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NY Gen Bus L § 22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 22 - Power of Common Council of Cities.

§ 22. Power of common council of cities.  Except as otherwise provided   in  the  charter of the city, the common council of a city may designate   such place within such city for the sale by auction of horses, carriages   and household furniture, as it deems expedient.
NY Gen Bus L § 24 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 24 - Mock Auction.

§ 24. Mock auction.  A person who buys or sells, or pretends to buy or   sell,  any  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise,  or any species of property   except ships, vessels, or real or leasehold estate, exposed for sale  by   auction,  if  an  actual sale, purchase, and change of ownership therein   does not thereupon take place, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by   imprisonment for thirty days, or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred   dollars or both.A  person  who  obtains money or property from another, or obtains the   signature of another to any writing, the false making of which would  be   forgery,  by  means  of  any  false  or  fraudulent  sale of property or   pretended property by auction, or by any of the practices known as  mock   auctions,  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor;  and  in  addition thereto he   forfeits any license he may hold to act as an auctioneer, and is forever   disqualified from receiving a license to act as an  auctioneer  in  this   state.
NY Gen Bus L § 25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 25 - Records to Be Kept by Auctioneers.

§  25.  Records  to be kept by auctioneers. Every auctioneer or person   engaged in the business of selling goods at auction, whether  acting  in   his  own  behalf  or as the officer, agent or representative of another,   shall, upon the receipt or acceptance  by  him  of  any  goods  for  the   purpose  of  sale  at  auction, and before offering the same or any part   thereof for sale at auction, write or cause to be written in a  book  to   be  kept  by him for the purpose, the name and address of the person who   employed him to sell such goods at auction, the name and address of  the   person for whose benefit, behalf or account such goods are to be sold at   auction;  the  name  and address of the person from whom such auctioneer   received or accepted such goods; the name and address of the person  who   was  the  owner,  the  authorized agent of the owner or the consignor of   such goods immediately prior  to  the  receipt  or  acceptance  for  the   purpose of sale at auction of the same by such auctioneer; the location,   with  street  and number, if any, of such goods immediately prior to the   receipt or acceptance of the same by such auctioneer for the purpose  of   sale  at  auction;  the  date  of  the  receipt  or  acceptance  by such   auctioneer of such goods for the purpose of sale at auction; the  place,   with street and number, if any, in which such goods are to be held, kept   or  stored  until  sold  or offered for sale at auction; the place, with   street and number, if any, in which such goods are to be sold or offered   for sale at auction; a description of such goods, the  quantity  thereof   and the distinctive marks thereon, if any; the terms and conditions upon   which  such  auctioneer  receives  or  accepts  such  goods  for sale at   auction. The expression "goods" as used in this  section  signifies  any   goods,  wares,  works  of  art,  commodity, compound or thing, chattels,   merchandise or personal property which may be lawfully kept  or  offered   for sale, but shall not include goods damaged at sea or by fire and sold   or to be sold for the benefit of the owners, insurers or for the account   of  whom  it may concern or goods sold by virtue of judicial decree. The   word  "person"  as  used  in  this  section  includes   a   corporation,   joint-stock  association or copartnership. Nothing herein shall apply to   the sale of real property at auction. The foregoing records shall be  in   addition  to  any  other  records  required  to  be kept pursuant to the   uniform commercial code.
NY Gen Bus L § 26 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 26 - Record Open to Inspection.

§  26.  Record  open  to  inspection.    The said book and the entries   therein, made as provided  by  the  preceding  section,  shall,  at  all   reasonable times, be open to the inspection of the mayor and the head of   the  police  department of the city in which the auctioneer conducts his   business, the district attorney of any county  in  which  said  city  is   located  or  which  is  a part of such city, and any person who shall be   duly authorized in writing for that purpose by any or either of them and   who shall exhibit such written authorization to such auctioneer.
NY Gen Bus L § 27 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 27 - Penalties.

§  27. Penalties.  Any person who violates or does not comply with the   provisions of section twenty-five hereof, or any  auctioneer  or  person   engaged  in  the  business  of  selling goods at auction who shall fail,   neglect or refuse to permit  or  allow  an  inspection  as  required  by   section  twenty-six  hereof  of  the  book, which he is required to keep   according to the provisions of  section  twenty-five  hereof,  shall  be   guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Gen Bus L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers 28 - Limitation.

§  28. Limitation.   Sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven   hereof shall apply only to cities of the first class and do  not  repeal   or  supersede  the  provisions  of  chapter thirty-two, title B, article   twenty-one of the administrative code of the city of New York.
NY Gen Bus L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4 - Peddlers 33 - Penalties.

§  33. Penalties. Every person found traveling and trading within this   state contrary to the provisions of this article,  or  contrary  to  the   terms  of  any  license  that  may  have  been granted to him under this   article, shall, for each offense, forfeit  to  the  town  in  which  the   offense shall be committed the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be applied   to  the  support  of  the  poor  of  the town. Every person traveling or   trading within this state, having a license, who refuses  to  produce  a   license  as  a  peddler  to  any  officer  or  citizen  who  demands the   production of the same shall, for each offense, forfeit to the  town  in   which  the  demand  is made the sum of ten dollars, to be applied to the   support of the poor thereof. The refusal of any such person to produce a   license when demanded shall be presumptive evidence that he is traveling   and trading without a license.No action for the recovery of any  penalty  imposed  by  this  article   shall  be  maintained  unless  it be brought within sixty days after the   commission of the offense charged.
NY Gen Bus L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4 - Peddlers 34 - Arrest and Conviction of Offender.

§  34. Arrest and conviction of offender. The public welfare officials   shall see that the provisions of this  article  are  enforced  in  their   respective towns. Any citizen may arrest any person trading as a peddler   who  neglects  or  refuses  to  produce his license on demand, and shall   immediately convey such person before some justice of the peace  of  the   county.  If  the  fact  that the person so arrested has traded without a   license be proved to the satisfaction of the justice, he  shall  convict   such  person  of  an offense against this article and on such conviction   shall issue his warrant to some constable of the county, commanding such   constable to levy and collect from the personal property of the offender   the sum of twenty-five dollars, with the costs of  the  proceeding,  not   exceeding  five  dollars. The penalty collected on such warrant shall be   paid by the justice to the public welfare official of the town where the   offense was committed.If it appears in said proceeding that the person arrested  refused  to   produce  his  license or to disclose his name when lawfully required, no   costs shall be allowed such defendant, nor shall he maintain  an  action   for false imprisonment.
NY Gen Bus L § 35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4 - Peddlers 35 - Municipal Regulations.

§  35.  Municipal  regulations.  This  article  shall  not  affect the   application of any  ordinance,  by-law  or  regulation  of  a  municipal   corporation  relating  to hawkers and peddlers within the limits of such   corporations, but the provisions of this article are to be complied with   in addition to  the  requirements  of  any  such  ordinance,  by-law  or   regulation;  provided,  however,  that  no  such  by-law,  ordinance  or   regulation shall prevent or in any manner interfere with the hawking  or   peddling,  without  the  use  of  any  but a hand driven vehicle, in any   street, avenue, alley, lane or park of a municipal corporation,  by  any   honorably discharged member of the armed forces of the United States who   (1)  was honorably discharged from such service, or (2) has a qualifying   condition, as defined in section three hundred fifty  of  the  executive   law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable   from  such  service,  or (3) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in   section three hundred fifty of the executive law,  and  has  received  a   discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, and   who is physically disabled as a result of injuries received while in the   service of said armed  forces  and  the  holder  of  a  license  granted   pursuant to section thirty-two of this article.
NY Gen Bus L § 37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors 37 - Definitions and Application.

§ 37. Definitions and application.1. For the purposes of this article, the term "itinerant vendor" shall   mean a merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store,   who transports to a building, vacant lot, or other location, including a   location  where  a  fee  is  charged  for  the  privilege of offering or   displaying goods for sale and/or where a fee is charged  to  prospective   buyers  for  admission  to the area where goods are offered or displayed   for sale,  an  inventory  of  goods  for  the  purpose  of  offering  or   displaying  such  goods for sale, but shall not include persons who sell   by sample, catalog or brochure for future delivery,  or  who  make  sale   presentations  pursuant  to  a  prior  invitation issued by the owner or   legal occupant.2. This article shall not be construed to  pre-empt  any  municipality   from  adopting  a  local  law,  rules  or  regulations  containing  more   stringent penalties than those provided in this article.
NY Gen Bus L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors 38 - Prohibited Sales.

§  38. Prohibited sales. No itinerant vendor, except for an authorized   manufacturer's representative or authorized distributor, shall offer for   sale any of the following items:1. Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a  child   under the age of two years; or2. Drugs as defined in section three thousand three hundred two of the   public health law.
NY Gen Bus L § 39 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors 39 - Violations and Penalties.

§  39. Violations and penalties. 1. The provisions of this article may   be enforced by the director of a municipal consumer affairs  office,  or   by  the  town  attorney,  city  corporation  counsel,  or other lawfully   designated enforcement officer of a municipality  or  local  government,   and   all   monies  collected  thereunder  shall  be  retained  by  such   municipality or local government.2. Under such procedures as may be established by  a  municipality  or   local government, whenever a violation of this article has occurred, the   enforcement  agency  may  impose  a  civil  penalty of not more than one   hundred dollars for each violation.3. Each item  offered  for  sale  or  sold  in  violation  of  section   thirty-eight of this article shall constitute a separate violation.
NY Gen Bus L § 40 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 40 - Licenses.

§  40.  Licenses.  No  person,  corporation, partnership or firm shall   hereafter carry on the  business  of  collateral  loan  broker,  without   having  first obtained from the mayor of the city or licensing authority   of the local governing body where the business is to  be  carried  on  a   license  authorizing  such person to carry on the same in the manner and   upon the conditions stated in the succeeding sections of  this  article.   In  the  city of New York such license may be issued by the commissioner   of consumer affairs. Nothing herein shall be  construed  to  prohibit  a   collateral loan broker from employing the title pawnbroker in connection   with  the  collateral  loan business. The title pawnbroker shall be used   exclusively by a collateral loan broker.
NY Gen Bus L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 41 - Licenses, How Obtained; Penalty for Carrying on Business Without License.

§ 41. Licenses, how obtained; penalty for carrying on business without   license.  The  mayor  or such local licensing authority may from time to   time grant, under his hand and the official seal of his office, to  such   citizens,  or  aliens  lawfully  admitted for permanent residence in the   United States, as he shall deem proper and  who  shall  produce  to  him   satisfactory  evidence  of  their  good character, a license authorizing   such person to carry on the business of a collateral loan broker,  which   license  shall  designate  the house in which such person shall carry on   said business, and no person, corporation,  partnership  or  firm  shall   carry  on  the  business  of a collateral loan broker without being duly   licensed, nor in any  other  house  than  the  one  designated  in  said   license,  under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each day he or they   shall exercise or carry on said business without such license or at  any   other  house  than  the  one  so  designated.  Any person receiving such   license shall pay therefor the sum of five hundred dollars for  the  use   of the city yearly where such business is to be conducted in a city with   a population of more than one million persons, and where the business is   to  be conducted elsewhere the fee for such license shall not exceed two   hundred fifty dollars yearly, and every such license  shall  expire  one   year  from  the  date  thereof, and may be renewed on application to the   mayor or local licensing authority each and every year on payment of the   same sum and upon performance of the other conditions herein  contained.   Every  person  so licensed shall, at the time of receiving such license,   file with the mayor or such local licensing authority granting the  same   a  bond  to  the  local  authorities,  to  be  executed by the person so   licensed and by two responsible  sureties,  in  the  penal  sum  of  ten   thousand  dollars,  to  be  approved  by  such  mayor or local licensing   authority, which bond shall be conditioned for the faithful  performance   of  the  duties  and obligations pertaining to the business so licensed,   and the mayor or such local licensing authority shall  have  full  power   and authority to revoke such license for cause.
NY Gen Bus L § 42 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 42 - Action on Bond.

§  42.  Action  on  bond.  If  any  person  shall  be aggrieved by the   misconduct of any  such  licensed  collateral  loan  broker,  and  shall   recover judgment against him therefor, such person may, after the return   unsatisfied,  either  in  whole or in part, of any execution issued upon   said judgment, maintain an action in his own name upon the bond of  said   collateral  loan  broker  in any court having jurisdiction of the amount   claimed, provided such  court  shall,  upon  application  made  for  the   purpose, grant such leave to prosecute.
NY Gen Bus L § 43 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 43 - Certain Entries to Be Made in Book.

§  43.  Certain entries to be made in book. Every such collateral loan   broker shall keep a book in which shall be fairly written, at  the  time   of  such  loan,  an  account  and  description of the goods, articles or   things pawned or pledged, the amount of money loaned thereon,  the  time   of  pledging the same, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, the   name and residence of the person pawning or  pledging  the  said  goods,   articles  or  things  and a notation of whether the pledgor claims to be   the owner, consignee or agent of the owner.
NY Gen Bus L § 45 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 45 - Book to Be Open to Inspection.

§  45.  Book  to  be open to inspection. The said book and any and all   other books and records regularly kept by such  collateral  loan  broker   shall  at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the attorney   general, the state comptroller, the mayor or local licensing  authority,   all  judges of the criminal courts, the superintendent of police, police   inspectors, captains of police and police justices of  such  cities,  or   any  or either of them, or of any person who shall be duly authorized in   writing for that purpose by any or either of them, and who shall exhibit   such written authority to such collateral loan broker. The mayor or  the   licensing  authority of any local governing body, the state comptroller,   the attorney general and any person duly authorized by them  shall  have   the  power  to  administer  oaths  and  to  examine  under oath any such   collateral loan broker or any officer, or agent, of such collateral loan   broker and any other person having custody or control of such books  and   records.  Such  books and records shall be retained in the possession of   the collateral loan broker, in good condition and in an orderly  fashion   for at least a period of six years.
NY Gen Bus L § 46 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 46 - Rate of Interest.

§  46.  Rate  of  interest.  Notwithstanding  any  general  or special   statutes, local laws and ordinances to the contrary, no collateral  loan   broker  shall  ask,  demand or receive any greater rate of interest than   four per centum per month, or any fraction of  a  month,  and  a  notice   containing  a  list  of such rates of interest as herein provided and in   accordance with the act of congress entitled "Truth in Lending Act"  and   the regulations thereunder, as such act and regulations may from time to   time  be amended shall be conspicuously displayed within the premises of   such collateral loan broker. A minimum interest  charge  of  twenty-five   cents per month may be made on any loan.No collateral loan broker shall receive or be entitled to any interest   or  charges  as  provided  by this article on any loan for any period of   time exceeding fifteen months from the date of the making of such  loan,   provided  however that where a loan is extended at the direct request of   the pledgor, the collateral loan broker may receive and be  entitled  to   any  interest  or  charges provided by this article on such loan for any   period of time not to exceed  fifteen  months  from  the  date  of  such   extension.
NY Gen Bus L § 47-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 47-A - Collateral Loan Broker Dealing With a Child.

§  47-a.  Collateral  loan  broker dealing with a child. No collateral   loan broker or person in the employ of a collateral  loan  broker  shall   receive  or  purchase any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from, or   make any loan or advance or permit to  be  loaned  or  advanced  to  any   child, actually or apparently under the age of eighteen years any money,   or  in  any  manner  directly or indirectly receive any goods, chattels,   wares or merchandise from any such child in pledge for loans made or  to   be made to it or to any other person or otherwise howsoever. It shall be   no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section, that in the   transaction  upon  which the prosecution is based the child acted as the   agent or representative of another, or that  the  defendant  dealt  with   such child as the agent or representative of another.
NY Gen Bus L § 48 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers 48 - Sale of Unclaimed Pledge by Collateral Loan Broker.

§  48.  Sale of unclaimed pledge by collateral loan broker. 1. No pawn or pledge made with a collateral loan broker shall  be  sold  until  the same shall have remained four months in his possession.   2. All sales of defaulted pledges shall be public or private with each such pledge being individually offered for sale.  (a)  If  at public sale, then it shall be by public auction, and shall be conducted by licensed auctioneers within the state of New  York.  All bids for the purchase of any defaulted pledge offered at such sale shall be  oral,  and  expressed  in  dollars  and cents without the use of any special signs, signals or motions, if less  than  eleven  people  attend such sale.  (b)  A  private sale may be at any time and place and on any terms but every aspect of the disposition  including  the  method,  manner,  time, place  and  terms  must  be  commercially  reasonable  and  conducted in conformity with applicable uniform commercial code provisions  regarding the disposal of collateral after default.  (c)  In  addition to any other provision contained in this article and article twenty-two-A of this chapter, section three  hundred  forty-nine of  this  chapter  shall  apply to a violation of the private and public sale provisions of this article.