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NY Gen Oblig L § 5-336 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 3 - Certain Prohibited Contracts and Provisions of Contracts 5-336 - Nondisclosure Agreements.

§  5-336.  Nondisclosure  agreements. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no employer, its officers or employees  shall  have the  authority  to  include  or  agree  to  include  in  any settlement, agreement or other resolution of any claim, the factual  foundation  for which   involves   discrimination,  in  violation  of  laws  prohibiting discrimination, including but not limited to,  article  fifteen  of  the executive  law,  any term or condition that would prevent the disclosure of the underlying facts and circumstances to the claim or action  unless the condition of confidentiality is the complainant's preference.  (b)  Any  such  term  or  condition must be provided in writing to all parties in plain English, and, if applicable, the  primary  language  of the  complainant,  and  the  complainant  shall  have twenty-one days to consider such term or condition. If after twenty-one days such  term  or condition  is  the  complainant's  preference,  such preference shall be memorialized in an agreement signed by all parties. For a period  of  at least  seven  days  following  the  execution  of  such  agreement,  the complainant may revoke the agreement, and the agreement shall not become effective or be enforceable until such revocation period has expired.  (c) Any such term or condition shall be void to  the  extent  that  it prohibits  or  otherwise restricts the complainant from: (i) initiating, testifying, assisting, complying with a subpoena from, or  participating in  any manner with an investigation conducted by the appropriate local, state, or federal  agency;  or  (ii)  filing  or  disclosing  any  facts necessary  to  receive unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or other public benefits to which the complainant is entitled.   2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any provision in a contract or other agreement between an employer or an agent  of  an employer and any employee or potential employee of that employer entered into  on  or after January first, two thousand twenty, that prevents the disclosure of  factual  information  related  to  any  future  claim  of discrimination  is void and unenforceable unless such provision notifies the employee or potential employee that it does not prohibit him or  her from  speaking  with  law  enforcement, the equal employment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a  local  commission  on human  rights,  or  an  attorney  retained  by the employee or potential employee.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-337 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 3 - Certain Prohibited Contracts and Provisions of Contracts 5-337 - Agreements Requiring Contractees to Waive Their Rights in Relation to Expressing Certain Opinions About Contractors Void and Unenforceable.

§  5-337.  Agreements  requiring  contractees to waive their rights in relation to expressing  certain  opinions  about  contractors  void  and unenforceable.  1.  (a)  A contract or proposed contract for the sale or lease of consumer goods or services may not include a provision  waiving the  consumer's  right  to  make  any  statement regarding the seller or lessor or its employees or agents, or concerning the goods or services.  (b) It shall be unlawful to threaten or to seek to enforce a provision made unlawful under this section, or to otherwise  penalize  a  consumer for making any statement protected under this section.   2.  Any waiver of the provisions of this section is contrary to public policy, and is void and unenforceable.   3. Any person or entity that violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for  the first  violation,  and five thousand dollars for the second and for each subsequent violation, to be assessed and collected  in  a  civil  action brought  by  the consumer or by the attorney general. In addition, for a willful or intentional violation of this  section,  a  consumer  or  the attorney  general may recover a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Under this section, when the civil action  is  brought  by  the consumer,  the  civil  penalty shall be payable to the consumer and when the civil action is brought by the attorney general, such civil  penalty shall be payable to the state.   4.  The  penalty  provided by this section is not an exclusive remedy, and does not affect any other relief or remedy  provided  by  law.  This section shall not be construed to prohibit or limit a person or business that hosts online consumer reviews or comments from removing a statement that is otherwise lawful to remove.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-401 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-401 - Illegal Wagers, Bets and Stakes.

§ 5-401. Illegal  wagers, bets and stakes. All wagers, bets or stakes,   made to depend upon any race, or upon any gaming by lot  or  chance,  or   upon any lot, chance, casualty, or unknown or contingent event whatever,   shall be unlawful.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-411 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-411 - Contracts on Account of Money or Property Wagered, Bet or Staked Are Void.

§ 5-411. Contracts  on  account  of  money or property wagered, bet or   staked are void. All contracts  for  or  on  account  of  any  money  or   property,  or  thing  in  action  wagered, bet or staked, as provided in   section 5-401, shall be void.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-413 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-413 - Securities for Money Lost at Gaming, Void.

§ 5-413. Securities  for  money  lost  at  gaming, void. All things in   action, judgments, mortgages,  conveyances,  and  every  other  security   whatsoever,  given  or  executed,  by any person, where the whole or any   part of the consideration of the same shall be for any  money  or  other   valuable  thing won by playing at any game whatsoever, or won by betting   on the hands or sides of such as do play at any game, or where the  same   shall  be made for the repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced for   the purpose of such gaming or betting aforesaid, or lent or advanced  at   the  time  and  place  of  such play, to any person so gaming or betting   aforesaid, or to any person who during such play,  shall  play  or  bet,   shall  be  utterly  void,  except  where such securities, conveyances or   mortgages shall affect any real estate, when the same shall be  void  as   to the grantee therein, so far only as hereinafter declared.When  any securities, mortgages or other conveyances, executed for the   whole or part of any consideration specified in the preceding  paragraph   shall  affect  any real estate, they shall inure for the sole benefit of   such person as would be entitled to the said real estate, if the grantor   or person incumbering the same, had died, immediately upon the execution   of such instrument, and shall be deemed to be taken and held to and  for   the  use  of the person who would be so entitled.  All grants, covenants   and conveyances, for preventing such real  estate  from  coming  to,  or   devolving  upon,  the  person  hereby  intended  to  enjoy  the  same as   aforesaid, or in any way incumbering or charging  the  same,  so  as  to   prevent  such person from enjoying the same fully and entirely, shall be   deemed fraudulent and void.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-415 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-415 - Certain Transfers of Property in Pursuance of Lottery, Void.

§ 5-415. Certain  transfers of property in pursuance of lottery, void.   Every grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, or transfer of any real  estate,   or  of  any goods, chattels, things in action, or any personal property,   which shall hereafter be made in pursuance of any lottery,  or  for  the   purpose  of  aiding and assisting in such lottery, game or other device,   to be determined by lot or chance is hereby  declared  void  and  of  no   effect.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-417 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-417 - Contracts, Agreements and Securities on Account of Raffling, Void.

§ 5-417. Contracts,  agreements and securities on account of raffling,   void. All contracts, agreements and securities given, made or  executed,   for  or  on  account  of  any raffle, or distribution of money, goods or   things in action, for the payment of any money, or other valuable thing,   in consideration of a chance in such raffle or distribution, or for  the   delivery  of  any  money,  goods or things in action, so raffled for, or   agreed to be distributed as aforesaid, shall be utterly void.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-419 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-419 - Property Staked May Be Recovered.

§ 5-419. Property  staked  may be recovered. Any person who shall pay,   deliver or deposit any money, property or  thing  in  action,  upon  the   event  of  any wager or bet prohibited, may sue for and recover the same   of the winner or person to whom the same shall be paid or delivered, and   of the stakeholder or other person in whose hands shall be deposited any   such wager, bet or stake, or any part thereof, whether  the  same  shall   have  been  paid  over  by such stakeholder or not, and whether any such   wager be lost or not.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-421 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-421 - Losers of Certain Sums May Recover Them.

§ 5-421. Losers  of  certain  sums  may recover them. Every person who   shall, by playing at any game, or by betting on the sides  or  hands  of   such  as  do  play,  lose  at  any  time or sitting, the sum or value of   twenty-five dollars or upwards, and shall pay or deliver the same or any   part thereof, may, within three calendar months after  such  payment  or   delivery,  sue  for and recover the money or value of the things so lost   and paid or delivered, from the winner thereof.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-423 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 4 - Contracts Relating to Wagering; Forfeiture and Recovery of Certain Property 5-423 - Money Paid for Lottery Tickets May Be Recovered by Action.

§ 5-423. Money  paid  for  lottery tickets may be recovered by action.   Any person who shall purchase any share, interest,  ticket,  certificate   of  any  share  or  interest,  or  part  of  a  ticket,  or any paper or   instrument purporting to be a ticket or share or interest in any ticket,   or purporting to be a certificate  of  any  share  or  interest  in  any   ticket, or in any portion of any lottery, may sue for and recover double   the  sum  of  money,  and double the value of goods or things in action,   which he may have paid or delivered in consideration of  such  purchase,   with double costs of suit.Any  person  who  shall  have paid any money, or valuable thing, for a   chance or interest in any lottery or  distribution,  prohibited  by  the   penal  law,  may sue for and recover the same of the person to whom such   payment or delivery was made.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-511 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-511 - Usurious Contracts Void.

§ 5-511. Usurious   contracts   void.  1.  All  bonds,  bills,  notes,   assurances, conveyances, all other contracts or  securities  whatsoever,   except  bottomry  and respondentia bonds and contracts, and all deposits   of goods or other things whatsoever, whereupon or whereby there shall be   reserved or taken, or secured or agreed to be  reserved  or  taken,  any   greater sum, or greater value, for the loan or forbearance of any money,   goods  or  other  things in action, than is prescribed in section 5-501,   shall be void, except that the knowingly taking, receiving, reserving or   charging such a greater sum or  greater  value  by  a  savings  bank,  a   savings  and  loan association or a federal savings and loan association   shall only be held and adjudged a  forfeiture  of  the  entire  interest   which the loan or obligation carries with it or which has been agreed to   be  paid  thereon.  If a greater sum or greater value has been paid, the   person paying the same or his legal representative may recover from  the   savings  bank,  the  savings and loan association or the federal savings   and loan association twice the entire amount of the interest thus paid.2.  Except  as  provided  in  subdivision  one,  whenever   it   shall   satisfactorily  appear  by the admissions of the defendant, or by proof,   that any bond, bill,  note,  assurance,  pledge,  conveyance,  contract,   security  or  any  evidence  of  debt,  has  been  taken  or received in   violation of the foregoing provisions, the court shall declare the  same   to be void, and enjoin any prosecution thereon, and order the same to be   surrendered and cancelled.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-513 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-513 - Recovery of Excess.

§ 5-513. Recovery  of  excess.  Every person who, for any such loan or   forbearance, shall pay or deliver any  greater  sum  or  value  than  is   allowed  to  be  received  pursuant  to  section 5-501, and his personal   representatives, may recover in an action against the person  who  shall   have  taken  or received the same, and his personal representatives, the   amount of  the  money  so  paid  or  value  delivered,  above  the  rate   aforesaid.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-515 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-515 - Borrower Bringing an Action Need Not Offer to Repay.

§ 5-515. Borrower   bringing  an  action  need  not  offer  to  repay.   Whenever any borrower of money, goods or things in action,  shall  begin   an action for the recovery of the money, goods or things in action taken   in  violation of the foregoing provisions of this title, it shall not be   necessary for him to pay or offer to pay any interest  or  principal  on   the  sum  or  thing  loaned;  nor  shall any court require or compel the   payment or deposit of the principal sum  or  interest,  or  any  portion   thereof,  as  a condition of granting relief to the borrower in any case   of usurious loans forbidden by the foregoing provisions of this title.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-517 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-517 - Transfer of Cause of Action for Usury.

§ 5-517. Transfer  of  cause of action for usury. A cause of action to   cancel, or otherwise affect, an instrument executed, or an act done,  as   security  for  a usurious loan or forbearance, can be transferred, where   the instrument or act creates a specific charge upon property, which  is   also  transferred  in  disaffirmance thereof, and not otherwise; but, in   that case, the transferee does not succeed to the  right,  conferred  by   statute  upon  the  borrower,  to  procure  relief,  without  paying, or   offering to pay, any part of the sum or thing loaned.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-519 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-519 - Return of Excess a Bar to Further Penalties.

§ 5-519. Return of excess a bar to further penalties. Every person who   shall  repay  or  return  the  money,  goods  or  other things so taken,   accepted or received, or the value thereof, shall be discharged from any   other or further forfeiture or penalty which he may have incurred  under   sections  5-511  or  5-513,  by  taking or receiving the money, goods or   other thing so repaid, or returned, as aforesaid.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-521 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-521 - Corporations Prohibited From Interposing Defense of Usury.

§ 5-521. Corporations prohibited from interposing defense of usury. 1.   No  corporation  shall  hereafter  interpose the defense of usury in any   action. The  term  corporation,  as  used  in  this  section,  shall  be   construed  to include all associations, and joint-stock companies having   any of the powers  and  privileges  of  corporations  not  possessed  by   individuals or partnerships.2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply   to a corporation, the principal asset of which shall be the ownership of   a one or two family dwelling, where it  appears  either  that  the  said   corporation  was organized and created, or that the controlling interest   therein was acquired, within  a  period  of  six  months  prior  to  the   execution,   by   said   corporation   of  a  bond  or  note  evidencing   indebtedness, and a mortgage creating a lien for  said  indebtedness  on   the said one or two family dwelling; provided, that as to any such bond,   note  or  mortgage executed by such a corporation and effective prior to   April sixth, nineteen hundred fifty-six, the defense  of  usury  may  be   interposed   only   in  an  action  or  proceeding  instituted  for  the   collection, enforcement or foreclosure of such note, bond or mortgage.Any provision of any contract,  or  any  separate  written  instrument   executed  prior  to,  simultaneously with or within sixty days after the   delivery  of  any  moneys  to  any  borrower  in  connection  with  such   indebtedness,  whereby  the  defense  of  usury  is  waived  or any such   corporation is estopped from asserting it,  is  hereby  declared  to  be   contrary to public policy and absolutely void.3.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply   to any action in which a corporation interposes a  defense  of  criminal   usury as described in section 190.40 of the penal law.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-523 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-523 - Interest Permitted on Advances on Collateral Security.

§ 5-523. Interest  permitted  on  advances on collateral security.  In   any case in which advances of money, repayable on demand, to  an  amount   not  less  than  five thousand dollars, are made upon documents of title   within article seven  of  the  uniform  commercial  code  or  negotiable   instruments  within  article  three  or  article  eight  of  the uniform   commercial code pledged as collateral security for  such  repayment,  it   shall  be  lawful  to  receive or to contract to receive and collect, as   compensation for making such advances, any sum  to  be  agreed  upon  in   writing,  by  the parties to such transaction, provided that there shall   not be received or contracted to  be  received  and  collected  on  such   advances any amount which would be in violation of section 190.40 of the   penal law.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-524 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-524 - Taking Security Upon Certain Property for Usurious Loans.

§ 5-524. Taking  security  upon certain property for usurious loans. A   person  who  takes  security,  upon  any  household  furniture,   sewing   machines,  plate  or  silverware  in  actual use, tools or implements of   trade, wearing apparel or jewelry, for a loan or forbearance  of  money,   or  for  the  use  or  sale of his personal credit, conditioned upon the   payment of a greater rate than the rate prescribed by the superintendent   of financial services pursuant to section fourteen-a of the banking law,   or, if no rate has been so prescribed, six per centum per annum, or  who   as  security for such loan, use or sale of personal credit as aforesaid,   makes a pretended purchase of such property from any  person,  upon  the   like condition, and permits the pledgor to retain the possession thereof   is guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Gen Oblig L § 5-525 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 5 - Creation, Definition and Enforcement of Contractual Obligations Title 5 - Interest and Usury; Brokerage on Loans 5-525 - Interest Charged by a Registered Broker or Dealer for Carrying Debit Balances.

§ 5-525. Interest  charged  by  a  registered  broker  or  dealer  for   carrying  debit  balances.  Interest  charged  by  a  broker  or  dealer   registered  under  the  securities  exchange  act  of  nineteen  hundred   thirty-four, as amended, for carrying a debit balance including a  debit   balance  arising out of a non-purpose loan, in an account for a customer   shall not be subject to the limitations of  this  title,  including  the   limitations contained in subdivision two of section 5-527 of this title,   if  such debit balance is payable on demand and secured by securities or   commodities upon which credit can be extended by a broker or dealer, and   if, on the date when the interest is charged or accrued,  such  interest   is  not  greater  than eight percentage points above the prime rate. For   the purposes of this section, the prime rate  shall  equal  the  average   prime  rate on short term business loans which is published by the board   of governors of the federal reserve system  for  the  most  recent  week   which  was publicly available from the board of governors of the federal   reserve system on the previous business day.