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N.Y. TRA Law § 97-A — New York Code / Act TRA / Article 4 / Section 97-A
Rules and instructions for flag protection for stopped railroad trains
Status: in_force

§ 97-a. Rules and instructions for flag protection for stopped\nrailroad trains. 1. Every railroad company shall, within thirty days\nenactment hereof, promulgate appropriate operating rules and special\ninstructions for employees in conformity with the following:\n  (a) When a train stops under circumstances in which it may be\novertaken by another train, a member of the crew must provide flagging\nprotection, that is, go back immediately with a red flag, torpedoes and\nfusees by day and with a red and/or white light, torpedoes and fusees by\nnight, a sufficient distance to insure full protection, placing two\ntorpedoes on the rail and when necessary, in addition, display lighted\nfusees.\n  (b) When recalled and safety to the train will permit, he may return.\n  (c) When conditions require, he will leave the torpedoes and a lighted\nfusee.\n  (d) The front of the train must be protected in the same way, when\nnecessary, by a member of the crew.\n  (e) When a train is moving under circumstances in which it may be\novertaken by another train, a member of the crew must take such action\nas may be necessary to insure full protection. By night (or by day, when\nthe view is obscured) lighted fusees must be dropped off the moving\ntrain or displayed at proper intervals.\n  (f) When day signals cannot be plainly seen, owing to weather or other\nconditions, night signals must also be used.\n  (g) Conductors and enginemen are responsible for the protection of\ntheir trains.\n  (h) When a pusher engine is assisting a train, coupled behind the\ncabin or caboose car, and the member of the crew who protects the\nrear-end of the train is riding in the cabin or caboose car, the\nrequirements as to the fusees will be met by dropping them off between\nthe cabin or caboose car and pusher engine on the track the train is\nusing, and not between that track and an adjacent track. Provided,\nhowever, that unless specific circumstances indicate to the contrary, it\nwill be presumed that trains stopping under the following circumstances\nwill not be overtaken by another train:\n  (i) Passenger trains making normal station stops.\n  (ii) All trains stopping in manual block territory protected by\nabsolute block.\n  (iii) All trains stopping so as to be completely within the limits of\nclassication or storage yards at the usual place to change crews or\nremove power.\n  2. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the employment\nof additional employees or restrict the use of crew members in any\nmanner.\n  3. The commissioner shall have full authority to enforce the\nprovisions of this section.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 619 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15-B / Title 50 / Section 619
Glens Falls urban renewal agency
Status: in_force

§ 619. Glens Falls urban renewal agency. A municipal urban renewal\nagency, to be known as the Glens Falls urban renewal agency, is hereby\nestablished for the accomplishment of any or all of the purposes\nspecified in articles fifteen and fifteen-a of this chapter and in\naccordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New\nYork. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in\nduration and consist of not less than three and not more than five\nmembers including the mayor. The additional members shall be appointed\nby the mayor with the concurring approval of the city council. It shall\nhave the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred by article\nfifteen-a of this chapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It shall be\norganized in the manner prescribed by and subject to the provisions of\narticle fifteen-a of this chapter and the agency, its members, officers\nand employees and activities shall in all respects be governed by the\nprovisions of such article.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 453 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 13 / Title 50 / Section 453
Newburgh Housing Authority
Status: in_force

§ 453. Newburgh Housing Authority.  A municipal housing authority to\nbe known as the Newburgh Housing Authority, is hereby created and\nestablished for the city of Newburgh in the county of Orange, for the\naccomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified in 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 five members. It shall have the powers and duties now or\nhereafter conferred by this chapter upon municipal housing authorities.\nIt shall be organized in the manner prescribed by and subject to the\nprovisions of this chapter, and the authority, its members, officers and\nemployees and its operations and activities shall in all respects be\ngoverned by the provisions of this chapter.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 9802 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 98 / Section 9802
Liability of villages in certain actions
Status: in_force

§ 9802. Liability of villages in certain actions. Except as provided\notherwise in this chapter no action shall be maintained against the\nvillage upon or arising out of a contract of the village unless the same\nshall be commenced within eighteen months after the cause of action\ntherefor shall have accrued, nor unless a written verified claim shall\nhave been filed with the village clerk within one year after the cause\nof action shall have accrued, and no other action shall be maintained\nagainst the village unless the same shall be commenced within one year\nafter the cause of action therefor shall have accrued, nor unless a\nnotice of claim shall have been made and served in compliance with\nsection fifty-e of the general municipal law. The omission to present a\nclaim or to commence an action thereon within the respective periods of\ntime above stated applicable to such claim, shall be a bar to any claim\nor action therefor against said village; but no action shall be brought\nupon any such claim until forty days have elapsed after the filing of\nthe claim in the office of the village clerk.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 191 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 6 / Section 191
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 191. Definitions. As used in this act:\n  a. The term "state retired employee" shall mean a person sixty-two\nyears of age or older who is retired, or any person retired for\ndisability regardless of age, and receives, as a result of such\nretirement, a retirement allowance or pension from any state\nadministered and operated retirement or pension plan or system.\n  b. The term "local retired employee" shall mean a person sixty-two\nyears of age or older who is retired, or any person retired for\ndisability regardless of age, and receives, as a result of such\nretirement, a retirement allowance or pension from any retirement or\npension system or plan of a municipality.\n  c. The term "state retired teacher" shall mean a person sixty-two\nyears of age or older who is retired, or any person retired for\ndisability regardless of age, and receives, as a result of such\nretirement, a retirement allowance from the New York state teachers\nretirement system.\n  d. The term "local retired teacher" shall mean a person sixty-two\nyears of age or older who is retired, or any person retired for\ndisability regardless of age, and receives, as a result of such\nretirement, a retirement allowance from any teachers' retirement system\nadministered and operated by a municipality or a school district located\ntherein.\n  e. The term "municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village.\n  f. The term "comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 360-R — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 24 / Section 360-R
Severability
Status: in_force

§ 360-r. Severability. If any provision hereof, or the application of\nsuch provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the\nremainder of this article shall not be affected thereby.\n
N.Y. VET Law § 11 — New York Code / Act VET / Article 1 / Section 11
Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and polit...
Status: in_force

§ 11. Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans\nor family members of veterans receiving services from the state and\npolitical subdivisions thereof. 1. Departments, divisions, bureaus,\nboards, commissions and agencies of the state and political subdivisions\nthereof, which provide assistance, treatment, counseling, care,\nsupervision or custody in service areas involving health, mental health,\nfamily services, criminal justice or employment shall be required to\nsolicit information on whether their customer or client is a veteran as\ndefined in section eighty-five of the civil service law or family member\nof a veteran. Any new forms created after the effective date of this\nsection shall contain the following questions: "Have you served in the\nUnited States military?" "Has someone in your family served in the\nUnited States military?"\n  2. Individuals identifying themselves as having served in the military\nor a family member shall be advised that the department of veterans'\nservices and local veterans service agencies established pursuant to\nsection seventeen of this article provide assistance to veterans\nregarding benefits under federal and state law. Information regarding\nveterans and military status provided by assisted persons solely to\nimplement this section shall be protected as personal confidential\nmaterial, and used only to assist in the diagnosis, treatment,\nassessment and handling of the veteran's or family member's problems\nwithin the agency requesting such information and in referring the\nveteran or family member to the department of veterans' services for the\ninformation and assistance with regard to benefits and entitlements\nunder federal and state law.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 1065 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 10 / Part 6 / Section 1065
Orders on hearing
Status: in_force

§ 1065. Orders on hearing. (a) If the court determines after hearing\nthat continued placement serves the purposes of this article, it shall\ndeny the motion. The court may, on its own motion, determine a schedule\nfor the return of the child, change the agency or institution in which\nthe child is placed, or direct the agency or institution to make such\nother arrangements for the child's care and welfare as the facts of the\ncase may require.\n  (b) If the court determines after hearing that continued placement\ndoes not serve the purposes of this article, the court shall discharge\nthe child from the custody of the agency or the institution in accord\nwith section one thousand fifty-four of this article.\n
N.Y. NPC Law § 517 — New York Code / Act NPC / Article 5 / Section 517
Liabilities of members
Status: in_force

§ 517. Liabilities of members.\n  (a) The members of a corporation shall not be personally liable for\nthe debts, liabilities or obligations of the corporation.\n  (b) A member shall be liable to the corporation only to the extent of\nany unpaid portion of the initiation fees, membership dues or\nassessments which the corporation may have lawfully imposed upon him, or\nfor any other indebtedness owed by him to the corporation. No action\nshall be brought by any creditor of the corporation to reach and apply\nany such liability to any debt of the corporation until after final\njudgment shall have been rendered against the corporation in favor of\nthe creditor and execution thereon returned unsatisfied, or the\ncorporation shall have been adjudged bankrupt, or a receiver shall have\nbeen appointed with power to collect debts, and which receiver, on\ndemand of a creditor to bring suit thereon, has refused to sue for such\nunpaid amount, or the corporation shall have been dissolved or ceased\nits activities leaving debts unpaid. No such action shall be brought\nmore than three years after the happening of any one of such events.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 8-206 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 8 / Part 2 / Section 8-206
Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate
Status: in_force

Section 8--206. Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate.\n  (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its\nissue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n       (1) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as\n           authorized; and\n       (2) even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security\n           certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who\n           took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.\n  (b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered,\neven if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its\noriginal terms.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 2301 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 23 / Section 2301
Purpose
Status: in_force

§ 2301. Purpose. The purpose of this article is to promote the public\nwelfare by regulating insurance rates to the end that they not be\nexcessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory, to promote price\ncompetition and competitive behavior among insurers, to provide rates\nthat are responsive to competitive market conditions, to improve the\navailability and reliability of insurance and to authorize and regulate\ncooperative action among insurers within the scope of this article.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 311-C — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 13 / Section 311-C
Termination without penalty of certain service contracts
Status: in_force

§ 311-c. Termination without penalty of certain service contracts. 1.\nThe provisions of this section shall apply to every contract for\nservices from a telecommunications service provider, an internet service\nprovider, a health club as defined in section six hundred twenty-one of\nthe general business law, a health spa, or a provider of television\nservices, including but not limited to cable television, direct\nsatellite and other television-like services, in any case in which: (a)\nsuch contract was executed on or after the effective date of this\nsection by or on behalf of a person who, after the execution of such\ncontract, entered active military service for ninety days or longer; and\n(b) the person's military service is at a location where the service\nprovider cannot provide the services covered by the contract.\n  2. (a) Any contract described in subdivision one of this section may\nbe terminated without penalty by written notice delivered to the service\nprovider by such person in active military service canceling his or her\ncontract within fourteen days of his or her receipt of orders to report\nfor military service. Such notice shall include a copy of the orders in\nquestion.\n  (b) Delivery of such notice shall be in accordance with industry\nstandards for notification of terminations, together with the future\ndate on which the service is to be terminated.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 202-C — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 5 / Section 202-C
Reserves against deposits
Status: in_force

§ 202-c. Reserves against deposits. Each such foreign banking\ncorporation which is authorized to maintain a branch or branches in this\nstate shall maintain such reserves against the deposits of such branch\nor branches as may be required from time to time by the laws of this\nstate to be maintained by banks and trust companies. Such reserves shall\nbe maintained, subject to call, as provided by sections thirty-three and\none hundred seven of this chapter; provided, however, that any such\nforeign banking corporation which maintains reserves with a federal\nreserve bank pursuant to federal law shall be exempt from the preceding\nprovisions of this section so long as it shall comply with the\nrequirements of such law with reference to reserves, and provided\nfurther that the superintendent of financial services may determine that\nit is necessary or appropriate to require such a foreign banking\ncorporation to maintain additional reserves against the deposits of its\nbranch or branches in this state, taking into consideration the\ncharacter of business conducted by such institutions and the need to\nmaintain vigorous and fair competition between and among such branches\nand banks organized under the laws of this state. As to any such\nadditional reserves which are required to be maintained pursuant to this\nsection, to the extent permitted by the superintendent, amounts carried\non the books of any such branch or branches as credits to the account of\nanother office or branch or wholly owned (except for a nominal number of\ndirectors' shares) subsidiary of such foreign banking corporation shall\nnot be deemed to be deposits.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 400 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 10 / Section 400
Pensions; insurance
Status: in_force

§ 400. Pensions; insurance. Subject to such regulations as the\nsuperintendent of financial services may prescribe, a savings and loan\nassociation may, in the discretion of a majority of all the directors:\n  1. Provide pensions to officers and employees pursuant to a\nnondiscriminatory plan for service rendered to the savings and loan\nassociation or for having become incapacitated while in service to the\nsavings and loan association, including annual supplements to retirees\nbased upon the "current cost of living index figure" for any calendar\nyear based upon the Consumer Price Index as issued by the bureau of\nlabor statistics of the United States department of labor.\n  2. Provide life insurance for its officers and employees, provided\nthat life insurance is not purchased solely for or on behalf of officers\nand highly compensated employees.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1602 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 34 / Section 1602
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 1602. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. "Lottery" means the lottery operated by the state pursuant to this\narticle.\n  2. "Division": (a) means the division of the lottery, as established\nwithin the New York state gaming commission; and (b) for the purposes of\nsection sixteen hundred seventeen-a of this article, the term "division\nof the lottery" or "division" means the "division of gaming" as created\npursuant to section one hundred two of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering\nand breeding law.\n  3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of taxation and finance or\nhis or her duly appointed delegate.\n  4. "Commission" means the New York state gaming commission.\n  5. "Director" means the director of the division of the lottery,\nexcept for purposes of paragraph four of subsection c of section one\nthousand six hundred thirteen and sections one thousand six hundred\nfourteen and one thousand six hundred fifteen of this chapter the term\n"director" shall mean the "commission".\n  6. "Video lottery gaming" means any lottery game played on a video\nlottery terminal that issues electronic tickets, allows multiple players\nto participate in the same game and determines winners to a material\ndegree upon the element of chance, notwithstanding that the skill of a\nplayer may influence such player's chance of winning a game. Video\nlottery gaming may include elements of player interaction after a player\nreceives an initial chance.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 305 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 3 / Section 305
Summons; supplemental summons, amendment
Status: in_force

Rule 305. Summons; supplemental summons, amendment. (a) Summons;\nsupplemental summons. A summons shall specify the basis of the venue\ndesignated and if based upon the residence of the plaintiff it shall\nspecify the plaintiff's address, and also shall bear the index number\nassigned and the date of filing with the clerk of the court. A\nthird-party summons shall also specify the date of filing of the\nthird-party summons with the clerk of the court.  The summons in an\naction arising out of a consumer credit transaction shall prominently\ndisplay at the top of the summons the words "consumer credit\ntransaction" and, where a purchaser, borrower or debtor is a defendant,\nshall specify the county of residence of a defendant, if one resides\nwithin the state, and the county where the consumer credit transaction\ntook place, if it is within the state.  Where, upon order of the court\nor by stipulation of all parties or as of right pursuant to section\n1003, a new party is joined in the action and the joinder is not made\nupon the new party's motion, a supplemental summons specifying the\npleading which the new party must answer shall be filed with the clerk\nof the court and served upon such party.\n  (b) Summons and notice.  If the complaint is not served with the\nsummons, the summons shall contain or have attached thereto a notice\nstating the nature of the action and the relief sought, and, except in\nan action for medical malpractice, the sum of money for which judgment\nmay be taken in case of default.\n  (c) Amendment. At any time, in its discretion and upon such terms as\nit deems just, the court may allow any summons or proof of service of a\nsummons to be amended, if a substantial right of a party against whom\nthe summons issued is not prejudiced.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 720 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 20-A / Section 720
Findings and policy
Status: in_force

§ 720. Findings and policy. The rights of employees to organize and to\nbargain collectively through labor organizations of their own choosing\nhave been affirmatively protected by the constitution and statutes of\nthis state and by parallel federal laws. Encouraged by these laws, a\nsubstantial proportion of the employees in this state have become\nmembers of, and contribute financially to, labor organizations for the\npurpose of bargaining collectively with their employers concerning wages\nand other conditions of employment. To the officers and agents of their\nlabor organizations, these employees have entrusted their funds and the\npower to act in their behalf in achieving the purposes of their labor\norganizations.\n  Experience has shown instances where officers and agents of some labor\norganizations have abused their positions of fiduciary responsibility.\n  Experience has also shown instances in which some employers, employer\norganizations and labor relations consultants have participated in or\ninduced such abuses of fiduciary responsibility by officers and agents\nof such labor organizations.\n  Responsible leaders of the labor movement have recognized that union\nofficers and agents have a fiduciary duty to serve the members of the\nunion honestly and faithfully, and these leaders have taken courageous\naction against those who have violated their trust. Experience, however,\nhas shown that labor's efforts to correct abuses from within need to be\naided and supplemented by legislation.\n  Such abuses have had a harmful effect on the general welfare, health\nand safety of employees and the public. Accordingly, it is hereby\ndeclared to be the public policy of the state of New York that officers\nand agents of a labor organization shall be held to a fiduciary\nobligation in handling the labor organization's assets; that such\nofficers and agents shall not acquire financial interests which\ninterfere or tend to interfere with the faithful performance of their\nresponsibility to the labor organization; and that such officers and\nagents shall account fully to the members of such labor organization for\nall assets and financial transactions. It is hereby further declared to\nbe the public policy of the state of New York that employers, employer\norganizations, labor relations consultants and other persons shall not\nparticipate in or induce violations of such fiduciary obligation by\nofficers and agents of labor organizations.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 279-A — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 17-A / Section 279-A
Records
Status: in_force

§ 279-a. Records. The secretary of state shall keep for public\nexamination a record of all names, marks or devices filed under this\narticle.\n