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N.Y. CNT Law § 827 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 23 / Section 827
Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain counties
Status: in_force

§ 827. Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain\ncounties. In those counties wherein the state owns a park, forest\npreserve, reforested area, hatchery, nursery, game refuge, or wherein\nthe state has established and controls fire prevention apparatus and\nstructures, public hunting, trapping and fishing grounds, marine\nfisheries, or other lawful objects established and controlled by the\nstate in furtherance of the preservation of the natural resources and\nwild life of the state, the board of supervisors shall have power to\nappropriate not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year for the\npurpose of aiding the state in the enforcement of the provisions of the\nenvironmental conservation law. Such appropriation shall be expended by\nthe county pursuant to a contract made with the department of\nenvironmental conservation in the manner provided in section two hundred\ntwenty-five of this chapter or paid to the state and expended by the\ndepartment of environmental conservation pursuant to the provisions of\nthe environmental conservation law. The county of Erie may appropriate\nnot exceeding four thousand dollars for this purpose. Nothing herein\nshall be deemed to allow the payment of extra compensation to any\nofficer in the performance of official duties for which a compensation\nis otherwise provided by law. Nothing herein shall be deemed to modify\nor impair the power of a county to enforce the provisions of the\nenvironmental conservation law or its own ordinances, rules and\nregulations upon grounds or structures owned and controlled by the\ncounty.\n
N.Y. ACG Law § 4 — New York Code / Act ACG / Article 1 / Section 4
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 4. Definitions. As used in this chapter the following terms shall\nmean and include:\n  1. "County".  Any county other than a county within the city of New\nYork.\n  2. "County executive". A county administrator, county manager, county\ndirector or county president.\n  3. "County administrator form". The form of county government\nprescribed by section fifty of this chapter.\n  4. "County manager form". The form of county government prescribed by\nsection fifty-one of this chapter.\n  5. "County director form". The form of county government prescribed by\nsection fifty-two of this chapter.\n  6. "County president form". The form of county government prescribed\nby section fifty-three of this chapter.\n  7. "Unit of local government". A city, town or village within the\ncounty.\n  8. "Population". The population shown by the last completed federal\ncensus.\n  9. "Administrative unit". An office, department, division, bureau,\nboard or commission, or any other agency of county government.\n  10. "Spending agency". Any administrative unit of the county or office\nwhich expends or incurs obligations for the expenditure of county money.\n  11. "Auditing authority". The county comptroller, except that with\nrespect to the county administrator form, it shall mean the county\nauditor.\n  12. "County act". A local law or resolution adopted by the board of\nsupervisors.\n  13. "Local law". A law adopted by the board of supervisors pursuant to\nthis chapter or other act of the legislature in accordance with the\nprovisions of the municipal home rule law.\n  14. "Whole number". Shall have the meaning defined in section\nforty-one of the general construction law.\n  15. "County-using agency". Any administrative unit of the county which\nuses any supplies, materials or other articles.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 4206 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 42 / Section 4206
Deposits by life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies
Status: in_force

§ 4206. Deposits by life, accident and health, and legal services\ninsurance companies. Before being licensed to do business, every\ndomestic life insurance company, every domestic accident and health\ninsurance company and every domestic legal services insurance company\nshall deposit with the superintendent at least one hundred thousand\ndollars in securities eligible for deposits, except that every such\ncompany initially licensed on or after July first, nineteen hundred\neighty-two shall make a deposit with the superintendent at least equal\nto two hundred percent of the amount required hereinabove.\n
N.Y. NAV Law § 110 — New York Code / Act NAV / Article 8 / Section 110
Licenses
Status: in_force

§ 110. Licenses. The local governing body of each county or city in\nthis state may grant licenses for keeping ferries in their respective\ncounties and cities, to such persons as the respective local governing\nbody may deem proper, for a term not exceeding five years. No license\nshall be granted to a person, other than the owner of the land through\nwhich that part of the highway adjoining the ferry shall run, unless the\nowner is not a suitable person or shall neglect to apply after being\nserved with eight days' written notice from such person of the time and\nplace at which he will apply for such license, or having obtained such\nlicense, shall neglect to comply with the conditions of the license or\nmaintain the ferry.  Every license shall be entered in the book of\nminutes of the appropriate local governing body by the clerk; and a\ncertified copy thereof shall be delivered to the person licensed. When\nthe waters over which any ferry may be used shall divide two counties or\ncities, or a county and city, a license obtained in either of the\ncounties or cities shall be sufficient to authorize transportation of\npersons, goods, wares and merchandise, to and from either side of such\nwaters.\n
N.Y. CMA Law § 5 — New York Code / Act CMA / Section R5
Members
Status: in_force

RULE V\n                                 MEMBERS\n
N.Y. STF Law § 99-RR — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 99-RR
Air quality improvement fund
Status: in_force

§ 99-rr. Air quality improvement fund. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation\nand finance a fund to be known as the "air quality improvement fund".\n  2. Such fund shall consist of revenues received by the state pursuant\nto section 19-0328 of the environmental conservation law and all other\nmoneys, appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other\nfund or source pursuant to law.\n  3. All moneys of the air quality improvement fund, following\nappropriation by the legislature, shall be made available for the\npurposes of reducing air pollution and improving or enhancing air\nquality in affected communities, including but not limited to: (a)\nmeasures related to achieving the national ambient air quality\nstandards, including community level projects to reduce or eliminate air\npollution from stationary and/or mobile sources of air pollution; and\n(b) investments which are consistent with the strategies and community\nemissions reduction programs prepared pursuant to section 75-0115 of the\nenvironmental conservation law. Any moneys expended from the fund shall\nensure that disadvantaged communities, as defined in subdivision five of\nsection 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, receive overall\nbenefits that approximate the proportion of disadvantaged communities in\nthe applicable federally designated area of nonattainment in New York,\nprovided that such communities shall not receive less than thirty-five\npercent of the benefit of such funds.\n  4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of\nthe comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner\nof environmental conservation.\n
N.Y. UDA Law § 8 — New York Code / Act UDA / Section 8
Sale or lease of industrial projects
Status: in_force

§ 8. Sale or lease of industrial projects. (1) Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of any general, special or local law, subject to any\nagreement with noteholders or bondholders, the corporation may sell or\nlease any industrial project, without public bidding or public sale, for\nsuch price or rental and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between\nthe corporation and such purchaser or lessee, either prior to, at the\ndate of, or subsequent to the completion of the project by the\ncorporation, provided, however, that in the case of a lease, the term\nthereof shall not exceed ninety-nine years. Where such contract for sale\nor lease is entered into after the commencement of construction and\nprior to the physical completion of the improvement to be conveyed or\nleased, the corporation may complete the construction and development of\nsuch improvement prior to the actual conveyance or lease.\n  (2) Before any sale or lease of all or a substantial part of a project\nas authorized by subdivision one of this section is consummated, there\nshall be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in\nthe municipality in which the project is located a notice which shall\ninclude a statement of the identity of the proposed purchaser or lessee,\nthe price or rental to be paid, all other essential conditions of such\nsale or lease, and a statement that a public hearing upon such sale or\nlease will be held before the corporation at a specified time and place\non a date not less than ten days after such publication, and such\nhearing shall be held in accordance with such notice; provided, however,\nthat if the corporation determines that trade secrets or other\nconfidential information about the prospective purchaser's or lessee's\nbusiness operations, products, processes or designs would otherwise be\nrevealed by such public notice and public hearing, the requirements of\nthis subdivision may be waived by unanimous vote of the directors of the\ncorporation.\n
N.Y. PBL Law § 32 — New York Code / Act PBL / Article 3 / Section 32
Maps
Status: in_force

§ 32. Maps.  The commissioner of general services shall make or cause\nto be made a map of each tract so surveyed, distinguishing upon such\nmaps the towns and county in which the lots are situated, and deposit\nthe same in his office. Such maps shall be open to the inspection of\nevery person, during the office hours of business, until the lands\ndescribed thereupon be sold.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 3-415 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 3 / Part 4 / Section 3-415
Contract of Accommodation Party
Status: in_force

Section 3--415. Contract of Accommodation Party.\n  (1) An accommodation party is one who signs the instrument in any\ncapacity for the purpose of lending his name to another party to it.\n  (2) When the instrument has been taken for value before it is due the\naccommodation party is liable in the capacity in which he has signed\neven though the taker knows of the accommodation.\n  (3) As against a holder in due course and without notice of the\naccommodation oral proof of the accommodation is not admissible to give\nthe accommodation party the benefit of discharges dependent on his\ncharacter as such. In other cases the accommodation character may be\nshown by oral proof.\n  (4) An indorsement which shows that it is not in the chain of title is\nnotice of its accommodation character.\n  (5) An accommodation party is not liable to the party accommodated,\nand if he pays the instrument has a right of recourse on the instrument\nagainst such party.\n  (6) An accommodation party warrants to any subsequent holder who is\nnot the party accommodated and who takes the instrument in good faith\nthat\n       (a) all signatures are genuine or authorized; and\n       (b) the instrument has not been materially altered; and\n       (c) all prior parties had capacity to contract; and\n       (d) he has no knowledge of any insolvency proceeding instituted\n           with respect to the maker or acceptor or the drawer of an\n           unaccepted instrument.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 145 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 7 / Section 145
Purchase of gravel pits
Status: in_force

§ 145. Purchase of gravel pits. The town board of a town may contract\nfor and purchase land in the name of the town containing a gravel bed or\nother material for use on the public highways and bridges of the town.\nNo such land shall be purchased except at an agreed price with the\nowner. No such land shall be resold to any private corporation. The\npurchase price of such land shall be a town charge and be paid from\nmoneys levied or collected therefor, as provided by law. All such\nproperty so acquired shall vest in and become the property of such town.\n
N.Y. CTC Law § 30 — New York Code / Act CTC / Article 4 / Section 30
When to take effect
Status: in_force

§ 30. When to take effect.  This act shall take effect July first,\nnineteen hundred thirty-nine.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 360-P — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 24 / Section 360-P
Fees
Status: in_force

§ 360-p. Fees. The application for registration or renewal shall be\naccompanied by a filing fee or fifty dollars payable to the secretary of\nstate.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 69-L — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 6-D / Section 69-L
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 69-l. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context\nrequires otherwise:\n  1. "Department" means the department of state.\n  2. "Person" means an individual, firm, company, partnership, limited\nliability company or corporation.\n  3. "Licensee" means a person as herein defined licensed to engage in\nthe business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire\nalarm systems under this article.\n  4. "To engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining\nsecurity or fire alarm systems" means and refers to a person who holds\nhimself out directly or indirectly, as being able, or who offers or\nundertakes, by any means or method, to install, service or maintain a\nsecurity or fire alarm system to detect intrusion, break-in, movement,\nsound or fire.\n  5. "Fee", "examination fee", "license fee" and "renewal fee" mean the\nfees required to accompany an application for examination or fingerprint\nprocessing for or issuance of any license, including any temporary,\napprentice or renewal license, pursuant to this article. Such fee shall\nbe non-refundable.\n  6. "Alarm system" means a system installed to detect intrusion,\nbreak-in, movement, sound or fire.\n  7. "False alarm" means the activation of any alarm system that results\nin a request for police or fire or other emergency for which the\nresponding public safety agency finds no evidence of criminal activity,\nfire, or emergency.\n  8. "Municipality" means a county, town, city or village.\n  9. "Alarm system company" means a company licensed to engage in the\nbusiness of installing, servicing, or maintaining security or fire alarm\nsystems pursuant to this article.\n
N.Y. PAR Law § 13.05 — New York Code / Act PAR / Title C / Article 13 / Section 13.05
Caleb Smith State Park
Status: in_force

§ 13.05 Caleb Smith State Park.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent\nprovision of law to the contrary, on and after the effective date of\nthis section the state park on the Nissequogue river known as the\nNissequogue State Park shall be known as the Caleb Smith State Park and\nshall be suitably marked, in a manner to be prescribed by the\ncommissioner.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 343-S*9 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 12 / Section 343-S*9
Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the "Dr
Status: in_force

* § 343-s. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the\n"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge". The bridge over the barge\ncanal entering the city of Rome, commonly known as the Erie Boulevard\nbridge and constituting a portion of routes 69, 49 and 26 in the city of\nRome, county of Oneida, shall be designated and known as the "Dr. Martin\nLuther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge".\n  * NB There are 12 § 343-s's\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 209-K — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 9-A / Section 209-K
Gift to the love your library fund
Status: in_force

§ 209-K. Gift to the love your library fund. Effective for any tax\nyear commencing on or after January first, two thousand eighteen, a\ntaxpayer in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the love your\nlibrary fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and\nshall not reduce the amount of the state tax owed by such taxpayer. The\ncommissioner shall include space on the corporate income tax return to\nenable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall\nbe credited to the love your library fund and shall be used only for\nthose purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-l of the state finance\nlaw, as added by chapter three hundred three of the laws of two thousand\nfour.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 417 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 4 / Part 1 / Section 417
Child of ceremonial marriage
Status: in_force

§ 417. Child of ceremonial marriage. A child born of parents who at\nany time prior or subsequent to the birth of said child shall have\nentered into a ceremonial marriage shall be deemed the legitimate child\nof both parents for all purposes of this article regardless of the\nvalidity of such marriage.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 25.03 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title D / Article 25 / Section 25.03
Financial support and disbursement of funds
Status: in_force

§ 25.03 Financial support and disbursement of funds.\n  (a) In accordance with the provisions of this article, and within\nappropriations made available, the office may provide state aid to a\nprogram operated by a local governmental unit or voluntary agency up to\none hundred per centum of the approved net operating costs of such\nprogram operated by a local governmental unit or voluntary agency, and\nstate aid may also be granted to a program operated by a local\ngovernmental unit or a voluntary agency for capital costs associated\nwith the provision of services at a rate of up to one hundred percent of\napproved capital costs. Such state aid shall not be granted unless and\nuntil such program operated by a local governmental unit or voluntary\nagency is in compliance with all regulations promulgated by the\ncommissioner regarding the financing of capital projects. Such state aid\nfor approved net operating costs shall be made available by way of\nadvance or reimbursement, through either contracts entered into between\nthe office and such voluntary agency or by distribution of such state\naid to local governmental units through a grant process pursuant to\nsection 25.11 of this article.\n  (b) Financial support by the office shall be subject to the approval\nof the director of the budget and within available appropriations.\n  (c) All federal financial assistance granted or allocated to the\noffice by the United States shall only be paid out on the audit and\nwarrant of the comptroller on the certificate of the commissioner or his\nauthorized representative.\n  (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the state to\nincrease such state aid should a local governmental unit choose to\nremove any portion of its local tax levy support of voluntary agencies,\nalthough the state may choose to do so to address an urgent public need,\nor conversely, may choose to reduce its state aid up to the same\npercentage as the reduction in local tax levy.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 7704 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 77 / Section 7704
Reference
Status: in_force

§ 7704. Reference. No referee shall be appointed to examine and audit\na trustee's account, or to hear and report on or to determine any\nquestions arising upon the settlement of such account, where:\n  1. a question of law exclusively is involved; or\n  2. no objections have been filed to the transactions set forth in the\naccount by any of the persons interested in the trust or by any\nrepresentative authorized under section 1201 to appear for an infant or\nincompetent interested in the trust or by a guardian ad litem of a\nperson not in being interested in the trust.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 9.35 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title B / Article 9 / Section 9.35
Review of court authorization to retain an involuntary patient
Status: in_force

§ 9.35 Review of court authorization to retain an involuntary patient.\n  If a person who has been denied release or whose retention, continued\nretention, or transfer and continued retention has been authorized\npursuant to this article, or any relative or friend in his behalf, be\ndissatisfied with any such order he may, within thirty days after the\nmaking of any such order, obtain a rehearing and a review of the\nproceedings already had and of such order upon a petition to a justice\nof the supreme court other than the judge or justice presiding over the\ncourt making such order. Such justice shall cause a jury to be summoned\nand shall try the question of the mental illness and the need for\nretention of the patient so authorized to be retained. Any such patient\nor the person applying on his behalf for such review may waive the trial\nof the fact by a jury and consent in writing to trial of such fact by\nthe court. No such petition for rehearing and review shall be made by\nanyone other than the person so authorized to be retained or the father,\nmother, husband, wife, or child of such person, unless the petitioner\nshall have first obtained the leave of the court upon good cause shown.\nIf the verdict of the jury, or the decision of the court when jury trial\nhas been waived, be that such person does not have a mental illness or\nis not in need of retention the justice shall forthwith discharge him,\nbut if the verdict of the jury, or the decision of the court where a\njury trial has been waived, be that such person has a mental illness and\nis in need of retention the justice shall certify that fact and make an\norder authorizing continued retention under the original order. Such\norder shall be presented, at the time of authorization of continued\nretention of such mentally ill person, to, and filed with, the director\nof the hospital in which the person with a mental illness is authorized\nto be retained, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the department\nby such director and filed in the office thereof. Proceedings under the\norder shall not be stayed pending an appeal therefrom, except upon an\norder of a justice of the supreme court, made upon a notice and after a\nhearing, with provisions made therein for such temporary care or\nconfinement of the alleged person with a mental illness as may be deemed\nnecessary.\n
N.Y. PVH Law § 1106-E — New York Code / Act PVH / Article 18-A / Section 1106-E
Reserve fund
Status: in_force

§ 1106-e. Reserve fund. There shall be a reserve fund for each project\nwhich in no event shall initially be less than five percent of the\nturnkey/enhanced rental project costs, exclusive of any reserve fund.\nSuch reserve fund may be provided by the corporation or any other source\nand, if provided by another source, shall be provided in cash or the\npayment of such cash shall be assured by deposit of adequate marketable\ncollateral prior to the payment by the corporation of any project costs,\nexcluding advances for planning costs.\n