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N.Y. PEP Law § 40 — New York Code / Act PEP / Article 3 / Section 40
Bona fide purchasers
Status: in_force

§ 40. Bona fide purchasers. This article does not affect or impair the\ntitle of a purchaser or incumbrancer for a valuable consideration,\nunless it appear that such purchaser or incumbrancer had previous notice\nof the fraudulent intent of his immediate vendor, or of the fraud\nrendering void the title of such vendor.\n
N.Y. ACA Law § 10.13 — New York Code / Act ACA / Title B / Article 10 / Section 10.13
Additional considerations in fulfilling its responsibilities
Status: in_force

§ 10.13. Additional considerations in fulfilling its responsibilities.\nIn fulfilling its responsibilities under this article, the institute\nshall additionally:\n  1. Give consideration to the likelihood of any project undertaken to\nattract or enhance tourism through a greater appreciation of the\nartistic and cultural heritage of the Hudson river area.\n  2. Encourage the appreciation of the Hudson river area by individual\nartists.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 165.00 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title J / Article 165 / Section 165.00
Misapplication of property
Status: in_force

§ 165.00 Misapplication of property.\n  1. A person is guilty of misapplication of property when, knowingly\npossessing personal property of another pursuant to an agreement that\nthe same will be returned to the owner at a future time,\n  (a) he loans, leases, pledges, pawns or otherwise encumbers such\nproperty without the consent of the owner thereof in such manner as to\ncreate a risk that the owner will not be able to recover it or will\nsuffer pecuniary loss; or\n  (b) he intentionally refuses to return personal property valued in\nexcess of one hundred dollars to the owner pursuant to the terms of the\nrental agreement provided that the owner shall have made a written\ndemand for the return of such personal property in person or by\ncertified mail at an address indicated in the rental agreement and he\nintentionally refuses to return such personal property for a period of\nthirty days after such demand has been received or should reasonably\nhave been received by him. Such written demand shall state: (i) the date\nand time at which the personal property was to have been returned under\nthe rental agreement; (ii) that the owner does not consent to the\ncontinued withholding or retaining of such personal property and demands\nits return; and (iii) that the continued withholding or retaining of the\nproperty may constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up\nto one thousand dollars or by a sentence to a term of imprisonment for a\nperiod of up to one year or by both such fine and imprisonment.\n  (c) as used in paragraph (b) of this subdivision and in subdivision\nthree of this section, the terms owner, personal property, and rental\nagreement shall be defined as in subdivision one of section three\nhundred ninety-nine-w of the general business law.\n  2. In any prosecution under paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this\nsection, it is a defense that, at the time the prosecution was\ncommenced, (a) the defendant had recovered possession of the property,\nunencumbered as a result of the unlawful disposition, and (b) the owner\nhad suffered no material economic loss as a result of the unlawful\ndisposition.\n  3. In any prosecution under paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this\nsection, it is a defense that at the time the prosecution was commenced,\n(a) the owner had recovered possession of the personal property and\nsuffered no material economic loss as a result of the unlawful\nretention; or (b) the defendant is unable to return such personal\nproperty because it has been accidentally destroyed or stolen; or (c)\nthe owner failed to comply with the provisions of section three hundred\nninety-nine-w of the general business law.\n  Misapplication of property is a class A misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 194 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 4-A / Section 194
Public accommodation office not deemed branch office
Status: in_force

§ 194. Public accommodation office not deemed branch office. A public\naccommodation office shall not be deemed a branch office as that term is\nused in this chapter and shall not be subject to any other provision of\nthis chapter specifically relating to the establishment of branch\noffices. Each public accommodation office shall be deemed to be an\nintegral part of the banking institution or branch office of which it is\nan adjunct, and all business transacted at such public accommodation\noffice shall be deemed to be transacted at the office of which it is an\nadjunct.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 642 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 30-B / Section 642
Weight loss services; notice
Status: in_force

§ 642. Weight loss services; notice. 1. Any person, firm or\ncorporation offering weight loss services or weight loss services and\nproducts in this state by means of selling or offering to sell such\nservices or products to the public shall either (i) conspicuously post a\nsign, measuring at least nine inches by fourteen inches, where consumers\nare offered the services or products, in writing, in at least ten point\nprint, or (ii) provide in writing, in at least ten point print, to\nindividuals and consumers prior to the purchase of such goods or\nservices the following notice or some other notice which substantially\ncontains or provides the following information.\n                    WEIGHT LOSS AND DIETING INFORMATION\n  a. WARNING! Rapid weight loss may cause serious health problems. Rapid\nweight loss is weight loss of more than 1 1/2 to 2 pounds per week or\nweight loss of more than 1 percent of body weight per week after the\nsecond week of participation in a weight loss program.\n  b. Consult your physician before starting any weight loss program or\nusing any diet medications or formulas.\n  c. Long term weight control is the safest and most important goal of\nany diet program. Permanent lifestyle changes such as eating nutritious\nfoods, calorie control and increasing physical activity help promote\nlong term weight loss according to medical experts.\n  d. Ask the person providing or selling you weight loss advice or diet\nproducts, medications or formulas about their qualifications and\ntraining in nutrition and health.\n  e. You have the right to:\n  (i) Ask questions about the potential health risks of this program or\nproduct, its nutritional content, and its psychological-support and\neducational components;\n  (ii) Know the price of treatment, including the price of any extra\nproducts, services, supplements and laboratory tests; and\n  (iii) Know the program duration of the program recommended to you.\n  2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to direct sellers,\nretail stores or pharmacies selling weight loss products and providing\ninformation to the public regarding individual products, unless such\nbusinesses offer both weight loss services and weight loss products.\nFurthermore, the provisions of this section shall not apply to weight\nloss services provided to an individual by any person, firm or\ncorporation which provides weight loss services incidental to their\nprimary professional services to such individual and which does not\noffer to sell weight loss services or weight loss products to the\npublic.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 99-SS*2 — New York Code / Act STF / Article 6 / Section 99-SS*2
Suicide prevention fund
Status: in_force

* § 99-ss. Suicide prevention fund. 1. There is hereby established in\nthe joint custody of the comptroller, the commissioner of taxation and\nfinance, and the office of mental health, a fund, to be known as the\n"suicide prevention fund".\n  2. Such fund shall consist of moneys required to be deposited thereto\npursuant to article forty-seven of the general business law and all\nother moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any\nother fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section\nshall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the\npurposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into\nthe fund according to law.\n  3. Moneys of the fund shall be made available to the office of mental\nhealth for initiatives supporting suicide prevention, education, and\nawareness.\n  4. The commissioner of the office of mental health shall include in\nits written report pursuant to subdivision (g) of section 7.07 of the\nmental hygiene law how the moneys of the fund were utilized during the\npreceding fiscal year, and shall include:\n  (a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process\nused for such disbursements;\n  (b) recipients of awards from the fund;\n  (c) the amount awarded to each; and\n  (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted.\n  * NB There are 3 § 99-ss's\n
N.Y. MHY Law § 81.33 — New York Code / Act MHY / Title E / Article 81 / Section 81.33
Intermediate and final report
Status: in_force

§ 81.33 Intermediate and final report.\n  (a) A guardian may move in the court of his or her appointment for an\norder permitting him or her to render an intermediate report to the date\nof the filing thereof in a form prescribed by the court which shall\ninclude the same information as is required under section 81.31 of this\narticle provided, however, that if the incapacitated person has died the\nreport need not include information otherwise required in paragraphs\nfive and six of subdivision (b) of section 81.31 of this article. The\ncourt may order the report to be filed with the clerk of the court on or\nbefore a fixed date.\n  (b) When a guardian dies or is removed, suspended, discharged pursuant\nto the provisions of this article, or allowed to resign, the court shall\norder a final report in a form prescribed by the court which shall\ninclude the same information as is required under section 81.31 of this\narticle provided, however, that if the incapacitated person has died the\nreport need not include information otherwise required in paragraphs\nfive and six of subdivision (b) of section 81.31 of this article. When\nsuch a report has been made in the course of a proceeding to remove a\nguardian, the court may dispense with a further report.\n  (c) Notice of the filing of a report under this section shall be\nserved upon the persons entitled to notice pursuant to paragraph three\nof subdivision (c) of section 81.16 of this article. If the\nincapacitated person is deceased, notice shall also be served upon his\nor her executor or administrator, if any.\n  (d) The court may appoint counsel for the incapacitated person, if\nliving, for the protection of such person's rights and interests with\nregard to such report. The court may appoint a referee to hear the\nmatter and report to the court.\n  (e) Upon the motion for a confirmation of the report of the referee,\nor if the report is made before the court, upon the court's\ndetermination, the report shall be judicially approved and filed. The\ncompensation of the referee and of counsel shall be fixed by the court\nand shall be payable out of the estate of the incapacitated person\nunless it is determined that the incapacitated person is indigent.\n  (f) If the incapacitated person resides in a facility, a copy of a\nreport under this section shall be served upon the chief executive\nofficer in charge of that facility and upon the mental hygiene legal\nservice of the judicial department in which the residence is located.\n
N.Y. TWN Law § 322 — New York Code / Act TWN / Article 18 / Section 322
Surplus money upon sale of strays
Status: in_force

§ 322. Surplus money upon sale of strays. If the owner of the beasts\nshall not appear and demand the residue of such moneys within one year\nafter the sale he shall be thereafter precluded from recovering any part\nthereof, and the same shall be paid by the officer making the sale to\nthe supervisor of the town, or, in cities, to the treasurer, and their\nreceipt shall be a legal discharge to the keeper of such beasts and the\nofficer selling the same. If the officer who shall have sold such beasts\nshall not, within thirty days after the expiration of the year, pay such\nmoneys to the supervisor of the town, or, in cities, to the treasurer he\nshall forfeit to the town or city double the sum so remaining in his\nhands, together with the amount of such moneys.\n
N.Y. UCT Law § 1307 — New York Code / Act UCT / Article 13 / Section 1307
Jurors; challenges
Status: in_force

§ 1307. Jurors; challenges.\n  Challenges to jurors shall be as provided in the CPLR.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 200.03 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title L / Article 200 / Section 200.03
Bribery in the second degree
Status: in_force

§ 200.03 Bribery in the second degree.\n  A person is guilty of bribery in the second degree when he confers, or\noffers or agrees to confer, any benefit valued in excess of five\nthousand dollars upon a public servant upon an agreement or\nunderstanding that such public servant's vote, opinion, judgment,\naction, decision or exercise of discretion as a public servant will\nthereby be influenced.\n  Bribery in the second degree is a class C felony.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 239-C — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 7A / Section 239-C
Approval by the secretary of state
Status: in_force

§ 239-c. Approval by the secretary of state. After April first,\nnineteen hundred eighty-two, no portable kerosene heater shall be\noffered for sale in this state for use in a structure unless it has been\napproved by the secretary of state or his designee. In determining\nwhether to approve a portable kerosene heater for sale, the secretary of\nstate shall consider whether the heater meets (1) the standards set\nforth in subdivision seven of section two hundred thirty-nine-a of this\narticle, and (2) any additional standards which the secretary of state\nreasonably believes are required to effectuate the purposes of this\narticle as set forth in section two hundred thirty-nine of this article.\nThe secretary of state may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations\nsetting forth the procedure by which portable kerosene heaters will be\nreviewed for approval.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 398 — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 26 / Section 398
Bills of lading to be issued by vessels transporting merchandise within the state
Status: in_force

§ 398. Bills of lading to be issued by vessels transporting\nmerchandise within the state. It shall be the duty of the owner, master\nor agent of any vessel transporting merchandise or property between\nports of this state to issue to shippers of any lawful merchandise a\nbill of lading, or shipping document, or to sign a bill of lading or\nshipping document when presented by the shipper or his agent, stating,\namong other things, the marks necessary for identification, number of\npackages or quantity, stating whether it be carrier's or shipper's\nweight, and apparent order or condition of such merchandise or property\ndelivered to and received by the owner, master or agent of the vessel\nfor transportation, and such document shall be prima facie evidence of\nthe receipt of the merchandise therein described.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 10 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 2 / Section 10
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

§ 10. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of\nthe state of New York that the business of all banking organizations\nshall be supervised and regulated through the department of financial\nservices in such manner as to insure the safe and sound conduct of such\nbusiness, to conserve their assets, to prevent hoarding of money, to\neliminate unsound and destructive competition among such banking\norganizations and thus to maintain public confidence in such business\nand protect the public interest and the interests of depositors,\ncreditors, shareholders and stockholders.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 534-O — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 19-I / Section 534-O
Employment information centers
Status: in_force

§ 534-o. Employment information centers. 1. The commission shall\nestablish and maintain one or more employment information centers within\nthe port of New York district in this state at such locations as it may\ndetermine. No person shall, directly or indirectly, hire any person for\nwork as a longshore worker or security officer within the port of New\nYork district in this state, except through such particular employment\ninformation center or centers as may be prescribed by the commission. No\nperson shall accept any employment as a longshore worker or security\nofficer within the port of New York district in this state, except\nthrough such an employment information center. At each such employment\ninformation center the commission shall keep and exhibit the longshore\nworkers' register and any other records it shall determine to the end\nthat longshore workers and security officers shall have the maximum\ninformation as to available employment as such at any time within the\nport of New York district in this state and to the end that employers\nshall have an adequate opportunity to fill their requirements of\nregistered longshore workers and security officers at all times.\n  2. Every employer of longshore workers or security officers within the\nport of New York district in this state shall furnish such information\nas may be required by the rules and regulations prescribed by the\ncommission with regard to the name of each person hired as a longshore\nworker or security officer, the time and place of hiring, the time,\nplace and hours of work, and the compensation therefor.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 870 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 27 / Section 870
Establishment of program
Status: in_force

§ 870. Establishment of program.  The sheriff, upon approval of the\nlegislative body of the county, may establish a work release program\npursuant to which prisoners, sentenced to and confined in any county\njail under his jurisdiction, may be granted the privilege of leaving\nconfinement for the purpose of working at gainful employment,\nparticipating in a privately or publicly sponsored program of vocational\ntraining, with or without compensation, or attending an educational\ninstitution. The work release program may also include the release from\nconfinement during necessary and reasonable hours for the purpose of\ncaring for the prisoner's family.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 12-105 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 12 / Section 12-105
Recovery by illegal drug users
Status: in_force

§ 12-105. Recovery by illegal drug users. 1. An individual drug user\nmay not bring an action for damages caused by the use of an illegal\ndrug, unless all of the following conditions are met:\n  (a) The individual discloses to law enforcement authorities, more than\nsix months before filing the action, information known to the individual\nregarding their source of illegal drugs;\n  (b) The individual has not used an illegal drug within the six month\nperiod preceding filing the action.\n  2. A person entitled to bring an action under this section may be\nawarded damages only from a person who knowingly participated in the\nchain of distribution of an illegal drug that was actually used by the\nindividual drug user.\n  3. A person entitled to bring an action under this section may recover\neconomic damages, including but not limited to the cost of treatment,\nrehabilitation, and medical expenses, loss of economic potential, and\nloss of productivity.\n
N.Y. RRD Law § 1 — New York Code / Act RRD / Article 1 / Section 1
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Railroad Law."\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 702 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 7 / Section 702
Federal aid; custody and payment of funds
Status: in_force

§ 702. Federal aid; custody and payment of funds. 1. The department of\ntaxation and finance is designated as custodian of all federal-aid funds\nallotted to the state for the purposes of this article by the United\nStates.\n  2. Such funds shall be payable only on the audit and warrant of the\ncomptroller on the certificate of the commissioner as provided in\nsection one hundred ten of the state finance law.\n  3. Subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner, such\nfunds may be allocated to any municipal corporation, including the city\nof New York, and to any health district for the use of such municipal\ncorporation or local health district in carrying out the purposes of\nsuch act of the congress.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 980 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 19-A / Section 980
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 980. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  (a) "Average full valuation of taxable real property" means the\nvaluation obtained by taking the assessed valuation of taxable real\nproperty in the district as it appears upon the last completed and four\npreceding assessment rolls of the municipality and dividing each by the\napplicable state equalization rate as determined by the commissioner of\ntaxation and finance pursuant to article twelve of the real property tax\nlaw for each of the assessment rolls and dividing the sum of the\nquotients thus obtained by five.\n  (b) "District" means a business improvement district established\npursuant to this article.\n  (c) "District charge" means a levy imposed on behalf of the district\nas provided in the district plan.\n  (d) "District management association" means the association\nestablished pursuant to section nine hundred eighty-m of this article.\n  (e) "District plan" or "plan" means a proposal as defined in section\nnine hundred eighty-a of this article.\n  (f) "Legislative body" means the local legislative body empowered to\nadopt and amend local laws or ordinances.\n  (g) "Municipality" means a city, town or village within the state of\nNew York.\n  (h) "Owner" means owner of record.\n  (i) "Tenant" means an occupant pursuant to a lease of commercial space\nor a dwelling unit, other than an owner.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 21-C — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 2 / Section 21-C
Power of commissioner to enter into agreements relating to certain federal acts
Status: in_force

§ 21-c. Power of commissioner to enter into agreements relating to\ncertain federal acts. The commissioner is hereby authorized and\nempowered to take such steps, not inconsistent with law, as may be\nnecessary or desirable for the purpose of procuring for the people of\nthis state all of the benefits and assistance, financial or otherwise in\nconnection with or provided or to be provided for by or pursuant to, the\nfederal farm labor contractor registration act of nineteen hundred\nsixty-three, the federal economic opportunity act of nineteen hundred\nsixty-four, as amended, the federal fair labor standards act of nineteen\nhundred thirty-eight, as amended, and the occupational safety provisions\nof any federal act. The commissioner may enter into agreements with\nappropriate agencies of the United States, and with any political\nsubdivision of the state, as may be necessary or required to receive\nsuch benefits and assistance. The commissioner is further authorized to\nreceive and disburse such funds from the United States or any agency\nthereof, or from any political subdivision of the state, in accordance\nwith the terms of any such agreement. The commissioner shall cooperate\nwith other departments, divisions, agencies, and political subdivisions\nof the state in connection with any such agreement.\n
N.Y. STF Law § 47 — New York Code / Act STF / Article 4 / Section 47
Substitute employees
Status: in_force

§ 47. Substitute employees.  Where in any act a line item\nappropriation is made for the salary of an employee and the employee is\non leave of absence on less than full pay, the balance of such\nappropriation shall be available for the payment of the salary of a\nsubstitute employee.\n