004
Officers and employees; expenses
Status: in_force

§ 1004. Officers and employees; expenses. The trustees shall choose\nfrom among their own number a chairman and vice-chairman. They shall\nselect such officers and employees, including a chief executive officer\nwhose appointment shall be subject to confirmation by the senate in\naccordance with section twenty-eight hundred fifty-two of this chapter,\nand such engineering, marketing and legal officers and employees, as\nthey may require for the performance of their duties and shall prescribe\nthe duties and compensation of each officer and employee. They shall\nadopt by-laws and rules and regulations suitable to the purposes of this\ntitle. As long as and to the extent that the authority is dependent upon\nappropriations for the payment of its expenses, it shall incur no\nobligations for salary, office or other expenses prior to the making of\nappropriations adequate to meet the same.\n
N.Y. MDW Law § 215 — New York Code / Act MDW / Article 7 / Title 1 / Section 215
Alcoves
Status: in_force

§ 215. Alcoves. No part of any room shall be enclosed or subdivided,\nwholly or in part, by a curtain, portiere, fixed or movable partition or\nother contrivance or device unless each such enclosure or subdivision\nshall contain a separate window conforming to the provisions of section\nthirty for rooms in multiple dwellings erected after April eighteenth,\nnineteen hundred twenty-nine, and have a clear floor area of at least\nseventy square feet.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1000 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 1000
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1000. Short title. This title may be cited as the "Power Authority\nAct."\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 9-107 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 9 / Title 1 / Section 9-107
Genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms; affirmative defense
Status: in_force

§ 9-107. Genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms;\naffirmative defense. Any party who is sued for damages for any claim on\nthe ground that the party possessed or used seeds or plants that\ncontained genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms\nwithout entering into an agreement or paying fees to the manufacturer or\nlicensed distributor of such genetically engineered or genetically\nmodified organisms shall have an affirmative defense against any\nliability if the party shall show that he or she did not knowingly and\nintentionally introduce the genetically engineered or genetically\nmodified organisms into his or her plants or seeds or onto his or her\nproperty and he or she did not knowingly gain from the distinctive\ntraits due to genetic modification or genetic engineering.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 21-0117 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 21 / Title 1 / Section 21-0117
Water quality network
Status: in_force

§ 21-0117. Water quality network.\n  1. The New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, in\ncooperation with the state and such other states signatory to the New\nEngland Interstate Water Pollution Control Compact as may participate,\nshall establish and maintain a water quality sampling and testing\nnetwork. The network shall, to the fullest extent practicable, rely upon\nthe sampling and testing programs of the state and other participating\nstates and upon information available from agencies of the federal\ngovernment, and shall not duplicate any of their activities. However, if\nthe sampling and testing programs of the state and other states and the\ninformation available from agencies of the federal government are\ninsufficient to provide the commission with records of water quality\nadequate for its needs, the commission may supplement the sampling and\ntesting otherwise available to it.\n  2. Sampling pursuant to this section shall be at points at or near the\nplaces where waters cross a boundary of the state and the samples shall\nbe tested in order to determine their quality. The sampling and testing\nprovided for herein shall be scheduled by the commission or in\naccordance with its requests and shall include such factors or elements\nas the commission shall request. Any sampling and testing done by the\nDepartment of Environmental Conservation as part of the activities of\nthe commission's network shall be reported fully and promptly by the\ndepartment to the commission together with the results thereof.\n  3. a. If the commission ascertains that particular waters at or near a\nboundary of the state do not comply with the standards of the commission\nmade pursuant to article V of the New England Interstate Water Pollution\nControl Compact, or are not otherwise of a quality complying with state\nlaw, the commission shall inform the Department of Environmental\nConservation and the water pollution control agency of any other state\nconcerned and shall afford such agencies an opportunity to verify,\nexplain, supplement or correct the information in the possession of the\ncommission and, if the facts warrant, to take or secure the taking of\nany necessary remedial action.\n  b. If such remedial action is not taken or secured in timely fashion,\nthe commission may hold a public hearing on due notice, as provided in\nits rules and regulations, in order to ascertain all the relevant facts\nand circumstances. Following public hearing, the commission may issue an\norder directed to the source or sources of waste discharge causing or\ncontributing to the deteriorated water quality. Such order or orders may\nrequire reduction or cessation of waste discharges or the improvement of\ntheir quality. An order shall not be valid unless supported by\nsubstantial evidence adduced at the public hearing. Such order shall\nprescribe the date or dates by which discharges of waste are to be\nreduced, discontinued or treated, and may contain timetables or\nschedules for specific steps to be taken in order to comply therewith.\nAn order made pursuant to this section may be enforced in any court of\ncompetent jurisdiction. Proceedings shall be only on the record made\nbefore the commission.\n  4. Unless otherwise conferred by law, the commission shall not have\npower to issue permits or licenses in connection with the discharge or\ntreatment of wastes, or pass upon plans or specifications for particular\nwaste treatment or collection equipment or facilities.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1009 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1 / Section 1009
Contracts negotiated by authority
Status: in_force

§ 1009. Contracts negotiated by authority. Contracts negotiated by the\nauthority as provided in sub-paragraph five or six of section one\nthousand five of this title shall be entered into and executed as\nfollows:\n  1. After agreement upon the terms of any such contracts shall have\nbeen reached by the authority and its co-party or co-parties, the\nauthority shall promptly transmit a copy of such proposed contract to\nthe governor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the\nassembly, the chairman of the assembly committee on ways and means, the\ntemporary president of the senate and the minority leader of the senate\nand the chairman of the senate finance committee and shall hold a public\nhearing or hearings upon the terms thereof. At least thirty days' notice\nof such hearing shall be given by publication once in each week during\nsuch period in each of six newspapers within the state to be selected by\nthe authority. Copies of proposed contracts shall be available for\npublic inspection during such period of thirty days at the office or\noffices of the authority and at such other places throughout the state\nas it may designate.\n  2. Following such public hearing, the authority shall reconsider the\nterms of the proposed contract or contracts and shall negotiate such\nchanges and modifications in the contract or contracts as it then deems\nnecessary or advisable.\n  3. When such contract or contracts are finally agreed upon in terms\nsatisfactory to the authority and its co-party or co-parties, and which\nthe authority believes to be in the public interest, the authority shall\nthereupon report the proposed contract or contracts, together with its\nrecommendations and the record of the public hearings thereon, to the\nspeaker of the assembly, the chairman of the assembly committee on ways\nand means, the temporary president of the senate, the chairman of the\nsenate finance committee and the governor. The governor shall, within\nsixty days thereafter, indicate his approval or disapproval thereof and\ngive his reasons therefor.\n  4. If the governor shall approve such contract, then the same shall be\nexecuted by the chairman and secretary of the authority and it shall\nthereupon come into full force and effect and be binding upon the\nauthority and all other parties thereto in accordance with its terms.\n
N.Y. STL Law § 122 — New York Code / Act STL / Article 8 / Title 1 / Section 122
Separability of assembly districts
Status: in_force

§ 122. Separability of assembly districts. Each assembly district\ncreated by this title shall be deemed a separate district for the\npurpose of dividing the entire state into assembly districts. If one or\nmore assembly districts created by this title are judicially found to be\ninvalid or unenforceable for any reason, including but not limited to\nnoncompliance with decisions and mandates of a court of competent\njurisdiction, only the defective district or districts and those\nimmediately adjacent or contiguous thereto shall be reapportioned. All\nother districts shall be deemed to be properly created.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1021 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 1-B / Section 1021
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1021. Short title. This title shall be known and may be cited as the\n"North Country power authority act".\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2308 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 23 / Title 1 / Section 2308
Sexually transmitted disease; pregnant persons; blood test for syphilis
Status: in_force

§ 2308. Sexually transmitted disease; pregnant persons; blood test for\nsyphilis. 1. Every physician or other authorized practitioner attending\npregnant persons in the state shall in the case of every person so\nattended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such person at\nthe time of first examination, and submit such sample to an approved\nlaboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. In addition to\ntesting at the time of first examination, every such physician or other\nauthorized practitioner shall order a syphilis test during the third\ntrimester of pregnancy consistent with any guidance and regulations\nissued by the commissioner.\n  2. Every other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant women\nin the state but not permitted by law to take blood tests, shall cause a\nsample of the blood of such pregnant woman to be taken promptly by a\nduly licensed physician and submitted to an approved laboratory for a\nstandard serological test for syphilis.\n  3. The term "approved laboratory" means a laboratory approved for the\npurpose as herein provided by the department, or in the city of New York\nby the department of health of such city.\n  4. A standard serological test for syphilis is one recognized as such\nby the department or in the city of New York by the department of health\nof such city.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 121-E — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 1 / Article 1 / Section 121-E
Livery
Status: in_force

§ 121-e. Livery. Every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab or a bus,\nused in the business of transporting passengers for compensation.\nHowever, it shall not include vehicles which are rented or leased\nwithout a driver.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 19-0105 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 19 / Title 1 / Section 19-0105
Declaration of purpose
Status: in_force

§ 19-0105. Declaration of purpose.\n  It is the purpose of this article to safeguard the air resources of\nthe state from pollution by: (1) controlling or abating air pollution\nwhich shall exist when this artcle shall be enacted and (2) preventng\nnew air pollution, under a program which shall be consistent with the\ndeclaration of policy above stated and in accordance with the provisions\nof this article.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 37-0119 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 37 / Title 1 / Section 37-0119
Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene
Status: in_force

* § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene.\n  1. No person shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an\nintermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an\nextraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning\nprocess or use.\n  2. For purposes of this section:\n  (a) "Extraction solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific\nsubstance from a mixture.\n  (b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a\ncooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again in\nthe refrigeration cycle.\n  (c) "Trichloroethylene" means a chemical with the Chemical Registry\nAbstract Services Number of 79-01-6.\n  (d) "Vapor degreaser" means a substance boiled to a vapor that\ncondenses onto metal parts, causing beading and dripping, and that\nremoves contaminants from the parts.\n  3. Severability. The provisions of this section shall be severable and\nif any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or\ncircumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this section and the\napplication thereof shall not be affected thereby.\n  * NB There are 2 § 37-0119's\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 295 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 8 / Title 1 / Section 295
Payment of retirement allowances and transfer of reserves
Status: in_force

§ 295. Payment of retirement allowances and transfer of reserves. a.\nOn the effective date of this article, all retired police officers and\nfirefighters, and other persons who have retired pursuant to the\nprovisions of sections eighty-one through eighty-eight, inclusive, of\nthis chapter, as in force and effect immediately prior to the effective\ndate of this article, and their beneficiaries shall be transferred and\nbecome a charge upon the retirement system established by this article\nand shall thereafter receive their retirement allowances from such\nsystem.\n  b. Reserves held by the comptroller for the payment of such retirement\nallowances shall be transferred to the retirement system established by\nthis article on the effective date thereof.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 302 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 3 / Title 1 / Section 302
Taxable status date
Status: in_force

§ 302. Taxable status date. 1. The taxable status of real property in\ncities and towns shall be determined annually according to its condition\nand ownership as of the first day of March and the valuation thereof\ndetermined as of the applicable valuation date. The taxable status of\nreal property in a city or town not subject to the provisions of this\nsection shall be determined as of the date provided by law applicable to\nsuch city or town, or if not so provided, then as of the date the\nassessment roll is completed and filed prior to the hearing of\ncomplaints in connection therewith. The date of taxable status of the\nreal property contained on any assessment roll shall be imprinted or\notherwise indicated at the top of the first page of each volume of such\nroll.\n  2. The taxable status date of real property assessed for school\ndistrict and village purposes shall be determined in accordance with\nsections thirteen hundred two and fourteen hundred of this chapter,\nrespectively.  The date of taxable status of the real property contained\non any village assessment roll shall be imprinted or otherwise indicated\nat the top of the first page of each volume of such roll.\n  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,\nwhenever any person, association or corporation not entitled to an\nexemption from taxation acquires title to property which is exempt, in\nwhole or in part, from taxation, such property shall be immediately\nsubject to taxation pursuant to section five hundred twenty of this\nchapter, except that, in cities with a population of one million or\nmore, such property shall become subject to taxation pursuant to section\nfour hundred ninety-four of this chapter.\n  4. The taxable status of a special franchise shall be determined on\nthe basis of its value and its ownership as of the first day of January\nof the year preceding the year in which the assessment roll on which\nsuch property is to be assessed is completed and filed in the office of\nthe city or town clerk, except that taxable status of such properties\nshall be determined on the basis of ownership as of the first day of\nJanuary of the second year preceding the date required by law for the\nfiling of the final assessment roll for purposes of all village\nassessment rolls.\n  5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in a\ncity with a population of one million or more, whenever any corporation\nor association entitled to exemption from taxation pursuant to paragraph\n(a) of subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-a or paragraph (a)\nof subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-b of this chapter, or\nany local law adopted pursuant to such provisions, acquires title to\nreal property that is not exempt, in whole or in part, from taxation,\nsuch property shall, provided that it otherwise qualifies for exemption\npursuant to such provisions, be immediately subject to exemption from\ntaxation in accordance with section four hundred ninety-four-a of this\nchapter.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 17-146 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 17 / Title 1 / Section 17-146
Offender a competent witness; witnesses' immunity
Status: in_force

§ 17-146. Offender a competent witness; witnesses' immunity. 1.  A\nperson offending against any section of this article is a competent\nwitness against another person so offending and may be compelled to\nattend and testify on any trial, hearing or proceeding or investigation\nin the same manner as any other person.\n  2. In any criminal proceeding before a court or grand jury for a\nviolation of any of the provisions of this article, the court or grand\njury may confer immunity in accordance with the code of criminal\nprocedure.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4362 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 43-B / Title 1 / Section 4362
Organ procurement organizations
Status: in_force

§ 4362. Organ procurement organizations. 1. No person shall own or\noperate an organ procurement organization that is principally located or\noperated in New York state unless:\n  (a) the organization is currently designated by the secretary of\nhealth and human services as an organ procurement organization; and\n  (b) the organ procurement organization is operated by a not-for-profit\ncorporation having a board of directors which meets no less than four\ntimes annually or is operated by a hospital and has an advisory board\nwhich meets no less than four times annually. At least thirty percent of\nthe members of the board of directors or advisory board shall be members\nof the public not otherwise directly or indirectly affiliated with a\ntransplant center or organ procurement organization, and not more than\nfifty percent shall be surgeons or physicians. Such board of directors\nor advisory board shall include representatives of more than one\ntransplant center. The board of directors of an organ procurement\norganization operated by a not-for-profit corporation or the advisory\nboard of an organ procurement organization operated by a hospital shall\nbe responsible for developing and adopting the written by-laws and\npolicies that govern the operation of the organ procurement\norganization.  All such by-laws and policies for an organ procurement\norganization operated by a hospital shall be subject to approval by the\nboard of directors of the hospital. Written policies shall include, but\nnot be limited to: (i) policies and procedures to educate the public and\nhealth care professionals about organ donations; (ii) medical standards\nfor donor screening and testing; (iii) policies and procedures for the\ndistribution of organs; (iv) procedures to ensure fiscal accountability\nof the organ procurement organization; and (v) policies concerning any\narrangements or agreements that the organ procurement organization may\nenter with tissue banks storage facilities or other organ procurement\norganizations.\n  2. No hospital or other facility and no physician shall permit any\nperson to, and no person shall, procure organs for transplantation\nunless such person has been designated in accordance with this article\nor has been asked by a designated organ procurement organization to\nprocure a specified organ.\n  3. The commissioner, in consultation with the transplant council, may\npromulgate regulations to establish standards for organ procurement\norganizations regarding organ sharing among organ procurement\norganizations in this state. Such standards shall include policies for\nsera sharing or other measures to meet the needs of patients who are\nhighly sensitized and for whom it is difficult to identify a suitable\nkidney due to conditions such as a blood transfusion, immunization,\nprior pregnancy or a previous failed kidney transplant.\n