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NY Gen Bus L § 392-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 392-F - Taximeters.

§ 392-f Taximeters. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:  (a) "Person" shall include a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.  (b)  "Sell"  shall include offer to sell, expose for sale, and possess with intent to dispose of or to sell.  (c) "Taximeter" shall include any device  which,  when  affixed  to  a motor vehicle, is so constructed as to operate as a fare indicator and a time  and distance register for the purpose of automatically determining the charge for which a passenger becomes liable.  (d) "Remove" shall include deface, alter, conceal and obliterate.   2. (a) No manufacturer shall offer for sale any taximeter  which  does not  have  etched,  stamped  or  permanently  impressed thereon a serial number which has been assigned to it by the manufacturer.  (b) Any manufacturer who sells taximeters within the state shall  keep a  record  of  the transaction. The record shall indicate (i) the serial number of the taximeter sold, (ii) the name and address of  the  vendee, (iii) the date of the sale and (iv) the purchase price.   3.  A  person  being the owner or lawful custodian of a taximeter, the original identification number of which shall have been removed or which never bore a serial  number,  may  apply  to  the  county  or  municipal authority charged with the obligation of regulating the taxicab industry within  its  jurisdiction,  if  any, for permission to make or stamp, or cause to be made or stamped  on  such  taximeter  a  serial  number.  If satisfied  that the person making application for such permission is the true owner of the taximeter and that its  original  number  was  not  so removed at the instigation of the person making such application, or, if done by such person, was not done for an unlawful purpose, the county or municipal  authority  shall issue to the applicant written permission to stamp on the taximeter a special identification number designated by it.   4. Any person who wholly or in part removes or who shall cause to  be, wholly  or  in part, removed from or upon a taximeter the serial number; or who sells or causes to be sold a taximeter from or upon which to  his or  its knowledge, or to the knowledge of his or its agents, servants or employees there has been in whole or in part, removed or  concealed  the serial  number,  or  who sells or causes to be sold a taximeter from the inspection of which such knowledge could have been  obtained,  shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor.   5.  The  sale  of a taximeter from which there has been in whole or in part removed or concealed a mark of origin shall be presumptive evidence of the violation of this section.
NY Gen Bus L § 392-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 392-G - Sale of Ultraviolet Radiation Devices.

§  392-g.  Sale of ultraviolet radiation devices. 1. When used in this section, the  following  words  and  phrases  shall  have  the  meanings ascribed to them in this section:  (a)  "Tanning facility" shall mean any establishment where one or more ultraviolet radiation device is used, offered, or made available for use by any human being, for which a fee is charged, directly or  indirectly, but  shall  not  include any facility where any such device is used by a qualified health care professional for treatment of medical conditions.  (b) "Ultraviolet radiation device" shall mean any equipment  which  is designed to emit electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength interval of two  hundred to four hundred nanometers in air, and which is intended to induce tanning of the human skin through irradiation, including, but not limited to, a sunlamp, tanning booth, or tanning bed.  (c) "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or any business entity.   2. No person shall offer for sale any ultraviolet radiation device for use in a tanning facility, or for the personal use of a consumer, unless such device is conspicuously labeled with a warning stating  the  health hazards associated with the use of such device, and setting forth a safe exposure  schedule,  and  such  device  is equipped with a timing device limiting exposure time to safe exposure levels.   3. Each  ultraviolet  radiation  device  offered  for  sale  shall  be accompanied without additional cost therefor by safety goggles.   4. Each ultraviolet radiation device offered for sale shall include an easily  accessible  on/off  switch permitting an individual, while using the device, to turn off the radiation at any time the device is in use.   5. Any person who knowingly fails to comply with the  requirements  of this  section  shall  be  assessed  a  civil penalty not to exceed fifty dollars for the first  violation,  one  hundred  dollars  for  a  second violation,  and  two hundred fifty dollars for any subsequent violation. Each day  such  offense  shall  continue  shall  constitute  a  separate additional  violation.  It  shall  be a defense to the imposition of any such civil penalty that the device was labeled and equipped as  required by  this  section  and  such label or equipment was removed, defaced, or rendered inoperable by vandals, provided the person required  to  comply with this section subsequently so complies.
NY Gen Bus L § 392-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 392-H - Trash Receptacles; Dumpsters.

§  392-h.  Trash  receptacles;  dumpsters.  No  person  or  entity  in   possession of a trash or refuse receptacle commonly  referred  to  as  a   dumpster  or  carting  unit,  having a capacity of more than twenty-five   cubic yards, shall allow or cause the same to be or remain unattended on   a public street, highway or sidewalk unless such receptacle shall have a   clearly visible fluorescent stripe or marking, at least six inches wide,   which stripe or marking may be broken or segmented, located  around  the   entire  outside perimeter thereof. Failure to comply with the provisions   hereof shall subject such  person  or  entity  to  a  civil  penalty  of   twenty-five  dollars  per day, per unit, for each day such failure shall   occur. The provisions of this section shall supercede  any  inconsistent   provision of any other general, special or local law to the contrary.
NY Gen Bus L § 392-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 392-I - Prices Reduced to Reflect Change in Sales Tax Computation.

§  392-i.  Prices  reduced to reflect change in sales tax computation.   Every person engaged in the retail sale  of  motor  fuel  and/or  diesel   motor  fuel  or  a  distributor  of  such  fuels,  as defined in article   twelve-A of the tax law, shall reduce the price such person charges  for   motor  fuel and/or diesel motor fuel in an amount equal to any reduction   in taxes  prepaid  by  the  distributor  or  paid  by  retail  customers   resulting from computing sales and compensating use taxes at a cents per   gallon  rate  pursuant to the provisions of paragraph two of subdivision   (e) and subdivision (m) of section eleven hundred eleven of the tax law.
NY Gen Bus L § 392-J (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 392-J - Sales of Sparkling Devices.

§  392-j. Sales of sparkling devices. 1. Sales of sparkling devices as   defined in subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  one  of   section  270.00  of  the  penal  law  shall  be lawful only for business   registered by the state under section one  hundred  fifty-six-h  of  the   executive law between June first and July fifth or from December twenty-   sixth through January second of each year.2.  Failure  to comply with this section shall be deemed an offense as   defined in subdivision two of section 270.00 of the penal law.
NY Gen Bus L § 393 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393 - Lime; Standard Barrels.

§ 393. Lime; standard barrels. There is hereby established a large and   a  small  barrel of lime, the large barrel to consist of two hundred and   eighty pounds and the small barrel to consist of one hundred and  eighty   pounds, net weight. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer   for  sale  lime,  unless  there shall be stencilled or otherwise clearly   marked on one or both heads of the small barrel the  figures  "180  lbs.   net"  and  of the large barrel the figures "280 lbs. net," and on either   barrel in addition the name of the manufacturer of the  lime  and  where   manufactured.  When lime is sold in containers of less capacity than the   standard small barrel, it shall be sold  in  fractional  parts  of  said   standard  small  barrel,  and  the  net weight of lime contained in such   container shall by stencil  or  otherwise  be  clearly  marked  thereon,   together  with the name of the manufacturer thereof, and the name of the   brand, if any, under which it is sold. It shall  be  unlawful  to  pack,   sell,  or  offer  for sale any barrels or other containers of lime which   are not marked as provided in this act,  or  to  sell,  charge  for,  or   purport  to  deliver  as a large or small barrel or a fractional part of   said small barrel of lime, any less weight of lime than  is  established   by  the  provisions  of  this  section.  Any person violating any of the   provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Gen Bus L § 393-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393-A - Non Fire Rated Wood Paneling.

§  393-a.  Non  fire rated wood paneling. It shall be unlawful for any   person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for  sale  non  fire  rated   wood  paneling,  unless  it  shall  be clearly marked on the back of the   paneling and on the package in which the paneling is sold a  conspicuous   notice  that  the  paneling is not rated for fire purposes and is highly   flammable. For the purposes of this section non fire rated wood paneling   shall mean such paneling having a surface flamespread rating  in  excess   of  two  hundred  determined by Underwriters Laboratory test No.  723 or   the American Society for Testing Materials test No. E-84 or  testing  by   any  qualified  laboratory  or  testing  organization  which  meets  the   criteria  of  American  Society  for  Testing  Materials  test   E548-76   conducted  in  conformity with generally accepted standards. A violation   of the provisions of this section shall be a class B misdemeanor.
NY Gen Bus L § 393-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393-B - Written Solicitation.

§  393-b.  Written  solicitation. 1. Any written solicitation to enter   into an agreement for various  credit  card  protection  services  shall   disclose  that  the  purchase  of credit card protection services or the   renewal thereof is not required for a consumer to secure or  retain  his   or  her credit card; and a concise statement regarding his or her rights   that already exist free of charge under the "Fair  Credit  Billing  Act"   and  the  regulations  thereunder, as such acts and regulations may from   time to time be amended.  A  credit  card  protection  service  means  a   service  to  protect,  indemnify,  or  reimburse  the credit card holder   against the loss or misuse of the credit card. Such term  shall  include   services  provided  along  with  credit card protection services for the   same price, including, but not be limited to, access to credit  reports,   an  explanation  of  credit entries on the report, the identification of   those who have accessed the report, and insurance and security services.   No  agreement  for  services  shall  provide  that  services   will   be   automatically renewed on an annual basis and the consumer billed, unless   the  consumer  in the expiring agreement is notified not more than sixty   days and not less than fifteen days prior  to  the  termination  of  the   existing  agreement  by mail of the credit protection service provider's   intention to automatically renew the agreement.2. Whenever there shall be a violation of  this  section,  application   may  be  made  by  the attorney general in the name of the people of the   state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction by a special   proceeding to issue an injunction, and upon notice to the  defendant  of   not  less than five days, to enjoin and restrain the continuance of such   violations; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the  court  or   justice  that  the  defendant  has,  in  fact, violated this section, an   injunction may be  issued  by  such  court  or  justice,  enjoining  and   restraining  any  further  violation,  without  requiring proof that any   person has, in fact, been  injured  or  damaged  thereby.  In  any  such   proceeding,  the  court  may  make allowances to the attorney general as   provided in paragraph six of subdivision  (a)  of  section  eighty-three   hundred   three  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules,  and  direct   restitution. Whenever the court shall determine that a violation of this   section has occurred, the court may impose a civil penalty of  not  more   than  one  thousand  dollars  for each violation. In connection with any   such proposed application, the attorney general is  authorized  to  take   proof  and  make  a  determination  of  the  relevant facts and to issue   subpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law and rules.
NY Gen Bus L § 393-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393-C - Sale of Required Labor Postings.

§  393-c.  Sale  of  required labor postings. Any person, corporation,   association, partnership or other entity which sells or offers  to  sell   in  this  state  any printed materials which, or the substance of which,   are required to be posted  in  places  of  employment  pursuant  to  the   provisions  of  any federal or state law, rule or regulation, including,   but not limited  to,  notices  or  materials  relating  to  unemployment   insurance, workers' compensation insurance or benefits, minimum wage and   occupational  safety and health standards shall provide to the purchaser   a notice in at least twelve point type, that such  required  notices  or   postings  are  also  available free of charge from the government office   having jurisdiction over the required notices or postings.
NY Gen Bus L § 393-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393-D - Sale of Certified Copies of Property Deeds.

§  393-d.  Sale  of  certified  copies  of property deeds. Any person,   corporation, association, partnership or other  entity  which  sells  or   offers to sell in this state any certified copy of a property deed shall   provide  to  the purchaser the following notice in at least twelve-point   boldface type prior to the time of sale:"Certified copies of  property  deeds  are  available  at  the  county   clerk's  office.  The  county  clerk's office may charge a small fee for   certified copies of such deeds, usually between two and four  dollars  a   page.  Since  most  property  deeds  are  between  two and five pages in   length, a certified copy can usually be obtained for  between  four  and   twenty dollars."
NY Gen Bus L § 393-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 393-E - Sale of Abandoned Property Location Services.

§  393-e.  Sale  of  abandoned  property location services. 1. For the   purposes of this section, "abandoned property location  services"  shall   include  any service for a fee providing assistance to consumers for the   purposes of locating  and/or  retrieving  property  held  by  the  state   comptroller pursuant to the abandoned property law.2.  Any  person, corporation, association, partnership or other entity   which sells or offers to sell any abandoned property  location  services   for  abandoned  property  delivered  to  the state and held by the state   comptroller  shall,  in  every  solicitation  and  agreement  for   such   services,  provide  to the purchaser the following notice in a clear and   conspicuous manner, and in at least twelve-point boldface type prior  to   the time of sale:"Abandoned  funds  held by the State can be obtained directly from the   Office of the State Comptroller by  the  owner  of  such  funds  without   paying  a  fee.  These  funds are held indefinitely by the Office of the   State Comptroller. For more information, contact the Office of the State   Comptroller at (insert the current telephone number established  by  the   Office  of  the State Comptroller for receiving inquiries from consumers   regarding unclaimed funds) or (insert the current address of the website   of the Office of the State Comptroller)."
NY Gen Bus L § 394-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 394-A - Proof of Lost Negotiable Paper.

§  394-a.  Proof of lost negotiable paper. 1. Where, upon the trial of   an action, it appears that a negotiable instrument within article  three   of  the uniform commercial code, upon which the action or a counterclaim   interposed in the action is founded, was lost while it belonged  to  the   party  claiming  the  amount  due  thereupon,  he may prove the contents   thereof by parol or other secondary evidence and may recover or set  off   the amount due thereupon as if it was produced.2.  For  that  purpose,  he  must  give to the adverse party a written   undertaking, in a sum fixed by the judge or the referee, not  less  than   twice  the  amount  of  the  note  or  bill, with at least two sureties,   approved by the judge or  the  referee,  to  the  effect  that  he  will   indemnify  the  adverse  party,  his heirs and personal representatives,   against any claim by any other person, on account of the note  or  bill,   and against all costs and expenses, by reason of such a claim.3. But where an action is prosecuted or defended by the state, or by a   public  officer in its behalf, the state or the public officer may prove   the contents of a lost negotiable instrument within article three of the   uniform commercial code, by parol or other secondary evidence,  and  may   recover or set off the amount due thereupon, without giving any security   to the adverse party notwithstanding section 3--804 of such code.
NY Gen Bus L § 394-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 394-D - Privity of Contract Between Franchise Seller and Customer or Patron of Dealer.

§  394-d. Privity of contract between franchise seller and customer or   patron of dealer. a. Any contract for instruction in physical and social   skills, or for the use by an individual patron of a dance  hall  studio,   ballroom, gymnasium, or other physical or social training facility which   requires payment by the person receiving such instruction, or the use of   such  physical  or social training facilities, between such patron and a   franchised dealer  shall  be  enforceable  by  the  patron  against  the   franchise  seller  either  in  requiring  specific  performance  of  the   contract or in holding said franchise seller responsible for damages for   a breach thereof.b. For the purposes of  this  section,  a  "franchise  seller"  is  an   individual, partnership or corporation which sells to a dealer the right   to  use  a  certain  name,  reputation, process or course of instruction   owned by it and which the dealer will make available to individual buyer   or patron for a consideration or fee.c. For the purposes of this  section  a  "dealer"  is  an  individual,   partnership  or  corporation  which contracts with a franchise seller to   obtain and use the product of the franchise seller for  the  purpose  of   using,  selling  or making it available to an individual buyer or patron   for a consideration or fee.d. For the purposes of this  section  a  "customer",  "individual"  or   "patron"  is  a  person  who  agrees  to  and  contracts for a course of   instruction in physical and social skills, or for the  use  of  a  dance   hall  studio,  ballroom,  gymnasium or other physical or social training   facility.
NY Gen Bus L § 394-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 26 - Miscellaneous 394-E - Report on Request for Abortional Services.

§  394-e.  Report  on  request for abortional services. 1. It shall be   unlawful for any person, firm or  corporation  doing  business  in  this   state  to  furnish  a  report of a referral for abortional services or a   report of an inquiry or request therefor, to any  person  or  government   agency unless such person, firm or corporation has reasonable grounds to   believe  that  the  person or government agency requesting the report is   (a) a law enforcement agency, or (b) the state department of  health  or   the  department  of health of the city of New York, or (c) authorized in   writing by the subject of such report, or (d) unless such  person,  firm   or  corporation shall have been ordered to furnish such report by a duly   constituted court having jurisdiction to  issue  such  an  order.  Every   request  for such a report shall be in writing and identify the name and   address of the requestor. A request by a law  enforcement  agency  shall   include  a  sworn  statement  that  the  agency is requesting the report   solely for law enforcement purposes.2. A person may bring a civil action for  damages  or  to  restrain  a   person, firm or corporation from violating this act or both and, in such   case,  if it is found that such person, firm or corporation has wilfully   violated this act the violator shall, in addition to any  liability  for   actual  damages  as may be shown, be liable for exemplary damages of not   less than one hundred dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars for   each violation together with costs and reasonable  attorney's  fees  and   disbursements incurred by the person bringing the action.3.  Except as provided in this section, no person, firm or corporation   shall be entitled to claim any privilege, absolute  or  qualified  as  a   defense  in  any  civil  action  brought  by  a  person aggrieved by the   publication or dissemination of information  relating  to  referral  for   abortional services or an inquiry or request therefor.4.  Any  person  who  requests  or  obtains a report of a referral for   abortional services or an inquiry or request therefor from  any  person,   firm  or  corporation under false pretenses or furnishes a report to any   person except in accordance with this section shall be guilty of a class   A misdemeanor.