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N.Y. GMU Law § 80-A — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 5 / Section 80-A
Purchasing of products for municipal use
Status: in_force

§ 80-a. Purchasing of products for municipal use. 1. As used in this\nsection:\n  a. "Practicable" means capable of being used without violating the\nfollowing criteria: performance, availability at a reasonable price,\navailability within a reasonable period of time and maintenance of a\nsatisfactory level of competition.\n  b. "Secondary material" means any material recovered from or otherwise\ndestined for the waste stream, including but not limited to,\npost-consumer material, industrial scrap material and overstock or\nobsolete inventories from distributors, wholesalers and other companies,\nbut such term does not include those materials and by-products generated\nfrom, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process.\n  2. The municipality shall review the procurement specifications it\ncurrently uses to determine whether such require that products be\nmanufactured from virgin materials or exclude products manufactured from\nsecondary materials and shall make such changes, on or before January\nfirst, nineteen hundred ninety-one, as may be necessary to ensure that:\n  a. Where such specifications exclude the use of products manufactured\nfrom secondary materials or require that products be manufactured from\nvirgin materials only, such exclusions or requirements be eliminated;\nprovided, however, that specifications need not be revised if the\nmunicipality determines that for a particular end use a product\ncontaining secondary materials would not meet necessary performance\nstandards.\n  b. Performance standards, specifications and a product's intended end\nuse are related, and clearly identified when feasible.\n  c. Specifications are not overly stringent for a particular end use or\nperformance standard.\n  d. Specifications incorporate or require the use of secondary\nmaterials to the maximum extent practicable without jeopardizing the\nperformance or intended end use of the product; provided, however, where\nthe municipality determines that for a particular end use a product\ncontaining secondary materials would not meet necessary performance\nstandards, such specifications need not incorporate or require the use\nof secondary materials.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 8303 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 83 / Section 8303
Additional allowance in the discretion of the court
Status: in_force

§ 8303. Additional allowance in the discretion of the court. (a)\nDiscretionary allowance in action. Whether or not costs have been\nawarded, the court before which the trial was had, or in which the\njudgment was entered, on motion, may award:\n  1. to any party to an action to foreclose a mortgage upon real\nproperty, a sum not exceeding two and one-half percent of the sum due or\nclaimed to be due upon such mortgage, and not exceeding the sum of three\nhundred dollars; or\n  2. to any party to a difficult or extraordinary case, where a defense\nhas been interposed, a sum not exceeding five per cent of the sum\nrecovered or claimed, or of the value of the subject matter involved,\nand not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars; or\n  3. to any party to an action for the partition of real property, a sum\nnot exceeding five per cent of the value of the subject matter involved\nand not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars; or\n  4. to the fiduciary or to any party to an action which involves the\nconstruction of a will or an intervivos trust instrument, such sums as\nit deems reasonable for counsel fees and other expenses necessarily\nincurred with respect to such construction in the action; and the court\nmay direct that the whole or any part of such allowance shall be paid to\nthe attorney rendering the services in the action, and may provide that\nthe determination of the amount of any allowance in connection therewith\nbe reserved for a supplemental order to be entered after the time to\nappeal has expired, or if an appeal be taken, then after final\ndetermination of the appeal; and a court on appeal may make a like award\nand direction on appeal; or\n  5. to the attorney for the petitioner in a proceeding to dispose of an\ninfant's property, such sum as to the court may seem just and proper; or\n  6. to the plaintiffs in an action or proceeding brought by the\nattorney-general under articles twenty-two, twenty-two-A, twenty-three-A\nor thirty-three or section three hundred ninety-one-b or five hundred\ntwenty-a of the general business law, or under subdivision twelve of\nsection sixty-three of the executive law, or under article twenty-three\nof the arts and cultural affairs law, or in an action or proceeding\nbrought by the attorney-general under applicable statutes to dissolve a\ncorporation or for usurpation of public office, or unlawful exercise of\nfranchise or of corporate right, a sum not exceeding two thousand\ndollars against each defendant.\n  (b) Discretionary allowance on enforcement motion. The court, on a\nmotion relating to the enforcement of a judgment, may award to the\njudgment creditor a sum not exceeding five per cent of the judgment or\nfifty dollars, whichever is more.\n
N.Y. PEP Law § 419 — New York Code / Act PEP / Article 10 / Section 419
Refund credit on cancellation of credit related insurance or prepayment of contract
Status: in_force

§ 419. Refund credit on cancellation of credit related insurance or\nprepayment of contract. The provisions of this article requiring refunds\nand refund credits with respect to group credit life insurance in cases\nof cancellation of group credit life insurance or of prepayment of a\nretail instalment contract or obligation shall also require refunds and\nrefund credits with respect to credit unemployment insurance, group\ncredit accident, group credit health or group credit accident and health\ninsurance in cases of cancellation of such insurance or of prepayment of\na retail instalment contract or obligation which included such\ninsurance.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 351-A — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 23 / Section 351-A
Exhibiting quotations; penalty for violation
Status: in_force

§ 351-a. Exhibiting quotations; penalty for violation. Any person,\nfirm, copartnership, association or corporation receiving,\ncommunicating, exhibiting or displaying in any manner any statement of\nquotations of prices of any such securities or commodities with an\nintent to make or offer to make or to assist in making or offering to\nmake any contract prohibited in this article shall be guilty of a felony\nand on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in the preceding\nsection.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 324 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 3 / Section 324
Free or reduced fee passes, cards or badges
Status: in_force

§ 324. Free or reduced fee passes, cards or badges. A corporation or\nassociation licensed to conduct pari-mutuel betting on harness horse\nraces run at its racetrack may issue free passes, cards or badges to any\nqualified person. A qualified person shall include, but need not be\nlimited to, officers and employees of the corporation or association\nconducting the race meeting, members, officers, and employees of the\ncommission, members of harness racing associations of other states and\nforeign countries, public officers engaged in the performance of their\nduties, persons actually employed and accredited by the press to attend\nsuch meetings, owners, stable managers, trainers, drivers,\nconcessionaires, spouses, domestic partners and children of owners,\ntrainers and drivers, other persons whose actual duties require their\npresence at such racetrack, and any other person or guest deemed\nappropriate by such corporation or association. In addition, free or\nreduced fee passes, cards or badges may be issued to the general public\nor segments of the general public in connection with any promotional\ncampaign or marketing program sponsored by such corporation or\nassociation to increase attendance at live race meets. The issuance of\nfree passes, cards or badges shall be under the rules and regulations of\nthe commission.\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 82.09 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title E / Article 82 / Section 82.09
Facilitation of agreement
Status: in_force

* § 82.09 Facilitation of agreement.\n  The provisions of section 82.11 and subdivisions (b) through (d) of\nsection 82.12 of this article shall only apply in circumstances where a\ndecision is made by a decision-maker pursuant to a supported\ndecision-making agreement created in accordance with this article where\nsuch decision-maker and his or her supporter or supporters have worked\nwith a facilitator, such supporter or supporters have followed a\nrecognized supported decision-making facilitation or education process\nas defined and prescribed by regulations promulgated by the office for\npeople with developmental disabilities and such facilitator has signed\nsuch agreement.\n  * NB Effective 90 days from the date that the regulations issued in\naccordance with § 1 of chapter 481 of 2022 appear in the New York State\nRegister or the date such regulations are adopted, whichever is later.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 608 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 6 / Section 608
Tentative special franchise assessments; notice thereof
Status: in_force

§ 608. Tentative special franchise assessments; notice thereof. 1.\nUpon completion of its inquiry and investigation with respect to the\nvalue of a special franchise, the commissioner shall determine the\ntentative assessment thereof. After determining the tentative assessment\nof a special franchise, the commissioner shall give notice in writing to\nthe special franchise owner and the chief executive officer of each\nassessing unit in which such special franchise is situated that such\ndetermination has been made, the amount of such assessment, and that the\ncommissioner or a duly authorized representative thereof will meet at a\ntime and place specified in such notice to hear any complaint concerning\nsuch assessment. Any such notice to a town shall also specify the amount\nof each special franchise assessment in any village therein. Each such\nnotice must be served at least thirty days before the day specified for\nthe hearing. It may be served on the special franchise owner if a\npartnership, association or corporation by mailing a copy thereof to its\nprincipal place of business, and if a person, by mailing a copy thereof\nto him at his place of business or last known place of residence.\n  2. The commissioner may establish a separate tentative and final\nspecial franchise value or assessment for physical property that was\nomitted when calculating special franchise values for the assessment\nroll of the preceding year. Values for omitted property shall be\ncalculated by the same procedures used by the commissioner when\nestablishing the values for the roll from which the property was\nomitted. Entry of a final assessment of omitted property and the levy of\ntaxes shall be done in accord with the provisions of section five\nhundred fifty-one of this chapter.\n  3. The commissioner may deduct from the tentative and final values or\nassessments of special franchise property an amount for physical\nproperty that was incorrectly included in the values or assessments of\nthe assessment roll for the preceding year. Any amount deducted pursuant\nto this section shall be clearly and separately identified on the notice\nof tentative assessments or values and on the certificate of final\nassessment.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 2-A-108 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 2-A / Part 1 / Section 2-A-108
Unconscionability
Status: in_force

Section 2-A-108. Unconscionability.\n  (1) If the court as a matter of law finds a lease contract or any\nclause of a lease contract to have been unconscionable at the time it\nwas made the court may refuse to enforce the lease contract, or it may\nenforce the remainder of the lease contract without the unconscionable\nclause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause\nas to avoid any unconscionable result.\n  (2) With respect to a consumer lease, if the court as a matter of law\nfinds that a lease contract or any clause of a lease contract has been\ninduced by unconscionable conduct or that unconscionable conduct has\noccurred in the collection of a claim arising from a lease contract, the\ncourt may grant appropriate relief.\n  (3) Before making a finding of unconscionability under subsection (1)\nor (2), the court, on its own motion or that of a party, shall afford\nthe parties a reasonable opportunity to present evidence as to the\nsetting, purpose, and effect of the lease contract or clause thereof, or\nof the conduct.\n  (4) In an action in which the lessee claims unconscionability with\nrespect to a consumer lease:\n       (a) if the court finds unconscionability under subsection (1) or\n           (2), the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees to the\n           lessee.\n       (b) in determining attorney's fees, the amount of recovery on\n           behalf of the claimant under subsections (1) and (2) is not\n           controlling.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 942 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 24 / Section 942
Duty to furnish facilities for courts of record
Status: in_force

§ 942. Duty to furnish facilities for courts of record. Except where\nother provision is made therefor by law, the board of estimate of the\ncity of New York must provide each court of record in such city and the\nresident judges and justices thereof, with proper and convenient rooms\nand furniture, together with court attendants, fuel, lights, telephone,\npostage and stationery suitable and sufficient for the transaction of\nits business.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 511 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 29 / Section 511
Proceedings to review
Status: in_force

§ 511. 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 four months 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 in the manner specified in the\ncivil practice law and rules, unless a different manner of service is\nprovided in an order to show cause granted by the supreme court.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 67 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 4 / Section 67
Presentation of claims for torts: actions against towns
Status: in_force

§ 67. Presentation of claims for torts: actions against towns.  1. Any\nclaim including a claim specified in section sixty-five-a of this\nchapter which may be made against the town or town superintendent of\nhighways for damages for wrong or injury to person or property or for\nthe death of a person, shall be made and served in compliance with\nsection fifty-e of the general municipal law.\n  2. Every action upon such claim shall be commenced pursuant to the\nprovisions of section fifty-i of the general municipal law.\n  3. This section shall not apply to actions upon claims for damages or\ncompensation for property taken by condemnation for any public purpose.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 155 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 3-A / Section 155
Limitations
Status: in_force

§ 155. Limitations.  Nothing contained in this article requiring\nreporting and disclosure shall be construed to create, revive, extend,\nor otherwise affect the entitlement of a member, retired member, or a\nbeneficiary to any retirement benefit.\n
N.Y. CVP Law § 5016 — New York Code / Act CVP / Article 50 / Section 5016
Entry of judgment
Status: in_force

Rule 5016. Entry of judgment.  (a) What constitutes entry.  A judgment\nis entered when, after it has been signed by the clerk, it is filed by\nhim.\n  (b) Judgment upon verdict.  Judgment upon the general verdict of a\njury after a trial by jury as of right shall be entered by the clerk\nunless the court otherwise directs; if there is a special verdict, the\ncourt shall direct entry of an appropriate judgment.\n  (c) Judgment upon decision.  Judgment upon the decision of a court or\na referee to determine shall be entered by the clerk as directed\ntherein.  When relief other than for money or costs only is granted, the\ncourt or referee shall, on motion, determine the form of the judgment.\n  (d) After death of party.  No verdict or decision shall be rendered\nagainst a deceased party, but if a party dies before entry of judgment\nand after a verdict, decision or accepted offer to compromise pursuant\nto rule 3221, judgment shall be entered in the names of the original\nparties unless the verdict, decision or offer is set aside.  This\nprovision shall not bar dismissal of an action or appeal pursuant to\nsection 1021.\n  (e) Final judgment after interlocutory judgment.  Where an\ninterlocutory judgment has been directed, a party may move for final\njudgment when he becomes entitled thereto.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 620.30 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 3 / Title R / Article 620 / Section 620.30
Material witness order; commencement of proceeding by application; procurement of appearance of prospective witness
Status: in_force

§ 620.30  Material witness order; commencement of proceeding by\n             application; procurement of appearance of prospective\n             witness.\n  1.  A proceeding to adjudge a person a material witness must be\ncommenced by application to the appropriate court, made in writing and\nsubscribed and sworn to by the applicant, demonstrating reasonable cause\nto believe the existence of facts, as specified in subdivision one of\nsection 620.20, warranting the adjudication of such person as a material\nwitness.\n  2.  If the court is satisfied that the application is well founded,\nthe prospective witness may be compelled to appear in response thereto\nas follows:\n  (a)  The court may issue an order directing him to appear therein at a\ndesignated time in order that a determination may be made whether he\nshould be adjudged a material witness, and, upon personal service of\nsuch order or a copy thereof within the state, he must so appear.\n  (b)  If in addition to the allegations specified in subdivision one,\nthe application contains further allegations demonstrating to the\nsatisfaction of the court reasonable cause to believe that (i) the\nwitness would be unlikely to respond to such an order, or (ii) after\npreviously having been served with such an order, he did not respond\nthereto, the court may issue a warrant addressed to a police officer,\ndirecting such officer to take such prospective witness into custody\nwithin the state and to bring him before the court forthwith in order\nthat a proceeding may be conducted to determine whether he is to be\nadjudged a material witness.\n
N.Y. STL Law § 38 — New York Code / Act STL / Article 3 / Section 38
Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by the United States of America to this state
Status: in_force

§ 38. Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by the United States\nof America to this state. 1. The governor is hereby authorized, whenever\nhe deems it desirable and in the public interest, to cooperate with any\nexecutive agency of the United States of America in following and\nfulfilling the procedure set forth in public law 87-852 of the United\nStates statutes at large, approved October twenty-third, nineteen\nhundred sixty-two, for the relinquishment to this state, by the United\nStates of America acting by and through such executive agency, of all or\npart of the legislative jurisdiction over land within this state, which\nlegislative jurisdiction was heretofore ceded or hereafter will have\nbeen ceded by this state to the United States of America, including the\nexecution and delivery by the governor of the acceptance provided for by\nthe said public law 87-852.\n  Upon such execution and delivery of an acceptance, the governor shall\ncause the notice of relinquishment, provided for by the said public law\n87-852, and a duplicate original acceptance to be filed and recorded in\nthe office of the secretary of state of this state. The secretary of\nstate of this state shall cause to be printed in the session laws, of\nthe year succeeding such filing and recording in his office, a statement\nof the date of the notice of relinquishment, the name of the federal\nexecutive agency which issued the notice, a description of the land\naffected, the date of the acceptance by the governor and the date of the\nfiling and recording in the office of the secretary of state.\n  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other\nlaw, the commissioner of general services, upon such terms and\nconditions as seem proper to him, may accept on behalf of the state the\nrelinquishment or retrocession of all or part of jurisdiction in and\nover lands previously or subsequently acquired by or ceded to the United\nStates of America. The relinquishment or retrocession of such\njurisdiction shall be effective upon the written acceptance by the\ncommissioner of general services of a notice of relinquishment or\nretrocession signed by the secretary or head of the appropriate\ndepartment or agency of the United States of America. The notice of\nrelinquishment or retrocession and an executed counterpart of the\nwritten acceptance thereof shall be filed or recorded with the\ndepartment of state. The secretary of state shall cause to be printed in\nthe session laws of the year succeeding such filing or recording a\nstatement of (a) the date of the notice of relinquishment or\nretrocession, (b) the name of the department or agency of the United\nStates of America which issued such notice, (c) a description of the\nland affected, (d) the date of acceptance of such notice and (e) the\ndate of the filing or recording of the written acceptance of such\nnotice.\n
N.Y. CNT Law § 532 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 12 / Section 532
Retention and destruction of certain recorded instruments
Status: in_force

§ 532. Retention and destruction of certain recorded instruments.\nAfter twenty years have elapsed from the date of recording a deed,\nlease, contract, agreement, mortgage or a release of part of mortgaged\npremises any such instrument so recorded which has not been returned to\nthe person presenting such instrument for recording or to some other\nperson authorized to receive the same, may be destroyed by the county\nclerk without the permission of the commissioner of education provided\nany such instrument is photographed, microphotographed or reproduced on\nfilm preserved for examination and use.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 489 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 14-H / Section 489
Charge for admission and participation; amount of prizes; award of prizes
Status: in_force

§ 489. Charge for admission and participation; amount of prizes; award\nof prizes. Except in the conduct of limited period bingo, not more than\nfive dollars shall be charged by any licensee for admission to any room\nor place in which any game or games of bingo are to be conducted under\nany license issued under this article, which admission fee, upon payment\nthereof, shall entitle the person paying the same to participate without\nadditional charge in all regular games of bingo to be played under such\nlicense on such occasion. In the conduct of limited period bingo: (a) no\nadmission fee shall be charged, (b) not more than twenty-five cents\nshall be charged for a single opportunity to participate in any one\ngame, which charge, upon payment thereof, shall entitle the person\npaying the same to one card for participation in one such game, and (c)\nno licensee shall sell more than five opportunities to each player\nparticipating in any one game. Every winner shall be determined and\nevery prize shall be awarded and delivered within the same calendar day\nas that upon which the game was played. No alcoholic beverage shall be\noffered or given as a prize in any game of bingo.\n