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N.Y. GBS Law § 76 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 7 / Section 76
Certificate or pocket card lost or destroyed
Status: in_force

§ 76. Certificate or pocket card lost or destroyed. If it shall be\nestablished to the satisfaction of the secretary of state, in accordance\nwith rules and regulations of such department, that an unexpired license\ncertificate or pocket card, issued in accordance with the provisions of\nthis article, has been lost or destroyed without fault on the part of\nthe holder, such department shall issue a duplicate license certificate\nor pocket card for the unexpired portion of the term of the original\nlicense certificate.  The secretary of state shall receive a\nnon-refundable fee of ten dollars for issuing a duplicate certificate of\nlicense or identification card.\n
N.Y. FIS Law § 810 — New York Code / Act FIS / Article 8 / Section 810
Additional information
Status: in_force

§ 810. Additional information. Nothing in this article shall prevent a\nprovider from providing or disclosing additional information on a\ncommercial financing being offered to a recipient, provided however,\nthat such additional information shall not be disclosed as part of the\ndisclosure required by this article. If other metrics of financing cost\nare disclosed or used in the application process of a commercial\nfinancing, these metrics shall not be presented as a "rate" if they are\nnot the annual interest rate or the annual percentage rate. The term\n"interest", when used to describe a percentage rate, shall only be used\nto describe annualized percentage rates, such as the annual interest\nrate. When a provider states a rate of finance charge or a financing\namount to a recipient during an application process for commercial\nfinancing, the provider shall also state the rate as an "annual\npercentage rate", using that term or the abbreviation "APR".\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 566 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 12-B / Section 566
Insurance agents and brokers; acquisition by premium finance agencies of premium finance agreements
Status: in_force

§ 566. Insurance agents and brokers; acquisition by premium finance\nagencies of premium finance agreements. 1. An insurance agent or broker\nmay be licensed as a premium finance agency in accordance with this\narticle.\n  2. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of the personal property\nlaw, banking law or other law:\n  (a) No premium finance agency, and no employee of such an agency shall\npay, allow or offer to pay or allow in any manner whatsoever to an\ninsurance agent or broker or any employee of an insurance agent or\nbroker, or to any other person, either as an inducement to the financing\nof any insurance policy with the premium finance agency or after any\nsuch policy has been financed, any rebate whatsoever, either from the\nservice charge for financing specified in the premium finance agreement\nor otherwise, or shall give or offer to give any valuable consideration\nor inducement of any kind directly or indirectly, other than an article\nof merchandise not exceeding one dollar in value which shall have\nthereon the advertisement of the premium finance agency, but a premium\nfinance agency may purchase or otherwise acquire a premium finance\nagreement, provided that it conforms to this article in all respects,\nfrom an insurance agent or broker or another premium finance agency with\nrecourse against the agent, broker or agency on such terms and\nconditions as may be mutually agreed upon; and\n  (b) No filing of the assignment or notice thereof to the insured shall\nbe necessary to the validity of the written assignment of a premium\nfinance agreement as against creditors or subsequent purchasers,\npledgees or encumbrances of the assignor.\n
N.Y. SCT Law § 58 — New York Code / Act SCT / Article 2 / Section 58
Distribution of proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

§ 58. Distribution of proceeds of sale. The plaintiff and the\ndefendants in said action, including the county of Suffolk, who are the\nholders of certificates of sale, shall be paid from the proceeds of sale\nthe several amounts paid for real estate purchased as mentioned and\ndescribed in the certificates of sale held by them, with all interest,\npenalties, additions, costs and expenses allowed by law, so far as the\nsaid proceeds shall suffice to pay the same, in the order of the lawful\npriority of the liens and the interest of the respective parties in and\nagainst the premises as the same may be determined in this action. It\nshall be sufficient for any such defendant to set forth in his answer\nhis certificate of sale or the substance thereof with the other\nallegations in effect as herein provided with regard to the complaint in\nthe action. A defendant alleging irregularity or invalidity in any tax,\nassessment or sale shall particularly specify in his answer such\nirregularity or invalidity.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 423 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 9 / Section 423
Investments
Status: in_force

§ 423. Investments.  a. On and after April first, nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven, the comptroller shall invest the available monies of the\ncommon retirement fund in any investments and securities authorized by\nlaw for each retirement system and shall hold such investments in his\nname as trustee of such fund, notwithstanding any other provision of\nthis chapter. Participating interests in such investments shall be\ncredited to each retirement system in the manner and at the time\nspecified in paragraph two of section four hundred twenty-two of this\narticle.\n  b. To assist in the management of the monies of the common retirement\nfund, the comptroller shall appoint an investment advisory committee\nconsisting of not less than seven members who shall serve for his term\nof office. A vacancy occurring from any cause other than expiration of\nterm shall be filled by the comptroller for the remainder of the term.\nEach member of the committee shall be experienced in the field of\ninvestments and shall have served, or shall be serving, as a senior\nofficer or member of the board of an insurance company, banking\ncorporation or other financial or investment organization authorized to\ndo business in the state of New York. The committee shall advise the\ncomptroller on investment policies relating to the monies of the common\nretirement fund and shall review, from time to time, the investment\nportfolio of the fund and make such recommendations as may be deemed\nnecessary.\n  The comptroller shall appoint a separate mortgage advisory committee,\nwith the advice and consent of the investment advisory committee, to\nreview proposed mortgage and real estate investments by the common\nretirement fund. In making investments, as authorized by law, the\ncomptroller shall be guided by policies established by each committee\nfrom time to time; and, in the event the mortgage advisory committee\ndisapproves a proposed mortgage or real estate investment, such shall\nnot be made.\n  No officer or employee of any state department or agency shall be\neligible for membership on either committee. Each committee shall\nconvene periodically on call of the comptroller, or on call of the\nchairman. The members of each committee shall be entitled to\nreimbursement for their actual and necessary expenses but shall receive\nno compensation for their services.\n
N.Y. ISC Law § 6407 — New York Code / Act ISC / Article 64 / Section 6407
Restrictions on dividends
Status: in_force

§ 6407. Restrictions on dividends. (a) No title insurance corporation\nshall declare or pay any cash or property dividend on its capital\nshares, or declare or distribute a stock dividend except out of earned\nsurplus, meaning, for the purpose of this section, surplus not\nattributable to contributions made to surplus within five years next\npreceding or to appreciation in value of investments not sold or\notherwise disposed of.\n  (b) No such corporation shall declare or pay any cash or property\ndividend to shareholders which, together with all such dividends\ndeclared or paid by it during the next preceding twelve months, exceeds\nten percent of its then outstanding capital shares unless, after\ndeducting such dividends, it has a surplus to policyholders at least\nequal to fifty percent of its reinsurance reserve or a surplus at least\nequal to fifty percent of the minimum capital required of such insurer\nto transact the business of title insurance, whichever shall be greater.\nFor the purpose of this section, "surplus" means the amount of the\ninsurer's admitted assets in excess of (i) all of its liabilities,\nincluding its reinsurance reserve, and (ii) its outstanding capital\nshares.\n  (c) No such corporation shall declare or distribute any stock dividend\nwhich shall reduce surplus to an amount less than fifty percent of its\nthen outstanding capital shares.\n
N.Y. HAY Law § 354 — New York Code / Act HAY / Article 13 / Section 354
When to take effect
Status: in_force

§ 354. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect\nimmediately.\n
N.Y. PTR Law § 81 — New York Code / Act PTR / Article 7 / Section 81
Certificate to be filed
Status: in_force

§ 81. Certificate to be filed.  Whenever a partnership or business\nname continues to be used as provided by section eighty, the person or\npersons using such name shall sign and acknowledge or swear to a\ncertificate, declaring the person or persons intending to deal under\nsuch name, with their respective places of residence, and file the same\nin the clerk's office of the county where the principal place of\nbusiness is located, and cause a copy of such certificate to be\npublished once in each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of\nthe city or town in which such principal place of business is located,\nor if none be published in such city or town, in the newspaper nearest\nthereto. A county clerk with whom any such certificate is filed, shall\nkeep a register in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the name\nof every such partnership and of the partners thereof, and every such\nbusiness name of a deceased person and the names of the person filing\ncertificates therefor.\n
N.Y. GCT Law § 95 — New York Code / Act GCT / Article 6 / Section 95
Proceeding in case of arrest of women
Status: in_force

§ 95. Proceeding in case of arrest of women.  Whenever a woman is\narrested and taken to a police station, to which a matron is attached,\nit shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the station to cause\nsuch matron to be summoned forthwith, and whenever, in any city in which\na police matron has been appointed, a woman is arrested and taken to a\nstation house to which no matron is attached, it shall be the duty of\nsuch officer to cause such woman to be removed as soon as possible to\nthe nearest station house within such city to which a police matron is\nattached. No such separate confinement nor any such removal of any woman\nshall operate to take from any court any jurisdiction it has.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 762 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 36 / Section 762
Duties of local governments
Status: in_force

§ 762. Duties of local governments. The local governments shall\ndisplay in an appropriate location and provide a notice to each\napplicant for an excavation and demolition permit that informs them\nabout their responsibilities under the law and regulations to protect\nunderground facilities and the existence, operation and programs of the\none-call notification system. Any local government which contracts for\nexcavation of underground facilities shall require the excavator to have\ncompleted the training and education program provided by the one-call\nnotification system pursuant to this article or any other provider\nauthorized by the public service commission to administer such training\nand education program. Such training and education program shall be made\navailable in-person and online. The cost of such training and education\nprogram shall not exceed twenty-five dollars and shall not be required\nmore than once per five year period.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 103-E — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 5-A / Section 103-E
Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive offering on public contracts
Status: in_force

§ 103-e. Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive\noffering on public contracts. 1. A person or corporation who shall\nwilfully, knowingly and with intent to defraud, make or enter into, or\nattempt to make or enter into, with any other person or corporation, a\ncontract, agreement, arrangement or combination to submit a fraudulent\nor collusive bid or offer, or to refrain from submitting a bona fide\ncompetitive bid or competitive offer, to any board, officer, agency,\ndepartment, commission or other agency of the state or of a public\ncorporation on a contract for public work or purchase which has been\nadvertised for bidding or offering, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,\nand on conviction thereof shall, if a natural person, be punished by a\nfine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not\nlonger than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and if a\ncorporation by a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. An\nindictment or information based upon a violation of any provision of\nthis section must be found within three years after its commission.\n  2. For the purpose of this section a public corporation shall mean a\ncounty, city, town, village, school district, a territorial division of\nthe state established by law and possessing the power to contract\nindebtedness and levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or\nto require the levy of such taxes or assessments, whether or not such\nterritorial division is expressly declared to be a body corporate and\npolitic by the statute creating or authorizing the creation of such\nterritorial division, and a corporation organized to construct or\noperate a public improvement wholly or partly within the state, the\nprofits from which inure to the benefit of this or other states or to\nthe people thereof.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 41 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 3 / Section 41
Certificate of incorporation
Status: in_force

§ 41. Certificate of incorporation. If such meeting shall decide in\nfavor of incorporation and comply with the next preceding section, the\npresiding officer of such meeting and at least two other persons present\nand voting thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of\nincorporation setting forth:\n  1. The fact of the calling and holding of such meeting;\n  2. The name of the corporation as decided upon thereat;\n  3. The county, and the town, city or village, in which its principal\nplace of worship is, or is intended to be located;\n  4. The day, either on Sunday or a secular day, upon which the annual\nelection shall be held;\n  5. The number of vestrymen decided upon at such meeting;\n  6. The names of the vestrymen elected at such meeting and the term of\noffice of each;\n  7. The names of the churchwardens elected at such meeting and the term\nof office of each.\n  Such certificate, when accompanied by a certificate of the bishop of\nthe diocese within which the principal place of worship of the proposed\ncorporation is, or is intended to be located, to the effect that he\nconsents to the incorporation of such church, shall be filed in the\noffice of the clerk of the county specified in the certificate of\nincorporation; but in case the see be vacant, or the bishop be absent or\nunable to act, the consent of the standing committee, with their\ncertificate of the vacancy of the see or of the absence or disability of\nthe bishop, shall suffice.\n  On filing such certificate in the office of the clerk of the county so\nspecified therein the churchwardens and vestrymen so elected and their\nsuccessors in office, together with the rector, when there is one, shall\nform a vestry and shall be the trustees of such church or congregation;\nand they and their successors shall thereupon, by virtue of this\nchapter, be a body corporate by the name or title expressed in such\ncertificate, and shall have power, from time to time to adopt by-laws\nfor its government. Such corporation shall be an incorporated church,\nand may be termed also an incorporated parish.\n
N.Y. COM Law § 170 — New York Code / Act COM / Article 5-B / Section 170
New York state tourism advisory council established
Status: in_force

§ 170. New York state tourism advisory council established.  1. There\nis hereby established in the department the New York state tourism\nadvisory council which shall comprise eighteen members appointed by the\ngovernor, three on the recommendation of the temporary president of the\nsenate; one on the recommendation of the minority leader of the senate;\nthree on the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly; and one on\nthe recommendation of the minority leader of the assembly. The members\nof the council shall serve for terms of two years, provided, however,\nthat of the members first appointed, nine shall serve for terms of two\nyears and nine shall serve for terms of three years. The governor shall\ndesignate the chairman from among the members of the council. The vice\nchairman shall be elected from among the members of the council by the\nmembers of such council, and shall represent the council in the absence\nof the chairman at all official council functions. The chair of the\nsenate committee on tourism, recreation and sports development and the\nchair of the assembly committee on tourism, arts and sports development\nor their designated representatives, shall be non-voting, ex-officio\nmembers of the council and shall receive no additional compensation for\ntheir services on the advisory council.\n  2. In appointing the members of the council, the governor shall ensure\nthat such members include representatives of organizations of\ntourism-related industries in the state including, but not limited to,\ntravel and vacation businesses, convention bureaus, cultural\ninstitutions, theme parks and attractions, hotels and motels,\nrestaurants, water-based recreation businesses, campgrounds, ski\nfacilities, wineries, halls of fame, travel agents and transportation\ncompanies.\n  3. The members of the council shall receive no compensation for their\nservices but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses\nincurred in the performance of their duties as council members.\n  4. The council shall meet at least five times a year including no less\nthan three times between January first and May thirty-first, at the call\nof the commissioner or the chairman of the council.\n  5. Unless a member has been excused from attendance at such meetings\nby the chairman or vice-chairman upon good cause being shown, any member\nwho fails to attend three consecutive meetings shall be deemed to have\nresigned. Any vacancy on the council shall be filled for the remaining\nterm of the individual replaced. The appointment to fill such vacancy\nshall be made in the same manner as the original appointment was made.\n  6. The department shall provide necessary technical and staff\nassistance to the council. Any department, division, board, bureau,\ncommission, authority or agency of the state, as such shall determine\nappropriate, is authorized to provide such information, cooperation, or\nassistance as may be requested by the council to carry out the purposes\nof this article.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 162 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 1 / Part 6 / Section 162
Waiting room for children
Status: in_force

§ 162. Waiting room for children. So far as possible a waiting room\nwith a competent person in charge shall be provided for the care of\nchildren brought to the family court under this act.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 160-D — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 13-A / Section 160-D
Sales; misrepresentation
Status: in_force

§ 160-d. Sales; misrepresentation.  No person shall sell or offer for\nsale, or advertise for sale, eggs for human consumption if the package\ncontaining them or the label on them, or any advertising accompanying\nthem, shall bear any statement or device regarding the eggs which may be\nfalse or misleading in any particular.\n
N.Y. SCC Law § 136 — New York Code / Act SCC / Article 9 / Section 136
Terms of office
Status: in_force

§ 136. Terms of office. All members of the police and fire\ndepartments, subject to the power of removal hereinafter specified,\nshall hold their respective offices during good behavior or until by age\nor disease they shall become permanently incapacitated to discharge\ntheir duties.\n
N.Y. UDA Law § 28 — New York Code / Act UDA / Section 28
Monies of the corporation
Status: in_force

§ 28. Monies of the corporation. (1) All monies of the corporation,\nexcept as otherwise authorized or provided in this act, shall be paid to\nthe commissioner of taxation and finance as agent of the corporation,\nwho shall not commingle such monies with any other monies. Such monies\nshall be deposited in a separate bank account or accounts. The monies in\nsuch accounts shall be paid out on checks signed by the commissioner of\ntaxation and finance on requisition of the chairman of the corporation\nor of such other officer or employee or officers or employees as the\ncorporation shall authorize to make such requisition. All deposits of\nsuch monies shall, if required by the commissioner of taxation and\nfinance or the corporation, be secured by obligations of the United\nStates or of the state of a market value equal at all times to the\namount of the deposit, and all banks and trust companies are authorized\nto give such security for such deposits.\n  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the corporation shall\nhave power to contract with the holders of any of its notes or bonds, as\nto the custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of any\nmonies of the corporation, of any monies held in trust or otherwise for\nthe payment of notes or bonds, and to carry out such contract. Monies\nheld in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes or bonds or in any\nway to secure notes or bonds and deposits of such monies may be secured\nin the same manner as monies of the corporation, and all banks and trust\ncompanies are authorized to give such security for such deposits.\n  (2) Subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders and the\napproval of the comptroller, the corporation shall prescribe a system of\naccounts.\n  (3) The comptroller, or his legally authorized representative, is\nhereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the books\nand accounts of the corporation including its receipts, disbursements,\ncontracts, reserve funds, sinking funds, investments, and any other\nmatters relating to its financial standing. Such an examination shall be\nconducted by the comptroller at least once in every five years; the\ncomptroller is authorized, however, to accept from the corporation, in\nlieu of such an examination, an external examination of its books and\naccounts made at the request of the corporation.\n  (4) The corporation shall submit to the governor, chairman of the\nsenate finance committee, chairman of the assembly ways and means\ncommittee and the comptroller, within thirty days of the receipt thereof\nby the corporation, a copy of the report of every external examination\nof the books and accounts of the corporation other than copies of the\nreports of such examinations made by the comptroller.\n