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N.Y. GBS Law § 1000 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 41 / Section 1000
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 1000. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Amateur" means any\nparticipant in a combative sport authorized pursuant to this article who\nis not receiving or competing for, and who has never received or\ncompeted for, any purse, money, prize, pecuniary gain, or other thing of\nvalue exceeding seventy-five dollars or the allowable amount established\nby the authorized amateur sanctioning entity overseeing the competition.\n  2. "Authorized sanctioning entity" means an entity allowed to oversee\nand conduct combative sports pursuant to regulations promulgated by the\ncommission.\n  3. "Combative sport" means any unarmed bout, contest, competition,\nmatch, or exhibition undertaken to entertain an audience, wherein the\nparticipants primarily grapple or wrestle, or deliver blows of any kind\nto, or use force in any way to manipulate, the body of another\nparticipant, and wherein the outcome and score depend entirely on such\nactivities.\n  4. "Commission" means the state athletic commission as provided for in\nsection one thousand three of this article, or an agent or employee of\nthe state athletic commission acting on its behalf.\n  5. "Mixed martial arts" means a combative sport wherein the rules of\nengagement do not limit the participants to a single, systematic,\nfighting discipline.\n  6. "Professional" means any participant in a combative sport\nauthorized pursuant to this article, other than an amateur, who is\nreceiving or competing for, or who has ever received or competed for,\nany purse, money, prize, pecuniary gain, or other thing exceeding\nseventy-five dollars in value.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 7909 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 79 / Section 7909
Termination of service contract reimbursement insurance policy
Status: in_force

§ 7909.  Termination of service contract reimbursement insurance\npolicy.  An insurer that issues a service contract reimbursement\ninsurance policy shall not terminate the policy except in accordance\nwith section three thousand four hundred twenty-six of this chapter and\nupon notice to the superintendent. The termination of a service contract\nreimbursement insurance policy shall not reduce the issuer's\nresponsibility for service contracts issued in this state by providers\nprior to the date of the termination.\n
N.Y. ACA Law § 33.15 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title K / Article 33 / Section 33.15
Search for trade-mark bottles and vessels kept in violation of law authorized
Status: in_force

§ 33.15. Search for trade-mark bottles and vessels kept in violation\nof law authorized. Whenever a registered owner of a trade-mark, or his\nagent, makes oath before a magistrate that he has a reason to believe\nand does believe, stating the grounds of his belief, that a bottle,\nsiphon, barrel, platter, vessel or other thing to which is affixed a\ntrade-mark belonging to him is being used or filled, or has been sold or\noffered for sale, by any person whomsoever in violation of the preceding\nsection, then the magistrate may issue a search warrant to discover the\nthing and cause the person having it in possession to be brought before\nhim and may thereupon inquire into the circumstances, and if on\nexamination, he finds that such person has been guilty of the offense\ncharged, he may hold the offender to bail to await the action of the\ngrand jury, and the offender shall also be liable to an action on the\ncase for damages, for such wrongful use of such trade-mark at the suit\nof the owner thereof, and the party aggrieved, shall also have his\nremedy according to the course of equity to enjoin the wrongful use of\nhis trade-mark, and to recover compensation therefor in any court having\njurisdiction over the person guilty of such wrongful use.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 666-A — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 13-D / Section 666-A
Loans to be guaranteed by New York state higher education assistance corporation
Status: in_force

§ 666-a. Loans to be guaranteed by New York state higher education\nassistance corporation. It shall be unlawful for any banking corporation\nor private banker authorized to carry on the business of banking under\nthe laws of this state to require that a person making application for a\nloan to be guaranteed by the New York state higher education assistance\ncorporation be a depositor with the bank prior to the time of such\napplication.\n
N.Y. LFN Law § 177.00 — New York Code / Act LFN / Article 3 / Section 177.00
Laws repealed; legislative intent
Status: in_force

§ 177.00 Laws repealed; legislative intent.  a. Of the laws enumerated\nin schedule A annexed hereto, that portion specified in the last column\nis hereby repealed.\n  b. It is the intent of the legislature, in enacting such schedule of\nrepeals, specifically to repeal such laws as may be obsolete or have\nbeen superseded by the other sections of this chapter so as to harmonize\nthe statutes of the state and the local laws of the municipalities with\nthe local finance law, thus avoiding ambiguity and uncertainty in\nconstruing the laws under which the municipalities, school districts and\ndistrict corporations conduct their fiscal affairs.\n
N.Y. NAV Law § 73-C — New York Code / Act NAV / Article 4 / Part 3-A / Section 73-C
Violations
Status: in_force

§ 73-c. Violations. 1. Any person who violates any of the provisions\nof this article or any local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation\nadopted pursuant to this article, shall be guilty of a violation unless\nsuch conduct is declared to be a misdemeanor or a felony pursuant to\nthis chapter or any other law of this state.\n  2. Every person convicted of a violation for a violation of any of the\nprovisions of this article or of any ordinance, order, rule or\nregulation adopted pursuant to this article for which another penalty is\nnot provided shall for a first conviction thereof be punished by a fine\nof not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred fifty dollars or\nby imprisonment for not more than seven days or by both such fine and\nimprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were\ncommitted within a period of twenty-four months, such person shall be\npunished by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty nor more than five\nhundred dollars or by imprisonment of not more than fifteen days or by\nboth such fine and imprisonment; upon a conviction for a third or\nsubsequent violation, all of which were committed within a period of\ntwenty-four months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less\nthan five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment\nfor not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 855 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 39-A / Section 855
Legislative findings
Status: in_force

§ 855. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that, as a result\nof the high value of Torah scrolls, there has developed a market for\nstolen scrolls. Because scrolls are virtually identical and difficult to\nidentify, it is necessary to provide a system by which buyers can\nsatisfy themselves that the scroll they are purchasing was not stolen\nthereby protecting the integrity of the marketplace, and to thwart\ntrafficking in stolen goods of this unique nature. Accordingly, the\nprovisions of this article are enacted.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 580-613 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 5-B / Part 6 / Subpart C / Section 580-613
Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in this state
Status: in_force

§ 580-613. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state\nwhen individual parties reside in this state. (a) If all of the parties\nwho are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside\nin the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to\nenforce and to modify the issuing state's child support order in a\nproceeding to register that order.\n  (b) A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction under this\nsection shall apply the provisions of parts one and two of this article,\nthis part and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the\nproceeding for enforcement or modification. Parts three, four, five,\nseven and eight of this article do not apply.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 235.07 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title M / Article 235 / Section 235.07
Obscenity in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 235.07 Obscenity in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of obscenity in the first degree when, knowing its\ncontent and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to\nwholesale promote, any obscene material.\n  Obscenity in the first degree is a class D felony.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 5003-B — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 50 / Section 5003-B
Nondisclosure agreements
Status: in_force

§ 5003-b. Nondisclosure agreements. Notwithstanding any other law to\nthe contrary, for any claim or cause of action, whether arising under\ncommon law, equity, or any provision of law, the factual foundation for\nwhich involves discrimination, in violation of laws prohibiting\ndiscrimination, including but not limited to, article fifteen of the\nexecutive law, in resolving, by agreed judgment, stipulation, decree,\nagreement to settle, assurance of discontinuance or otherwise, no\nemployer, its officer or employee shall have the authority to include or\nagree to include in such resolution any term or condition that would\nprevent the disclosure of the underlying facts and circumstances to the\nclaim or action unless the condition of confidentiality is the\nplaintiff's preference. Any such term or condition must be provided to\nall parties, and the plaintiff shall have twenty-one days to consider\nsuch term or condition. If after twenty-one days such term or condition\nis the plaintiff's preference, such preference shall be memorialized in\nan agreement signed by all parties. For a period of at least seven days\nfollowing the execution of such agreement, the plaintiff may revoke the\nagreement, and the agreement shall not become effective or be\nenforceable until such revocation period has expired.\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 849-I — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 21-B / Section 849-I
Application procedures
Status: in_force

§ 849-i. Application procedures. 1. Each town and village having a\njustice court may make an individual application for funds available\npursuant to this article, or two or more such towns or villages, or\ntowns and villages, may make a joint application for such funds. All\napplications shall be submitted to the chief administrator of the courts\nfor his or her approval.\n  2. The chief administrator shall require that applications submitted\nfor funding provide such information as he or she deems necessary,\nincluding at least the following:\n  (a) The amount of funding sought.\n  (b) A detailed description of the purpose or purposes to which the\nfunding will be applied.\n  (c) A detailed description of the court or courts making the\napplication, including information as to staffing, caseload, budget and\nfacilities as well as general information about the community or\ncommunities served, where such general information would be pertinent to\nthe purpose to which the funding will be applied.\n  3. In determining whether to approve an application, the chief\nadministrator shall consider:\n  (a) Whether the applicant has complied with all rules and regulations\ngoverning the program and all pertinent provisions of this article;\n  (b) The likely impact of approving such application upon the court or\ncourts to be affected thereby, upon the communities served, and upon the\njudiciary generally;\n  (c) The availability of other sources of funding to pay some or all of\nthe costs for which the application seeks funding under the program;\n  (d) The number and content of all other applications for funding then\navailable under the program;\n  (e) The extent of funding already received under the program by the\napplicant (or joint applicants) pursuant to past applications; and\n  (f) The magnitude of the funding appropriated for the purposes of this\narticle.\n  4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief administrator\nshall not approve any application for funding in excess of thirty\nthousand dollars unless such application is a joint application and the\naggregate funding sought thereunder does not exceed an amount equaling\nthe product of the number of joint applicants making such application\nand thirty thousand dollars.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 494 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 14-H / Section 494
Exemption from prosecution
Status: in_force

§ 494. Exemption from prosecution.  No person or corporation lawfully\nconducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo or permitting the\nconduct upon any premises owned or leased by him or it under any license\nlawfully issued pursuant to this article, shall be liable to prosecution\nor conviction for violation of any provision of article two hundred\ntwenty-five of the penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent\nthat such conduct is specifically authorized by this article, but this\nimmunity shall not extend to any person or corporation knowingly\nconducting or participating in the conduct of bingo under any license\nobtained by any false pretense or by any false statement made in any\napplication for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any\npremises owned or leased by him or it of any game of bingo conducted\nunder any license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such\nfalse pretense or statement.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 36-0109 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 36 / Section 36-0109
Sanctions
Status: in_force

§ 36-0109. Sanctions.\n  Any local government with land use jurisdiction that fails to qualify\nfor participation in the national flood insurance program, or that has\nhad its participation terminated by the federal emergency management\nagency, faces sanctions under federal law including, in areas of special\nflood hazard, ineligibility for flood disaster aid, ineligibility for\nfederally provided loans or federally guaranteed financing, including\nresidential and other mortgages granted by any banking institution that\nis a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation or other\nfederal instrumentality. The state of New York will cooperate with the\nfederal government in the enforcement of these sanctions.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 176 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 4 / Section 176
Reports required by superintendent; penalty for failure to make
Status: in_force

§ 176. Reports required by superintendent; penalty for failure to\nmake.  Within fifteen days after service upon any private banker of the\nnotice provided for by section thirty-seven of this chapter, he shall\nmake a written report to the superintendent of the financial condition\nof his business as a private banker, which report shall be in such form\nand shall contain such information as the superintendent of financial\nservices may prescribe. Such report shall be published by such private\nbanker in such manner as the superintendent of financial services may\nprescribe in a newspaper published in the place where the office of such\nprivate banker is located or if no newspaper is published there, in a\nnewspaper of general circulation in such place.\n  Every private banker shall also make such other special reports to the\nsuperintendent as he may from time to time require in such form and on\nsuch dates as may be prescribed by the superintendent, which reports\nshall if required by the superintendent be verified in such form as he\nmay prescribe.\n  If any private banker shall fail to make any report required by this\nsection on or before the date designated for the making thereof or shall\nfail to include therein any prescribed matter, such private banker shall\nforfeit to the people of the state an amount as determined pursuant to\nsection forty-four-a of this chapter for every day that such report\nshall be delayed or withheld and for every day that he or she shall fail\nto report any such omitted matter, unless the time therefor shall have\nbeen extended by the superintendent, as provided in article two of this\nchapter.\n
N.Y. ABC Law § 114-A — New York Code / Act ABC / Article 8 / Section 114-A
License or permit issuance and registration approval
Status: in_force

§ 114-a. License or permit issuance and registration approval. 1. The\nauthority upon receiving an application and appropriate payment shall,\nto the extent practicable, provide the applicant with a receipt within\ntwenty-five business days. Such receipt shall include the date of\nacceptance of such application as well as an estimated length of time\nnecessary for the authority to review and make a determination on such\napplication. Such receipt shall include a unique serial, certification\nor other identifying number.\n  2. No license or permit shall be issued and no registration approved\npursuant to this chapter until such time as any check or draft submitted\nfor payment of the required fee has been honored by the payor financial\ninstitution, provided, however, that this provision shall not apply in\nthe case of a certified check, bank officers' check or money order.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 209-W — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 10 / Section 209-W
Permanent appointment of fire fighters; completion of training program
Status: in_force

§ 209-w. Permanent appointment of fire fighters; completion of\ntraining program. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,\nspecial, or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after\nthe effective date of regulations adopted by the state fire\nadministrator pursuant to section one hundred fifty-eight of the\nexecutive law, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis as a\nfire fighter of any county, city, town, village, or fire district unless\nsuch person has previously been awarded a certificate by the state fire\nadministrator attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of an\napproved fire basic training program; and every person who is appointed\non a temporary basis or for a probationary term or on other than a\npermanent basis as a fire fighter of any county, city, town, village or\nfire district shall forfeit his or her position as such unless he or she\npreviously has satisfactorily completed, or within the time prescribed\nby regulations promulgated by the state fire administrator pursuant to\nsection one hundred fifty-eight of the executive law, satisfactorily\ncompletes, a fire basic training program for temporary or probationary\nfire fighters and is awarded a certificate by the state fire\nadministrator attesting thereto.\n  2. The term fire fighter, as used in this section, shall mean a member\nof a fire department whose duties include fire service as the phrase\nfire service is defined in paragraph d of subdivision eleven of section\nthree hundred two of the retirement and social security law.\n  3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any fire\nfighter or other officer or employee from the provisions of the civil\nservice law.\n  4. The provisions of this section shall not prevent the establishment\nof more restrictive local requirements for appointment of fire fighters.\n  5. Any person whose name was on an eligible list for appointment in\nthe competitive class of the civil service as a fire fighter on the\neffective date of any rules and regulations promulgated by the state\nfire administrator pursuant to section one hundred fifty-eight of the\nexecutive law shall continue to remain eligible for permanent\nappointment from such list during the life of such list without\nsatisfying the requirements set forth in subdivision one of this\nsection, provided he or she would otherwise have remained eligible for\npermanent appointment from such list if this section had not been\nenacted.\n  6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to appointments made\nby any county, city, town, village or fire district which employs five\nor fewer fire fighters.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 611 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 6 / Section 611
Where action cannot be maintained: dower; property not exceeding six inches in width; by mortgagee
Status: in_force

§ 611. Where action cannot be maintained: dower; property not\nexceeding six inches in width; by mortgagee. The action cannot be\nmaintained:\n  1. Where an action for dower may be maintained.\n  2. Where the real property consists of a strip of land not exceeding\nsix inches in width upon which there stands the exterior wall of a\nbuilding erected partly upon said strip and partly upon the adjoining\nlot, and a building has been erected upon land of the plaintiff abutting\non the said wall, unless said action be commenced within one year after\nthe completion of the erection of such wall. But an action may be\nmaintained if commenced within the further period of one year, for the\nrecovery of damages by reason of the erection of such wall, and upon the\nsatisfaction of the judgment for such damages the title of the plaintiff\nto such strip of land shall thereby be transferred to and vest in the\ndefendant. If an action for the recovery of real property or damages is\nnot brought within the period hereby limited therefor, the person in\npossession of such lands shall be deemed to have an easement in said\nstrip of land so long as the said wall partly erected thereon shall\nstand, and no longer, and in case of the destruction of such wall the\nowner of such strip shall have the same right to take or recover the\npossession thereof as if such wall had never existed.\n  3. By a mortgagee, or his assignee, or other representative.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 29.07 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title E / Article 29 / Section 29.07
Commissioner's powers over admissions to department facilities
Status: in_force

§ 29.07 Commissioner's powers over admissions to department facilities.\n  (a) The commissioner may by order defer admissions to any facility in\nthe department when the total number of patients therein exceeds its\ncapacity to an extent which will not permit adequate care and treatment\nto be provided patients.\n  (b) If the commissioner shall determine that overcrowding exists in\nthe department schools, he may, within the amounts appropriated\ntherefor, authorize admission for care and treatment of any person with\na developmental disability to a designated facility approved for such\npurposes by the commissioner. The patient and any liable relatives shall\nbe liable for payment of fees in accordance with article forty-three of\nthis chapter.\n
N.Y. PBG Law § 484 — New York Code / Act PBG / Article 13 / Title 81 / Section 484
City of Hudson housing authority
Status: in_force

§ 484. City of Hudson housing authority.  A municipal housing\nauthority, to be known as the city of Hudson housing authority, is\nhereby created and established for the city of Hudson in the county of\nColumbia, for the accomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified\nin article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New York. It\nshall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in duration\nand consist 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 § 8101 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 81 / Section 8101
Costs in an action
Status: in_force

§ 8101. Costs in an action. The party in whose favor a judgment is\nentered is entitled to costs in the action, unless otherwise provided by\nstatute or unless the court determines that to so allow costs would not\nbe equitable, under all of the circumstances.\n