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N.Y. TWN Law § 103 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 8 / Section 103
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 103. Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following\nterms shall be defined as follows:\n  1. "Administrative unit" shall mean an office, department, division,\nbureau, board, commission, district, or other agency of town government,\nbut shall exclude a fire district.\n  2. "Budget officer" shall mean the supervisor or, in towns which have\nmore than one supervisor, the presiding supervisor; provided that the\nsupervisor or presiding supervisor may appoint, to serve at his\npleasure, any person including a town officer or employee, other than a\nmember of the town board, to be budget officer. When a person other than\nthe supervisor has been appointed as budget officer, the supervisor, in\nthe event of a vacancy in the office of budget officer shall serve as\nbudget officer unless and until another person shall be appointed as\nprovided in this subdivision.\n  3. "Capital project" shall mean: (a) any physical public betterment or\nimprovement or studies, surveys and plans relative thereto, or (b) land\nor rights in land, or (c) any furnishings, machinery, apparatus or\nequipment for any physical public betterment or improvement when such\nbetterment or improvement is first constructed or acquired, or (d) any\ncombination of items (a), (b) and (c).\n  4. "Unappropriated unreserved fund balance" shall mean the difference\nbetween the total assets for a fund and the total liabilities, deferred\nrevenues, encumbered appropriations, amounts appropriated for the\nensuing fiscal year's budget, and amounts reserved for stated purposes\npursuant to law, including reserve funds established pursuant to the\ngeneral municipal law for the fund, as determined through application of\nthe system of accounts prescribed by the state comptroller pursuant to\nsection thirty-six of the general municipal law.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 788 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 37-A / Section 788
Legislative intent
Status: in_force

§ 788. Legislative intent. The legislature recognizes and acknowledges\nthe value of hearing aids to many individuals with hearing loss and\nrecognizes the valuable service provided by hearing aid dispensers and\ndispensing audiologists to such individuals by providing access to\nappropriate amplification devices and other valuable services related to\ntheir use. Due to the large number of individuals with hearing loss who\ndo not use hearing aids, the legislature furthermore recognizes the\npositive benefits of the increased use of hearing aids. It is the intent\nof the legislature and this article to protect the hearing-impaired\npublic by ensuring competent, honest and accountable dispensers of\nhearing aids who will protect the health, safety and welfare of the\npeople of this state.\n  The legislature finds and declares that existing laws regulating the\ndispensing of hearing aids have been ineffective in providing adequate\nprotection. To ensure against consumer abuses and thereby protect the\npublic, the legislature determines that more rigorous education,\ntraining and business practice standards should be applied to those\npersons registered to dispense hearing aids pursuant to this article. It\nis the intention of the legislature to apply standards to more fully\nprotect the general public, and to ensure continued consumer access to\nsafe, reliable and appropriate hearing aid dispensing services.\n
N.Y. WKC Law § 238 — New York Code / Act WKC / Article 9 / Section 238
Payments to minors
Status: in_force

§ 238. Payments to minors. Minors shall be deemed to be sui juris for\nthe purpose of receiving payment of benefits under this article.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 10-B — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 2 / Section 10-B
Domestic violence employee awareness and assistance
Status: in_force

§ 10-b. Domestic violence employee awareness and assistance.  The\ncommissioner shall assist the office for the prevention of domestic\nviolence in the creation, approval and dissemination of the model\ndomestic violence employee awareness and assistance policy as further\ndefined in subdivision nine of section five hundred seventy-five of the\nexecutive law. Upon completion and approval of the model plan as\noutlined in subdivision nine of section five hundred seventy-five of the\nexecutive law, the commissioner shall assist in the promotion of the\nmodel policy to businesses in New York state.\n
N.Y. PTR Law § 119 — New York Code / Act PTR / Article 8 / Section 119
Existing limited partnerships
Status: in_force

§ 119. Existing limited partnerships.  (1) A limited partnership\nformed under any statute of this state prior to the adoption of this\narticle may become a limited partnership under this article by complying\nwith the provisions of section ninety-one, provided the certificate sets\nforth\n  (a) The amount of the original contribution of each limited partner,\nand the time when the contribution was made, and\n  (b) That the property of the partnership exceeds the amount sufficient\nto discharge its liabilities to persons not claiming as general or\nlimited partners by an amount greater than the sum of the contributions\nof its limited partners.\n  (2) The provisions of this article, or the repeal of article eight of\nthis chapter, shall not affect or impair any act done or right accrued,\nacquired or established by a limited partnership formed under any\nstatute of this state prior to its adoption, until or unless it becomes\na limited partnership in accordance with the provisions of this article,\nand the same may be conducted in the same manner and to the same extent\nas if this article had not been passed.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 601 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 20 / Section 601
Construction
Status: in_force

§ 601. Construction. This chapter does not alter or impair any vested\nestate, interest or right, or alter or affect the construction of any\nconveyance, will or other instrument which has taken effect at any time\nbefore this chapter becomes a law.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 488 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 24 / Section 488
Time, place and notice of corporate meetings
Status: in_force

§ 488. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. 1. The by-laws\nshall make provision for an annual corporate meeting and for giving\nappropriate notice to each voting member of the date and place of each\nsuch meeting.\n  2. Notices of any special meeting shall state the purpose or purposes\nfor which the meeting is called and no business shall be transacted at\nsuch special meeting except that contained in such notice.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 283 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 10 / Section 283
Custody of highway moneys
Status: in_force

§ 283. Custody of highway moneys. All moneys levied and collected as\nprovided in this article, all moneys collected as penalties under this\nchapter, or received from any other source and available for highway,\nbridge and miscellaneous purposes and all moneys paid to the town by the\nstate, as provided in sections two hundred seventy-nine, two hundred and\neighty and two hundred eighty-two and as provided in chapter eight\nhundred twenty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty, as amended\nfrom time to time, shall be paid to the supervisor, who as such shall be\nthe custodian thereof, and accountable therefor.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 622 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 6 / Section 622
Infant members
Status: in_force

§ 622. Infant members.\n  (a) If the certificate of incorporation or the by-laws provide that a\nmember shall be of full age:\n  (1) A corporation may treat an infant who holds a membership\ncertificate or card or capital certificate or a bond of such corporation\nas having capacity to receive and to empower others to receive payments\nor distributions, to vote or express consent or dissent, in person or by\nproxy, and to make elections and exercise rights relating to such\ncertificates or bonds, unless, in the case of membership certificates or\ncards or capital certificates, the corporate officer responsible for\nmaintaining the list or record of members or the transfer agent of the\ncorporation or, in the case of bonds, the treasurer or paying officer or\nagent has received written notice that such holder is an infant.\n  (2) An infant holder of a membership certificate or card or capital\ncertificate or a bond of a corporation who has received or empowered\nothers to receive payments or distributions, voted or expressed consent\nor dissent, or made an election or exercised a right relating thereto,\nshall have no right thereafter to disaffirm or avoid, as against the\ncorporation, any such act on his part, unless prior to such receipt,\nvote, consent, dissent, election or exercise, as to membership\ncertificates or cards or capital certificates, the corporate officer\nresponsible for maintaining the list or record of members or its\ntransfer agent or, in the case of bonds, the treasurer or paying officer\nor agent had received written notice that such holder was an infant.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 35.00 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 1 / Title C / Article 35 / Section 35.00
Justification; a defense
Status: in_force

§ 35.00 Justification; a defense.\n  In any prosecution for an offense, justification, as defined in\nsections 35.05 through 35.30, is a defense.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 216 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 7 / Section 216
Constitutional convention delegates and employees
Status: in_force

§ 216. Constitutional convention delegates and employees.  a.\nNotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this article or\nany other section of this chapter or any other provision of any general\nor local law, a member retired from any public pension system of the\nstate, elected as a delegate of the convention to revise and amend the\nconstitution of the state in the year nineteen hundred sixty-seven, or\nserving as an employee of such convention may serve and earn\ncompensation in such position without any effect on his status as such\nretired member and without suspension or diminution of his retirement\nallowance.\n  b. Member service credit may not be purchased or granted in any\nretirement system or pension plan administered by the state or any of\nits political subdivisions for any period of service in the capacity\nprescribed by subdivision a.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 147 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 5 / Section 147
Holding special and trial terms
Status: in_force

§ 147. Holding special and trial terms.  A special term or a trial\nterm must be held by one judge, except that when private property\nlocated within the city of New York shall be taken for public use by the\ncity of New York, the compensation to be made therefor shall be\nascertained by a special term for condemnation proceedings of the\nsupreme court. At least one special term and two trial terms must be\nappointed to be held in each year in each county separately organized.\nTwo or more trial terms may be appointed to be held and may be held at\nthe same time in any county. Fulton and Hamilton counties shall be\ndeemed one county for the purposes of this section.  A special term of\nthe supreme court may be adjourned to a future day, and to any place\nwithin the judicial district, by an entry in the minutes. After the\ndischarge of the jury, a trial and special term may be adjourned in like\nmanner, for the trial of issues by the court.  Any such adjourned term\nmay be further adjourned from time to time, as the justice holding the\nsame directs. Special terms may be held at the chambers of the justice\nor elsewhere in the judicial district, but an action triable by the\ncourt without a jury, which was upon the calendar of a term before it\nwas adjourned to the chambers of a justice under this section, may be\ntried at the term so adjourned to chambers only by consent of both\nparties.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 185 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 4-B / Section 185
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 185. Definitions. As used in this article, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context: a. The term "fund" shall mean\nany public retirement system or pension fund which grants retirement or\npension benefits to employees of the city of New York, employees of the\nstate of New York, employees of any department or agency of the city of\nNew York or of the state of New York, employees of any municipality or\nother participating employer participating in the New York state and\nlocal employees' retirement system or the New York state and local\npolice and fire retirement system, and employees of school districts\nparticipating in the New York state teachers' retirement system.\n  b. The term "ordinary death benefit":\n  (1) shall include only the death benefits authorized by:\n  (a) sections sixty, sixty-a, sixty-b, sixty-c, three hundred sixty,\nthree hundred sixty-a, three hundred sixty-b, three hundred sixty-c,\nfour hundred forty-eight, four hundred forty-eight-a, five hundred\neight, five hundred eight-a, six hundred six and six hundred six-a of\nthe retirement and social security law; and\n  (b) section five hundred twelve of the education law; and\n  (c) sections B3-32.0, B20-39.0 and B20-40.0 of the administrative code\nof the city of New York and\n  (d) subdivisions a, b and c of section B18-38.0 of such code and\nsubdivisions a, a-1, b, c and f of section B19-7.79 of such code; and\n  (e) section twenty of the rules and regulations of the board of\neducation retirement system of the city of New York; and\n  (f) subdivision four of section B3-36.0 of such code, subdivision two\nof section B20-41.0 of such code, subdivision d of section B18-38.0 of\nsuch code, subdivisions d, e and f of section B19-7.79 of such code,\nsection two hundred seven-h of the general municipal law, as added by\nchapter nine hundred four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-six and\namended, section two hundred seven-h of the general municipal law, as\nadded by chapter nine hundred six of the laws of nineteen hundred\nsixty-six and section fourteen-a of the rules and regulations of the\nboard of education retirement system of the city of New York, in any\ncase where the death to which any of the provisions above mentioned in\nthis subparagraph (f) is applicable occurs before the effective date of\nretirement designated by the member or by the board of trustees of the\nretirement system, as the case may be; and\n  (2) shall include the accelerated death benefit authorized by\nsubdivision nine of section five hundred eleven of the education law;\nand\n  (3) shall not include a death benefit payable as the result of an\naccident sustained in the performance of duty.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1288 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 29-A / Section 1288
Deposit and disposition of revenue
Status: in_force

§ 1288. Deposit and disposition of revenue. Notwithstanding any\nprovision of law to the contrary: (a) All taxes, interest and penalties\ncollected or received by the commissioner pursuant to this article shall\nbe deposited daily with such responsible banks, banking houses or trust\ncompanies, as may be designated by the comptroller, in trust for the\ncredit of the metropolitan transportation authority. An account may be\nestablished in one or more of such depositories. Such deposits shall be\nkept separate and apart from all other money in the possession of the\ncomptroller. The comptroller shall require adequate security from all\nsuch depositories. Of the total revenue collected or received under this\nsection, the comptroller shall retain in the comptroller's hands such\namount as the commissioner may determine to be necessary for refunds\nunder this article. The commissioner is authorized and directed to\ndeduct from such amounts collected or received under this article,\nbefore deposit into the accounts specified by the comptroller, a\nreasonable amount necessary to effectuate refunds of appropriations of\nthe department to reimburse the department for the costs to administer,\ncollect and distribute the taxes imposed by this article.\n  (b) On or before the twelfth day following the end of each month,\nafter reserving such amount for such refunds and such costs, the\ncommissioner shall certify to the comptroller the amount of all revenues\nso received pursuant to this article during the prior month as a result\nof the taxes, interest and penalties so imposed.\n  (c) By the fifteenth day of the last month of each calendar quarter\nthe comptroller shall pay over the amount of revenues from the prior\nthree months in total so certified by the commissioner, without\nappropriation, into the corporate transportation account of the\nmetropolitan transportation authority special assistance fund\nestablished by section twelve hundred seventy-a of the public\nauthorities law to be applied as provided in paragraph (e) of\nsubdivision four of such section twelve hundred seventy-a. Any money\ncollected pursuant to this article that is deposited by the comptroller\nin the corporate transportation account of the metropolitan\ntransportation authority special assistance fund shall be held in such\nfund free and clear of any claim by any person or entity paying the tax\npursuant to this article, including, without limiting the generality of\nthe foregoing, any right or claim against the metropolitan\ntransportation authority, any of its bondholders, or any subsidiary or\naffiliate of the metropolitan transportation authority.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1805 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 37 / Part 2 / Section 1805
Criminal tax fraud in the second degree
Status: in_force

§ 1805. Criminal tax fraud in the second degree. A person commits\ncriminal tax fraud in the second degree when he or she commits a tax\nfraud act or acts and, with the intent to evade any tax due under this\nchapter, or to defraud the state or any subdivision of the state, the\nperson pays the state and/or a political subdivision of the state\n(whether by means of underpayment or receipt of refund or both), in a\nperiod of not more than one year in excess of fifty thousand dollars\nless than the tax liability that is due. Criminal tax fraud in the\nsecond degree is a class C felony.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 202 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 2 / Section 202
Enumerated proceedings not exclusive The proceedings enumerated in this act shall not be deemed exclusive and the court is empowered in a...
Status: in_force

§ 202. Enumerated proceedings not exclusive\n  The proceedings enumerated in this act shall not be deemed exclusive\nand the court is empowered in any proceeding, whether or not\nspecifically provided for, to exercise any of the jurisdiction granted\nto it by this act or other provisions of law, notwithstanding that the\njurisdiction sought to be exercised in the proceeding is or may be\nexercised in or incidental to a different proceeding.\n
N.Y. DOM Law § 240-A — New York Code / Act DOM / Article 13 / Section 240-A
Judgment or decree; additional provision
Status: in_force

§ 240-a. Judgment or decree; additional provision.  In any action or\nproceeding brought under the provisions of this chapter wherein all or\npart of the relief granted is divorce or annulment of a marriage any\ninterlocutory or final judgment or decree shall contain, as a part\nthereof, the social security numbers of the named parties in the action\nor proceeding, as well as a provision that each party may resume the use\nof his or her premarriage surname or any other former surname.\n
N.Y. TRA Law § 426 — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 17 / Section 426
Maintenance of records
Status: in_force

§ 426. Maintenance of records. In connection with each contract, the\ncommissioner and the municipality shall keep adequate records of the\namount of the payment by the state, the amount of federal assistance, if\nany, received by the municipality for the project, and of all moneys\nexpended by the municipality for such project. Such records shall be\nkept by the commissioner and shall establish the basis for\nrecalculations of the state payment as required herein. The commissioner\nshall have authority to carry out, or to cause to be carried out, audits\nof such contracts and records pursuant to rules and regulations\npromulgated by the commissioner.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 4313 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 43 / Section 4313
Applicability of other provisions of this chapter
Status: in_force

§ 4313. Applicability of other provisions of this chapter. (a) Except\nas otherwise provided and except as the context otherwise requires,\nevery medical expense indemnity corporation, dental expense indemnity\ncorporation, health service corporation, and hospital service\ncorporation shall be subject to all requirements of this chapter made\napplicable to insurance companies generally, and to the rules and\nregulations of the superintendent except in so far as said laws, rules\nand regulations may be inconsistent with other provisions of this\narticle.\n  (b) Every such corporation shall be subject to liquidation,\ndissolution or rehabilitation pursuant to the provisions of article\nseventy-four of this chapter, and such proceedings shall be under the\nsupervision of the superintendent, who shall have such of the powers\ngranted to him pursuant to the provisions of such article as are\napplicable to domestic insurance companies.\n  (c) Every such corporation shall be subject to the provisions of\nsection two thousand six hundred sixteen of this chapter, relating to\nliving organ and tissue donors.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-713 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2 / Part 7 / Section 2-713
Buyer's Damages for Non-Delivery or Repudiation
Status: in_force

Section 2--713. Buyer's Damages for Non-Delivery or Repudiation.\n  (1) Subject to the provisions of this Article with respect to proof of\nmarket price (Section 2--723), the measure of damages for non-delivery\nor repudiation by the seller is the difference between the market price\nat the time when the buyer learned of the breach and the contract price\ntogether with any incidental and consequential damages provided in this\nArticle (Section 2--715), but less expenses saved in consequence of the\nseller's breach.\n  (2) Market price is to be determined as of the place for tender or, in\ncases of rejection after arrival or revocation of acceptance, as of the\nplace of arrival.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2440 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 24-A / Section 2440
Policy and purpose
Status: in_force

§ 2440. Policy and purpose.  The use of human subjects in medical\nresearch projects has brought about many beneficial scientific advances\nresulting in the increased health and well-being of the human race.\nSafeguarding the rights and welfare of individual human subjects in the\nconduct of these human research projects is a matter of vital state\nconcern. Every human being has the right to be protected against the\npossible conduct of medical or psychological research upon his body\nwithout his voluntary informed consent. Human research may effect\ndangerous and unanticipated results causing irreversible damage to the\nhuman subject. Accordingly, it shall be the policy of this state to\nprotect its people against the unnecessary and improper risk of pain,\nsuffering or injury resulting from human research conducted without\ntheir knowledge or consent.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 3003 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 41 / Part 1 / Section 3003
Content of tax due, deficiency, and other notices
Status: in_force

§ 3003.  Content of tax due, deficiency, and other notices.  Any first\nletter of proposed deficiency or determination (commonly called a thirty\nday letter) issued by the commissioner, and any notice and demand,\nnotice of deficiency or notice of determination which is issued by the\ncommissioner, which is manually initiated and which is the first such\nletter or notice issued to the taxpayer with respect to the subject\nmatter of such notice, shall describe the basis for (such as the\nstatutory or regulatory law, or judicial or tax appeals tribunal\ndecision), and identify the amounts (if any) of the tax due.  An\ninadequate description under this section shall not invalidate such\nletter or notice.\n