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NY Gen Bus L § 279-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils 279-E - Penalties.

§ 279-e. Penalties. Any person offending against the provisions hereof   shall  be  deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for the   first offense by imprisonment of not less than ten days  nor  more  than   one  year,  or  by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than five   dollars for each and every vessel, receptacle or  utensil  involved,  or   both;  and  for each subsequent offense by imprisonment of not less than   twenty days or more than one year, or by a fine of not  less  than  five   dollars  nor more than ten dollars for each and every vessel, receptacle   or utensil involved, or both, in the discretion  of  the  magistrate  or   court before whom the offense shall be tried.
NY Gen Bus L § 279-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils 279-F - Presumption.

§  279-f.  Presumption. The possession by any junk dealer or dealer in   second-hand materials or articles, without the written  consent  of  the   person  who filed hereunder or his assignee, of any vessels, receptacles   or utensils upon which a name, mark or device has been produced shall be   presumptive evidence of a violation of this article.
NY Gen Bus L § 279-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils 279-G - Search Warrant to Discover Vessels, Receptacles or Utensils.

§  279-g. Search warrant to discover vessels, receptacles or utensils.   Whenever any person who has filed under this article, or his  authorized   agent,  shall  make  oath  before  any  magistrate or court of competent   jurisdiction that he has reason to believe, and  does  believe,  that  a   violation  of  this  article is occurring with respect to one or some of   his vessels, receptacles or utensils having  produced  thereon  a  name,   mark  or  device  filed under this article, the said magistrate or court   must thereupon issue a search warrant to discover and obtain  the  same.   The  said  magistrate  or court shall cause to be brought before him the   person in whose possession the said vessels, receptacles or utensils are   found and shall inquire into the circumstances  of  possession.  If  the   said  magistrate or court finds that such person is guilty of any of the   offenses mentioned in this article,  the  punishment  herein  prescribed   shall  be  imposed  and  possession  of the said vessels, receptacles or   utensils obtained upon  the  warrant  shall  be  awarded  to  the  owner   thereof.
NY Gen Bus L § 279-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils 279-H - Construction.

§  279-h.  Construction. Nothing in this article shall be construed as   preventing the enforcement  of  rights  and  remedies  under  any  other   statute  concerning  vessels, receptacles or utensils upon which a name,   mark or device indicating ownership thereof has been  produced,  whether   or not such name, mark or device has been filed hereunder.
NY Gen Bus L § 279-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils 279-I - Saving Clause.

§  279-i.  Saving clause. No suit, proceeding or appeal pending on the   effective date of this article shall abate or be affected in any way  by   reason of the enactment of this article.
NY Gen Bus L § 280 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 280 - Duty of Carrier as to Unclaimed Articles.

§  280.  Duty  of carrier as to unclaimed articles. The proprietors of   the several lines of stages and the proprietors  of  the  several  canal   boat  lines,  and  the  proprietors of the several steamboats, who shall   have any unclaimed trunks, boxes or baggage within their custody,  shall   immediately  enter the time the same was left, with a proper description   thereof, in a book to be by them provided and kept for that purpose.  In   case  the  name and residence of the owner shall be ascertained it shall   be the duty of such person who shall have any  such  property  as  above   specified, to immediately notify the owner thereof by mail.
NY Gen Bus L § 281 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 281 - Description to Be Made and Published.

§  281.  Description to be made and published. In case there shall not   be any information obtained as to the owner, it shall be the duty of the   person having the possession thereof, to  make  out  a  correct  written   description of all such property as shall have been unclaimed for thirty   days,  stating  the  time the same came into his possession, and publish   said description in a newspaper designated by him in his county  once  a   week for three weeks successively.
NY Gen Bus L § 282 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 282 - Packages to Be Opened and Contents Sold; Proceeds of Sale.

§  282. Packages to be opened and contents sold; proceeds of sale.  In   case the said property shall remain unclaimed for sixty days  after  the   said  publication,  it shall be the duty of the person or company having   possession thereof, to apply to a magistrate of  the  town  or  city  in   which  said  property  is  retained,  in  whose presence and under whose   direction said property shall be opened and examined, and  an  inventory   thereof  taken  by said magistrate; and if the name and residence of the   owner is ascertained by such examination, it shall be the  duty  of  the   magistrate  forthwith to direct a notice thereof to such owner, by mail;   and if said property shall remain unclaimed for three months after  such   examination,  it  shall  be  the  further  duty of the person or company   having possession thereof to apply to a magistrate as aforesaid; and  if   said  magistrate  shall deem such property of sufficient value, he shall   cause the same to be sold at public auction, giving six  days'  previous   notice of the time and place of such sale; and from the proceeds of such   sale  he  shall pay the charges and expenses legally incurred in respect   to said property, or a ratable proportion thereof to each  claimant,  if   insufficient for the payment of the whole amount; and the balance of the   proceeds of such sale, if any, the said magistrate shall immediately pay   to the public welfare officials of said town or city, for the use of the   poor  thereof; and the said public welfare officials shall make an entry   of such amount, and the time of receiving the same, upon their  official   records,  and  it  shall  be  subject,  at  any  time within seven years   thereafter, to be reclaimed by, and  refunded  to,  the  owner  of  such   property, his heirs or assigns, on satisfactory proof of such ownership.
NY Gen Bus L § 283 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 283 - Lien for Expenses of Proceedings.

§  283.  Lien for expenses of proceedings. The person making the entry   of unclaimed property as above specified, shall be  entitled  to  twelve   and  a  half  cents  for  each  trunk,  box,  bale, package or bundle so   entered, and shall have a lien on the property so entered, until payment   shall be made; and in case any additional expense shall be incurred  for   printing,  the  lien shall continue until payment shall be made for such   additional expense.
NY Gen Bus L § 284 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 284 - Penalty for Violation of Preceding Sections.

§ 284. Penalty for violation of preceding sections. In case any person   shall  neglect  or refuse to comply with the provisions of the preceding   sections of this article, he shall forfeit the sum of five  dollars  for   each  and  every  trunk,  box or bundle of baggage so neglected as above   specified, to the benefit of any person who shall sue for the  same,  in   his  own  name,  in  an  action  of  debt in any court having cognizance   thereof.
NY Gen Bus L § 285 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 285 - Sale of Unclaimed Articles by Express Companies; Notice Thereof; Disposition of Proceeds of Sale.

§  285.  Sale  of  unclaimed  articles  by  express  companies; notice   thereof; disposition of proceeds of  sale.  Every  express  company,  or   person engaged in the express business, who shall have had any unclaimed   article,  goods or things, not perishable, in its or his possession, for   a period of one year at least, may proceed to sell the  same  at  public   auction,   and   out   of   the  proceeds  may  retain  the  charges  of   transportation and storage of such article,  goods  or  thing,  and  the   expenses  of  advertising  and  sale  thereof; but no such sale shall be   made, until the expiration of four weeks from the first  publication  of   notice of such sale, in a newspaper published at or nearest the place at   which  such article, goods or thing was directed to be left, and also at   the place where such sale is  to  take  place;  and  said  notice  shall   contain  a  description  of  such  article, goods or thing, the place at   which the same was to be left, as near as may be, together with the name   of the person to whom directed, if known, and the expenses incurred  for   advertising  shall  be  a  lien  upon such article, goods or thing, in a   ratable proportion, according to the value of each article,  package  or   parcel, if more than one.In  case such unclaimed article, goods or thing shall in its nature be   perishable, the same may be sold as soon as it can  be,  on  giving  the   notice  required in this section, after its receipt at the city, town or   village to which it was directed.
NY Gen Bus L § 286 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 286 - Surplus to Be Paid to Owner.

§  286.  Surplus  to be paid to owner. Such express company, or person   engaged in the express business, shall make an entry of the  balance  of   the  proceeds  of  the  sale,  if  any,  of each article, goods or thing   directed to the same person, as near as can be ascertained, and  at  any   time  within five years thereafter, shall refund any surplus so retained   to the owner of such article, goods or thing, his heirs or  assigns,  on   satisfactory proof of such ownership.
NY Gen Bus L § 287 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 18 - Freight and Baggage 287 - After Five Years if Unclaimed to Be Paid to County Treasurer.

§  287.  After five years if unclaimed to be paid to county treasurer.   In case such balance shall not be claimed by the rightful  owner  within   five  years  after the sale as above specified, then it shall be paid to   the county treasurer, for the use of the county poor of said county.
NY Gen Bus L § 300 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 300 - Standard of Domestic Distilled Spirits.

§  300.  Standard  of  domestic  distilled spirits. Domestic distilled   spirits, at a temperature of sixty  degrees  Fahrenheit,  which  have  a   specific  gravity  of  nine  thousand  three  hundred and thirty-five as   compared  with  the  gravity  of  pure  distilled  water  at  the   same   temperature estimated at ten thousand, shall be deemed first proof.The  strength  of any such spirits below or above first proof shall be   calculated  decimally,  or  by  the  percentage  in  reference  to  such   standard,  and  shall  be  denoted  as so many per centum below or above   first proof as the actual difference in strength shall be.
NY Gen Bus L § 302 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 302 - Storage of Petroleum.

§  302.  Storage  of petroleum. Crude petroleum, earth or rock oil, or   any of its products, shall not be kept on sale or stored in any place or   building within the corporate limits of any city in this  state,  except   in  the  city  of  New  York, unless in detached and properly ventilated   warehouses, the exterior walls  of  which  are  stone,  brick  or  iron,   specially  adapted  to that purpose, with raised sills at least two feet   high, or the ground floor of which is at least two feet below the  level   of  the  street  or  adjoining  land,  so  as to effectually prevent the   overflow of such substances beyond the premises where kept or stored.No part of such warehouses shall be occupied as  a  dwelling,  and  if   less  than fifty feet from any adjacent building, such warehouse must be   separated therefrom by a brick or stone wall at least ten feet in height   and sixteen inches thick.None of such articles shall be  allowed  to  remain  on  the  sidewalk   beyond  the  front  line of any building or in the street, a longer time   than is actually necessary for the storage, shipment or delivery of  the   same, nor after sunset.
NY Gen Bus L § 303 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 303 - Standard Test and Storage of Refined Petroleum and Kerosene Oil.

§  303.  Standard  test  and storage of refined petroleum and kerosene   oil. Refined petroleum or kerosene oil shall not  be  kept  on  sale  or   stored  in  any such city, the fire test of which shall be less than one   hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, determined by authorized  inspectors   using  G.  Tagliabue's or other improved instruments; and the barrels or   packages containing the same shall be legibly stamped or marked with the   inspector's official stamp or  mark.  If  stored  above  the  cellar  or   basement  of  any building and in barrels of not over forty-five gallons   each, or in metallic vessels or tanks for the convenience of  retailing,   the  quantity  so  stored  shall not exceed the contents of ten barrels,   unless packed  in  hermetically  sealed  metallic  packages,  when  such   quantity  shall  not exceed one hundred barrels. If stored in cellars or   basements surrounded by walls of brick or stone, and at least  two  feet   below  the level of the sidewalk, street or adjacent land, such quantity   shall not exceed the contents of one hundred and fifty  barrels,  unless   stored  in warehouses specially adapted for the purpose pursuant to this   article. No more than five barrels thereof shall be kept  or  stored  in   any building occupied wholly or in part as a dwelling.Not  more  than  ten  barrels  of  benzine or naphtha shall be kept or   stored in any building, and not more than three barrels thereof  in  any   building any part of which is occupied as a dwelling.This  and the preceding section shall not prevent the storage of crude   or refined petroleum in wrought-iron tanks detached  from  any  building   and   especially  adapted  for  that  purpose,  or  in  other  tanks  so   constructed that the top is at least two feet below the  street  or  the   adjoining  land  and  covered  with  at  least  one  foot  of earth, and   appurtenant to or connected with a refinery, with the  approval  of  the   inspectors of buildings, fire marshal or other proper authorities.
NY Gen Bus L § 304 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 304 - Standard and Storage of Illuminating Oils.

§  304.  Standard  and  storage  of illuminating oils. No person shall   manufacture or  have  in  his  possession  or  sell  or  give  away  for   illuminating  or  heating purposes in lamps or stoves within this state,   any oil or burning fluid wholly or partly composed of naphtha, coal oil,   petroleum or products thereof,  or  of  other  substances  or  materials   emitting  an  inflammable  vapor which will flash at a temperature below   one hundred degrees  Fahrenheit  according  to  the  tag  closed  tester   prescribed  and  the  method adopted by the American Society for Testing   Materials for flash point of volatile flammable liquids.No such oil or fluid which will ignite  at  a  temperature  below  two   hundred and ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the standard   method  of  test  for  flash and fire points by means of open cup of the   American Society for Testing Materials shall be burned or be carried  as   freight in any passenger or baggage car or passenger boat moved by steam   or  electric power in this state, or in any stage or street car, however   propelled, except that coal oil,  petroleum  and  its  products  may  be   carried,  when  securely  packed  in  barrels  or  metallic packages, in   passenger boats propelled by steam when there are no other public  means   of transportation.Naphtha  and  other  illuminating products of petroleum which will not   stand the  flash  test  required  by  this  section,  may  be  used  for   illuminating or heating purposes only in the following cases:1.  In  street lamps and open air receptacles apart from any building,   factory or inhabited house in which the vapor is burned.2. In dwellings, factories or other places of business when  vaporized   in  secure  tanks or metallic generators made for that purpose, in which   the vapor so generated is used for lighting or heating.3. For use in the manufacture of illuminating gas in gas manufactories   situated apart from dwellings and other buildings.Any person violating any provision of this section  shall  forfeit  to   the city or village, or if not in a city or village to the town in which   the  violation  occurs,  the  sum  of one hundred dollars for every such   violation, and for every day or  part  of  a  day  that  such  violation   occurs.This  section  shall  not apply to the city of New York, and shall not   supersede but shall be in addition to the ordinances or  regulations  of   any  city  or village made pursuant to law for the inspection or control   of combustible materials therein.
NY Gen Bus L § 304-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 304-A - Unauthorized Manufacture, Sale or Use of Illuminating Oils.

§ 304-a. Unauthorized manufacture, sale or use of illuminating oils. A   person  who  violates  any  provision  of  this  article relating to the   standard, manufacture, sale, or use or storage of  any  oil  or  burning   fluid,  wholly  or  partly  composed  of naphtha, coal oil, petroleum or   products manufactured therefrom, or  of  other  substance  or  materials   which  will flash at a temperature below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit,   or relating to the burning or carriage of any such oil  or  fluid  which   will  ignite at a temperature below three hundred degrees Fahrenheit, is   guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Gen Bus L § 305 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 305 - Inspectors of Storage.

§  305.  Inspectors  of  storage. The inspectors of buildings or other   proper authorities in every such city shall make an examination  of  all   the  premises  where  any of the articles or substances specified in the   preceding sections of this article are kept or stored,  and  report  any   violation  thereof  to  the  authorities of the city whose duty it is to   enforce the provisions thereof.
NY Gen Bus L § 306 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 306 - Fire and Light Within One Hundred and Fifty Feet of Warehouses in the Counties of New York, Kings, Queens and Nassau Prohibited.

§  306. Fire and light within one hundred and fifty feet of warehouses   in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens  and  Nassau  prohibited.  No   person shall bring, have, keep or use or suffer or permit to be brought,   kept,  had  or  used  on  board  of any ship, vessel, canal boat, barge,   lighter, boat or other craft lying at or  within  the  distance  of  one   hundred  and  fifty  feet  of  any  warehouse,  yard,  shed, dock, pier,   bulkhead, wharf or other place within the counties of New  York,  Kings,   Queens  or  Nassau  at,  in  or  upon  which petroleum oil or any of its   products is stored or is kept for export or in quantities exceeding  ten   thousand  gallons,  or  at,  in  or upon any such warehouse, shed, yard,   dock, pier, bulkhead or other place, any lighted match or lighted cigar,   cigarette or pipe, or any fire or light of any kind,  except  in  strict   conformity   to   the   written  permission  of  the  owner,  lessee  or   superintendent of such warehouse,  yard,  shed,  dock,  pier,  bulkhead,   wharf  or  other  place, specifying the fire or light to be kept, had or   used, the particular purpose for and the place or spot at which the same   may be so kept, had or used and the particular manner of keeping, having   and using the same.This section shall not apply to steam  tugs  while  transacting  their   ordinary  business  nor  to  steam fire engines engaged in extinguishing   fires.
NY Gen Bus L § 306-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 306-A - Violating Law to Prevent Conflagrations.

§  306-a.  Violating  law  to  prevent  conflagrations.  A  person who   violates any of the provisions of section three hundred and six of  this   chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Gen Bus L § 307 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits 307 - Penalties and the Enforcement Thereof.

§  307.  Penalties and the enforcement thereof. Every person violating   the provisions of  this  article,  relating  to  the  test  for  refined   petroleum  and  oil, shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of   five hundred dollars for each violation.Every person violating any provision of this article, relating to  the   storage  or keeping for sale of any article, substance or product herein   specified, shall forfeit to the people of the  state,  the  sum  of  two   hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  each  day and part of a day that such   violation continues.Every person violating any provisions of this article, relating to the   incumbering of  any  sidewalk  or  street,  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of   twenty-five  dollars  for each day and part of a day that such violation   continues, to be paid, if in a city or village, to such city or village,   and elsewhere, to the town in which such violation occurs.The mayor and common council of every city or other proper authorities   thereof, shall, by ordinance  or  resolution,  provide  for  the  proper   enforcement of the provisions of the preceding sections of this article,   and  in  every  such city, the moneys collected by the city as penalties   for the violation of any such ordinance or resolution or of any of  such   provisions,  shall be applied to the support of the poor therein, except   in Brooklyn, where they shall be paid into the widows and orphans'  fund   of  the fire department, and except in Buffalo, where they shall be paid   to the treasurer of the firemen's benevolent association of the city for   its use and benefit.