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N.Y. GMU Law § 451 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 14-F / Section 451
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 451. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall\nmean and include:\n  1. "Sewer rents." A scale of annual charges established and imposed in\na city or village or in a sewer or wastewater disposal district in a\ncounty or town pursuant to this article for the use of a sewer system or\nany part or parts thereof. Such charges may be based on either (a) the\nconsumption of water on the premises connected with and served by the\nsewer system or such part or parts thereof, (b) the number and kind of\nplumbing fixtures on the premises connected with and served by the sewer\nsystem or such part or parts thereof, (c) the number of persons served\non the premises connected with and served by the sewer system or such\npart or parts thereof, (d) the volume and character of sewage,\nindustrial waste and other wastes discharged into the sewer system or\nsuch part or parts thereof, or (e) upon any other equitable basis\ndetermined by the local legislative body, including but not limited to\nany combination of the foregoing.\n  2. "Sewer System." All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are\nused or useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection,\ntreatment or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and\nwhich are owned, operated or maintained by a city or village or a sewer\ndistrict in a county or town, including sewage pumping stations and\nsewage treatment and disposal works and private on-site wastewater\ndisposal systems, if any.\n  3. "Part." As used in relation to the term "sewer system":  all\nlateral sewers, or all branch sewers, or all interceptor sewers, or all\ntrunk sewers, and any sewage treatment and disposal works, and private\non-site wastewater disposal systems, each part with necessary\nappurtenances including sewage pumping stations.\n  4. "Sewage." The water-carried human or animal wastes from residences,\nbuildings, industrial establishments, or other places, together with\nsuch ground water infiltration and surface water as may be present. The\nadmixture with sewage as above defined of industrial waste or other\nwastes as hereafter defined, also shall be considered "sewage" within\nthe meaning of this article.\n  5. "Industrial waste." Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste\nsubstance or a combination thereof resulting from any process of\nindustry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the development or\nrecovery of any natural resources.\n  6. "Other wastes." Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings,\nbark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids,\nchemicals, and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial\nwaste.\n  7. "Local legislative body." In cities and villages, the body\nauthorized to adopt local laws pursuant to the municipal home rule law;\nin counties, the board of supervisors and in towns, the town board.\n
N.Y. PBS Law § 171 — New York Code / Act PBS / Article 10 / Section 171
Jurisdiction of courts
Status: in_force

§ 171. Jurisdiction of courts. Except as expressly set forth in\nsection one hundred seventy of this article and except for review by the\ncourt of appeals of a decision of the appellate division of the supreme\ncourt as provided for therein, no court of this state shall have\njurisdiction to hear or determine any matter, case or controversy\nconcerning any matter which was or could have been determined in a\nproceeding under this article or to stop or delay the construction or\noperation of a major electric generating facility except to enforce\ncompliance with this article or the terms and conditions issued\nthereunder.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1101 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 11 / Section 1101
Petition for production of tenant for life
Status: in_force

§ 1101. Petition for production of tenant for life. A person entitled\nto claim real property after the death of another who has a prior estate\ntherein may, not oftener than once in each calendar year, apply by\npetition to the supreme court, at a special term thereof, held within\nthe judicial district wherein the property or a part thereof is\nsituated, for an order directing the production of the tenant for life,\nas prescribed in this article, by a person, named in the petition,\nagainst whom an action of ejectment to recover the real property can be\nmaintained, if the tenant for life is dead or, where there is no such\nperson, by the guardian, husband, trustee, or other person, who has, or\nis entitled to, the custody of the person of the tenant for life, or the\ncare of his estate.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 454-A — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 28-A / Section 454-A
Unsolicited offers for monuments or memorials
Status: in_force

§ 454-a. Unsolicited offers for monuments or memorials. 1. (a) Except\nas provided in paragraph (b) of this subdivision, it shall be unlawful\nto provide any offer for monuments or memorials by mail unless such\noffer has first been solicited by the individual to which it is sent.\n  (b) Provided, however, such an offer is permissible where, in large,\nbold-face type at the top of such offer, "SOLICITATION" is clearly\nprinted.\n  2. Whenever there shall be a violation of the provisions of this\nsection, an application may be made by the attorney general in the name\nof the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having\njurisdiction to issue an injunction, and upon notice to the defendant of\nnot less than five days, to enjoin and restrain the continuance of the\nviolation. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or the\njustice that the defendant has violated this section, an injunction may\nbe issued by the court or justice, enjoining and restraining any further\nviolation, without requiring proof that any person has, in fact been\ninjured or damaged thereby. In any such proceeding, the court may make\nallowances to the attorney general as provided in paragraph six of\nsubdivision (a) of section eight thousand three hundred three of the\ncivil practice law and rules and direct restitution. In connection with\nany such proposed application, the attorney general is authorized to\ntake proof and make a determination of the relevant facts and to issue\nsubpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law and rules. Whenever\nthe court shall determine that a violation of this section has occurred,\nthe court may impose a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars for\nthe first violation and up to one thousand dollars for the second or\nsubsequent violation within an eighteen month period.\n  3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to cemetery\ncorporations as defined and regulated by article fifteen of the\nnot-for-profit corporation law and the regulations promulgated\nthereunder.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1399-L — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13-D / Section 1399-L
Application
Status: in_force

§ 1399-l. Application.  The provisions of this article shall not apply\nto cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or\nmore.\n
N.Y. RPA Law § 1024 — New York Code / Act RPA / Article 10 / Section 1024
Damages apportioned between heir and alienee
Status: in_force

§ 1024. Damages apportioned between heir and alienee. Where a widow\nrecovers dower in real property aliened by the heir of her husband, she\nmay recover, in a separate action against him, her damages for\nwithholding her dower, from the time of the death of her husband to the\ntime of the alienation, not exceeding six years in the whole. The sum\nrecovered from him must be deducted from the sum which she would\notherwise be entitled to recover from the grantee; and any sum recovered\nas damages from the grantee, must be deducted from the sum, which she\nwould otherwise be entitled to recover from the heir.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 258-D — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 21 / Section 258-D
Proceedings to review
Status: in_force

§ 258-d. Proceedings to review. The action of the commissioner in\nrefusing to grant or renew a license, or in revoking or suspending a\nlicense, or in conditioning or limiting the granting or renewal of a\nlicense, may be reviewed in the manner provided by article seventy-eight\nof the civil practice law and rules, and the decision of the\ncommissioner shall be final unless within thirty days from the date of\nservice thereof upon the party affected thereby a court proceeding is\ninstituted to review such action. The pleadings upon which such review\nproceeding is instituted shall be served upon the commissioner or upon\nan assistant commissioner, personally, in the manner provided for the\npersonal service of a summons in an action unless a different manner of\nservice is provided in an order to show cause granted by the supreme\ncourt.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 248 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 14 / Section 248
Aircraft on Lake Mahopac, Lake Moraine, Lake George, and Lake Oscawana, Owasco Lake and Greenwood Lake prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 248. Aircraft on Lake Mahopac, Lake Moraine, Lake George, and Lake\nOscawana, Owasco Lake and Greenwood Lake prohibited.  The taking off\nfrom or landing upon the surface of Lake Mahopac in the town of Carmel\nand county of Putnam, or upon the surface of Lake Moraine, also known as\nMadison reservoir, in the town of Madison and county of Madison, except\nwhen a landing and subsequent take off is necessary under actual\ndistress conditions, and the operation of aircraft on or over the waters\nof Lake George, and on or over the waters of Lake Oscawana in the town\nof Putnam Valley, county of Putnam, or of Owasco Lake in the county of\nCayuga or of Greenwood Lake in the town of Warwick, county of Orange for\nthe carriage of passengers for hire, from and to points on such lakes or\non the shores thereof, is a misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. BVO Law § 10 — New York Code / Act BVO / Article 2 / Section 10
Mortgaging property
Status: in_force

§ 10. Mortgaging property. If the funds of the corporation shall not\nbe sufficient to pay for any real property purchased by the board of\ntrustees in pursuance of law, or for the construction, repair or\nrebuilding of a suitable building or buildings, and the finishing or\nfurnishing of apartments therefor, the corporation may issue its bonds\nbearing interest, semi-annually, for such additional sum as may be\nrequired therefor, and may execute to any such trustee or trustees, as\nthe board may select, a mortgage upon its real property as security for\nthe payment of such bonds or the corporation may borrow such additional\nsum as may be required therefor of any person or corporation and execute\nand deliver its bond for the moneys so borrowed and secure the payment\nthereof by mortgage upon its real property as collateral thereto. The\nproceeds of such bonds or such bond and mortgage shall be applied to the\npayment of debts of the corporation incurred by the purchase of such\nreal property, or the construction and repair of a building or buildings\nthereupon or the finishing or furnishing of apartments therein. Any of\nthe bodies specified in section seven may invest its funds in the bonds\nauthorized by this section to be issued. Such corporation shall have\nauthority also to borrow of any person or corporation such sum as in the\njudgment of its board of trustees may be required to pay the cost of the\nconstruction, repair, rebuilding or reconstruction of any such building\nor buildings, and the finishing or furnishing of apartments therein, and\nto secure the payment of any moneys so borrowed, and to execute and\ndeliver its bond for the sum so borrowed, and to secure the payment of\nthe same by mortgage upon its real property as collateral thereto.\n
N.Y. MIL Law § 189 — New York Code / Act MIL / Article 9 / Section 189
Qualifications of armory employees; membership in New York state employees' retirement system
Status: in_force

§ 189. Qualifications of armory employees; membership in New York\nstate employees' retirement system.  1. The employees authorized by this\nsection shall be residents of the state who shall by employed by the\nadjutant general upon the recommendation of the officer in charge and\ncontrol of the armory.\n  2. All persons employed under this article on or after the twelfth day\nof April, nineteen hundred twenty-four, will be required to become\nmembers of the New York state employees' retirement system in the same\nmanner as if such employees were in the competitive class of the civil\nservice, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to persons who are\neligible to retirement with compensation under this chapter upon\nreaching the required age and having the required service.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 467 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 22 / Section 467
Reincorporation of present incorporated churches
Status: in_force

§ 467. Reincorporation of present incorporated churches. 1. Any church\nheretofore incorporated may, subject to restrictions and limitations of\nexisting laws, reincorporate under the provisions of this article, by\nfiling in the county clerk's office in the county in which its principal\nplace of worship is located, a certificate, signed and acknowledged by\nall the trustees of said church in office at the time of such\nreincorporation, setting forth that the said church by a majority vote\nof the members present at a duly called meeting of the membership, as\ndetermined by the by-laws of the existing corporation, desires to\nreincorporate under the provisions of this article. Such certificate\nshall set forth those items specified in section four hundred sixty-six\nof this article.\n  2. The reincorporated corporation shall be deemed a continuation of\nthe previously organized corporation, but thereafter it shall have only\nsuch rights and powers and be subject only to such obligations as any\ncorporation created under this article, provided, however, that all\nproperty rights and liabilities of the previously organized corporation\nshall be vested in and assumed by the reincorporated corporation. The\ncorporate by-laws and officers of the reincorporated corporation shall\nbe the same as those of its predecessor until changed pursuant to the\nsaid by-laws, provided they conform to the provisions of section four\nhundred sixty-five of this article.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 342-UU — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 12 / Section 342-UU
Portion of state highway system to be designated and known as the "Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway"
Status: in_force

* § 342-uu. Portion of state highway system to be designated and known\nas the "Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state\nhighway system constituting state route thirty-four from its\nintersection with state route one hundred four in the town of Hannibal\nin Oswego county, and continuing southerly along state route thirty-four\nto its intersection with state route seventeen-c in the town of Waverly\nin Tioga county shall be designated and known as the "Harriet Tubman\nMemorial Highway".\n  * NB There are 2 § 342-uu's\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 203-A — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 7 / Section 203-A
Seats in certain passenger elevators or relief for the operator
Status: in_force

§ 203-a. Seats in certain passenger elevators or relief for the\noperator. Every passenger elevator operated and maintained for use by\nthe public shall be equipped or furnished with a seat, collapsible or\notherwise, for the use of the operator when the elevator is not being\noperated, provided the operator thereof is not allowed a continuous\nrecess period of at least fifteen minutes in every three hours in\naddition to and apart from a lunch period of at least forty-five\nminutes. Every passenger elevator operated in a building owned and\nmaintained by the state shall be equipped or furnished with such a seat\nfor the use of the operator when the elevator is not being operated,\nnotwithstanding the operator is allowed the recess and lunch period\nherein specified.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to\nelevators in factory buildings or any other building having only one\npassenger elevator.\n
N.Y. GCM Law § 17 — New York Code / Act GCM / Part 3 / Subpart 1 / Section 17
Inventory
Status: in_force

§ 17.  Inventory.  Whenever in the opinion of the director of finance\nthe use of inventories is necessary in order clearly to determine the\nincome of any taxpayer, inventory shall be taken by such taxpayer upon\nsuch basis as the director of finance may prescribe, conforming as\nnearly as may be to the best accounting practice in the banking business\nand most clearly reflecting the income.\n
N.Y. SCP Law § 2507 — New York Code / Act SCP / Article 25 / Section 2507
Reception of wills for safekeeping 1
Status: in_force

§ 2507. Reception of wills for safekeeping\n  1. The court of any county upon being paid the fees allowed therefor\nby law shall receive and deposit in the court any will of a domiciliary\nof the county which any person shall deliver to it for that purpose and\nshall give a written receipt therefor to the person depositing it.  An\nattesting witness to any will may make and sign an affidavit before any\nofficer authorized to administer oaths setting forth such facts as he\nwould be required to testify to in order to prove the will. The\naffidavit may be written upon the will or on some paper securely\nattached thereto and may be filed for safekeeping with the will to which\nit relates. There may also be filed with the will affidavits of\ncertified medical examiners, under the provisions of the mental hygiene\nlaw, certifying that the maker of the will was of sound mind at the time\nof its execution, together with any facts supporting such opinion.\n  2. The will shall be enclosed in a sealed wrapper so that the contents\nthereof cannot be read and shall have endorsed thereon the name of the\ntestator, his domicile, and the day, month and year when delivered and\nshall not on any pretext whatever be opened, read or examined until\ndelivered to a person entitled to it as hereinafter directed.\n  3. The will shall be delivered only\n  (a) to the testator in person or\n  (b) upon his written order duly proved by the oath of the testator\nwhich shall be duly acknowledged or\n  (c) after his death to the persons named in the endorsement on the\nwrapper of the will, if such endorsement be made thereon or\n  (d) if there be no such endorsement or if it has been deposited with\nany other officer than a surrogate, then to the surrogate's court of the\ncounty.\n  4. If the will shall have been deposited with a surrogate's court or\nshall have been delivered to it as above prescribed the court after the\ndeath of the testator shall publicly open and examine the will and make\nknown the contents thereof and shall file it in the court, there to\nremain until it shall have been duly proved, if capable of proof, and\nthen to be delivered to the person entitled to the custody thereof or\nuntil required by the authority of some competent court to produce the\nsame in such court.\n
N.Y. GAS Law § 18-A — New York Code / Act GAS / Article 4 / Section 18-A
Electronic service of process
Status: in_force

§ 18-a. Electronic service of process. The secretary of state shall\nadvise any association subject to the laws of this chapter in prominent\nwritten form as follows: (a) electronic service of process authorized by\nthe provisions of this chapter is an optional program at no additional\ncost to the user; (b) any association subject to the laws of this\nchapter will continue to receive service of process by mail unless such\nassociation notifies the secretary of an affirmative choice to receive\nservice of process by way of the program through electronic means, in\nwhich case digital copies will be made accessible but paper documents\nwill not be mailed; and (c) such choice may be reversed by the\nassociation at any time and, thereafter, service by mail will resume.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-311 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2 / Part 3 / Section 2-311
Options and Cooperation Respecting Performance
Status: in_force

Section 2--311. Options and Cooperation Respecting Performance.\n  (1) An agreement for sale which is otherwise sufficiently definite\n(subsection (3) of Section 2--204) to be a contract is not made invalid\nby the fact that it leaves particulars of performance to be specified by\none of the parties. Any such specification must be made in good faith\nand within limits set by commercial reasonableness.\n  (2) Unless otherwise agreed specifications relating to assortment of\nthe goods are at the buyer's option and except as otherwise provided in\nsubsections (1) (c) and (3) of Section 2--319 specifications or\narrangements relating to shipment are at the seller's option.\n  (3) Where such specification would materially affect the other party's\nperformance but is not seasonably made or where one party's cooperation\nis necessary to the agreed performance of the other but is not\nseasonably forthcoming, the other party in addition to all other\nremedies\n       (a) is excused for any resulting delay in his own performance;\n           and\n       (b) may also either proceed to perform in any reasonable manner\n           or after the time for a material part of his own performance\n           treat the failure to specify or to cooperate as a breach by\n           failure to deliver or accept the goods.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4673 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 46-A / Section 4673
Separability
Status: in_force

§ 4673. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or\npart of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent\njurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair or\ninvalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation\nto the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article\ndirectly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have\nbeen rendered.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 255 — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 8 / Section 255
Construction of grant of appurtenances and of all the rights and estate of grantor
Status: in_force

§ 255. Construction of grant of appurtenances and of all the rights\nand estate of grantor.  In any grant or mortgage of freehold interests\nin real estate, the words, "together with the appurtenances and all the\nestate and rights of the grantor in and to said premises," must be\nconstrued as meaning, together with all and singular the tenements,\nhereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise\nappertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and\nremainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and also all the estate,\nright, title, interest, dower and right of dower, curtesy and right of\ncurtesy, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, both in law\nand in equity, of the said grantor of, in and to the said granted\npremises and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.\n
N.Y. PBO Law § 76 — New York Code / Act PBO / Article 4 / Section 76
Receiving bribes by members of legislature
Status: in_force

§ 76. Receiving bribes by members of legislature. A member of either\nof the houses composing the legislature of this state, or a person\nelected to become a member thereof, who asks, receives, or agrees to\nreceive any bribe upon any understanding that his official vote,\nopinion, judgment or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall be\ngiven in any particular manner or upon any particular side of any\nquestion or matter upon which he may be required to act in his official\ncapacity, shall be guilty of a class D felony.\n
N.Y. PEP Law § 255 — New York Code / Act PEP / Article 7-B / Section 255
Disposition of instruments
Status: in_force

§ 255. Disposition of instruments. 1. An instrument deposited with the\npolice shall be delivered to the person entitled thereto upon payment of\nall reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith.\n  2. No instrument deposited with the police shall be destroyed or sold.\nExcept as provided in subdivision three of section two hundred\nfifty-six, no such instrument shall be returned to the finder, or his\nemployer, or the person who deposited it with the police, or the person\nupon whose premises it was found.\n