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N.Y. EPT Law § 2-1.7 — New York Code / Act EPT / Article 2 / Part 1 / Section 2-1.7
Presumption of death from absence; effect of exposure to
Status: in_force

§ 2-1.7 Presumption of death from absence; effect of exposure to\n          specific peril\n  (a) A person who is absent for a continuous period of three years,\nduring which, after diligent search, he or she has not been seen or\nheard of or from, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained\nshall be presumed, in any action or proceeding involving any property of\nsuch person, contractual or property rights contingent upon his or her\ndeath or the administration of his or her estate, to have died three\nyears after the date such unexplained absence commenced, or on such\nearlier date as clear and convincing evidence establishes is the most\nprobable date of death.\n  (b) The fact that such person was exposed to a specific peril of death\nmay be a sufficient basis for determining at any time after such\nexposure that he or she died less than three years after the date his or\nher absence commenced.\n  (c) The three-year period provided herein shall not apply in any case\nin which a different period has been prescribed by statute.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 159-I — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 6-D / Section 159-I
Distribution of funds
Status: in_force

§ 159-i. Distribution of funds. At least ninety percent of the\ncommunity services block grant funds received by the state shall be\ndistributed pursuant to a contract by the secretary to eligible entities\nas defined in subdivision one of section one hundred fifty-nine-e of\nthis article.  Each such eligible entity shall receive the same\nproportion of community services block grant funds as was the proportion\nof funds received in the immediately preceding federal fiscal year under\nthe federal community services block grant program as compared to the\ntotal amount received by all eligible entities in the state, under the\nfederal community services block grant program.\n  The secretary shall, pursuant to section one hundred fifty-nine-h of\nthis article, retain not more than five percent of the community\nservices block grant funds for administration at the state level.\n  The remainder of the community services block grant funds received by\nthe state shall be distributed pursuant to a contract by the secretary\nin the following order of preference: a sum of up to one-half of one\npercent of the community services block grant funds received by the\nstate to Indian tribes and tribal organizations as defined in this\narticle, on the basis of need; and to community based organizations.\nSuch remainder funds received by eligible entities will not be included\nin determining the proportion of funds received by any such entity in\nthe immediately preceding federal fiscal year under the federal\ncommunity services block grant program.\n
N.Y. FCT Law § 448 — New York Code / Act FCT / Article 4 / Part 4 / Section 448
Enforcement by income deduction
Status: in_force

§ 448. Enforcement by income deduction. Orders of support shall be\nenforceable pursuant to section fifty-two hundred forty-one or fifty-two\nhundred forty-two of the civil practice law and rules, or in any other\nmanner provided by law. The family court is hereby authorized to enter\nan order with respect to an income deduction, in accordance with the\nprovisions of section fifty-two hundred forty-two of the civil practice\nlaw and rules, in any support proceeding under the provisions of article\nfive-B of this act under any support order made pursuant to a reference\nfrom the supreme court under section two hundred fifty-one of the\ndomestic relations law or in any support proceeding under the provisions\nof article four, five or five-A of this act.\n
N.Y. PBO Law § 36 — New York Code / Act PBO / Article 3 / Section 36
Removal of town, village, improvement district or fire district officer by court
Status: in_force

§ 36. Removal of town, village, improvement district or fire district\nofficer by court. Any town, village, improvement district or fire\ndistrict officer, except a justice of the peace, may be removed from\noffice by the supreme court for any misconduct, maladministration,\nmalfeasance or malversation in office. An application for such removal\nmay be made by any citizen resident of such town, village, improvement\ndistrict or fire district or by the district attorney of the county in\nwhich such town, village or district is located, and shall be made to\nthe appellate division of the supreme court held within the judicial\ndepartment embracing such town, village, improvement district or fire\ndistrict. Such application shall be made upon notice to such officer of\nnot less than eight days, and a copy of the charges upon which the\napplication will be made must be served with such notice.\n
N.Y. GBS Law § 360-G — New York Code / Act GBS / Article 24 / Section 360-G
Records
Status: in_force

§ 360-g. Records. The secretary shall keep for public examination a\nrecord of all marks registered or renewed under this article, as well as\na record of all documents recorded pursuant to section three hundred\nsixty-f of this article.\n
N.Y. COR Law § 23 — New York Code / Act COR / Article 2 / Section 23
Transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility to another; treatment in outside hospitals
Status: in_force

§ 23. Transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional\nfacility to another; treatment in outside hospitals. 1. The commissioner\nshall have the power to transfer incarcerated individuals from one\ncorrectional facility to another. Whenever the transfer of incarcerated\nindividuals from one correctional facility to another shall be ordered\nby the commissioner, the superintendent of the facility from which the\nincarcerated individuals are transferred shall take immediate steps to\nmake the transfer. The transfer shall be in accordance with rules and\nregulations promulgated by the department for the safe delivery of such\nincarcerated individuals to the designated facility. Within twenty-four\nhours of arriving at the facility to which an incarcerated individual is\ntransferred, he or she shall be allowed to make at least one personal\nphone call, except when to do so would create an unacceptable risk to\nthe safety and security of incarcerated individuals or staff. If\nsecurity precautions prevent the incarcerated individual from making\nsuch call, a staff member designated by the superintendent of the\nfacility shall make a call to a person of the incarcerated individual's\nchoice unless the incarcerated individual declines to have such a call\nmade.\n  2. The commissioner, in his or her discretion, may by written order\npermit incarcerated individuals to receive medical diagnosis and\ntreatment in outside hospitals, upon the recommendation of the\nsuperintendent or director that such outside treatment or diagnosis is\nnecessary by reason of inadequate facilities within the institution.\nSuch incarcerated individuals shall remain under the jurisdiction and in\nthe custody of the department while in said outside hospital and said\nsuperintendent or director shall enforce proper measures in each case to\nsafely maintain such jurisdiction and custody.\n  3. The cost of transporting incarcerated individuals between\nfacilities and to outside hospitals shall be paid from funds\nappropriated to the department for such purpose.\n
N.Y. PEN Law § 210.15 — New York Code / Act PEN / Part 3 / Title L / Article 210 / Section 210.15
Perjury in the first degree
Status: in_force

§ 210.15 Perjury in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of perjury in the first degree when he swears\nfalsely and when his false statement (a) consists of testimony, and (b)\nis material to the action, proceeding or matter in which it is made.\n  Perjury in the first degree is a class D felony.\n
N.Y. RPP Law § 291-J — New York Code / Act RPP / Article 9 / Section 291-J
Recording of declarations by the New York state energy research and development authority
Status: in_force

§ 291-j. Recording of declarations by the New York state energy\nresearch and development authority. Pursuant to subdivision five of\nsection eighteen hundred ninety-six of the public authorities law, the\nNew York state energy research and development authority shall record or\ncause to be recorded, in the office of the appropriate recording\nofficer, a declaration evidencing the existence of a loan as described\ntherein and, upon satisfaction of such loan, such authority shall file a\ndeclaration of repayment and full satisfaction of the loan repayment\nutility meter charge. The recording officer shall record such\ndeclarations in the same book, provided under section three hundred\nfifteen of the real property law, in which such recording officer\nrecords deeds.\n
N.Y. CPL Law § 180.30 — New York Code / Act CPL / Part 2 / Title H / Article 180 / Section 180.30
Proceedings upon felony complaint; waiver of hearing; action to be taken
Status: in_force

§ 180.30 Proceedings upon felony complaint; waiver of hearing; action to\n             be taken.\n  If the defendant waives a hearing upon the felony complaint, the court\nmust either:\n  1.  Order that the defendant be held for the action of a grand jury of\nthe appropriate superior court with respect to the charge or charges\ncontained in the felony complaint.  In such case, the court must\npromptly transmit to such superior court the order, the felony\ncomplaint, the supporting depositions and all other pertinent documents.\nUntil such papers are received by the superior court, the action is\ndeemed to be still pending in the local criminal court; or\n  2.  Make inquiry, pursuant to section 180.50, for the purpose of\ndetermining whether the felony complaint should be dismissed and an\ninformation, a prosecutor's information or a misdemeanor complaint filed\nwith the court in lieu thereof.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 3-118 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 3 / Part 1 / Section 3-118
Ambiguous Terms and Rules of Construction
Status: in_force

Section 3--118. Ambiguous Terms and Rules of Construction.\n  The following rules apply to every instrument:\n  (a) Where there is doubt whether the instrument is a draft or a note\nthe holder may treat it as either. A draft drawn on the drawer is\neffective as a note.\n  (b) Handwritten terms control typewritten and printed terms, and\ntypewritten control printed.\n  (c) Words control figures except that if the words are ambiguous\nfigures control.\n  (d) Unless otherwise specified a provision for interest means interest\nat the judgment rate at the place of payment from the date of the\ninstrument, or if it is undated from the date of issue.\n  (e) Unless the instrument otherwise specifies two or more persons who\nsign as maker, acceptor or drawer or indorser and as a part of the same\ntransaction are jointly and severally liable even though the instrument\ncontains such words as "I promise to pay."\n  (f) Unless otherwise specified consent to extension authorizes a\nsingle extension for not longer than the original period. A consent to\nextension, expressed in the instrument, is binding on secondary parties\nand accommodation makers. A holder may not exercise his option to extend\nan instrument over the objection of a maker or acceptor or other party\nwho in accordance with Section 3--604 tenders full payment when the\ninstrument is due.\n
N.Y. LAB Law § 770 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 21 / Section 770
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 770. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. The term "call center" means a facility or other operation whereby\nemployees receive phone calls or other electronic communication for the\npurpose of providing customer assistance.\n  2. (a) The term "call center employer" means any business entity that\nemploys fifty or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or fifty\nor more employees that in the aggregate work at least fifteen hundred\nhours per week, excluding overtime hours, for the purpose of staffing a\ncall center.\n  (b) The term "part-time employee" means an employee who is employed\nfor an average of fewer than twenty hours per week or who has been\nemployed for fewer than six of the twelve months preceding the date on\nwhich notice is required under this article.\n  (c) The term "tax credit" means any of the following tax credits\nallowed under the tax law: recovery tax credit, tax-free New York area\ntax elimination credit, minimum wage reimbursement credit, empire state\njobs retention program credit, economic transformation and facility\nredevelopment program tax credit, excelsior jobs program credit,\nemployee training incentive program tax credit, empire state\napprenticeship program tax credit, and employment incentive tax credit.\n
N.Y. AGM Law § 95 — New York Code / Act AGM / Article 5 / Section 95
Protecting the breeding of pure bred stock
Status: in_force

§ 95. Protecting the breeding of pure bred stock.  It shall be\nunlawful for any person or persons owning or in the possession of any\nbull of the age of more than six months, any stallion of the age of more\nthan eighteen months, or buck or boar over five months of age, to suffer\nor permit such animal or animals to go, or range, or run at large on any\nlands or premises without the consent of the person entitled to the\npossession of such land or premises.\n  No right of action shall accrue under this section to any person who,\nbeing liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence\nas required by the town law, shall neglect or refuse to make and\nmaintain his proportion of such fence, or shall permit the same to be\nout of repair, for damages done by any animal described in this section\ncoming, by reason of such defective fence, from adjoining lands where\nsuch animal was lawfully kept.\n
N.Y. RCO Law § 220 — New York Code / Act RCO / Article 11 / Section 220
Joint meeting for the purposes of incorporation
Status: in_force

§ 220. Joint meeting for the purposes of incorporation. Two or more\nunincorporated churches, which separately agree on a plan of union and\ndetermine to meet together for the purpose of being incorporated as a\nunion church, may be incorporated as a union church in pursuance of the\nprovisions of article ten, and thereafter such union church shall be\ngoverned by the general provisions of such article, as near as may be,\nexcept as otherwise provided in this article. A notice of such joint\nmeeting shall be given to the congregation of each church, in pursuance\nof the provisions of article ten of this chapter, relating to notice of\nmeeting for incorporations, in every respect as if it were a notice of a\nmeeting for the separate incorporation of such church under such\narticle, except that the notice shall state in substance that a joint\nmeeting of such unincorporated churches, which shall be specified in the\nnotice, will be held for the purpose of incorporating such churches as a\nunion church, and electing trustees thereof at a time and place\nspecified in the notice, which place may be the usual place of worship\nof either of such churches or any other reasonably convenient place.\nSuch notice must be signed by at least six persons from each of such\nchurches who would be authorized to sign a notice for the meeting of\neach church, respectively, for the purpose of incorporating it under\nsuch article.\n  The provisions of article ten hereof shall be applicable to the\norganization and conduct of such meeting, the matters to be determined\nupon and the certificate of incorporation to be executed and filed\naccordingly, except that the presiding officer of such joint meeting\nshall be the oldest person present at such meeting who would be entitled\nto preside at a meeting of either of such churches singly for the\npurposes of incorporation in pursuance of such article. All persons who\nwould be qualified to vote at such meeting of either of such churches\nheld singly, shall be qualified voters at such joint meeting, and the\nnumber of trustees of the union church after incorporation, to be\nselected from each such church, may be agreed on by such unincorporated\nchurches, and the trustees shall be selected by each of such churches\naccordingly.\n  The certificate of incorporation shall set forth the plan of union\nagreed on and the number of trustees of the incorporated union church to\nbe selected by each unincorporated church.\n
N.Y. UCC Law § 4-401 — New York Code / Act UCC / Article 4 / Part 4 / Section 4-401
When Bank May Charge Customer's Account
Status: in_force

Section 4--401. When Bank May Charge Customer's Account.\n  (1) As against its customer, a bank may charge against his account any\nitem which is otherwise properly payable from that account even though\nthe charge creates an overdraft.\n  (2) A bank which in good faith makes payment to a holder may charge\nthe indicated account of its customer according to\n       (a) the original tenor of his altered item; or\n       (b) the tenor of his completed item, even though the bank knows\n           the item has been completed unless the bank has notice that\n           the completion was improper.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 3650 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 36-A / Section 3650
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 3650. Definitions. When used in this article, the following words\nand phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this article:\n  1. "Home medical equipment services" shall mean the delivery,\nprovision, installation, maintenance and replacement of, or instruction\nin the use of medical equipment used by an individual requiring such\nservices in their place of residence.\n  2. "Medical equipment service agency" means any person engaged in the\nbusiness of providing home medical equipment services, whether directly\nor through a contractual arrangement, to an individual at their place of\nresidence.\n  3. "Home medical equipment" shall mean technologically sophisticated\nmedical devices which are used in a home care setting, including but not\nlimited to:\n  (a) Oxygen and oxygen delivery systems;\n  (b) Ventilation and aspiration devices;\n  (c) Respiratory disease management services;\n  (d) Electronic and computer driven wheelchairs and seating systems;\n  (e) Monitoring devices;\n  (f) Transcutaneous electrical nerve simulator (tens) units;\n  (g) Low air loss cutaneous pressure management devices;\n  (h) Sequential compression devices;\n  (i) Obstructive sleep apnea treatment devices; and\n  (j) Feeding pumps.\n  4. "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, joint\nventure, or any business entity.\n  5. "Board" shall mean the medical equipment service agency advisory\nboard created by section thirty-six hundred fifty-five of this article.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 401 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 19 / Section 401
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 401. Definitions. As used in this article, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall have\nthe following meanings:\n  1. "Flag" shall mean the flag of the United States of America.\n  2. "Public building" shall mean all buildings including grounds and\npremises adjacent or appurtenant thereto or connected thereto belonging\nto the state, county, town, village, school district or any other\npolitical or civil subdivision of state or local government.\n  3. "Local agency" shall include all county, city, town and village\ngoverning bodies, all other public corporations, special districts and\nschool districts in the state.\n  4. "State agencies" shall include any department, division, board,\nbureau, commission, office, agency, authority or public corporation of\nthe state.\n
N.Y. EXC Law § 327 — New York Code / Act EXC / Article 15-B / Section 327
Contributions to the institute
Status: in_force

§ 327. Contributions to the institute. The institute may receive\ngrants and contributions from any public or private source to the extent\nauthorized by law.\n
N.Y. EML Law § 3 — New York Code / Act EML / Article 2 / Section 3
Notice to be served
Status: in_force

§ 3. Notice to be served. No action for recovery of compensation for\ninjury or death under this article shall be maintained unless notice of\nthe time, place and cause of the injury is given to the employer within\none hundred and twenty days and the action is commenced within one year\nafter the occurrence of the accident causing the injury or death. The\nnotice required by this section shall be in writing and signed by the\nperson injured or by some one in his behalf, but if from physical or\nmental incapacity it is impossible for the person injured to give notice\nwithin the time provided in this section, he may give the same within\nten days after such incapacity is removed. In case of his death without\nhaving given such notice, his executor or administrator may give such\nnotice within sixty days after his appointment, but no notice under the\nprovisions of this section shall be deemed to be invalid or insufficient\nsolely by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place or cause\nof the injury if it be shown that there was no intention to mislead and\nthat the party entitled to notice was not in fact misled thereby. If\nsuch notice does not apprise the employer of the time, place or cause of\ninjury, he may, within eight days after service thereof, serve upon the\nsender a written demand for a further notice, which demand must specify\nthe particular in which the first notice is claimed to be defective, and\na failure by the employer to make such demand as herein provided shall\nbe a waiver of all defects that the notice may contain. After service of\nsuch demand as herein provided, the sender of such notice may at anytime\nwithin eight days thereafter serve an amended notice which shall\nsupersede such first notice and have the same effect as an original\nnotice hereunder. The notice required by this section shall be served on\nthe employer, or if there is more than one employer, upon one of such\nemployers, and may be served by delivering the same to or at the\nresidence or place of business of the person on whom it is to be served.\nThe notice or demand may be served by post by letter addressed to the\nperson on whom it is to be served, at his last known place of residence\nor place of business, and if served by post shall be deemed to have been\nserved at the time when the letter containing the same would be\ndelivered in the ordinary course of the post. When the employer is a\ncorporation, notice shall be served by delivering the same or by sending\nit by post addressed to the office or principal place of business of\nsuch corporation.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 1439-II — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 31-A-3 / Section 1439-II
Liability of recording officer
Status: in_force

* § 1439-ii. Liability of recording officer. A recording officer shall\nnot be liable for any inaccuracy in the amount of tax imposed pursuant\nto this article that he or she shall collect so long as he or she shall\ncompute and collect such tax on the amount of consideration or the value\nof the interest conveyed as such amounts are provided to him or her by\nthe person paying the tax.\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2028\n
N.Y. JUD Law § 263 — New York Code / Act JUD / Article 8 / Section 263
Salary of law clerk of court of appeals
Status: in_force

§ 263. Salary of law clerk of court of appeals.  The law clerk of the\ncourt of appeals shall receive a salary of not to exceed five thousand\ndollars a year.\n
N.Y. TAX Law § 508 — New York Code / Act TAX / Article 21 / Section 508
Responsibility of owner
Status: in_force

§ 508. Responsibility of owner. In those instances where the carrier\nis not the owner of the vehicular unit, the owner may file the return\nand maintain the record required by section five hundred five and five\nhundred seven, and shall be jointly and severally liable with the\ncarrier for the payment of tax required under section five hundred six.\n