N.Y. EDN Law § 3641-B — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 4 / Section 3641-B
Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers
Status: in_force

§ 3641-b. Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science\nteachers. The commissioner shall establish a program of competitively\nawarded grants within the amount appropriated for such purpose, to\npublic and independent colleges and universities offering teacher\neducation programs, in partnership with school districts, to conduct\nsummer institutes for teachers of science and mathematics in grades five\nthrough eight in middle schools, junior high schools, intermediate\nschools or junior/senior high schools with priority given as practicable\nto teachers in schools identified as schools in need of improvement or\nin corrective action or restructuring status, schools under registration\nreview or schools requiring academic progress. Such summer institutes\nshall be designed to advance the content knowledge and pedagogy of\nparticipating science and mathematics teachers and shall, to the extent\npracticable, be aligned and integrated with programs offered to\nexcelsior scholars pursuant to section thirty-six hundred forty-one-a of\nthis article. Teachers shall be selected for participation by their\nbuilding principal.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 24-0501 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 24 / Title 5 / Section 24-0501
Local freshwater wetlands protection procedures
Status: in_force

§ 24-0501. Local freshwater wetlands protection procedures.\n  1. On or after September 1, 1975, each local government may adopt,\namend, and implement a freshwater wetlands protection law or ordinance\nin accordance with this article to be applicable to all freshwater\nwetlands wholly or partially within its jurisdiction. No freshwater\nwetlands protection law or ordinance adopted by a county pursuant to\nthis section shall be applicable within the boundaries of any city, town\nor village which has adopted and is implementing a local freshwater\nwetlands protection law or ordinance consistent with this article.\n  2. Said freshwater wetlands protection law or ordinance may be in such\nform and with such procedures prescribed as may be determined by the\nlocal government adopting the same, or it may set forth the procedures\nand concepts contained in this article; provided, however, that no local\nfreshwater wetlands protection law or ordinance enacted pursuant to\nsubdivision one hereof shall be less protective of freshwater wetlands\nor effectiveness of administrative and judicial review, than the\nprocedures set forth in this article, nor shall such local law or\nordinance affect the activities exempted from permit by section 24-0701\nof title seven hereof.\n  3. Adoption by a local government, pursuant to this article, of a\nlocal freshwater wetlands protection law or ordinance by reference to\nthe procedures and concepts set forth herein shall be sufficient if\nreference is made to the procedures and concepts of this article with\nexceptions, additions, and modifications thereto noted; and the\nadoption, once effected, shall include subsequent statutory amendments\nto this article as aforesaid; subject, again, to exception, addition, or\nmodification by such municipality, without time limitation. At any time\nafter a local adoption of the procedures contained in this article, a\nlocal government subject to this section may rescind its adoption\nthereof and simultaneously adopt a local freshwater wetlands protection\nprocedure in accordance with subdivisions one and two of this section.\n  4. Within thirty days after the adoption of a freshwater wetlands\nprotection law or ordinance pursuant to this article, the local\ngovernment shall notify the department thereof, under such terms and\nconditions as the department may prescribe, together with its technical\nand administrative capacity to administer the act. Failure of a local\ngovernment to give such notice shall constitute a transfer of function\npursuant to this subdivision and section 24-0503 of this article.\n  5. A local government or the department shall have the right, in its\nregulation of freshwater wetlands within its jurisdiction, to charge\nsuch fees and expenses to an applicant for official action as shall\nenable it to recover the costs incurred by reason of such application.\n  6. Any local government which defaults or transfers its authority\npursuant to subdivision four of this section or section 24-0503 of this\narticle, may recover such authority at any time by adopting a local\nfreshwater wetland protection local law or ordinance consistent with\nthis article and notifying the county and the department of the\nadoption. Such notice shall be given by certified mail within ten days\nof the adoption thereof. Such local law or ordinance shall not become\neffective in less than sixty nor more than one hundred days from the\nadoption thereof.\n  7. The technical services of the department shall be made available to\nmunicipalities, on a fee basis, in the implementation of the procedure\nherein set forth.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 71-0507 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 71 / Title 5 / Section 71-0507
Actions for penalties generally
Status: in_force

§ 71-0507. Actions for penalties generally.\n  1. Actions for penalties for violation of any provisions of this\nchapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 15 inclusive\nand title 33 of this article, except as otherwise expressly provided,\n  a. Shall be in the name of the "People of the State of New York";\n  b. Must be brought on order of the department; and\n  c. May be compromised, settled and discontinued as provided in\nsections 71-0505 and 71-0519 and subdivision 11 of section 11-0505.\n  2. Such actions, if in justices' courts, may be brought in any town of\nthe county in which the penalty is incurred, or, if the defendant\nresides in another county, in any town of the county in which the\ndefendant resides.\n  3. Moneys received by a town justice or a village justice in any\naction for a penalty brought under the provisions of this chapter listed\nin section 71-0501 of titles 5 through 15 inclusive and title 33 or upon\nthe settlement or compromise thereof, or a fine for a violation of the\nprovisions of this chapter listed in section 71-0501 and titles 5\nthrough 15 inclusive and title 33 of this article shall be paid to the\nState Comptroller as provided in section 27 of the Town Law and section\n4-410 of the village law. From the moneys so received, the State\nComptroller shall pay all lawful fees for services rendered in such\nactions when instituted by order of the department or upon information\nof a conservation officer, regional and assistant regional conservation\nofficer, special game protector, district ranger, forest ranger, or\nmember of the state police. The balance of such moneys arising from\npenalties under articles 11 or 13 or title 9 of this article or upon the\nsettlement or compromise thereof or from fines for violations of any of\nthe provisions of articles 11 or 13 or title 9 of this article after the\npayment of lawful fees shall be credited by the Comptroller to the\nconservation fund. The Comptroller shall adjust and settle his account\nwith the conservation fund in the manner provided by section 99-a of the\nState Finance Law. The balance of all other such moneys after payment of\nlawful fees shall be credited by the Comptroller to the general fund.\n  4. All moneys received by any other person or court in an action for a\npenalty brought under the provisions of this chapter listed in section\n71-0501 and titles 5 through 15 inclusive and title 33 of this article\nor upon the settlement or compromise thereof, or a fine for a violation\nof the provisions of this chapter listed in section 71-0501 and titles 5\nthrough 15 inclusive and title 33 of this article, shall be paid by such\nperson or court to the department within thirty days after receipt\nthereof. The department shall pay the expenses of collection and the\nlawful fees of magistrates and constables for services performed in\ncriminal actions brought upon information of a conservation officer,\nregional and assistant regional conservation officer, special game\nprotector, district ranger, forest ranger, or member of the state\npolice. Such moneys derived from fines or penalties for violations of\narticles 11 or 13 or title 9 of this article or from the settlement or\ncompromise thereof shall be paid by the department to the Commissioner\nof Taxation and Finance and credited to the conservation fund. All other\nmoneys so received by the department shall be paid to the Commissioner\nof Taxation and Finance and credited to the general fund.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-K — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-K
Agreements of the city
Status: in_force

§ 1500-k. Agreements of the city. 1. The city is authorized to pledge\nto and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority\npursuant to this title and with those persons or public authorities who\nmay enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the provisions\nof this title that the city will not alter, limit or impair the rights\nhereby vested in the authority by this title to purchase, construct, own\nand operate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, renovate,\nrehabilitate, enlarge, increase and extend, or dispose of any covered\nproject, or any part or parts thereof, for which bonds of the authority\nshall have been issued, to establish, collect and adjust rates, rents,\nfees and other charges referred to in this title, to fulfill the terms\nof any agreements made with the holders of the bonds or with any public\nauthority or person with reference to such project or part thereof, or\nin any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds, until\nthe bonds, together with interest thereon, including interest on any\nunpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in\nconnection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders\nof bonds, are fully met and discharged and such contracts are fully\nperformed on the part of the authority.\n  2. The authority is hereby authorized, in its discretion, for and on\nbehalf of itself and subject to approval by the common council and the\nmayor, to covenant and agree with the holders of the bonds, with such\nexceptions and limitations as it may deem to be in the public interest,\nthat no public parking areas except those acquired and operated by the\nauthority will be constructed or operated in the city by the city, or by\nany public benefit or other corporation the members or some of which are\nelected or are appointed by city officials, until either (a) the bonds,\ntogether with interest thereon, interest on any unpaid installments of\ninterest and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or\nproceeding by or on behalf of the bondholders are fully met and\ndischarged or (b) principal or interest of any of the bonds shall be\noverdue and unpaid for a period of three years or more, provided that\nnothing in this section shall be deemed to impair the right of the city\nto install and operate parking meters on the public streets of the city.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3710 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 75 / Section 3710
Application of moneys
Status: in_force

§ 3710. Application of moneys.  Such moneys shall be held by such\ncollector or treasurer and paid upon the written order of the trustee or\nboard of education of the district for such purposes as the annual or a\nspecial meeting of the district shall direct.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 11-0538 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 11-0538
Direct contact between public and big cats prohibited
Status: in_force

§ 11-0538. Direct contact between public and big cats prohibited.\n  1. As used in this section:\n  (a) "Big cat" shall mean any live species of lion (panthera leo),\ntiger (panthera tigres), leopard (panthera pardus) (with the exception\nof clouded leopards (neofelis nebulosa)), jaguar (panthera onca),\nmountain lion, sometimes called cougar (felis concolar) or any hybrid of\nsuch species.\n  (b) "Direct contact" means physical contact or proximity where\nphysical contact is possible, including, but not limited to, allowing a\nphotograph to be taken without a permanent physical barrier designed to\nprevent physical contact between the public and big cats.\n  (c) "Dealer" shall mean any person who, in commerce, for compensation\nor profit, delivers for transportation, or transports, except as a\ncarrier, buys, sells, or negotiates the purchase or sale of any animals.\n  (d) "Exhibitor" shall mean any person (public or private) exhibiting\nany animals, which were purchased in commerce or the intended\ndistribution of which affects commerce, or will affect commerce, to the\npublic for compensation, as determined by the commissioner, and such\nterm includes carnivals, circuses, and zoos exhibiting such animals\nwhether operated for profit or not.\n  2. It shall be unlawful for any person licensed or required to be\nlicensed as an exhibitor or dealer pursuant to the Animal Welfare Act, 7\nUSC 2132-2134, including agents or employees of such person, to\nknowingly allow the public to have direct contact with a big cat.\n  3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be\nsubject to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for the first\noffense and not more than one thousand dollars for a second and\nsubsequent offenses. Each instance of allowing direct contact of a big\ncat with the public in violation of this section shall constitute a\nseparate offense.\n  4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict\nveterinary examination, treatment or care of a big cat or transportation\nof the animal for such purpose.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 17-0507 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 17 / Title 5 / Section 17-0507
Prohibition against modification of wastes discharged through existing outlet or point source without permit
Status: in_force

§ 17-0507. Prohibition against modification of wastes discharged through\n             existing outlet or point source without permit.\n  Increasing or altering the content of the wastes discharged through an\noutlet or a point source into the waters of the state by a change in\nvolume or physical, chemical or biological characteristics without a\nSPDES permit so to do as provided by section 17-0701 or title 8 hereof,\nor standards, criteria, limitations, rules or regulations promulgated or\napplied pursuant thereto, is prohibited.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3608 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 1 / Section 3608
Certificate of apportionment by commissioner of education
Status: in_force

§ 3608. Certificate of apportionment by commissioner of education.  As\nsoon as possible after the making of any annual or general or\nsupplemental apportionment, the commissioner of education shall certify\nit, or cause it to be certified, to the district superintendents, city\ntreasurer or chamberlain of each city school district of a city having\none hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the\nlatest federal census, the city school district treasurer of every other\ncity school district, and the treasurer, if there be one, otherwise to\nthe disbursing officer or collector of each school district included in\nsuch apportionment.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4163 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 41 / Title 5 / Section 4163
Penalties
Status: in_force

§ 4163. Penalties. Any person who shall release information which\nmight disclose the identity of the pregnant person in connection with a\ncertificate of pregnancy loss or report of pregnancy loss in violation\nof the provisions of this title shall be subject to a civil penalty not\nto exceed five thousand dollars for each such release. Such penalty may\nbe recovered in the same manner as the penalty provided in section\ntwelve of this chapter.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 21-0503 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 21 / Title 5 / Section 21-0503
Commissioners
Status: in_force

§ 21-0503. Commissioners.\n  1. The Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the\nsenate, appoint four commissioners to the interstate environmental\ncommission created by the tri-state compact, each of whom shall be a\nresident voter of the state of New York. The Commissioner of\nEnvironmental Conservation, and each of his successors in such office,\nalso shall be a commissioner of the interstate environmental commission.\nEach commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been\nappointed and qualified. The commissioners serving on the effective date\nof this article shall continue in office until the expiration of their\nterms, or until their successors have qualified, or until otherwise\nceasing to be commissioners pursuant to law. The Commissioner of\nEnvironmental Conservation may appoint a member of his department to act\nas his statutory representative on the commission.\n  2. At the expiration of the term of each appointive commissioner and\nof each succeeding appointive commissioner, the Governor shall, by and\nwith the advice and consent of the senate, appoint a successor who shall\nhold office for a term of four years or until his successor has been\nappointed and qualified. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the\noffice of an appointive commissioner by death, resignation or otherwise,\nthe Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate,\nappoint a successor, who shall hold office for the unexpired term. Any\ncommissioner may be removed upon charges and after hearing by the\nGovernor. The commissioners shall have the powers and duties, and be\nsubject to the limitations provided for in the compact and applicable\nlaws of this state. The commissioners shall serve without compensation,\nbut shall be paid their actual expenses incurred and incident to the\nperformance of their duties.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 1336 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 13 / Title 5 / Section 1336
Certain businesses prohibited; enforcement; violation
Status: in_force

§ 1336. Certain businesses prohibited; enforcement; violation.  1. All\ndepartments of health or the commissioner or commissioners thereof in\nany incorporated city of this state shall have power to enforce the\nprovisions of section thirteen hundred thirty-five of this chapter.\n  2. Any person violating the provisions of section thirteen hundred\nthirty-five of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of\na misdemeanor.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 1343 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 13 / Title 5 / Section 1343
Exclusion, ejection of certain persons
Status: in_force

§ 1343. Exclusion, ejection of certain persons. 1. A gaming facility\nlicensee may exclude or eject from its gaming facility any person who is\nknown to it to have been convicted of a crime or disorderly conduct\ncommitted in or on the premises of any gaming facility.\n  2. Nothing in this section or in any other law of this state shall\nlimit the right of a gaming facility licensee to exercise its common law\nright to exclude or eject permanently from its gaming facility any\nperson who disrupts the operations of its premises, threatens the\nsecurity of its premises or its occupants, or is disorderly or\nintoxicated.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 15-0516 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 15 / Title 5 / Section 15-0516
Inspection report of dam safety
Status: in_force

§ 15-0516. Inspection report of dam safety.\n  1. Within thirty days of the creation by the department of any\ninspection report of any intermediate or high hazard dam, the department\nshall provide, to the chief executive officer of a municipality in which\nthe dam is located, a copy of such report. Such report shall also be\nfurnished to the chief executive officer of any other municipality in\nthe county where the dam is located, or any county adjoining such county\nupon written request of the chief executive officer of such\nmunicipality.\n  2. For the purposes of this section, the term "chief executive\nofficer" shall mean:\n  (a) for the purposes of a village or city, the mayor of such village\nor city;\n  (b) for the purposes of a town, the supervisor of such town;\n  (c) for the purposes of a county, the chairperson of the county\nlegislature or board of supervisors, or, if there be one, the county\nexecutive.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1114-N — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 5-A / Section 1114-N
Actions against the authority
Status: in_force

* § 1114-n. Actions against the authority. 1. Except in an action for\nwrongful death, no action or proceeding shall be prosecuted or\nmaintained against the authority for personal injury or damage to real\nor personal property alleged to have been sustained by reason of the\nnegligence or wrongful act of the authority or any member, officer,\nagent or employee thereof, unless:\n  (a) a notice of claim shall have been made and served upon the\nauthority within the time limit by and in compliance with section\nfifty-e of the general municipal law;\n  (b) it shall appear by and as an allegation in the complaint or moving\npapers that at least thirty days have elapsed since the service of such\nnotice and that adjustment or payment thereof has been neglected or\nrefused;\n  (c) the action or proceeding shall be commenced within one year and\nninety days after the happening of the event upon which the claim is\nbased; and\n  (d) An action against the authority for wrongful death shall be\ncommenced in accordance with the notice of claim and time limitation\nprovisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.\n  2. Wherever a notice of claim is served upon the authority, it shall\nhave the right to demand an examination of the claimant relative to the\noccurrence and extent of the injuries or damages for which claim is\nmade, in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-h of the\ngeneral municipal law.\n  3. The authority may require any person presenting for settlement an\naccount or claim for any cause whatsoever against the authority to be\nsworn before a member, counsel, or an attorney, officer or employee\nthereof designated for such purpose, concerning such account or claim\nand when so sworn, to answer orally as to any facts relative to such\naccount or claim. The authority shall have power to settle or adjust all\nclaims in favor of or against the authority.\n  4. The rate of interest to be paid by the authority or water board\nupon any judgment for which it is liable, other than a judgment against\nthe authority on its bonds, shall not exceed the rate of interest on\njudgments and accrued claims against municipal corporations as provided\nin the general municipal law from time to time. Interest on payments of\nprincipal or interest on any bonds in default shall accrue at the rate\nborne by such bonds from the date thereof until paid or otherwise\nsatisfied.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1114-n's\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4160 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 41 / Title 5 / Section 4160
Pregnancy loss; reporting
Status: in_force

§ 4160. Pregnancy loss; reporting. 1. Pregnancy loss is defined as the\nloss of a pregnancy at any gestation, as confirmed by a health care\nprovider licensed pursuant to title eight of the education law and\nacting within such health care provider's scope of practice, including\nspontaneous miscarriage, still birth, or any termination of pregnancy\nwhich is consistent with the requirements of article twenty-five-A of\nthis chapter.\n  2. A pregnancy loss caused by spontaneous miscarriage or still birth\nshall be registered within seventy-two hours of the pregnancy loss by\nelectronically filing directly with the department of health, a report\nof such loss.\n  * 3. A pregnancy loss due to an induced termination of pregnancy shall\nbe registered within seventy-two hours of such pregnancy loss if the\nindividual experiencing the pregnancy loss requests such registration to\nfacilitate disposition of the products of conception in accordance with\nsection forty-one hundred sixty-two of this title, by filing directly\nwith the department of health, a report of such loss. Such report shall\nbe limited to the information strictly necessary to facilitate\ndisposition.\n  * NB Effective until March 30, 2027\n  * 3. A pregnancy loss due to an induced termination of pregnancy shall\nbe registered within seventy-two hours of such pregnancy loss if the\nindividual experiencing the pregnancy loss requests such registration to\nfacilitate disposition of the products of conception in accordance with\nsection forty-one hundred sixty-two of this title, by electronically\nfiling directly with the department of health, a report of such loss.\nSuch report shall be limited to the information strictly necessary to\nfacilitate disposition.\n  * NB Effective March 30, 2027\n  4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the disclosure\nof information filed pursuant to this section shall be limited to the\nindividual who experienced the pregnancy loss, such individual's lawful\nrepresentative and to authorized personnel of the department. Nothing in\nthis section shall prohibit disclosure of deidentified information in\ncompliance with federal reporting requirements.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 94 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 3 / Title 5 / Section 94
Federal donated commodities
Status: in_force

§ 94.  Federal donated commodities. 1.  (a)  Until his social services\ndistrict has been included in the food stamp distribution program or\nprograms under section ninety-five, each commissioner of social services\nis authorized and required, in accordance with regulations of the\ndepartment, to assist needy families and individuals of his social\nservices district to obtain federal donated commodities for their use,\nby certifying, when such is the case, that they are eligible to receive\nsuch commodities, and by distributing such commodities to eligible\nfamilies and individuals.  However, only those who are receiving or are\neligible for public assistance or care and such others as may qualify in\naccordance with federal requirements and standards promulgated by the\ndepartment shall be certified as eligible to receive such commodities.\n  (b)  Each commissioner of social services shall develop and submit to\nthe department for its approval a plan describing his district's\noperations under this section, which plan shall accord with federal and\nstate requirements.\n  2.  Federal donated commodities shall not be deemed or construed to be\npublic assistance and care or a substitute, in whole or in part,\ntherefor; and the receipt of such commodities by eligible families and\nindividuals shall not subject them, their legally responsible relatives,\ntheir property or their estates to any demand, claim or liability on\naccount thereof.\n  3.  A person's need or eligibility for public assistance or care shall\nnot be affected by his receipt of federal donated commodities.\n  4.  Any inconsistent provisions of law notwithstanding, expenditures\nmade by social services districts for the purpose of certifying\neligibility of needy families and individuals for federal donated\ncommodities and for distributing such commodities to them shall be\ndeemed to be expenditures for the administration of public assistance\nand care and shall be subject to reimbursement by the state in\naccordance with the provisions of section one hundred fifty-three to the\nextent of one hundred percentum thereof.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 5-511 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 5-511
Usurious contracts void
Status: in_force

§ 5-511. Usurious contracts void. 1. All bonds, bills, notes,\nassurances, conveyances, all other contracts or securities whatsoever,\nexcept bottomry and respondentia bonds and contracts, and all deposits\nof goods or other things whatsoever, whereupon or whereby there shall be\nreserved or taken, or secured or agreed to be reserved or taken, any\ngreater sum, or greater value, for the loan or forbearance of any money,\ngoods or other things in action, than is prescribed in section 5-501,\nshall be void, except that the knowingly taking, receiving, reserving or\ncharging such a greater sum or greater value by a savings bank, a\nsavings and loan association or a federal savings and loan association\nshall only be held and adjudged a forfeiture of the entire interest\nwhich the loan or obligation carries with it or which has been agreed to\nbe paid thereon. If a greater sum or greater value has been paid, the\nperson paying the same or his legal representative may recover from the\nsavings bank, the savings and loan association or the federal savings\nand loan association twice the entire amount of the interest thus paid.\n  2. Except as provided in subdivision one, whenever it shall\nsatisfactorily appear by the admissions of the defendant, or by proof,\nthat any bond, bill, note, assurance, pledge, conveyance, contract,\nsecurity or any evidence of debt, has been taken or received in\nviolation of the foregoing provisions, the court shall declare the same\nto be void, and enjoin any prosecution thereon, and order the same to be\nsurrendered and cancelled.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 71-0505 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 71 / Title 5 / Section 71-0505
Suits and prosecution
Status: in_force

§ 71-0505. Suits and prosecution.\n  1. The commissioner shall have the power to bring actions suits or\nproceedings as in his judgment may be necessary or proper to perform any\nof the powers, functions or duties imposed upon him or upon the\ndepartment or any division thereof by any of the provisions of this\nchapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 15 inclusive\nand title 33 of this article or to prevent the violation by any person,\npublic or private, of any of the provisions thereof; and shall have the\npower to defend such actions, suits or proceedings as may arise through\nthe performance of any of the powers, duties or functions imposed upon\nhim or upon the department or any division thereof.\n  2. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, when requested by the\ndepartment, to appoint an Assistant Attorney General, and such\nassistants as may be necessary and assign them to the department.  Such\nAssistant Attorney General and assistants shall receive salaries, to be\nfixed by the Attorney General within the appropriation therefor. It\nshall be the duty of such assistant, in the name of the Attorney\nGeneral, to conduct all prosecutions for penalties imposed by the\nprovisions of this chapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5\nthrough 15 inclusive and title 33 of this article and to bring all\nactions, suits and proceedings, which the department shall be authorized\nto institute and maintain, and to defend all actions, suits and\nproceedings brought against the department, its officers or employees of\nor on account of any act or any thing done by the said department, its\nofficers or employees when such act or thing was, in the opinion of the\nAttorney General, done in the discharge of any official duty or in\nreasonable exercise of authority.\n  3. No action, suit or proceeding in which the title to lands of the\nstate in forest preserve counties shall be involved shall be withdrawn\nor discontinued, nor shall judgment therein against the state be entered\non consent except on special permission of the court and after\napplication made in open court, on which application all the terms and\nconditions of the settlement shall be fully stated in writing and the\nreasons therefor set forth at length.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-A — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5 / Section 410-A
Day care; when department to furnish
Status: in_force

§ 410-a. Day care; when department to furnish. Any inconsistent\nprovision of law notwithstanding, if and so long as federal funds are\navailable for the care provided pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection, and to the extent of such funds and state funds appropriated or\nmade available therefor, the department shall be authorized to provide\nday care, through appropriate arrangements and cooperative agreements\nwith the state departments of education and agriculture and markets,\napproved by the director of the budget, in public schools operated by\nschool districts and in facilities operated by or for the state\ndepartment of agriculture and markets for children who are receiving\nfamily assistance or who are former or   potential recipients of such\naid in accordance with the regulations of the department, including only\nsuch children who are in pre-kindergarten programs of such schools or\nwho are children of migrant workers.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3621 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 2 / Section 3621
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 3621. Definitions. As used in this part and subdivision seven of\nsection thirty-six hundred two of this article:\n  1. "School district" means common school districts, to the extent that\nthey provide transportation of students in grades seven through twelve\nto a school outside the district, consolidated school districts, central\nschool districts, central high school districts, union free school\ndistricts, except special act school districts as defined in section\nfour thousand one of this chapter, and city school districts.\nNotwithstanding any provision contained in this chapter to the contrary,\nthe transportation aid provided, pursuant to subdivision seven of\nsection thirty-six hundred two of this article and this part shall not\nbe apportioned and paid to any school district not maintaining a home\nschool, or to a common school for pupils in kindergarten through grade\nsix.\n  2. a. "Pupil" means a child for whom transportation aid is paid and\nwho lives more than one and one-half miles from the school which he or\nshe attends, measured by the nearest available road to such school, or a\nchild who lives more than one mile from an approved route, measured by\nthe nearest available road to such route, and also lives more than one\nand one-half miles from the school which he or she attends. Nothing\ncontained in this subdivision shall be deemed to require a school\ndistrict to furnish transportation to a child who, if a student in an\nelementary grade, lives less than two miles or, if a student in an\nacademic grade, lives less than three miles from the school which he or\nshe attends, measured by the nearest available road. "Pupil" also means\na child living more than one and one-half miles from the school which he\nor she attends who is transported between home and school by a regional\nor joint transportation system. "Pupil" also means a child of a pupil\nlegally attending an elementary or secondary school who receives\ntransportation pursuant to paragraph f of subdivision one of section\nthirty-six hundred thirty-five of this article and who lives more than\none and one-half miles from the school which his or her parent attends,\nmeasured by the nearest available road to such school, or such a child\nwho lives more than one mile from an approved route, measured by the\nnearest available road to such route, and also lives more than one and\none-half miles from the school which his or her parent legally attends.\n  b. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision,\nany school district which provides transportation pursuant to an order\nof the commissioner, dated the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred\nseventy-eight, for pupils attending grades kindergarten through four who\nlive more than eight-tenths of a mile but less than one and one-half\nmiles from the school they legally attend shall be entitled to an\napportionment on the cost of such transportation pursuant to subdivision\nseven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article.\n  c. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision,\nany school district which provides transportation pursuant to an order\nof the commissioner, dated the nineteenth day of August, nineteen\nhundred seventy-seven, for elementary pupils who live more than\neight-tenths of a mile but less than one and one-half miles from the\nschool they legally attend, or such other distance as the board of\neducation may establish with the prior approval of the commissioner,\nshall be entitled to an apportionment on the cost of such transportation\npursuant to subdivision seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this\narticle.\n  3. "Route" means a highway or highways over and upon which a school\nbus regularly travels in accordance with a schedule maintained for the\ntransportation of pupils from their homes to school.\n  4. "Total annual mileage" means the actual mileage for all purposes\nattributable to district-owned school buses for the school year period\nof July first through June thirtieth, based on odometer readings,\nincluding mileage for school buses disposed of during the July first\nthrough June thirtieth period.\n  5. "Total annual allowable mileage" means the actual mileage for\ntransporting pupils to and from school once daily over scheduled routes\nattributable to district-owned or leased school buses for the school\nyear period of July first through June thirtieth, based odometer\nreadings, including mileage for school buses disposed of during the July\nfirst through June thirtieth period.\n  6. "School bus" means any vehicle or other means of conveyance used\nfor the purpose of transporting pupils.\n  7. "Storage" means any school bus garage facilities or sites which may\nbe approved by the commissioner.\n  8. "Regional or joint transportation system" means a transportation\nsystem in which a school district participates pursuant to a contract\nexecuted in accordance with paragraph h of subdivision twenty-five of\nsection seventeen hundred nine of this chapter.\n  9. "District share of the cost of regional or joint transportation\nsystems" shall mean the share of the cost of such transportation\nprorated among all the school district or districts and board or boards\nof cooperative educational services participating in the regional or\njoint transportation, as determined in accordance with regulations\npromulgated by the commissioner, provided that in no case shall there be\nany deduction made in determining transportation aid on the basis of bus\nmileage travelled in transporting children pursuant to a contract\nexecuted in accordance with paragraph h of subdivision twenty-five of\nsection seventeen hundred nine of this chapter and provided that\ntransportation aid for jointly operated transportation system shall be\ndetermined in the same manner as for individual school districts.\n  10. School bus stop-arm. The term "school bus stop-arm" means an\nauxiliary device conforming to the standards established by the\ncommissioner pursuant to subdivision twenty-one-c of section three\nhundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.\n  11. School bus back up beeper. The term "school bus back up beeper"\nmeans an auxiliary device conforming to the standards established by the\ncommissioner pursuant to subdivision twenty-one-d of section three\nhundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.\n  12. School bus front crossing arm. The term "school bus front crossing\narm" means an auxiliary device conforming to the standards established\nby the commissioner pursuant to subdivision twenty-one-e of section\nthree hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.\n  13. School bus safety sensor device. The term "school bus safety\nsensor device" means an auxiliary device conforming to the standards\nestablished by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision twenty-one-f of\nsection three hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.\n  14. "Exterior reflective markings" shall mean the exterior reflective\nmarking required to be attached to school buses pursuant to subdivision\ntwenty-one-h of section three hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and\ntraffic law.\n  15. School bus engine fire suppression system. The term "school bus\nengine fire suppression system" shall mean an auxiliary device required\nto be installed pursuant to subdivision twenty-one-i of section three\nhundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law and which conforms\nto standards established by the commissioner of transportation pursuant\nto such subdivision.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 576-B — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 576-B
Performance of certain clinical laboratory services upon request
Status: in_force

§ 576-b. Performance of certain clinical laboratory services upon\nrequest. 1. A clinical laboratory may perform a clinical laboratory\nservice (including accepting a specimen or assignment for examination\nand rendering a report), that it is otherwise allowed to perform, upon\nthe request of the person on whom the service is to be performed and\nrender a report directly to the person, where the service is for the\nsame purpose as a test or collection device that has been approved or\ncleared by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States\nDepartment of Health and Human Services for sale or distribution to the\npublic on a direct or over-the-counter basis without a prescription from\na qualified health care practitioner.\n  2. All services conducted pursuant to this section shall comply with\nthe standards for testing established by the department and with any\nother laws of this state, including requirements for confidentiality and\npre-test and post-test counseling.\n  3. The results of any test conducted pursuant to this section shall be\nprovided only to the person who requested the test. Such results shall\nbe provided in a clear and concise manner that is understandable by lay\npersons and that identifies results indicating the need for referral to\na physician or other qualified health care practitioner.\n  4. Nothing in this section shall authorize a clinical laboratory to\nengage in the practice of any health care profession under title eight\nof the education law. The report issued to a person for a test conducted\npursuant to this section shall contain a clear statement, presented in a\nprominent manner, to the effect that the report should not be viewed as\nmedical advice and is not meant to replace direct communication with a\nphysician or other health care practitioner.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 1194 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 1194
Foreclosure of tax lien as in an action to foreclose a mortgage
Status: in_force

§ 1194. Foreclosure of tax lien as in an action to foreclose a\nmortgage.  1. Upon the expiration of the redemption period prescribed by\nlaw, the purchaser of a delinquent tax lien, or its successors or\nassigns, may foreclose the lien as in an action to foreclose a mortgage.\nThe procedure in such action shall be the procedure prescribed by\narticle thirteen of the real property actions and proceedings law for\nthe foreclosure of mortgages, except as herein otherwise provided. The\ncomplaint in any such action shall be duly verified. At any time\nfollowing the commencement of an action to foreclose a lien, the amount\nrequired to redeem the lien, or the amount received upon sale of a\nproperty, shall include reasonable attorneys' fees, legal costs,\nallowances and disbursements.\n  2. In addition to the parties named in section thirteen hundred eleven\nof the real property actions and proceedings law, the owners of all tax\nliens upon the real property concerned and all tax districts having a\nright to assess such real property may be made parties defendant.\n  3. Where the defendants personally served with the summons and\ncomplaint are not infants, incompetents, conservatees or non-residents\nof the state, and do not appear or answer, judgment by default may be\ntaken without application to the court.\n  4. In all other cases, including those where a defendant is an infant,\nincompetent or conservatee and has put in a general answer by his or her\nguardian, committee or conservator, or where any of the defendants are\nnon-residents of the state, judgment may be entered upon application to\nthe court, but the court shall take proof of the facts and circumstances\nstated in the complaint and ascertain and determine the amount due\nwithout reference, unless the plaintiff apply for reference.\n  5. The plaintiff shall include and join in one action all tax liens on\nthe same real property or any part thereof which are held by the\nplaintiff and which are subject to foreclosure as provided in this\narticle. The plaintiff may include and join in one action all tax liens\nheld by the plaintiff, although imposed upon separate and distinct\nparcels of real property; provided, however, that the description of the\nparticular parcels upon which such tax liens have been imposed are\ndistinctly set forth in separate paragraphs of the complaint, and such\nparcels shall be separately sold in such action; and provided, further,\nthat any defendant having an interest in or lien upon one or more\nseparate parcels so joined shall have the absolute right to a severance\nof the action as to such parcel or parcels upon written demand filed\nwith or made a part of his or her answer. The state and any tax district\nthereof having a lien for taxes or other lawful charges on the real\nproperty described in the complaint which arises before the filing of\nthe notice of pendency may be made defendants, and the nature of their\nrespective interests shall be specifically stated.\n  6. It shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to plead or prove the\nvarious steps, procedures and notices for the levy of the tax sought to\nbe foreclosed, other than to allege the nature and amount of the tax and\nthat the same was duly levied, but all such acts, procedures and notices\nshall be presumed to be valid unless questioned by an answer duly filed.\nA defendant who has a tax lien evidenced by a certificate of sale or\nother written instrument shall include in his or her answer a copy of\nsuch instrument and a statement of the interest, penalties and other\nlegal charges due on account thereof. A defendant alleging any\njurisdictional defect or invalidity in the tax or the sale thereof shall\nparticularly specify in his or her answer such jurisdictional defect or\ninvalidity and shall affirmatively establish such defense. Every answer\nshall be duly verified.\n  7. The court shall have full power to determine and enforce in all\nrespects the priorities, rights, claims and demands of the several\nparties to such action, including the priorities, rights, claims and\ndemands of the defendants as between themselves, and to direct a sale of\nsuch real property and the distribution or other disposition of the\nproceeds of the sale, except as otherwise provided in this article. Any\nparty to the action may become the purchaser at any such sale.\n  9. After the payment of all legal costs, including reasonable\nattorneys' fees, allowances and disbursements, the tax liens shall be\npaid in the order of priority as listed and determined in the judgment\npursuant to subdivision seven of this section. All parties to the action\nwho are the owners of tax liens affecting such real property, equal in\nright, shall be paid from the proceeds of the sale, so far as the\nproceeds suffice to pay the same, the amounts of their respective liens\nin the ratio to which the amount of the tax lien of each such party\nbears to the sum available for distribution as herein provided.\n  10. The conveyance made pursuant to a judgment in any action brought\nunder this title shall vest in the purchaser all right, title, interest,\nclaim, lien and equity of redemption in and against the real property\nsold of all parties to the action, and of all persons whose right,\ntitle, interest, claim, lien or equity of redemption has accrued\nsubsequent in time to the filing of the notice of the pendency of the\naction by assignment of an interest existing prior thereto from one of\nthe parties to the action or any or either of them. All such parties and\npersons shall be barred and forever foreclosed by the judgment in such\naction of all right, title, interest, claim, lien and equity of\nredemption in and to the real property sold or any part thereof, except\nthat the conveyance shall be subject to all taxes or other legal charges\nof all tax districts which accrued subsequent to the taxes or other\nlegal charges which were the subject of the action. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of subdivision two of section thirteen hundred fifty-four of\nthe real property actions and proceedings law, this subdivision shall\nprevail.\n  11. Where a party to the action or a prospective purchaser seeks to\ninspect the real property prior to the conveyance in order to ascertain\nwhether, and to what extent, it is environmentally impaired, and\npermission to enter has been refused, such party or prospective\npurchaser may petition the court for license to so enter. The motion and\naffidavits, if any, shall state the facts making such entry necessary,\nand the date or dates on which entry is sought. Such license shall be\ngranted by the court in an appropriate case upon such terms as justice\nrequires. If the property is redeemed prior to conveyance, the licensee\nshall be liable to the owner for any actual damages occurring as a\nresult of the entry.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-M — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5-A / Section 410-M
Fees and charges
Status: in_force

§ 410-m.  Fees and charges.  The commissioner may, by regulation,\nestablish and charge to eligible borrowers such fees and charges for\ninspection, regulation, supervision and audit as to the commissioner may\nappear just and reasonable in order to recover the departmental costs in\nperforming these functions.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 15-0503 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 15 / Title 5 / Section 15-0503
Protection of water bodies; permit
Status: in_force

§ 15-0503. Protection of water bodies; permit.\n  1. Except as provided in subdivision 3 of this section\n  a. No dam shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed or repaired by\nany person or local public corporation without a permit issued pursuant\nto subdivision 2 of this section. As used in this section, and section\n15-0511 of this title, "dam" means any artificial barrier including any\nearthen barrier, together with its appurtenant works, which impounds or\nwill impound waters, provided it has (1) a height equal to or greater\nthan fifteen feet or (2) a maximum impoundment capacity equal to or\ngreater than three million gallons; except that for purposes of this\nsection a dam shall not include any structure which has (i) a height\nequal to or less than six feet regardless of the structure's impoundment\ncapacity, or (ii) an impoundment capacity not exceeding one million\ngallons regardless of the structure's height.\n  b. Except where a lease or other appropriate conveyance of an interest\nauthorizing the use and occupancy of state-owned lands underwater has\nbeen obtained from the commissioner of general services pursuant to\nsubdivision seven of section seventy-five of the public lands law, no\ndock, wharf, platform, breakwater, mooring, or other structure in, on or\nabove waters shall be erected, placed, constructed, reconstructed, or\nexpanded after the effective date of this paragraph by any person or\nlocal public corporation without a permit issued pursuant to subdivision\n2 of this section. The term "reconstructed" as used in relation to\ndocks, wharves, platforms, breakwaters, mooring or other structures\npursuant to this paragraph shall mean the substantial rebuilding of\nstructures or facilities and shall not apply to ordinary maintenance or\nrepair of existing functional structures or facilities, such as\nrepainting, redriving pilings or replacing broken boards in docks.\n  c. A city, town, village or county may submit to the commissioner a\nlocal law or ordinance regulating docks or other structures as described\nin paragraph b of this subdivision. The commissioner shall review such\nlaw or ordinance to determine whether it provides environmental\nprotection comparable to, or greater than, the provisions of such\nparagraph and any regulations promulgated thereunder. If the\ncommissioner determines that the local law or ordinance submitted meets\nsuch requirements, the commissioner may delegate, upon such terms and\nconditions as he or she deems appropriate, to the local government the\nauthority to administer the permit program and to charge a fee for\npermit processing. Any delegation may be revoked by the commissioner if\nhe or she finds that the local government has failed to carry out the\nprogram in accordance with the terms of the delegation.\n  2. Permits. a. Before granting a permit, a permit renewal or a permit\nmodification pursuant to this section, the department shall ascertain\nthe probable effect on the health, safety and welfare of the people of\nthe state, and the effect on the natural resources of the state likely\nto result from the proposed project or work.\n  b. The department shall review the permit application or request for\nrenewal or modification of an existing permit and may approve the manner\nand extent to which the waters of the state or the banks and shore\nthereof will be affected by the proposed project or work and may grant\nor deny the permit or request, or may grant the permit or request with\nsuch conditions as might appear necessary to safeguard life, property\nand natural resources during and after the execution of the proposed\nproject or work.\n  c. The rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner to implement\nthis section and the provisions of article 70 of this chapter and rules\nand regulations adopted thereunder shall govern permit applications,\nrenewals, modifications, suspensions and revocations under this section.\n  d. The requirements of this section shall be in addition to those\nspecified in sections 15-0501 and 15-0505 of this title, provided\nhowever, that the department may, by rule and regulation, provide that\nonly one application for a permit or request for renewal or modification\nof an existing permit need be filed when the proposed project or work\nrequires a department permit under this section and any other section of\nthis title.\n  3. The requirement of a permit pursuant to this section shall not\napply to the following facilities:\n  a. A dock, pier, wharf or other structure used solely as a landing\nplace on water providing dockage for five or fewer boats and\nencompassing within its outer perimeter an area less than four thousand\nsquare feet;\n  b. A mooring facility providing mooring for fewer than ten boats;\n  c. Seasonal replacement or reinstallation of structures referenced and\nlisted in paragraph b of subdivision 1 of this section installed prior\nto the effective date of this paragraph.\n  4. The design, preparation of plans, estimates and specifications and\nthe supervision of the erection, construction, reconstruction and repair\nof all the structures hereinbefore referred to shall be done by a\nlicensed professional engineer, or in the case of farm ponds for which a\npermit is required, by an engineer or conservationist employed by a\ngovernmental agency cooperating with a soil conservation district, or by\nan engineer employed by the department.\n  5. Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other chapter or law\nto the contrary, no reservoirs for any purpose shall hereafter be\nconstructed on the Upper Hudson River in the Adirondack park between\nLuzerne and the river's source; the Boreas river from its mouth to\nDurgin Brook; the Indian river from its mouth to Abanakee Dam; and the\nCedar river from its mouth to Cedar River Flow, by the state or by any\nriver regulating board.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3618 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 5 / Section 3618
Defense and indemnification
Status: in_force

§ 3618. Defense and indemnification. The corporation shall not execute\nany of its powers, including the special powers authorized by section\nthirty-six hundred six of this title, except as necessary to commence\nits corporate existence, until the town by local resolution has elected\nto make the provision of section eighteen of the public officers law\napplicable to employees of the corporation (as such term is defined in\nsection eighteen of the public officers law) pursuant to subdivision two\nof such section; provided, however, that nothing contained within this\nsection shall be deemed to permit the corporation to extend the\nprovisions of section eighteen of the public officers law upon any\nindependent contractor.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 509-J — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 19-A / Section 509-J
Compliance required
Status: in_force

§ 509-j. Compliance required. (a) Every motor carrier, its officers,\nagents, representatives, and employees responsible for the management,\nmaintenance, operation or driving of motor vehicles, or the hiring,\nsupervising, training, assigning, or dispatching of drivers, shall be\ninstructed in and comply with this article.\n  (b) Nothing contained herein shall prevent a motor carrier or\npolitical subdivision from imposing qualifications that are more\nstringent than those contained in this article or from disqualifying a\nperson who has been issued a conditional or restricted use license\npursuant to the provisions of article twenty-one or twenty-one-A of this\nchapter.\n  (c) Every motor carrier shall submit an affidavit to the commissioner\nattesting to compliance with this article. Such affidavit shall be\nsubmitted annually, in a manner prescribed by regulations of the\ncommissioner, and shall include as an attachment thereto a copy of the\nreport required by subdivision seven of section five hundred nine-d of\nthis chapter.\n  (d) Notwithstanding any provision of any other article of this law,\nwhere an affidavit is not submitted pursuant to this section, the\ncommissioner may, in his discretion, suspend the registration of the\nvehicle or the vehicles or deny registration or renewal to the vehicle\nor vehicles owned or operated by the motor carrier or suspend the motor\ncarrier's privilege of operation in this state. Such suspension or\ndenial shall only remain in effect as long as the motor carrier fails to\nsubmit such affidavit.\n  (e) The commissioner or any person deputized by the commissioner, may\nrequire any motor carrier to pay to the people of this state a civil\npenalty, if after the motor carrier has had an opportunity to be heard,\nthe commissioner finds that the motor carrier has violated any provision\nof this article or regulations promulgated therein, or has made any\nfalse statement or misrepresentation on any affidavit of compliance\nfiled with the commissioner or with respect to violations of paragraphs\n(i) and (ii) of subdivision one, paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision\ntwo, and subdivisions three, four and five of section five hundred\nnine-d, section five hundred nine-g, section five hundred nine-h and\nsubdivision two of section five hundred nine-l of this article the\ncommissioner may in lieu of or in addition to a civil penalty suspend\nall of a motor carrier's registrations. Any civil penalty assessed for a\nfirst violation shall not be less than five hundred dollars nor greater\nthan two thousand five hundred dollars for each violation, false\nstatement or representation found to have been made or committed, and\nfor a second or subsequent violation, not arising out of the same\nincident, all of which were committed within a period of eighteen\nmonths, shall not be less than five hundred dollars nor greater than\nfive thousand dollars for each violation, false statement or\nrepresentation found to have been made or committed. If the registrant\nfails to pay such penalty within twenty days after the mailing of such\norder, postage prepaid, certified and addressed to the last known place\nof business of such registrant, unless such order is stayed by an order\nof a court of competent jurisdiction, the commissioner may revoke the\nvehicle registrations or out of state registration privilege of\noperation in the state of such motor carrier or may suspend the same for\nsuch periods as the commissioner may determine. Civil penalties assessed\nunder this subdivision shall be paid to the commissioner for deposit\ninto the state treasury, and unpaid civil penalties may be recovered by\nthe commissioner in a civil action in the name of the commissioner.\n  (f) As an alternative to civil action under subdivision (e) of this\nsection and provided that no proceeding for judicial review shall then\nbe pending and the time for initiation of such proceeding shall have\nexpired, the commissioner may file with the county clerk of the county\nin which the registrant is located a final order of the commissioner\ncontaining the amount of the penalty assessed. The filing of such final\norder shall have the same force and effect as a judgment duly docketed\nin the office of a county clerk and may be enforced in the same manner\nand with the same effect as that provided by law.\n  (g) Upon the suspension of a vehicle registration pursuant to\nsubdivision (d) or (e) of this section, the commissioner shall have the\nauthority to deny a registration or renewal application to any other\nperson for the same vehicle and may deny a registration or renewal\napplication for any other motor vehicle registered in the name of the\napplicant where the commissioner has reasonable grounds to believe that\nsuch registration or renewal will have the effect of defeating the\npurposes of this article. Such suspension or denial shall remain in\neffect only as long as the suspension entered pursuant to subdivision\n(d) or (e) of this section remains in effect.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 11-0535-A — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 11-0535-A
Illegal ivory articles and rhinoceros horns
Status: in_force

§ 11-0535-a. Illegal ivory articles and rhinoceros horns.\n  1. As used in this section:\n  a. "Distribute" means a transfer or change in possession with an\naccompanying change in legal ownership.\n  b. "Ivory article" means any item containing worked or raw ivory from\nany species of elephant or mammoth.\n  c. "Raw ivory" means any elephant or mammoth tusk, and any piece\nthereof, the surface of which, polished, or unpolished, is unaltered or\nminimally carved.\n  d. "Worked ivory" means any elephant or mammoth tusk, and any piece\nthereof, which is not raw ivory.\n  2. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision three of this section,\nno person shall sell, offer for sale, purchase, trade, barter or\ndistribute an ivory article or rhinoceros horn.\n  3. Unless such activity is prohibited by federal law, rule or\nregulation, the commissioner may issue licenses or permits for the sale,\noffering for sale, purchase, trading, bartering or distribution of ivory\narticles or rhinoceros horns, provided that:\n  a. the ivory article or rhinoceros horn is part of a bona fide antique\nand is less than twenty percent by volume of such antique, and the\nantique status of such antique is established by the owner or seller\nthereof with historical documentation evidencing provenance and showing\nthe antique to be not less then one hundred years old;\n  b. the distribution or change of possession of the ivory article or\nrhinoceros horn is for bona fide educational or scientific purposes, or\nto a museum chartered by the board of regents pursuant to the education\nlaw or to a museum authorized by a special charter from the legislature\nof this state; or\n  c. the distribution of the ivory article or rhinoceros horn is to a\nlegal beneficiary of a trust or to an heir or distributee of an estate;\nor\n  d. the ivory article or rhinoceros horn is part of a musical\ninstrument, including, without limitation, string and wind instruments\nand pianos, and the owner or seller provides historical documentation as\nthe department may require, demonstrating provenance and showing the\nitem was manufactured no later than nineteen hundred seventy-five.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 49-0503 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 49 / Title 5 / Section 49-0503
Establishment of state geological trail
Status: in_force

§ 49-0503. Establishment of state geological trail.\n  1. The commissioner, in cooperation with the commissioners of\ntransportation and economic development, shall establish a state\ngeological trail to include the areas, territories and sites designated\nby the commissioner pursuant to subdivision two of section 49-0501 of\nthis title. The purpose of such trail shall be to identify and promote\nsuch areas, territories and sites to the public, and promote the\neconomic, scientific, cultural and conservation aspects thereof.\n  2. To the greatest extent practicable, the state geological trail\nshall include areas and sites across the state going east and west, and\nnorth and south throughout the entire state. Consideration shall be\ngiven to having the designated portions of the state geological trail\nintersect at the city of Albany, in recognition of its importance in the\ngeology of the state. In designating the state geological trail\nconsideration shall also be given to scientific and/or scenic importance\nrelating to geological, and related cultural, ecological and\narcheological features.\n  3. In developing and approving such trail, the commissioner shall\nensure that proposed trail routes do not conflict with existing scenic\nbyways designated pursuant to section three hundred forty-nine-dd of the\nhighway law or wine trails designated pursuant to section three hundred\nforty-three-k of the highway law, and ensure that the trail route is\ndesigned and laid out so that it is relatively simple and easy to follow\nfor users and contains few branches or laterals that dead end.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-D — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5-A / Section 410-D
Short title: policy and purposes of title
Status: in_force

§ 410-d.  Short title: policy and purposes of title.  This title shall\nbe known, and may be cited and referred to, as the "Youth Facilities\nImprovement Act".\n  There is a serious shortage throughout the state of facilities\nsuitable for use for the care of children especially those of pre-school\nage and primary school age whose parents are unable to provide such care\nfor all or a substantial part of the day or post-school day.  A similar\nshortage of residential child care facilities also exists.  Existing day\ncare and residential child care facilities are overcrowded with long\nwaiting lists.  Many such facilities are so located that they are not\naccessible to families in need of such services.  The absence of\nadequate day care and residential child care facilities is contrary to\nthe interest of the people of the state, is detrimental to the health\nand welfare of the child and his parents and prevents the gainful\nemployment of persons, who are otherwise qualified, because of the need\nto provide such care in their home.\n  It is the purpose of this article to encourage the timely construction\nand equipment of such facilities with mortgage loan participation by the\nNew York state housing finance agency.  The provision of such facilities\nis hereby declared to be a public purpose which it is the policy of the\nstate to encourage.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 509-O — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 19-A / Section 509-O
Penalties
Status: in_force

§ 509-o. Penalties. Upon conviction for the violation of any provision\nof this article the court shall impose a sentence consisting of a fine\nof not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred fifty\ndollars.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-F — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-F
Construction and purchase contracts
Status: in_force

§ 1500-f. Construction and purchase contracts. The authority shall let\ncontracts for construction in the same manner, so far as practicable, as\nis provided by law for contracts of the city, including but not limited\nto section one hundred three of the general municipal law. Nothing in\nthis section shall be construed to limit the power of the authority to\ndo any construction directly by the officers, agents and employees of\nthe authority. Contracts for the purchase of supplies, material and\nequipment shall be let in the same manner as is provided by law for\ncontracts of the city.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3803 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 77 / Section 3803
Disposition of fines in case of joint district
Status: in_force

§ 3803. Disposition of fines in case of joint district.  Whenever a\npenalty or fine is imposed upon any school district officer for a\nviolation or omission of official duty, or upon any person for any act\nor omission within a school district, or touching property or the peace\nand good order of the district, and such penalty or fine is declared to\nbe for the use or benefit of the common schools of the town or of the\ncounty, and such school district lies in two or more towns or counties,\nthe town or county intended by the act shall be taken to be the one in\nwhich the schoolhouse, or the schoolhouse longest owned or held by the\ndistrict is at the time of such violation, act or omission.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 15-0509 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 15 / Title 5 / Section 15-0509
Bonds
Status: in_force

§ 15-0509. Bonds.\n  The department may require the posting of a bond by permittees\nconditioned upon compliance with the terms of permits issued pursuant to\nthe provisions of title 5 of this article.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3814 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 77 / Section 3814
Appeal to county judge
Status: in_force

§ 3814. Appeal to county judge.  1. Whenever any officer mentioned in\nsection thirty-eight hundred twelve shall have complied with the\nprovisions of such section and the meeting shall have refused to direct\nthe trustees or board of education to levy a tax for the payment of the\ncosts, charges and expenses claimed by him, such officer shall\nimmediately give notice to such meeting that he will appeal to the\ncounty judge of the county in which such district is located from the\nrefusal of said meeting to vote a tax for the payment of such claim.\n  2. Within ten days after the refusal of the meeting to allow such\nclaim such officer shall serve upon the clerk of the district or, if\nthere be no district clerk, upon the town clerk of the town, an itemized\nstatement of his claim, duly verified, together with a written notice\nthat on a certain day named therein such officer will present such claim\nto the county judge for settlement.\n  3. The clerk upon whom such notice and claim are served shall file the\nsame in his office and such notice and claim shall be subject to the\ninspection of any of the inhabitants of the school district.\n  4. The meeting at which notice of the intention of such officer to\nappeal to the county judge is given or any subsequent district meeting,\nduly called, may appoint one or more of the legal voters of such\ndistrict or authorize the trustee or board of education to employ\ncounsel to appear before the county judge at the time fixed for a\nhearing on such claim and protect the rights of the district upon such\nsettlement.  The expenses incurred in the performance of this duty shall\nbe a charge upon the district and the trustees or board of education\nupon a presentation of the account of such expenses with proper vouchers\ntherefor shall pay the same from any available funds in the district or\ninclude the necessary amount in a tax list to be levied upon the\ndistrict.\n  5. A refusal of the trustees or board of education to levy such tax\nfor the payment of such expenses shall be subject to an appeal to the\ncommissioner of education.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3602-B — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 1 / Section 3602-B
Apportionment of moneys to school districts employing fewer than eight teachers
Status: in_force

§ 3602-b. Apportionment of moneys to school districts employing fewer\nthan eight teachers. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each\nschool district of the state employing fewer than eight teachers shall\nreceive its apportionment of public money payable during the school year\ncommencing July first, nineteen hundred sixty-three and during\nsubsequent school years pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such\napportionment shall be computed by applying the state sharing ratio of\nthe district computed in the same manner as provided in section\nthirty-six hundred two of this article to the approved operating expense\nof the school district for operating purposes and for transportation.\n  a. Approved operating expense shall be for the year prior to the base\nyear as defined in section thirty-six hundred two of this article and\nshall be determined in the same manner provided in such section,\nprovided, however, that the amount so approved shall not exceed the sum\nof (1) four thousand five hundred dollars multiplied by the lesser of\nthe number of full-time teachers employed during such year prior to the\nbase year or seven and (2) weighted average daily attendance as defined\nin section thirty-six hundred two of this article for the base year\nmultiplied by the sum of sixty dollars plus an amount computed by\nmultiplying ninety cents by such weighted average daily attendance. Any\nsuch district employing three or more teachers shall be permitted to use\nthe weighted average daily attendance averaged over the three year\nperiod immediately preceding the current year as defined in section\nthirty-six hundred two of this article.\n  b. Approved transportation expense shall be for the base year and\nshall be determined in the same manner as provided in subdivision seven\nof section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.\n  2. If the local revenue provided by any such school district in the\ncurrent year, as defined in section thirty-six hundred two of this\narticle, inclusive of its local nonproperty tax receipts, is less than\nthe amount which could be raised by a tax at the rate specified in this\nsection on its actual valuation as defined in such section, the\napportionment for such current year shall be reduced by the amount which\nsuch local revenue is less than the amount which could be raised at such\nrate. The rate for the school year two thousand seven--two thousand\neight and thereafter shall be the local tax factor established pursuant\nto subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of this article.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 54-0511 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 54 / Title 5 / Section 54-0511
Loans for municipal landfill closure projects and municipal landfill gas management projects
Status: in_force

§ 54-0511.  Loans for municipal landfill closure projects and municipal\n             landfill gas management projects.\n  1. A municipality eligible for a state assistance payment pursuant to\nsubdivision two of section 54-0509 of this title and which has a\npopulation smaller than thirty-five hundred as determined by the current\nfederal decennial census is also eligible for a loan to a maximum of the\nunfunded portion of such project.\n  2. Loans pursuant to this title shall be without interest and for a\nterm not to exceed twenty years.\n  3. Loan repayments under this title shall be deposited to the credit\nof the environmental protection fund pursuant to subdivision two of\nsection ninety-two-s of the state finance law.\n  4. A municipality obtaining a loan under subdivision one of this\nsection shall enter into a contract with the commissioner. That contract\nshall contain the following provisions:\n  a. the loan shall be repaid in appropriate equal installments. There\nshall be a one percent per month surcharge for each month of delinquent\npayment added to any such installment tendered more than sixty days\nafter the due date.\n  b. in the event a municipality shall fail to make any payment due to\nthe state pursuant to this title, the commissioner shall certify to the\ncomptroller and notify the chairman of the assembly ways and means\ncommittee, the chairman of the senate finance committee, the director of\nthe division of the budget and the governing body of the municipality\nthat such municipality has failed to make such payment. Such certificate\nshall be in the form as may be determined by the commissioner provided\nsuch certificate shall specify the exact amount of principal and\nsurcharge required to satisfy such municipality's unpaid obligation. The\ncomptroller, upon receipt of such certificate from the commissioner,\nshall withhold from such municipality any state aid payable to it to the\nextent necessary to meet the certified amount of principal and surcharge\ndue the commissioner and shall immediately pay over to the environmental\nprotection fund the amount so withheld.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 912 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 4 / Title 5 / Section 912
Tax exemption and tax contract by the state
Status: in_force

§ 912. Tax exemption and tax contract by the state. 1. It is hereby\ndetermined that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of\nits purposes under this title are in all respects for the benefit of the\npeople of the state of New York and is a public purpose. Accordingly,\nthe authority shall be regarded as performing an essential governmental\nfunction in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this title,\nand the authority shall not be required to pay any fees, taxes, special\nad valorem levies or assessments of any kind, whether state or local,\nincluding but not limited to fees, taxes, special ad valorem levies or\nassessments on real property, franchise taxes, sales taxes or other\ntaxes, upon or with respect to any property owned by it or under its\njurisdiction, control or supervision, or upon the uses thereof, or upon\nor with respect to its activities or operations in furtherance of the\npowers conferred upon it by the title, or upon or with respect to any\nfares, tolls, rentals, rates, charges, fees, revenues or other income\nreceived by the authority. Provided, however, that any real property\nowned or acquired by the authority outside of the county shall be exempt\nfrom real property taxes, ad valorem levies or special assessments only\npursuant to and to the extent provided by an agreement with the\ngoverning body of the municipality in which such real property is\nlocated.\n  2. Any bonds issued pursuant to this title together with the income\ntherefrom shall at all times be exempt from taxation.\n  3. The state hereby covenants with the purchasers and with all\nsubsequent holders and transferees of bonds issued by the authority\npursuant to this title, in consideration of the acceptance of and\npayment for the bonds, that the bonds of the authority issued pursuant\nto this title and the income therefrom and all revenues, monies, and\nother property pledged to pay or to secure the payment of such bonds\nshall at all times be free from taxation.\n  4. The authority may pay, or may enter into agreements with the county\nof Suffolk or any municipality to pay, a sum or sums annually or\notherwise or to provide other considerations with respect to real\nproperty owned by the authority located within the county of Suffolk or\nsuch municipality.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 905 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 4 / Title 5 / Section 905
Transfer of officers and employees; civil service
Status: in_force

§ 905. Transfer of officers and employees; civil service. 1. In\naccordance with the provisions of section seventy of the civil service\nlaw, any officer or employee of a municipality transferred to the\nauthority shall be eligible for such transfer and appointment, without\nfurther examination, to applicable offices, positions and employment\nunder the authority. Any such officers or employees so transferred to\nthe authority pursuant to this section, who are members of or benefit\nunder any existing pension or retirement fund or system, shall continue\nto have all rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect to\nsuch fund or system as are now prescribed by law.\n  2. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed (a) to diminish\nthe rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or\n(b) to affect existing law with respect to an application to the public\nemployment relations board seeking a designation by the board that\ncertain persons are managerial or confidential.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 11-0535-C — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 11-0535-C
Endangered and threatened species mitigation bank fund
Status: in_force

* § 11-0535-c. Endangered and threatened species mitigation bank fund.\n  1. The department is hereby authorized to utilize funds in the\nendangered and threatened species mitigation bank fund, established\npursuant to section ninety-nine-hh of the state finance law, for the\npurposes of implementing an endangered and threatened species mitigation\nplan approved by the department.\n  2. Such fund shall consist of contributions, in an amount determined\nby the department, deposited by an applicant granted a siting permit to\nconstruct a major renewable energy facility, where such applicant has\nbeen ordered to mitigate harm to a threatened or endangered species or\nits habitat.\n  3. In administering the provisions of this article, the commissioner:\n  a. May, in the name of the state, enter into contracts with\nnot-for-profit corporations, private or public universities, and private\ncontractors for services contemplated by this title. Such contracts\nshall be subject to approval by the state comptroller and, as to form,\nby the attorney general.\n  b. Shall approve vouchers for payments pursuant to an approved\ncontract.  All such payments shall be paid on the audit and warrant of\nthe state comptroller;\n  c. May, in the name of the state, enter into contracts with a\nnot-for-profit corporation to administer grants made pursuant to this\ntitle, including the approval and payment of vouchers for approved\ncontracts; and\n  d. May perform such other and further acts as may be necessary,\nproper, or desirable to carry out the provisions of this article.\n  4. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict any\npowers of the commissioner or any other agency pursuant to any other\nprovision of law.\n  5. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate any\nregulations deemed necessary to implement this section.\n  ** 6. The commissioner shall annually report to the department of\npublic service, the governor, the temporary president of the senate and\nthe speaker of the assembly on the status of the fund and all monies\nadded to and expended from the fund.\n  ** NB Repealed December 31, 2040\n  * NB Repealed December 31, 2030\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-V — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-V
Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective
Status: in_force

§ 1500-v. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or\nineffective.  If any section, clause or provision of this title shall be\nunconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent\nthat it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and\neffective and no other section, clause or provision shall on account\nthereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 590 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 590
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 590. Definitions. 1. "Economic profile" means a net cash flow\nanalysis of a financial summary of an average or typical oil or gas\neconomic unit, based upon average or typical income and expense items\npertaining to one or more oil or gas economic units of one or more\nproducers.\n  2. "Economic unit" means all the real property subject to taxation and\nassessed pursuant to this title associated with the exercise of oil and\ngas rights, including the unextracted oil and gas, oil and gas rights\nand any and all equipment, fixtures and pipeline, regardless of size,\nlength or pressure rating necessary to drill, mine, operate, develop,\nextract, produce, collect, deliver or sell the oil or gas to a point of\nsale to a commercial purchaser or the pipeline or equipment of a user,\nincluding wells, well-head equipment, pipes, compressor stations,\nrelated equipment and buildings used to store equipment. Each economic\nunit may include either a single well and the associated property, or a\ngroup of wells and the associated property under common ownership and\noperated as a unit. No economic unit shall extend beyond the point of\nsale or where the gas or oil is delivered to the pipe or equipment of a\nuser, nor shall an economic unit include special franchise property, or\nthe percentage of any pipe, pipelines, equipment or fixtures such as\ncogeneration equipment, which generates income from activity which is\nnot associated with or necessary for the extraction, collection,\ndelivery and sale of oil and gas from the economic unit to a user or\ncommercial purchaser.\n  3. "Oil and gas rights" means any right to drill, mine, operate,\ndevelop, extract, produce, collect, deliver or sell oil or gas located\non or below real property.\n  4. "Producer" means any person, partnership, corporation or other\nassociation or entity owning or operating the working interest in any\noil or gas property.\n  5. "Production year" means the calendar year immediately preceding the\napplicable taxable status date, except that for final city assessment\nrolls required to be filed between January first and May first,\ninclusive, and for all final village assessment rolls, production year\nmeans the second calendar year preceding the applicable taxable status\ndate.\n  6. "Unit of production value" means the value established by the\ncommissioner for purposes of this title for each barrel of oil or\nthousand cubic feet of gas produced in the production year.\n  7. "Exercise of oil and gas rights" means the act or acts of drilling,\nmining, operating, developing, extracting, producing, collecting,\ndelivering or selling oil or gas located on or below real property and\nsuch other acts as are deemed necessary and appropriate for the proper\noperation and development of oil and gas wells.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3650-C — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 5 / Section 3650-C
Accident report data base
Status: in_force

§ 3650-c. Accident report data base. The commissioner, in consultation\nwith the commissioner of motor vehicles, shall establish an electronic\ndata file containing accident reports relating to school buses.\n
N.Y. ELN Law § 3-506 — New York Code / Act ELN / Article 3 / Title 5 / Section 3-506
Boards of elections; voting materials in Russian
Status: in_force

§ 3-506. Boards of elections; voting materials in Russian. A board of\nelections in a city of over one million shall provide the same\ninformation in Russian that it provides in languages other than English\non its website. It shall also produce and disseminate citywide a booklet\nthat includes: (a) a voter registration form in English with\ninstructions in Russian; (b) instructions in Russian regarding the\ncriteria and application process for obtaining an early mail or absentee\nballot; and (c) a section with general voter information in Russian\nincluding frequently asked questions. Such board may include other\nlanguages on its website and in such booklet.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 17-0509 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 17 / Title 5 / Section 17-0509
Minimum treatment required
Status: in_force

§ 17-0509. Minimum treatment required.\n  1. As used in this section, the term "effective secondary treatment"\nshall mean the removal of substantially all floating and settleable\nsolids and the removal of at least eighty-five percent of suspended\nsolids and at least eighty-five percent of five day biochemical oxygen\ndemand, or such other standard as may be adopted pursuant to the Act.\n  2. The minimum degree of treatment required for the discharge of\nsanitary sewage into the surface waters of the state shall be effective\nsecondary treatment, provided, however, that additional treatment may be\nrequired consistent with the standards established for specific waters\nby the department pursuant to section 17-0301 or with standards,\ncriteria, limitations, rules or regulations promulgated or applied\npursuant to title 8 hereof.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-L — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-L
State and city not liable on bonds
Status: in_force

§ 1500-l. State and city not liable on bonds. The bonds and other\nobligations of the authority shall not be a debt of the state of New\nYork or of the city, and neither the state nor the city shall be liable\nthereon, nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than those of\nthe authority.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-A — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-A
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 1500-a. Short title. This title shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "city of Buffalo parking authority act".\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3613 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 5 / Section 3613
Agreement with state
Status: in_force

§ 3613. Agreement with state. The state does hereby pledge to and\nagree with the holders of any bonds issued by the corporation pursuant\nto this title and with those persons or public corporations who may\nenter into contracts with the corporation pursuant to the provisions of\nthis title that the state will not alter, limit or impair the rights\nhereby vested in the corporation to purchase, construct, own and\noperate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate,\nenlarge, increase and extend, or dispose of any project, or any part or\nparts thereof for which bonds of the corporation shall have been issued,\nto establish and collect rates, rents, fees and other charges referred\nto in this title, to fulfill the terms of any contracts or agreements\nmade with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or with any person\nor public corporation with reference to such project or part thereof, or\nin any way to impair the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds,\nuntil the bonds, together with interest thereon, including interest on\nany unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in\nconnection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders\nof bonds, are fully met and discharged and such contracts are fully\nperformed on the part of the corporation. The corporation is authorized\nto include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with\nthe holders of bonds.\n
N.Y. RSS Law § 334 — New York Code / Act RSS / Article 8 / Title 5 / Section 334
Reporting of service and salary information
Status: in_force

§ 334. Reporting of service and salary information.  The comptroller\nshall adopt rules and regulations, which shall have the force and effect\nof law, for the reporting of service and salary information for all\nemployees of participating employers. The chief fiscal officer of each\nparticipating employer, or if there be no chief fiscal officer, the\nofficer exercising similar duties, shall file the report with the\ncomptroller, in such form and at such times as may be prescribed in the\nrules and regulations. The refusal or willful neglect of such chief\nfiscal officer or other official to file the report as herein prescribed\nshall be a violation and shall subject the officer so refusing or\nneglecting to a penalty of five dollars per day for each day's delay\nbeyond seven days, to be paid on demand of the comptroller.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3641-A — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 4 / Section 3641-A
Excelsior scholars program for grade seven mathematics and science students
Status: in_force

§ 3641-a. Excelsior scholars program for grade seven mathematics and\nscience students. The commissioner shall establish an excelsior scholars\nprogram for grade seven mathematics and science students pursuant to\nthis section and regulations of the commissioner adopted for such\npurpose. Within the amounts appropriated for this purpose, the\ncommissioner shall award grants on a competitive basis to public and\nindependent colleges and universities to conduct summer programs that\nshall provide advanced coursework in mathematics and science to students\ndesignated as excelsior scholars and, as funds permit, other\nhigh-performing students who have completed seventh grade.\n  1. Each year, the commissioner shall identify up to three thousand\nhigh performing seventh grade students in mathematics and science from\nstudents nominated by each public middle school, junior high school,\nintermediate school or junior/senior high school, or kindergarten\nthrough secondary school. The commissioner by regulation shall prescribe\nthe maximum number of students that may be nominated by each school,\nwhich may vary based on the size of the school, which shall include\nequal numbers of male and female students. After review by the\ncommissioner, qualified students shall be certified to the governor for\nrecognition as an excelsior scholar.\n  2. The commissioner shall conduct a competitive process under which\nfinancial grants are awarded to each college and university approved to\nprovide appropriate advanced coursework to excelsior scholars in the\nsummer months, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for\nsuch purpose.\n  3. The regulations of the commissioner shall provide for coordination\nof the program with the seven centers for excellence in technology and\nthe programs offered by such centers, to the extent practicable.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 577 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 577
Enforcement
Status: in_force

§ 577. Enforcement. 1. A permit or certificate of qualification may be\nrevoked, suspended, limited or annulled, or the holder thereof censured,\nreprimanded or otherwise disciplined by the department on proof that the\ncertificate holder, owner or director, or one or more persons in his or\nher employ:\n  (a) has been guilty of misrepresentation in obtaining the permit or\ncertificate or in the operation of the clinical laboratory or blood\nbank, including the submission to the department of proficiency test\nresults obtained from another clinical laboratory;\n  (b) has knowingly accepted or permitted to be accepted a specimen or\nassignment for clinical laboratory examination from or rendered a report\nthereon to a person or persons not authorized by law to submit such\nassignment or specimen or receive such report;\n  (c) has engaged or attempted to engage or represented himself or\nherself as entitled to perform any procedure or category or procedures\nor services he or she is not authorized to perform;\n  (d) has rendered a report on work actually performed in another\nclinical laboratory or blood bank without designating the fact that the\nexamination or procedure was performed in another clinical laboratory or\nblood bank;\n  (e) has demonstrated incompetence or shown consistent errors in\nperformance of examinations or procedures;\n  (f) has failed to file any report required by the provisions of this\ntitle or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;\n  (g) has violated or aided and abetted in the violation of any\nprovision of this chapter, including this title, title six of this\narticle, or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this\nchapter or a violation of title eleven of article five of the social\nservices law or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder related\nto laboratory services; or\n  (h) has violated or aided and abetted in the violation of local laws,\ncodes or regulations as specified in subdivision three of section five\nhundred eighty of this title.\n  (i) has been found upon inspection by the department to be in\nnoncompliance with a provision or provisions of this title or the rules\nand regulations promulgated hereunder, and has failed to address such\nfindings as required by the department.\n  2. Proceedings under this section may be initiated by any person,\ncorporation, association or public officer, or by the department, by\nfiling written charges with the department.\n  3. No permit or certificate shall be revoked, suspended, limited or\nannulled without a hearing, except as provided in subdivision three of\nsection five hundred seventy-six of this title. However, a permit or\ncertificate may be temporarily suspended without a hearing for a period\nnot to exceed thirty days upon notice to the permit or certificate\nholder following a finding by the department that the public health,\nsafety or welfare is in imminent danger.\n  4. The commissioner shall set a time and place for the hearing. A copy\nof the charges, together with the notice of the time and place of the\nhearing, shall be mailed to the permit or certificate holder, at the\naddress specified on the permit at least fifteen days before the date\nset for the hearing. The permit or certificate holder shall file with\nthe department, not less than five days prior to the hearing, a written\nanswer to the charges.\n  5. Any person or entity which owns or operates a clinical laboratory\nand who does not hold a valid laboratory permit shall be liable to the\npeople of the state for a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand\ndollars for each day for the unauthorized operation of the clinical\nlaboratory.\n
N.Y. PML Law § 1344 — New York Code / Act PML / Article 13 / Title 5 / Section 1344
List of persons self-excluded from gaming activities
Status: in_force

§ 1344. List of persons self-excluded from gaming activities. 1. The\ncommission shall provide by regulation for the establishment of a list\nof persons self-excluded from gaming activities at all licensed gaming\nfacilities. Any person may request placement on the list of\nself-excluded persons by acknowledging in a manner to be established by\nthe commission that the person is a problem gambler and by agreeing\nthat, during any period of voluntary exclusion, the person may not\ncollect any winnings or recover any losses resulting from any gaming\nactivity at such gaming facilities.\n  2. The regulations of the commission shall establish procedures for\nplacements on, and removals from, the list of self-excluded persons.\nSuch regulations shall establish procedures for the transmittal to\nlicensed gaming facilities of identifying information concerning\nself-excluded persons, and shall require licensed gaming facilities to\nestablish procedures designed, at a minimum, to remove self-excluded\npersons from targeted mailings or other forms of advertising or\npromotions and deny self-excluded persons access to credit,\ncomplimentaries, check cashing privileges, club programs, and other\nsimilar benefits.\n  3. A licensed gaming facility or employee thereof acting reasonably\nand in good faith shall not be liable to any self-excluded person or to\nany other party in any judicial proceeding for any harm, monetary or\notherwise, which may arise as a result of:\n  (a) the failure of a licensed gaming facility to withhold gaming\nprivileges from, or restore gaming privileges to, a self-excluded\nperson; or\n  (b) otherwise permitting a self-excluded person to engage in gaming\nactivity in such licensed gaming facility while on the list of\nself-excluded persons.\n  4. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the commission's\nlist of self-excluded persons shall not be open to public inspection.\nNothing herein, however, shall be construed to prohibit a gaming\nfacility licensee from disclosing the identity of persons self-excluded\npursuant to this section to affiliated gaming entities in this state or\nother jurisdictions for the limited purpose of assisting in the proper\nadministration of responsible gaming programs operated by such gaming\naffiliated entities.\n  5. A licensed gaming facility or employee thereof shall not be liable\nto any self-excluded person or to any other party in any judicial\nproceeding for any harm, monetary or otherwise, which may arise as a\nresult of disclosure or publication in any manner, other than a\nwillfully unlawful disclosure or publication, of the identity of any\nself-excluded person.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 499-JJJJ — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 4 / Title 5 / Section 499-JJJJ
Assessment of local public utility mass real property
Status: in_force

* § 499-jjjj. Assessment of local public utility mass real property.\nSubject to the provisions of section four hundred ninety-nine-qqqq of\nthis title, the assessor in each city, town and village, and in each\ncounty having a county department of assessment, shall annually assess\nall local public utility mass real property situated in such city, town,\nvillage or county, as the case may be. Where a village has enacted a\nlocal law as provided in subdivision three of section fourteen hundred\ntwo of this chapter, the town or county assessor shall apportion that\npart of the assessment of local public utility mass real property in the\ntown or county to the village for village tax purposes.\n  * NB Repealed January 1, 2031\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 507 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 19 / Section 507
Miscellaneous provisions
Status: in_force

§ 507. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. Driver education. Notwithstanding\nany other provisions of this article, a class D or class M license,\nwhichever is appropriate, may be issued to a minor seventeen years of\nage who has successfully completed a driver education course approved by\nthe state education department and the commissioner in a high school or\ncollege and who has submitted proof of completion of the minimum hours\nof supervised driving as required in paragraph (d) of subdivision two of\nsection five hundred two of this article; provided however, the Yeshiva\nof Staten Island, which operates as a high school, may provide driver\neducation courses at the Arthur Kill Road Jewish Community Center of\nStaten Island and the Manor Road Jewish Community Center of Staten\nIsland, located in the county of Richmond; provided however, the Hebrew\nAcademy of Nassau County, a unified school that operates a high school,\nmay provide a driver education course approved by the state education\ndepartment in a middle school or elementary school location provided\nsuch course instruction occurs when elementary or middle school is not\nin session. No such driver education course may be approved unless\nclassroom training is provided by a person approved by the state\neducation department and the commissioner. However, a school district\nmay contract with one or more licensed drivers' schools to provide\nbehind the wheel training, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the\ncommissioner. The commissioner shall prescribe the requirements for\nlicensing of such minors. A student enrolled in such an approved driver\neducation course may operate a motor vehicle without holding a driver's\nlicense or a learner's permit while under the immediate supervision of\nan instructor in such course or a driver's school instructor providing\nbehind the wheel training in such a course, provided such operation is\nin accordance with the rules established by the commissioner. Every\nstudent who successfully completes such course in a day, evening or\nsummer school program offered by a public or private school shall\nreceive certification of such completion on a certificate prescribed by\nthe commissioner.\n  2. Failure to exhibit license. Failure by a licensee to exhibit a\nlicense valid for operation under this chapter to any magistrate, motor\nvehicle license examiner, motor vehicle investigator, peace officer,\nacting pursuant to his special duties, or police officer shall be\npresumptive evidence that he is not duly licensed.\n  4. Entry into military service. If any person who enters military\nservice shall fail to give timely notification in writing of such entry\nto the commissioner, the commissioner may, in his discretion, refuse to\nrenew such person's driver's license, if such license is not otherwise\nrenewable under the provisions of this article.\n  5. Road tests. A motor vehicle license examiner or other agent\ndesignated by the commissioner, while engaged in conducting a road test\nis not deemed to be a supervising or an accompanying driver in relation\nto the applicant being tested.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3709 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 75 / Section 3709
Penalties of certain bonds
Status: in_force

§ 3709. Penalties of certain bonds.  Whenever a school district\nofficer is required to furnish a bond under the provisions of section\nthirty-seven hundred eight in the penalty of double the amount of moneys\napportioned or to be received, and such district officer furnishes the\nbond of a surety or bonding company authorized by law to transact\nbusiness in this state and to execute such bond, the penalty thereof may\nbe fixed at the amount of moneys so apportioned or to be received, in\nlieu of the double penalty prescribed in such section.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 549 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 21-C / Section 549
Cancellation of an escort certificate
Status: in_force

§ 549. Cancellation of an escort certificate. An escort certificate\nshall be cancelled by the commissioner if such person's underlying\ndriver's license has expired, is revoked or suspended or upon\nnotification by the commissioner of transportation or the New York state\nthruway authority that the person has violated any rule or regulation of\nthe commissioner of transportation or the New York state thruway\nauthority governing the operation, use and equipment of escort vehicles\nand the duties and responsibilities of the operator of an escort\nvehicle.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2581 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 5 / Section 2581
Children with physical disabilities; definitions
Status: in_force

§ 2581. Children with physical disabilities; definitions. As used in\nthis article: 1. "Children with physical disabilities" means any persons\nunder twenty-one years of age who are disabled by reason of a defect or\ndisability, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or\ndisease, or who are suffering from long-term disease, including, but\nwithout limiting the generality of the foregoing, chronic granulomatous,\ncystic fibrosis, epidermolysis bullosa, muscular dystrophy, nephrosis,\nrheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, blood dyscrasies, cancer,\nlymphatic diseases, including, but not limited to: insufficiency of\nlymphatic circulatory function (to include all forms of lymphedema, both\nprimary and secondary); lipedema; complex vascular diseases of the\nlymphatic vasculature, including lymphangiomatosis,\nlymphangioleio-myomatosis, lymphangiectasias, lymphangiomas, cystic\nhygromas, Gorham's disease, lymphangiosarcoma, and complex\nvascular/lymphatic malformations and syndromes, brain injured, and\nchronic asthma, or from any disease or condition likely to result in a\ndisability in the absence of treatment, provided, however, no child\nshall be deprived of a service under the provisions of this chapter\nsolely because of the degree of developmental disability.\n  2. "Medical service" means such diagnostic, therapeutic, and\nrehabilitative care by medical and paramedical personnel, including\nhospital and related care, and drugs, prostheses, appliances, equipment\nand devices as necessary.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 11-0517 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 11-0517
Taking for propagation and stocking; fish hindering propagation of food fish or shellfish
Status: in_force

§ 11-0517. Taking for propagation and stocking; fish hindering\n             propagation of food fish or shellfish.\n  1. The department may take, or it may permit any person to take\nwildlife for propagation or stocking purposes, or fish or shellfish for\npropagation purposes.\n  2. It may also remove, or permit to be removed, in any manner it may\nprescribe, from either public or private waters, fish or shellfish which\nhinder the propagation of food fish or shellfish, or which are in\nimminent danger of being killed by pollution or otherwise. Such fish or\nshellfish shall be disposed of as the department may direct.\n  3. No person shall take fish within one hundred feet of any leader or\nnet operated by the department or permitted under subdivisions 1 or 2 of\nthis section and fish confined therein shall be handled or taken\ntherefrom only by an employee of the department or by the permittee.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 202 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 202
Construction and administration of public homes
Status: in_force

§ 202. Construction and administration of public homes. 1. No building\nto be used as a public home shall be constructed, or remodeled, in whole\nor in part, except on plans and designs approved in writing by the\ndepartment provided that such approval in writing in the city of New\nYork shall be by the mayor of said city, and except that plans and\ndesigns for the construction of or remodeling in whole or in part of a\npublic home infirmary, or the infirmary of a public home, shall be\napproved in accordance with the provisions of article twenty-eight of\nthe public health law.\n  2. It shall be the duty of the department to send to the legislative\nbody and the public welfare official in charge of a public home a\nwritten statement as to any abuses, defects or evils, which it may find\nin the public home or in the administration thereof, and such\nlegislative body and official shall take action to remedy such condition\nin accordance with such advice.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1111 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 1111
Limitation of liability
Status: in_force

§ 1111. Limitation of liability. Neither the members of the authority,\nnor any person or persons acting in its behalf, while acting within the\nscope of their authority, shall be subject to any personal liability\nresulting from the erection, construction, reconstruction, maintenance\nor operation of the properties or any of the improvements or from\ncarrying out any of the powers expressly given in this title.\n
N.Y. BNK Law § 5015 — New York Code / Act BNK / Article 15 / Title 5 / Section 5015
Capital notes and debentures
Status: in_force

§ 5015. Capital notes and debentures. No corporation shall issue\ncapital notes or debentures except for money or other property, tangible\nor intangible, or labor or services actually received by or performed\nfor the corporation or for its benefit or in its formation or\nreorganization, or a combination thereof.  In the absence of fraud in\nthe transaction, the judgment of the board as to the value of the\nconsideration received shall be conclusive.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 11-0515 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 11 / Title 5 / Section 11-0515
Licenses to collect, possess or sell for propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes
Status: in_force

§ 11-0515. Licenses to collect, possess or sell for propagation,\n             scientific or exhibition purposes.\n  1. The department may issue to any person a license revocable at its\npleasure to collect or possess fish, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea, or\naquatic insects, birds' nests or eggs for propagation, banding,\nscientific or exhibition purposes. The department in its discretion may\nrequire an applicant to pay a license fee of ten dollars, and to file a\nbond of two hundred dollars to be approved by the department that he or\nshe will not violate any provisions of this article. Each licensee shall\nfile with the department a report containing such information as the\ndepartment may require. Such license shall be in force for one year only\nand shall not be transferable.\n  2. The department may also issue a license revocable at its pleasure\nto possess and sell protected fish, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea or\naquatic insects for propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes. The\ndepartment in its discretion may require a license fee of ten dollars.\nSuch license shall be in force for one year only and shall not be\ntransferable. Each licensee shall file with the department a report\ncontaining such information as the department may require. Fish,\nwildlife, shellfish, crustacea or aquatic insects lawfully possessed\nunder this section may be sold at any time by the licensee for\npropagation, scientific or exhibition purposes only.\n  3. The department may also issue a revocable license to possess\ndistressed wildlife for rehabilitation purposes. The department may\nadopt regulations concerning the qualifications, appointment and duties\nof wildlife rehabilitators and the procedures for license issuance and\nrevocation.\n  4. The department shall have power to make regulations governing the\npossession of such fish, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea and aquatic\ninsects to protect them from cruelty, disease or undue discomfort and to\nprotect the public from attack or contamination.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 984 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 9 / Title 5 / Section 984
Notice to non-residents in cities
Status: in_force

§ 984. Notice to non-residents in cities. 1. Any person or\ncorporation, who or which owns or has an interest in real property\nliable to taxation in any city and is a non-resident thereof, may file\nwith the city clerk of the city a notice stating (a) his name, residence\nand post-office address, or in case of a corporation, its principal\noffice, and (b) a description of the property sufficient to identify the\nsame and requesting that statements of taxes be mailed to him. Such\nnotice shall be valid and continue in effect until cancelled by such\nperson or corporation.\n  2. The city clerk shall, within five days after the delivery of the\nwarrants for the collection of any tax therein, furnish to the\ncollecting officer, a transcript of all notices so filed. Each such\ncollecting officer, within five days after the receipt of such\ntranscripts, shall mail to each person or corporation filing such\nnotice, at the post-office address stated therein, a statement of the\namount of taxes due on such property and the times and places at which\nthe same may be paid.\n  3. If the statement is not furnished as herein provided, no fee,\npenalty or interest shall be charged for the collection of any tax with\nrespect to which the statement was not sent, provided the tax is paid\nbefore the collecting officer makes his return of unpaid taxes.\n  4. The city clerk shall be entitled to receive a fee of one dollar\nfrom each person or corporation filing a notice pursuant to this\nsection, which shall be payment in full for all services rendered\nhereunder.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3626 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 2 / Section 3626
Data for administration
Status: in_force

§ 3626. Data for administration. The commissioner may require the\nclerk of the board of education or the trustee of any school district\nentitled to transportation aid to file any data deemed necessary for the\nproper and efficient administration of this part and subdivision seven\nof section thirty-six hundred two of this article.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1108 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 1108
Contracts
Status: in_force

§ 1108. Contracts. 1. All contracts, or orders, for work, material or\nsupplies performed or furnished in connection with construction shall be\nawarded by the authority pursuant to resolution. Such contracts, or\norders, for work, material or supplies needed for any particular purpose\ninvolving an expenditure of more than five thousand dollars shall be\nawarded only after inviting sealed bids or proposals therefor. The\nnotice inviting sealed proposals shall be published at least once in a\nnewspaper or trade paper selected by the authority for such purpose,\nsuch publication to be at least ten days before the date for the receipt\nof bids. If the authority shall not deem it for the interest of the\nauthority to reject all bids, it shall award the contract to the lowest\nbidder, unless the authority shall determine that it is for the public\ninterest that a bid other than the lowest bid should be accepted. In any\ncontract for work, material or supplies, there shall be inserted in the\ndiscretion of the authority a provision that additional work may be done\nor material or supplies furnished for the purpose of completing such\ncontract at an expense not exceeding fifteen percentum of the amount of\nsuch contract if such additional work, materials or supplies shall be\nordered by the authority. The bidder whose bid is accepted shall give\nsecurity for the faithful performance of the contract, and such other\nsecurity as the authority may require, and may be required to maintain\nfor such period as shall be stipulated any construction done under the\ncontract, all in the manner prescribed and required by the authority;\nand the sufficiency of such security shall, in addition to the\njustification and acknowledgment, be approved by the authority. All bids\nor proposals shall be publicly opened by the authority or its duly\nauthorized agent. If the bidder whose bid has been accepted after\nadvertising shall neglect or refuse to accept the contract within five\ndays after written notice that the same has been awarded to him on his\nbid or proposal, or, if he accepts but does not execute the contract and\ngive proper security the authority shall have the right to declare his\ndeposit forfeited, and thereupon it shall be readvertised and relet as\nabove provided. In case any work shall be abandoned by any contractor,\nthe authority may, if the best interests of the authority be thereby\nserved, adopt on behalf of the authority any or all sub-contracts made\nby such contractor for such work and all such sub-contractors shall be\nbound by such adoption if made; and the authority shall in the manner\nprovided herein readvertise and relet the work specified in the original\ncontract exclusive of so much thereof as shall be provided for in the\nsub-contract or sub-contracts so adopted. No bid shall be accepted from\nor any contracts awarded to, any person or corporation who is in arrears\nto the authority, or the county of Monroe upon any debt or contract, or\nis a defaulter as surety or otherwise upon any obligation of the\nauthority, or the county. Every contract involving an expenditure of\nmore than five thousand dollars when made and entered into as herein\nprovided for shall be executed in duplicate, one copy of which shall be\nheld by the authority and one copy of which shall be delivered to the\ncontractor. Upon the adoption of a resolution by a vote of two-thirds of\nall the members of the authority stating that, for reasons of efficiency\nor economy, there is need for standardization, purchase contracts for a\nparticular type or kind of equipment, material or supplies of more than\nfive thousand dollars may be awarded by the authority to the lowest\nresponsible bidder furnishing the required security after advertisement\nfor sealed bids therefor in the manner provided in this section. Such\nresolution shall contain a full explanation of the reasons for its\nadoption.\n  2. For the purposes of article fifteen-A of the executive law only,\nthe authority shall be deemed a state agency as that term is used in\nsuch article, and all contracts for procurement, design, construction,\nservices and materials shall be deemed state contracts within the\nmeaning of that term as set forth in such article.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 505 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 19 / Section 505
Duplicate and amended licenses and permits; change of address
Status: in_force

§ 505. Duplicate and amended licenses and permits; change of address.\n1.  Lost, mutilated or destroyed license or permit. In the event of the\nloss, mutilation or destruction of any driver's license, or any part\nthereof, or any learner's permit, or any document issued by the\ncommissioner and required for the issuance of a license, the licensee or\napplicant may file with the commissioner proof of the facts with respect\nto such loss, mutilation or destruction together with the fee prescribed\nby law. If the commissioner is satisfied that the applicant is entitled\nto a duplicate of such item, he shall issue a duplicate of the lost,\nmutilated or destroyed item. Any mutilated item shall be surrendered\nbefore a duplicate is issued. If a duplicate license or permit is issued\nbecause of a lost license or permit, and such lost license or permit is\nlater recovered by the licensee or permit holder, he shall surrender\nsuch recovered item to the commissioner for cancellation within ten days\nafter recovery of such item.\n  2. Change of class of license or addition of class to license. Any\nlicensee holding a license of one class who desires to obtain a license\nof another class or to add a different class or endorsement to a license\nmay file an application with the commissioner together with the fee for\nan amended license for the purpose of having such license amended. The\ncommissioner may require such applicant to take any tests required for\nthe issuance of a license in the desired class. Upon successful\ncompletion of any required tests and the surrender of the prior license,\nthe commissioner shall issue such amended license.\n  3. Removal of restriction. Any person holding a license containing\nrestrictions as to use, other than one imposed solely by statute, may\nfile an application with the commissioner together with the fee for an\namended license for the purpose of having such restriction removed. The\ncommissioner shall require such applicant to submit such information or\nto take such tests as he deems appropriate with respect to such\nrestrictions. Upon approval of such information or the successful\ncompletion of such tests, and the surrender of the prior license, the\ncommissioner shall issue an appropriate amended license.\n  4. Amendment of license. Any person holding a license which contains\nany error, other than a clerical error made by the issuing agency, with\nrespect to the information contained thereon, except with respect to the\naddress of such licensee, may file an application with the commissioner\ntogether with the fee, if any, for an amended license to have such error\ncorrected. The commissioner shall require such person to submit proof\nacceptable to him with respect to the facts, and upon approval of such\nproof and the surrender of the prior license, the commissioner shall\nissue an appropriate amended license.\n  5. Change of address. It shall be the duty of every licensee to notify\nthe commissioner in writing of any change of residence of such licensee\nwithin ten days after such change occurs.\n  6. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to deliver to the state\nboard of elections, at least semi-annually, records, in a format as\nmutually determined by both agencies, of the names of all licensed\ndrivers of voting age who have voluntarily surrendered their New York\nstate drivers licenses in order to obtain a license in another state.\nWhere feasible the department of motor vehicles shall also deliver\nrecords of the names of all licensed drivers of voting age who have\nnotified the department of a change of residence address. Such records\nshall be arranged by county of old residence and shall include the name,\nbirth date and old residence address of each such licensee and the new\nresidence address of each such person who has moved within New York\nstate.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3708 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 75 / Section 3708
Bond required of collector or treasurer
Status: in_force

§ 3708. Bond required of collector or treasurer.  The collector or the\ntreasurer, if the district has a treasurer, of each of such school\ndistricts shall execute and file with the supervisor of such town a bond\nof twice the amount of such apportionment with sufficient sureties, to\nbe approved by such supervisor.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-G — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-G
Contract for employees
Status: in_force

§ 1500-g. Contract for employees. The authority is hereby authorized\nto enter into contracts under which such contractor would provide\nemployees to the authority for the purpose of operation and maintenance\nof the projects of the authority. All employees currently employed by\nthe city or by a contractor to support operations currently managed by\nthe city shall be retained by any contractor retained pursuant to this\nsection.  The authority shall not begin operation of any project until\nsuch a contract shall be in force. Such contract shall provide that all\nemployees engaged in the operation and maintenance of any authority\nproject shall be employees of the contractor and not employees of the\nauthority. Such employees shall receive their total compensation and any\nemployee benefits directly from the contractor for whom they are\nemployed provided any relevant local regulation, rule or ordinance\nrelated to wage shall apply. Except for roles considered to be\nmanagement or confidential pursuant to article fourteen of the civil\nservice law, including the board of the authority, established by\nsection fifteen hundred-c of this title, the authority shall have no\nemployees other than the employees of the contractor pursuant to any\ncontract authorized by this section.\n
N.Y. LFN Law § 75.00 — New York Code / Act LFN / Article 2 / Title 5 / Section 75.00
Registration of obligations
Status: in_force

§ 75.00 Registration of obligations.  a. A coupon bond which has been\nconverted into registered form in the manner provided in section 71.00\nof this chapter and, at the request of the owner, a bond issued in\nregistered form or a note issued in registered form or which provides\nthat it may be registered, shall be registered in the name of the owner,\nor a nominee, as to both principal and interest and not otherwise, in\nsuitable books kept for such purpose in the office of the fiscal agent,\nand a certificate of such registration shall be endorsed upon the bond\nor note by such fiscal agent.\n  b. A bond or note which has been so registered shall be transferable\nupon presentation to the fiscal agent with a written transfer of title\nof the registered owner. Such transfer shall be dated, and signed by\nsuch registered owner, or his legal representatives. Such transfer shall\nbe duly acknowledged or proved, or in the alternative the signature\nthereto shall be certified as to its genuineness by an officer of a bank\nor trust company located and authorized to do business in this state.\nThe name of the transferee shall be entered in the books kept by the\nfiscal agent and a certificate of such registration shall be endorsed\nupon the bond or note so transferred, in the same manner as the original\nregistration. However, instead of transferring obligations as provided\nabove in this paragraph, a municipality, school district or district\ncorporation may issue new registered obligations in place of the old in\naccordance with regulations prescribed by the state comptroller by a\nrule or order to be filed in his office and such other office as he may\ndesignate.\n  c. No interest shall be paid on a bond or note issued in registered\nform until the name of the payee has been inserted therein and such bond\nor note has been registered as provided in paragraph a of this section.\n  d. The principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on a\nbond or note which has been registered shall be payable only to the\nregistered owner, his legal representatives, successors or transferees.\n  e. As an alternative to the procedures for transfer of registration\notherwise set forth in this section, the finance board of a\nmunicipality, school district or district corporation, or, in the case\nof the city of New York, the chief fiscal officer thereof, may provide\nfor the transfer of registration of obligations by book entry on the\nrecords of the fiscal agent or other entity designated for such purpose\nand may enter into such contractual arrangements as may be necessary to\naccomplish such purposes. In the event a book entry method of transfer\nis used, principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on the\nobligations shall be payable to the registered owner shown in book\nentry, his legal representatives, successors or transferees.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2583 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 5 / Section 2583
Children with physical disabilities; rules and regulations; limitations
Status: in_force

§ 2583. Children with physical disabilities; rules and regulations;\nlimitations.  1. Such service shall be provided in accordance with rules\nand regulations established by the commissioner. The commissioner's\nrules and regulations may relate to:\n  (a) the defects, disabilities, diseases and conditions eligible under\nthe program and the type and extent of care that may be offered.\n  (b) qualifications of professional personnel, both medical and\nparamedical.\n  (c) standards of institutional care, whether in general hospitals,\nspecial hospitals, long-term care facilities, or such other special\nfacilities, whether inpatient or outpatient, as may be needed to obtain\nthe services required.\n  (d) limitations on the amount of professional fees, and on rates in\ngeneral hospitals, special hospitals, long-term care facilities and\nspecial facilities for which reimbursement may be made under this\narticle.\n  (e) standards and procedures for administration of programs for\nchildren with physical disabilities.\n  2. Sections two thousand five hundred eighty to two thousand five\nhundred eighty-three, inclusive, and section six hundred sixty, of this\nchapter, shall not apply to:\n  (a) children requiring permanent custodial care.\n  (b) children institutionalized in mental, correctional or penal\ninstitutions of the state of New York.\n  (c) children who, in the judgment of the commissioner, may not be\nexpected to benefit from medical service.\n  (d) children whose parents or guardians object to medical services\nbecause of exclusive dependence for healing on the practice of religious\ntenets of any church.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 3620 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 10-C / Title 5 / Section 3620
Separability
Status: in_force

§ 3620. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or\npart of this title shall be adjudged by any court of competent\njurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or\ninvalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation\nto the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof involved in\nthe controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 194 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 194
Powers and duties of commissioners of public welfare in relation to public homes
Status: in_force

§ 194. Powers and duties of commissioners of public welfare in\nrelation to public homes. Commissioners of public welfare shall\n  1. be responsible for the management of the home and for the care of\nits incarcerated individuals,\n  2. have control of the admission and discharge of incarcerated\nindividuals of the home,\n  3. within the limits of the appropriations made for the purpose,\nappoint qualified physicians, matrons, nurses, officers and employees,\nand vest in them such powers as he may deem necessary for the management\nof the home,\n  3-a. have the authority, in the event the home includes an infirmary\nfor the care of chronically sick patients, to enter into contracts,\nsubject to the written approval of the department, with any medical\nschool or non-profit hospital, organized pursuant to the laws of the\nstate of New York, whereby such medical school or non-profit hospital\nshall agree to provide and supervise all or part of the professional and\nrelated staff necessary for the operation of the infirmary. The\npersonnel so provided by such medical school or non-profit hospital\nshall not be deemed to be employees of the public welfare district.\n  4. purchase all furniture, implements, food, materials and equipment\nnecessary for the upkeep of the home and for the care of the needy in\nthe home, unless such powers have been vested in some other purchasing\nagency,\n  5. classify the incarcerated individuals of the home, and provide the\ntype of care best fitted to their needs and carry out the\nrecommendations of the attending physician in regard to their care,\n  6. establish rules for the administration of the public home and for\nthe conduct and employment of the incarcerated individuals thereof; but\nsuch rules shall not be valid unless approved in writing by the\ndepartment,\n  7. as far as practicable provide suitable employment for any\nincarcerated individual whom the attending physician pronounces able to\nwork, assigning such incarcerated individuals to such labor in\nconnection with the farm and garden, or the care and upkeep of the\nbuildings or other suitable tasks in the public home as they may be\ndeemed capable of performing, and providing occupational and other\ndiversions as may be for the best interests of the incarcerated\nindividuals,\n  8. when in their individual judgment and discretion it appears\nadvisable, for purposes of rehabilitation, to provide incentive\ncompensation to an incarcerated individual, in any amount or amounts\ntotalling ten dollars or less per month, for work assigned and performed\nin or about the public home, farm and garden; but the payment of any\nsuch reward shall not be deemed, for the purposes of any law, to make\nthe incarcerated individual receiving the same an employee of the public\nhome or of the county or city maintaining such home,\n  8-a. deposit as prescribed in section eighty-seven of this chapter,\nany and all moneys received by him or her for the use of a particular\nincarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals of the public home,\n  9. when an appropriation is made for the purpose, appoint a\nsuperintendent of the public home who shall reside thereat and exercise\nsuch of the powers and carry out such of the duties above mentioned in\nconnection with the public home as the commissioner may direct;\nprovided, however, that the legislative body of the county or city\nwithin which a public welfare district is located may, if adequate\nsupervisory personnel are on duty at all times, permit the\nsuperintendent to reside off the premises of the public home,\n  10. reside at the public home unless a superintendent has been\nappointed as above provided; provided, however, that the local\nlegislative body of the county or city within which a public welfare\ndistrict is located may, if adequate supervisory personnel are on duty\nat all times, permit the commissioner to reside off the premises of the\npublic home.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 509-A — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 19-A / Section 509-A
Definitions
Status: in_force

§ 509-a. Definitions. As used in this article the term: (1) bus shall\nmean every motor vehicle, owned, leased, rented or otherwise controlled\nby a motor carrier, which (a) is a school bus as defined in section one\nhundred forty-two of this chapter or has a seating capacity of more than\nten adult passengers in addition to the driver and which is used for the\ntransportation of persons under the age of twenty-one or persons of any\nage who are mentally or physically disabled to a place of vocational,\nacademic or religious instruction or religious service including nursery\nschools, day care centers and camps, (b) is required to obtain approval\nto operate in the state as a common or contract carrier of passengers by\nmotor vehicle from the commissioner of transportation, or the interstate\ncommerce commission, (c) is regulated as a bus line by a city that has\nadopted an ordinance, local law or charter to regulate or franchise bus\nline operations pursuant to subdivision four of section eighty of the\ntransportation law, (d) is regulated as a van service or other common\ncarrier of passengers by motor vehicle covered under article seven of\nthe transportation law by a city with a population of over one million\npursuant to an ordinance or local law adopted pursuant to subdivision\nfive of section eighty of the transportation law or (e) is operated by a\ntransit authority or municipality and is used to transport persons for\nhire. Provided, however, that bus shall not mean an authorized emergency\nvehicle operated in the course of an emergency, or a motor vehicle used\nin the transportation of agricultural workers to and from their place of\nemployment;\n  (2) driver or bus driver shall mean every person:  (i) who is\nself-employed and drives a bus for hire or profit; or (ii) who is\nemployed by a motor carrier and operates a bus owned, leased or rented\nby such employer; or (iii) who as a volunteer drives a bus which is\nowned, leased or rented by a motor carrier. Provided, however, bus\ndriver shall not include those persons who are engaged in the\nmaintenance, repair or garaging of such buses and in the course of their\nduties must incidentally drive a bus without passengers, or who, as a\nvolunteer, drive a bus with passengers for less than thirty days each\nyear;\n  (3) motor carrier shall mean any person, corporation, municipality, or\nentity, public or private, who directs one or more bus drivers and who\noperates a bus wholly within or partly within and partly without this\nstate in connection with the business of transporting passengers for\nhire or in the operation or administration of any business, or place of\nvocational, academic or religious instruction or religious service for\npersons under the age of twenty-one or persons of any age who are\nmentally disabled including nursery schools, day care centers and camps,\nor public agency, except such out-of-state public or governmental\noperators who may be exempted from the provisions of this article by the\ncommissioner through regulation promulgated by the commissioner;\n  (4) intoxicating liquor shall mean and include, alcohol, spirits,\nliquor, wine, beer and cider having alcoholic content;\n  (5) drug shall mean any substance listed in section thirty-three\nhundred six of the public health law not dispensed or consumed pursuant\nto a lawful prescription;\n  (6) controlled substance shall mean any substance listed in section\nthirty-three hundred six of the public health law not dispensed or\nconsumed pursuant to lawful prescription.\n  (7) accident shall include any accident with another vehicle, object\nor person, which occurs in this state or elsewhere, in which any person\nis killed or injured, or in which damage to the property of any one\nperson, including the operator, in excess of one thousand five hundred\ndollars is sustained, or in which damage in excess of two thousand five\nhundred dollars is sustained to any bus as defined in section one\nhundred four of this chapter; provided however that accidents occurring\noutside this state shall not be recorded on the driver's license record.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3707 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 75 / Section 3707
Payment of apportionment of gospel funds
Status: in_force

§ 3707. Payment of apportionment of gospel funds.  1. When such\napportionment is authorized the supervisor shall pay to the collector,\nor if the district has a treasurer to the treasurer, of the several\nschool districts of his town its pro rata share according to the\naggregate school attendance of each school district in the preceding\nyear.\n  2. In the event that any of the school districts of the town shall\nhave been included in any central school district the pro rata share\nbelonging to such district shall be paid to the treasurer of the central\nschool district, to be used for school purposes of such central\ndistrict.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 17-0503 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 17 / Title 5 / Section 17-0503
Prohibition against pollution of waters of marine district
Status: in_force

§ 17-0503. Prohibition against pollution of waters of marine district.\n  1. Sewage, industrial waste or other wastes, or any substance\ninjurious to edible fish and shellfish, or the culture or propagation\nthereof, or which shall in any manner affect the flavor, color, odor or\nsanitary condition of such fish or shellfish so as to injuriously affect\nthe sale thereof, or which shall cause any injury to the public and\nprivate shell fisheries of this state shall not be placed or allowed to\nrun into the waters of the state in the marine district nor into any\nwaters of Long Island, tributory to the marine district.\n  2. Garbage, cinders, ashes, oils, sludge or refuse of any kind shall\nnot be thrown, dumped or permitted to run into the waters of the marine\ndistrict.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2584 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 5 / Section 2584
Children with physical disabilities; transportation
Status: in_force

§ 2584. Children with physical disabilities; transportation.  1. The\ndepartment shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the\nappropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with\nphysical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner is needed\nto such places wherein the medical services outlined in section two\nthousand five hundred eighty-one of this chapter are administered or\nprovided to such children.\n  2. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health\ndistrict or the medical director of the program for children with\nphysical disabilities, or the department of health of the city of New\nYork, in pursuance of section two thousand five hundred eighty-two of\nthis chapter, shall issue an authorization for medical service for any\nchild with physical disabilities, including among the expenses thereof\ntransportation necessary to obtain such services, the commissioner, if\nhe approves such order, shall issue a certificate to such effect, copies\nof which shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors or\nother governing elective body of the county or chief fiscal officer of\nthe city of New York and one in the office of the commissioner.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1114-S — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 5-A / Section 1114-S
Acquisition by eminent domain
Status: in_force

* § 1114-s. Acquisition by eminent domain. Notwithstanding any\nprovision of the eminent domain procedure law to the contrary, in any\nproceeding brought by the authority pursuant to said law, title shall\nvest in the authority and compensation shall be paid only:\n  1. upon a decision by the supreme court that compensation for the\nproperty so condemned shall be determined solely by the income\ncapitalization method of valuation, based on the actual net income as\nallowed by the public service commission; and\n  2. upon such court's determination of the amount of such compensation,\nbased upon the income capitalization method, entry of the final\njudgment, the filing of the final decree, and the conclusion of any\nappeal or expiration of the time to file an appeal related to the\ncondemnation proceeding. Should any court determine that a method of\ncompensation other than the income capitalization method be utilized, or\nif the proposed award is more than the rate base of the assets taken in\ncondemnation as utilized by the public service commission in setting\nrates and as certified by the public service commission, the authority\nmay withdraw the condemnation proceeding without prejudice or costs to\nany party.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1114-s's\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 37-0507 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 37 / Title 5 / Section 37-0507
Product labeling
Status: in_force

§ 37-0507. Product labeling.\n  The commissioner may authorize product labeling of products that do\nnot contain bisphenol A. The label on such products may prominently\nstate "Bisphenol A Free" or "BPA-Free" to inform consumers that the\nproduct does not contain the chemical bisphenol A.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-M — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-M
Bonds legal investments for public officers
Status: in_force

§ 1500-m. Bonds legal investments for public officers. The bonds are\nhereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this\nstate and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance\ncompanies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance\nbusiness, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings\nassociations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan\nassociations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a\nbanking business, and all other persons whatsoever except as hereinafter\nprovided, who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds\nor other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds\nincluding capital in their control or belonging to them; provided that,\nnotwithstanding the provisions of any other general or special law to\nthe contrary, such bonds shall not be eligible for the investment of\nfunds, including capital, of trusts, estates or guardianships under the\ncontrol of individual administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and\nother individual fiduciaries. The bonds are also hereby made securities\nwhich may be deposited with and shall be received by all public officers\nand bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal\nsubdivisions for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other\nobligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 383 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 3 / Title 5 / Section 383
State park health district; health officer; powers and duties
Status: in_force

§ 383. State park health district; health officer; powers and duties.\nThe health officer of a state park health district shall have all the\npowers and duties under the law of the state and the sanitary code which\nlocal health officers now have or hereafter shall have within their\nrespective localities.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 580 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 580
Construction
Status: in_force

§ 580. Construction. 1. Nothing in this title shall be construed as\naffecting the educational program of any college or university or any\nlegally chartered school approved by the department of education which\nprogram is conducted for the training of its students.\n  2. Nothing in this title shall be construed as affecting facilities\nwhich perform laboratory tests solely for research purposes, nor as\naffecting laboratory testing by a public health officer as part of an\nepidemiological investigation in which no patient identified result is\nreported for diagnostic purposes to a health care provider or the\nsubject of the test.\n  3. (a) Nothing in this title shall be construed to impair or affect\nthe power or authority of the city of New York or a department or agency\nthereof, to enact or enforce additional laws, codes or regulations\naffecting clinical laboratories or blood banks, not inconsistent with\nthe provisions of this title or any regulations promulgated hereunder,\nrelated to the control, prevention or reporting of diseases or medical\nconditions or to the control or abatement of public health nuisances.\nNoncompliance with such laws, codes or regulations as documented by the\nlocal public health officer may be a basis for the department's denial\nor non-renewal of a laboratory permit or a certificate of qualification.\n  (b) Such local laws, codes or regulations which are more restrictive\nthan or additional to the requirements set forth in this title or the\nregulations promulgated hereunder shall be deemed not inconsistent.\n  4. The collection, processing, storage, distribution or use of blood,\nblood components or blood derivatives for the purpose of diagnosis,\nprevention or treatment of disease is hereby declared to be a public\nhealth service and shall not be construed to be, and is declared not to\nbe, a sale of such blood, blood components or blood derivatives, for any\npurpose or purposes whatsoever.\n  5. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the education law,\nindividuals performing only waived tests or provider-performed\nmicroscopy procedures in accordance with the provisions of subdivision\nthree of section five hundred seventy-nine of this title shall not be\nrequired to be licensed or certified as a clinical laboratory\npractitioner pursuant to the education law.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-U — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5-C / Section 410-U
Establishment of block grant for child care
Status: in_force

§ 410-u. Establishment of block grant for child care. 1. The\ndepartment shall establish a state block grant for child care comprised\nof all of the federal funds appropriated for child care under title IV-A\nof the federal social security act and under the federal child care and\ndevelopment block grant act and any additional federal funds that the\nstate chooses to transfer from the federal family assistance to needy\nfamilies block grant to the child care and development block grant plus\nany state funds appropriated for the provision by social services\ndistricts of child care assistance to families in receipt of family\nassistance and other low income families and for activities to increase\nthe availability and/or quality of child care programs.\n  2. The state block grant for child care shall be divided into two\nparts pursuant to a plan developed by the department and approved by the\ndirector of the budget. One part shall be retained by the state to\nprovide child care on a statewide basis to special groups and for\nactivities to increase the availability and/or quality of child care\nprograms, including, but not limited to, the start-up of child care\nprograms, the operation of child care resource and referral programs,\ntraining activities, the regulation and monitoring of child care\nprograms, the development of computerized data systems, and consumer\neducation, provided however, that child care resource and referral\nprograms funded under title five-B of article six of this chapter shall\nmeet additional performance standards developed by the department of\nsocial services including but not limited to: increasing the number of\nchild care placements for persons who are at or below eighty-five\npercent of the state median income, with emphasis on placements\nsupporting local efforts in meeting federal and state work participation\nrequirements, increasing technical assistance to all modalities of legal\nchild care to persons who are at or below eighty-five percent of the\nstate median income, including the provision of training to assist\nproviders in meeting child care standards or regulatory requirements,\nand creating new child care opportunities, and assisting social services\ndistricts in assessing and responding to child care needs for persons at\nor below eighty-five percent of the state median income. The department\nshall have the authority to withhold funds from those agencies which do\nnot meet performance standards. Agencies whose funds are withheld may\nhave funds restored upon achieving performance standards. The other part\nshall be allocated to social services districts to provide child care\nassistance to families receiving family assistance and to other low\nincome families.\n  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures of funds\nfrom the block grant shall be governed by this title.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 15-0513 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 15 / Title 5 / Section 15-0513
Liability of subcontractor, employee or agent
Status: in_force

§ 15-0513. Liability of subcontractor, employee or agent.\n  It shall be unlawful for a subcontractor, employee or agent of a\nperson or public corporation, or of a state department to knowingly and\nintentionally act, or a prime contractor of a person, public corporation\nor state department to act with or without an intention to violate the\nprovisions of sections 15-0501, 15-0503 or 15-0505 in disregard of\nspecifications provided in a construction contract protecting against\nstream damage.\n
N.Y. RPT Law § 996 — New York Code / Act RPT / Article 9 / Title 5 / Section 996
Contracts with banks for the collection of taxes and certain special assessments
Status: in_force

§ 996. Contracts with banks for the collection of taxes and certain\nspecial assessments. 1. Notwithstanding any general, special or local\nlaw to the contrary, a municipal corporation having the responsibility\nfor collection of taxes or special assessments, or both, may enter into\nagreements with a bank, or with two or more banks, for the collection of\ntaxes and special assessments which are collected together with such\ntaxes. For purposes of this section, the term "bank" shall have the same\nmeaning as in paragraph d of subdivision one of section ten of the\ngeneral municipal law. The term "special assessments" shall be limited\nto those special assessments collected together with taxes.\n  2. A bank that has entered into an agreement pursuant to this section\nshall: (a) accept payments of taxes or special assessments, or both, for\na period beginning on the day on which the warrant for the collection of\ntaxes is delivered to the collecting officer, and ending on the day on\nwhich such warrant expires;\n  (b) decline any partial payments of a tax bill, or special assessment,\nor both, except where the municipal corporation is one which is\nauthorized to accept partial payments of taxes or special assessments or\nboth;\n  (c) collect the appropriate amount of interest on any taxes or special\nassessments, or both, paid after the end of the interest-free collection\nperiod;\n  (d) furnish receipts to each person paying a tax or special\nassessment, or both, except that when a tax or special assessment has\nbeen paid by a mortgage investing institution pursuant to the provisions\nof title three-A of this article, receipts shall be delivered or mailed\nto such mortgage investing institution, subject to the provisions of\nsuch title;\n  (e) deposit all taxes and special assessments and interest collected,\nimmediately upon receipt, in the account or accounts designated by the\nmunicipal corporation in such bank, or in any other bank designated by\nthe municipal corporation;\n  (f) continually maintain records of deposit showing the dates and\namounts of all taxes and special assessments collected, and the\ntaxpayers from whom such taxes and special assessments were collected;\n  (g) transmit to the collecting officer a daily report of the taxes and\nspecial assessments collected, which report shall be accompanied by a\nstatement showing the deposits credited to the account of the municipal\ncorporation; and\n  (h) perform such other duties, and maintain such other records, as the\ncontract may provide.\n  3. (a) A bank which has entered into an agreement with a municipal\ncorporation pursuant to this section shall be liable to the municipal\ncorporation for all loss or damage which may result from any failure of\nits officers or agents to discharge their duties, or from any improper\nor incorrect discharge of those duties. The bank shall save the\nmunicipal corporation free and harmless from any and all loss occasioned\nby or incurred in the performance of services under a contract pursuant\nto this section.\n  (b) A bank which has entered into an agreement with a municipal\ncorporation pursuant to this section, and which receives moneys from a\ntaxpayer for payment of real property taxes or special assessments, or\nboth, shall be liable to such taxpayer, upon failure to properly credit\nsuch payment, for the amount of the taxes or special assessments, or\nboth, plus interest and penalties imposed thereon.\n  4. Moneys deposited with a bank pursuant to this section shall be\nsecured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal\nlaw.\n  5. The statutory powers and duties of a tax collecting officer,\nincluding the authority to receive taxes, shall not be affected by the\nexistence of a contract executed pursuant to this section, except that\nthe collecting officer shall: (a) notify the bank upon receiving the\nwarrant for the collection of taxes or special assessments, or both;\n  (b) include in the appropriate notices the fact that taxes or special\nassessments, or both, may be paid to the bank;\n  (c) notify the bank of the date on which the interest-free collection\nperiod expires;\n  (d) make the appropriate entries in the official records, upon\nreceiving each daily report of taxes and special assessments collected\nby the bank; and\n  (e) make the accounting and return, as provided by law, upon receipt\nfrom the bank of the final daily report of taxes and special assessments\ncollected.\n  6. A contract executed pursuant to this section shall be subject to\nthe requirements of article five-A of the general municipal law, and\nshall be for a term not to exceed five years, except that it shall be\nsubject to cancellation by the municipal corporation at any time upon\nthirty days notice to the bank.\n
N.Y. GOB Law § 5-526 — New York Code / Act GOB / Article 5 / Title 5 / Section 5-526
Interest on secured loans or forbearances
Status: in_force

§ 5-526. Interest on secured loans or forbearances. 1. Interest\ncharged on loans or forbearances made to corporations for business or\ncommercial purposes in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or\nmore and secured in compliance with the uniform commercial code shall\nnot be subject to the limitations of this title or sections 190.40 and\n190.42 of the penal law, if on the date when the interest is charged or\naccrued, such interest is not greater than eight percentage points above\nthe prime rate.\n  2. Such secured loans or forbearances which are made or advanced to\nany one corporate borrower in one or more installments pursuant to a\nwritten agreement which provides for either discretionary or mandatory\nadvances by one or more lenders shall be deemed to be a single loan or\nforbearance for the total amount which the lender or lenders have\nadvanced, if such advances are discretionary, or have agreed to advance,\nif such advances are mandatory, pursuant to such agreement on the terms\nand conditions provided therein.\n  3. For purposes of this section, the loan or forbearance transaction\nmust create a security interest as set forth in section 9--109 of the\nuniform commercial code and must be filed pursuant to article nine of\nsuch code unless filing is not required pursuant to section 9--310 of\nsuch code, or (b) must create a security interest set forth in section\n9--110 of such code.\n  4. For purposes of this section, the prime rate shall equal the\naverage prime rate on short term business loans which is published by\nthe board of governors of the federal reserve system for the most recent\nweek which was publicly available from the board of governors of the\nfederal reserve system on the previous business day.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-Z — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5-C / Section 410-Z
Reporting requirements
Status: in_force

* § 410-z. Reporting requirements. Each social services district shall\ncollect and submit to the department, in such form and at such times as\nspecified by the department, such data and information regarding child\ncare assistance provided under the block grant as the department may\nneed to comply with federal reporting requirements.\n  * NB Effective until October 1, 2026\n  * § 410-z. Reporting requirements. Each social services district shall\ncollect and submit to the office of children and family services, in\nsuch form and at such times as specified by the office of children and\nfamily services, such data and information regarding child care\nassistance provided under the block grant as the office of children and\nfamily services may need to comply with federal reporting requirements.\n  * NB Effective October 1, 2026\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-B — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5 / Section 410-B
Federal grants
Status: in_force

§ 410-b.  Federal grants.  1.  The department of taxation and finance\nis authorized to accept and receive from the federal government any\nmoneys which the federal government shall offer to the state for or with\nrespect to the construction, maintenance or operation of facilities for\nday care for children, under or pursuant to any federal law heretofore\nor hereafter enacted authorizing grants to the state for such purpose or\nsimilar purposes, including payments to political subdivisions of, and\nany public agencies in the state.\n  2.  The department of social welfare is hereby designated and\nempowered to act as the agent of the state in carrying out the\nprovisions of any such federal law with respect to such day care\nfacilities in this state.\n  3.  Any and all such grants and moneys awarded for assistance to this\nstate under or pursuant to any federal law shall be accepted and\nreceived by the department of taxation and finance as custodian thereof\nand such moneys, so received, shall be deposited by such department of\ntaxation and finance in a special fund or funds and shall be used\nexclusively for the purposes of any such federal law.  Such moneys shall\nbe paid from such fund or funds on the audit and warrant of the\ncomptroller upon vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of\nwelfare.\n  4.  Any federal funds made available to the state for day care\nfacilities shall be retained by the state.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-P — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-P
Remedies of bondholders
Status: in_force

§ 1500-p. Remedies of bondholders. 1. In the event that the authority\nshall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of\nthe bonds after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon\ncall for redemption, and such default shall continue for a period of\nthirty days, or in the event that the authority shall fail or refuse to\ncomply with the provisions of this title, or shall default in any\nagreement made with the holders of any issue of the bonds, the holders\nof twenty-five per centum in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of\nsuch issue then outstanding, by instrument or instruments filed in the\noffice of the clerk of the county of Erie and proved or acknowledged in\nthe same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to\nrepresent the holders of such bonds for the purposes herein provided.\n  2. Such trustee may, and upon written request of the holders of\ntwenty-five per centum in principal amount of such bonds then\noutstanding shall, in such trustee's own name:\n  (a) by action or special proceeding enforce all rights of the\nbondholders, including the right to require the authority to collect\nrevenues adequate to carry out by any agreement as to, or pledge of,\nsuch revenues, and to require the authority to carry out any other\nagreements with the holders of such bonds and to perform its duties\nunder this title;\n  (b) bring suit upon such bonds;\n  (c) by action or special proceeding, require the authority to account\nas if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such\nbonds;\n  (d) by action or special proceeding, enjoin any acts or things which\nmay be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such\nbonds;\n  (e) declare all such bonds due and payable, and if all defaults shall\nbe made good then with the consent of the holders of twenty-five per\ncentum of the principal amount of such bonds then outstanding, to annul\nsuch declaration and its consequences.\n  3. The supreme court shall have jurisdiction of any suit, action or\nproceeding by the trustee on behalf of bondholders. The venue of any\nsuch suit, action or proceeding shall be laid in the county of Erie.\n  4. Before declaring the principal of all such bonds due and payable,\nthe trustee shall first give thirty days' notice in writing to the\nauthority.\n  5. Any such trustee, whether or not the issue of bonds represented by\nsuch trustee has been declared due and payable, shall be entitled as of\nright to the appointment of a receiver of any part or parts of the\ncovered project the revenues of which are pledged for the security of\nthe bonds of such issue, and such receiver may enter and take possession\nof such part or parts of the covered project and, subject to any pledge\nor agreement with bondholders, shall take possession of all moneys and\nother property derived from or applicable to the acquisition,\nconstruction, operation, maintenance and reconstruction of such part or\nparts of the covered project and proceed with the acquisition of any\nnecessary real property in connection with the covered project that the\nauthority has covenanted to construct, and with any construction which\nthe authority is under obligation to do and to operate, maintain and\nreconstruct such part or parts of the covered project and collect and\nreceive all revenues thereafter arising therefrom subject to any pledge\nthereof or agreement with bondholders relating thereto and perform the\npublic duties and carry out the agreements and obligations of the\nauthority under the direction of the court. In any suit, action or\nproceeding by the trustee, the fee, counsel fees and expenses of the\ntrustee and of the receiver, if any, shall constitute taxable\ndisbursements and all costs and disbursements allowed by the court shall\nbe a first charge on any revenues derived from such project.\n  6. Such trustee shall, in addition to the foregoing, have and possess\nall of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of any\nfunctions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general\nrepresentation of bondholders in the enforcement and protection of their\nrights.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 71-0519 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 71 / Title 5 / Section 71-0519
Compromise of civil penalty
Status: in_force

§ 71-0519. Compromise of civil penalty.\n  1. A person who has violated any of the provisions of this chapter\nlisted in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 15 inclusive and\ntitle 33 of this article, and who desires to compromise and settle his\ncivil liability therefor, may appear with any conservation officer,\nregional and assistant regional conservation officer, special game\nprotector, district ranger, forest ranger, or member of the state\npolice, before a court or justice having jurisdiction in civil actions,\nand thereupon such person may, upon the consent of the representative of\nthe department appearing, compromise and settle his liability for civil\npenalties, for an amount agreed upon between said court or justice, the\nrepresentative of the department and the person who committed such\nviolation.\n  2. The agreed amount shall not be less than ten dollars nor more than\nthe amount for which such person would be liable in a civil action for\npenalties; provided that any person who has violated the provisions of\nthis chapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 13\ninclusive and titles 27 and 33 of this article, involving the taking of\na deer with the aid of an artificial light, or has illegally taken a\ndeer prior to the first day of the open season or after the last day of\nthe open season in the county in which taken, or has otherwise illegally\ntaken a deer, and who desires to compromise and settle his civil\nliability therefor, may, in the manner herein provided, compromise and\nsettle his liability for civil penalties under the provisions of this\nchapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 13 inclusive\nand titles 27 and 33 of this article, in an amount not less than one\nhundred dollars nor more than the amount for which such person would be\nliable in a civil action for penalties.\n  3. If such compromise be made, such person shall forthwith subscribe\nhis name to a statement setting forth concisely the facts constituting\nsuch violation, the amount agreed upon, and that a judgment may be\nentered against him for that sum. Upon said statement being sworn to\nbefore and filed with said court or justice, he shall forthwith enter in\nhis civil docket a record of the proceedings and amount of the judgment.\n  4. Said court or justice shall upon the entry of such judgment be\nentitled to a fee of two dollars and fifty cents to be paid by the\nperson who committed such violation, provided, however, that if the\njustice is a justice of a town or village, such fee shall be the\nproperty of the town or village of which he is an officer, and shall be\npaid by said justices to the State Comptroller in the same manner as\nother fees received by such justice.\n  5. A judgment entered as provided herein may be enforced by an\nexecution against the property of the defendant, but no body execution\nshall issue thereon. Such judgment shall be a bar to a criminal action\nfor the same violation, if satisfied within thirty days from the date of\nthe entry thereof.\n  6. Whenever a person who desires to compromise and settle his civil\nliability pursuant to the provisions of this section is an infant over\nthe age of fourteen years, upon his appearance for such purpose, the\ncourt or justice before whom such appearance is made, may, upon the\napplication of such person appoint a person to appear as his guardian\nfor the purpose of compromising and settling his said civil liability.\nThe written consent of the person so appointed must be filed with the\ncourt or justice before his appointment.\n
N.Y. GMU Law § 574 — New York Code / Act GMU / Article 15-B / Title 5 / Section 574
Mechanicville urban renewal agency
Status: in_force

§ 574. Mechanicville urban renewal agency. A municipal urban renewal\nagency, to be known as the Mechanicville urban renewal agency, is hereby\nestablished for the accomplishment of any or all of the purposes\nspecified in articles fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter and in\naccordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New\nYork. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in\nduration and consist of three members, the mayor, commissioner of public\nsafety and the commissioner of public finance.  It shall have the powers\nand duties now or hereafter conferred by article fifteen-A of this\nchapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It shall be organized in the\nmanner prescribed by and be subject to the provisions of article\nfifteen-A of this chapter and the agency, its members, officers and\nemployees and its operations and activities shall in all respects be\ngoverned by the provisions of such article.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1114-K — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 5 / Title 5-A / Section 1114-K
Bonds; legal investments for fiduciaries
Status: in_force

* § 1114-k. Bonds; legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds of the\nauthority are hereby made securities in which all public officials and\nbodies of the state and all municipalities, all insurance companies and\nassociations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all\nbanks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations,\nincluding savings and loan associations, investment companies and other\npersons carrying on a banking business, and administrators, guardians,\nexecutors, trustees and other fiduciaries and all other persons\nwhatsoever, who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in\nbonds or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest\nfunds including capital in their control or belonging to them. The bonds\nare also hereby made securities which may be deposited with and may be\nreceived by all public officers and bodies of the state and all\nmunicipalities for any purposes for which the deposit of bonds or other\nobligations of the state is now or hereafter may be authorized.\n  * NB There are 2 § 1114-k's\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 27-0507 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 27 / Title 5 / Section 27-0507
Powers of municipalities
Status: in_force

§ 27-0507. Powers of municipalities.\n  Any municipality may:\n  1. apply to and contract with the commissioner for state aid pursuant\nto this article;\n  2. enter into contracts for consulting, engineering and other\nprofessional services for the preparation of documents in respect to\nwhich state aid is to be sought pursuant to this title; provided,\nhowever, the contract costs negotiated between the person or firm chosen\nto perform such services and the applicant for state aid under this\ntitle shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner; and\n  3. expend money received from the state pursuant to this title only\nfor purposes consistent therewith.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 4162 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 41 / Title 5 / Section 4162
Products of conception; burial and removal; permits
Status: in_force

§ 4162. Products of conception; burial and removal; permits. 1. Upon\nrequest a permit shall be issued for the removal, transportation, burial\nor other disposition of products of conception.\n  2. Such permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the district\nin which the pregnancy loss occurred upon request by the funeral\ndirector seeking to take possession of the products of conception, on\nthe form prescribed by the commissioner. The issuance of such permit\nshall be subject to the provisions of title IV of this article.\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 547 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 21-C / Section 547
Period of validity of escort certificates
Status: in_force

§ 547. Period of validity of escort certificates.  An escort\ncertificate shall be valid:  (a) for a New York state licensee from its\ndate of issuance until the expiration of such person's driver's license,\nand (b) for non-residents, a four year period from its date of issuance.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3650 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 73 / Part 5 / Section 3650
Comprehensive school bus driver safety training program
Status: in_force

§ 3650. Comprehensive school bus driver safety training program. 1.\nThe commissioner, in consultation with the state comprehensive school\nbus driver safety training council and subject to appropriation by the\nlegislature, shall:\n  a. Develop a uniform and comprehensive school bus driver safety\ntraining program for school bus drivers transporting students to and\nfrom school by school bus including instruction to such school bus\ndrivers concerning the latest safety techniques using the latest\ninstructional materials.\n  b. Include within the safety training program the development of\ncurriculum and training materials including a school bus driver safety\ntraining manual.\n  c. Develop and conduct professional development school bus driver\nsafety training seminars statewide.\n  d. Establish and maintain a data base containing data relative to\nschool bus accidents and fatalities reported within the state.\n  e. Engage the services of consultants on a contract basis for\nrendering professional and tactical assistance.\n  f. Award and distribute grants, following appropriation by the\nlegislature which appropriation may include funds of the school bus\nmotorist education fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-j of\nthe state finance law, for the study of issues involving the illegal\npassing of stopped school buses, the development of proposals to reduce\nthe number of motorists passing school buses in violation of section\neleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law, and to\npromote school bus safety.\n  2. The commissioner, in consultation with the justice center for the\nprotection of people with special needs, shall promulgate rules and\nregulations requiring every school bus driver operating a school bus\nwhich has or will have one or more students with a disability as\npassengers to receive training and instruction relating to the\nunderstanding of, and attention to, the special needs of such students.\nSuch training and instruction may be included with the training and\ninstruction required pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision one of this\nsection and shall be provided at least once per year or more frequently\nas determined by the commissioner in consultation with the state\ncomprehensive school bus driver safety training council. For the\npurposes of this subdivision, the term "student with a disability" shall\nhave the same meaning as such term is defined in subdivision one of\nsection forty-four hundred one of this chapter. Any person employed as a\nschool bus driver on January first, two thousand nine who is subject to\nthe provisions of this subdivision shall comply with the requirements of\nthis subdivision by July first, two thousand nine. Any school bus driver\nhired after January first, two thousand nine who is subject to the\nrequirements of this subdivision shall complete such training and\ninstruction prior to assuming his or her duties.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 17-0501 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 17 / Title 5 / Section 17-0501
General prohibition against pollution
Status: in_force

§ 17-0501. General prohibition against pollution.\n  1. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to\nthrow, drain, run or otherwise discharge into such waters organic or\ninorganic matter that shall cause or contribute to a condition in\ncontravention of the standards adopted by the department pursuant to\nsection 17-0301.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 29-0509 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 29 / Title 5 / Section 29-0509
Aid to local governments
Status: in_force

§ 29-0509. Aid to local governments.\n  No later than the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-seven,\nthe department shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report\nrecommending appropriate forms of state aid to local governmental units\nwithin the boundaries of which any low-level radioactive waste\nmanagement facilities may be located. Such report shall be developed by\nthe department and shall:\n  1. describe the nature of the probable impacts upon local governmental\nunits, including both impacts normally expected from the presence,\nconstruction, operation, maintenance, closure, and post-closure care of\nsuch low-level radioactive waste management facilities and impacts which\nmight result from an emergency or other abnormal or unusual event\nassociated with the operation, maintenance, closure, or post-closure\ncare of such low-level radioactive waste facilities;\n  2. describe the possible forms or kinds of aid or assistance which\nmight be appropriate to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits with\nrespect to each of the kinds of probable impacts on local governmental\nunits identified pursuant to this section; and\n  3. set forth the department's specific recommendations to the\nlegislature and the governor for the forms or kinds of state assistance\nto local governmental units to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits\nwith respect to such impacts, together with the reasons for the\ndepartment's specific recommendations.\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3804 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 77 / Section 3804
Report and payment of fines
Status: in_force

§ 3804. Report and payment of fines.  Every district attorney shall\nreport, annually, to the board of supervisors or other governing\nelective body, all such fines and penalties imposed in any prosecution\nconducted by him during the previous year; and all moneys collected or\nreceived by him or by the sheriff, or any other officer, for or on\naccount of such fines or penalties, shall be immediately paid into the\ncounty treasury, and the receipt of the county treasurer shall be a\nsufficient and the only voucher for such money.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2152 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 21 / Title 5 / Section 2152
Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, payment of expenses
Status: in_force

§ 2152. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, payment of\nexpenses.  1. No expenditure for the purposes authorized in sections two\nthousand one hundred fifty and two thousand one hundred fifty-one of\nthis chapter, shall be contracted for or incurred by any agency or\nperson until after such expense has been authorized and approved by the\ncommissioner.\n  2. (a) A verified statement of any such approved expense incurred\npursuant to this section and sections two thousand one hundred fifty and\ntwo thousand one hundred fifty-one of this chapter, shall be transmitted\nto the commissioner.\n  (b) The commissioner shall examine the statement and if satisfied that\nsuch authorized expenses are correct and necessary in accordance with\nrules and regulations adopted by him he shall audit and allow the same\nand when so audited the amount thereof shall be paid by the state\ndepartment of taxation and finance, on the warrant of the state\ncomptroller to the institution, agency or person.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 19-0503 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 19 / Title 5 / Section 19-0503
Complaints; investigation
Status: in_force

§ 19-0503. Complaints; investigation.\n  In case any written complaint shall be filed with the commissioner and\nhe shall have cause to believe, or in case the commissioner himself\nshall have cause to believe, that any person is violating any code, rule\nor regulation, which was promulgated by the department pursuant to this\narticle, the commissioner shall cause a prompt investigation thereof to\nbe made.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 410-T — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 6 / Title 5-B / Section 410-T
Responsibilities of the commissioner
Status: in_force

§ 410-t. Responsibilities of the commissioner.  1.  The commissioner\nshall monitor the performance of agencies to assure that the terms of\nthe contract are met, that the services are provided in accordance with\nthe intent of this title and that funds are used as required by this\ntitle.\n  2. The commissioner may contract for technical support, planning,\ncoordination and data collection services to assist agencies in offering\nchild care resource services in unserved areas.\n  3. Beginning July first, nineteen hundred ninety-four and biennially\nthereafter, the commissioner shall submit a report to the governor and\nthe legislature on the implementation of this title which shall include\nbut not be limited to:\n  (a) the names of the agencies serving the counties and the counties\nserved by a child care resources and referral agency;\n  (b) the awards made to each agency;\n  (c) the characteristics and number of children and families who have\nreceived services;\n  (d) the improvements in the accessibility of early childhood services,\nthe improvement in quality and the expanded supply;\n  (e) the nature of services contracted for and additional services the\nagency is able to provide with other funding sources;\n  (f) the amount of state and federal funding available for services\nprovided under this title; and\n  (g) the cost to the state to administer the programs funded under this\ntitle.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 17-0505 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 17 / Title 5 / Section 17-0505
Prohibition against certain acts without permit
Status: in_force

§ 17-0505. Prohibition against certain acts without permit.\n  The making or use of an outlet or point source discharging into the\nwaters of the state, and the operation or construction of disposal\nsystems, without a valid SPDES permit as provided by section 17-0701 or\ntitle 8 hereof are prohibited.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 2582 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 25 / Title 5 / Section 2582
Children with physical disabilities; duty of the department
Status: in_force

§ 2582. Children with physical disabilities; duty of the department.\n1. The department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits\nof the appropriations made therefor, such medical service for children\nwith physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner is\nneeded.\n  2. The commissioner of health of any county or part-county health\ndistrict or, in a county lacking a county or part-county health\ndistrict, the medical director of the program for children with physical\ndisabilities, or the department of health of the city of New York, may\nissue authorizations for medical service for children with physical\ndisabilities, and the expenses thereof, when approved by such health\ncommissioner, department of health or medical director and duly audited,\nshall be a charge upon the county, or upon the city of New York if such\nbe the case, wherein the children are domiciled at the time application\nis made for such medical service.\n  3. Such health commissioner, department of health or county medical\ndirector may determine and order that the person or persons charged with\nthe liability under the laws to support such child shall pay a part or\nall of such expenses. A parent or other person who is ordered to\ncontribute to the cost of medical service authorized by this section may\npetition the family court , pursuant to section two hundred thirty-two\nof the family court act, for review of the order. Whenever a parent or\nother person who is ordered to contribute to the cost of medical service\nauthorized by this section fails to make such contribution, the health\ncommissioner, department of health or medical director may apply to the\nfamily court, pursuant to section two hundred thirty-two of the family\ncourt act, for an order compelling such contribution. The amount\nauthorized to be paid for medical service shall be in full payment\nthereof and shall be accepted by the person or corporation furnishing\nsuch service in full payment thereof when any payment is made under such\nauthorization by the county or by the city of New York, and no such\nperson or corporation shall ask or receive directly or indirectly any\nother or additional compensation.\n  4. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health\ndistrict, or, in a county lacking a county or part-county health\ndistrict, the medical director of the program for children with physical\ndisabilities, or the department of health of the city of New York, shall\nissue authorizations for medical service for children with physical\ndisabilities, the commissioner, if he approves such authorizations,\nshall certify to such effect, copies of which certification shall be\nfiled with the clerk of the board of supervisors or other governing\nelective body of the county or chief fiscal officer of the city of New\nYork and with the commissioner.\n  5. The medical service provided for in any authorization issued\npursuant to subdivision two may be furnished and completed even though\nthe person for whom such service is to be provided under such\nauthorization shall have thereafter attained the age of twenty-one\nyears; provided, however, that no such authorization shall provide for\ntreatment beyond eighteen months from the date thereof.\n  6. The circumstance that a child is not eligible for medical\nassistance pursuant to the provisions of title eleven of article five of\nthe social services law shall not be a bar to the furnishing and\ncompletion of the medical assistance for children with physical\ndisabilities authorized by this title.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 261 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 2 / Title 5* / Section 261
Legislative intent
Status: in_force

§ 261. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds, determines,\nand declares that obesity is a serious medical problem affecting up to\none-third of all Americans. In addition, a nineteen ninety-seven Kaiser\nPermanente study concluded that there is a significant potential for a\nreduction in health care expenditures through obesity prevention. In\naddition:\n  1. Obesity is known to cause or exacerbate a number of serious\ndisorders including hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease,\ndiabetes, respiratory dysfunction, gout, and osteoarthritis;\n  2. Nearly eighty percent of patients with diabetes mellitus are obese;\n  3. Nearly seventy percent of diagnosed cases of cardiovascular disease\nare related to obesity; and\n  4. Obesity ranks second only to smoking as a preventable cause of\ndeath, with some three hundred thousand deaths annually attributable to\nobesity.\n
N.Y. SOS Law § 91 — New York Code / Act SOS / Article 3 / Title 5 / Section 91
Estimates and appropriations in city public welfare districts
Status: in_force

§ 91.  Estimates and appropriations in city public welfare districts.\nThe city commissioner of public welfare shall present to the mayor or\nother authority provided by law in such city an itemized estimate of the\namount of money needed for the ensuing year for the administration of\nthe city public welfare district and for public assistance and care.\nThe legislative body of the city public welfare district shall\nappropriate the amount necessary for such purpose and shall cause taxes\nto be levied for the amount of such appropriation.\n  Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent the\nfinancing of any such expenditure, in whole or in part, pursuant to the\nlocal finance law.\n
N.Y. PBH Law § 3361 — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 33 / Title 5-A / Section 3361
Certification of patients
Status: in_force

* § 3361. Certification of patients. 1. A patient certification may\nonly be issued if: (a) a practitioner has been registered with the\ndepartment to issue a certification as determined by the commissioner;\n(b) the patient has a serious condition, which shall be specified in the\npatient's health care record; (c) the practitioner by training or\nexperience is qualified to treat the serious condition; (d) the patient\nis under the practitioner's continuing care for the serious condition;\nand (e) in the practitioner's professional opinion and review of past\ntreatments, the patient is likely to receive therapeutic or palliative\nbenefit from the primary or adjunctive treatment with medical use of\nmarihuana for the serious condition.\n  2. The certification shall include (a) the name, date of birth and\naddress of the patient; (b) a statement that the patient has a serious\ncondition and the patient is under the practitioner's care for the\nserious condition; (c) a statement attesting that all requirements of\nsubdivision one of this section have been satisfied; (d) the date; and\n(e) the name, address, federal registration number, telephone number,\nand the handwritten signature of the certifying practitioner. The\ncommissioner may require by regulation that the certification shall be\non a form provided by the department. The practitioner may state in the\ncertification that, in the practitioner's professional opinion, the\npatient would benefit from medical marihuana only until a specified\ndate. The practitioner may state in the certification that, in the\npractitioner's professional opinion, the patient is terminally ill and\nthat the certification shall not expire until the patient dies.\n  3. In making a certification, the practitioner shall consider the form\nof medical marihuana the patient should consume, including the method of\nconsumption and any particular strain, variety, and quantity or\npercentage of marihuana or particular active ingredient, and appropriate\ndosage. The practitioner shall state in the certification any\nrecommendation or limitation the practitioner makes, in his or her\nprofessional opinion, concerning the appropriate form or forms of\nmedical marihuana and dosage.\n  4. Every practitioner shall consult the prescription monitoring drug\nprogram registry prior to making or issuing a certification, for the\npurpose of reviewing a patient's controlled substance history. For\npurposes of this section, a practitioner may authorize a designee to\nconsult the prescription monitoring program registry on his or her\nbehalf, provided that such designation is in accordance with section\nthirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this article.\n  5. The practitioner shall give the certification to the certified\npatient, and place a copy in the patient's health care record.\n  6. No practitioner shall issue a certification under this section for\nhimself or herself.\n  7. A registry identification card based on a certification shall\nexpire one year after the date the certification is signed by the\npractitioner.\n  8. (a) If the practitioner states in the certification that, in the\npractitioner's professional opinion, the patient would benefit from\nmedical marihuana only until a specified earlier date, then the registry\nidentification card shall expire on that date;\n  (b) If the practitioner states in the certification that in the\npractitioner's professional opinion the patient is terminally ill and\nthat the certification shall not expire until the patient dies, then the\nregistry identification card shall state that the patient is terminally\nill and that the registration card shall not expire until the patient\ndies;\n  (c) If the practitioner re-issues the certification to terminate the\ncertification on an earlier date, then the registry identification card\nshall expire on that date and shall be promptly returned by the\ncertified patient to the department;\n  (d) If the certification so provides, the registry identification card\nshall state any recommendation or limitation by the practitioner as to\nthe form or forms of medical marihuana or dosage for the certified\npatient; and\n  (e) The commissioner shall make regulations to implement this\nsubdivision.\n  9.(a) A certification may be a special certification if, in addition\nto the other requirements for a certification, the practitioner\ncertifies in the certification that the patient's serious condition is\nprogressive and degenerative or that delay in the patient's certified\nmedical use of marihuana poses a serious risk to the patient's life or\nhealth.\n  (b) The department shall create the form to be used for a special\ncertification and shall make that form available to be downloaded from\nthe department's website.\n  * NB Repealed July 5, 2028 and Repealed 6 months after the full\ncannabis control board created by Article 2 of the cannabis law has been\nappointed\n
N.Y. VAT Law § 551 — New York Code / Act VAT / Title 5 / Article 21-C / Section 551
Violations
Status: in_force

§ 551. Violations. 1. No person shall operate an escort vehicle, as\ndefined in section one hundred fourteen-c of this chapter, unless he or\nshe is the holder of a valid driver's license and possesses a valid\nescort certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. A\nviolation of this subdivision shall be a traffic infraction and shall be\npunishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than\nfive hundred dollars.\n  2. No person shall operate an escort vehicle, as defined in section\none hundred fourteen-c of this chapter, with an escort certificate which\nhas been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. A\nviolation of this subdivision shall be a traffic infraction and shall be\npunishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than\none thousand dollars.\n  3. No person shall operate an escort vehicle, as defined in section\none hundred fourteen-c of this chapter, in violation of any rule or\nregulation of the commissioner of transportation regarding the\noperation, use or equipping of such vehicles.  A violation of this\nsubdivision shall be a traffic infraction and shall be punishable by a\nfine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred\ndollars.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 900 — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 4 / Title 5 / Section 900
Short title
Status: in_force

§ 900. Short title. This title shall be known and may be cited as the\n"Long Island Market Authority Act".\n
N.Y. EDN Law § 3809 — New York Code / Act EDN / Title 5 / Article 77 / Section 3809
Forfeiture of amount of moneys lost by neglect
Status: in_force

§ 3809. Forfeiture of amount of moneys lost by neglect.  Whenever the\nshare of school moneys or any portion thereof, apportioned to any school\ndistrict, or any money to which a town or school district would have\nbeen entitled, shall be lost, in consequence of any wilful neglect of\nofficial duty by any district superintendent, town clerk, trustees or\nclerks of school districts, the officer guilty of such neglect shall\nforfeit to the town, or school district so losing the same, the full\namount of such loss with interest thereon.\n
N.Y. PBA Law § 1500-J — New York Code / Act PBA / Article 7 / Title 5 / Section 1500-J
Agreements of New York state
Status: in_force

§ 1500-j. Agreements of New York state. The state does hereby pledge\nto and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority\npursuant to this title and with those persons or public authorities who\nmay enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the provisions\nof this title that the state will not alter, limit or impair the rights\nvested in the authority by this title to purchase, construct, own and\noperate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate,\nenlarge, increase and extend, or dispose of any covered project, or any\npart or parts thereof for which bonds of the authority shall have been\nissued, to establish and collect rentals, fees and other charges\nreferred to in this title, to fulfill the terms of any contracts or\nagreements made with or for the benefit of the holders of the bonds, or\nwith any person or public authority with reference to such covered\nproject or part thereof, or in any way to impair the rights and remedies\nof the bondholders, until the bonds, together with interest thereon,\nincluding interest on any unpaid installments of interest and all costs\nand expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf\nof the holders of bonds, are fully met and discharged and such contracts\nare fully performed on the part of the authority. The authority is\nauthorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any\nagreement with the holders of bonds.\n
N.Y. ENV Law § 71-0509 — New York Code / Act ENV / Article 71 / Title 5 / Section 71-0509
Costs in actions by the people
Status: in_force

§ 71-0509. Costs in actions by the people.\n  In case of recovery of any amount in an action brought for a penalty\nunder the provisions of this chapter listed in section 71-0501 or under\ntitles 5 through 15 inclusive and title 33, of this article or any\naction authorized by such law as amended, in any court of record the\npeople shall be entitled to recover full costs, of course, and at the\nrates as provided for civil actions.\n