NY Gen Oblig L § 3-501 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GOB - General Obligations Article 3 - Capacity; Effect of Status or of Certain Relationships or Occupations Upon the Creation, Definition or Enforcement of Obligations Title 5 - Certain Occupations 3-501 - Effect of Death Upon Power of Attorney Given by Persons Engaged in Certain Occupations.

§ 3-501. Effect  of  death  upon  power  of  attorney given by persons   engaged in certain occupations. 1. No  agency  created  by  a  power  of   attorney  in  writing  given  by  a  principal  who  is  at  the time of   execution, or who, after executing  such  power  of  attorney,  becomes,   eithera. a person serving in the armed forces of the United States, orb.  a  person  serving  as  a  merchant seaman outside the continental   limits of the United States; orc. a person outside such continental limits by permission,  assignment   or  direction  of  any  department  or  official  of  the  United States   government, in connection with any activity pertaining to  or  connected   with  the prosecution of any war or any campaign of a military nature in   which the armed forces of the United States are  participating  or  have   been ordered to participate;   shall  be  revoked or terminated by the death of the principal as to the   attorney-in-fact, agent or other person who, without actual knowledge or   actual notice of the death of the principal shall have  acted  or  shall   act,  in good faith, under or in reliance upon such power of attorney or   agency,  and  any  action  so  taken,  unless   otherwise   invalid   or   unenforceable,  shall  be  binding  on  the heirs, devisees, legatees or   personal representatives of the principal.2. An affidavit, executed by the attorney-in-fact  or  agent,  setting   forth  that he has not or had not, at the time of doing any act pursuant   to the power of attorney, received actual knowledge or actual notice  of   revocation  or  termination  of  the  power  of  attorney,  by  death or   otherwise, or notice of any facts indicating the  same,  shall,  in  the   absence   of   fraud,  be  conclusive  proof  of  the  nonrevocation  or   nontermination of the power at such time. If the exercise of  the  power   requires  execution  and  delivery of any instrument which is recordable   under the laws of this state,  such  affidavit  when  authenticated  for   record in the manner prescribed by law shall likewise be recordable.3. No report or listing, either official or otherwise, of "missing" or   "missing  in action", as such words are used in military parlance, shall   constitute or be interpreted as constituting actual knowledge or  actual   notice  of the death of such principal or notice of any facts indicating   the same, or shall operate to revoke the agency.4. This section shall not be construed so as to alter  or  affect  any   provision  for  revocation  or  termination  contained  in such power of   attorney.5. If any provision of this section or the application thereof to  any   person or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect   any  other  provision  or  application of the section which can be given   effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the   provisions of this section are declared to be severable.