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2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-A - Passage Tickets › 123 - What Must Be Stated in Passage Ticket.

§  123. What must be stated in passage ticket.  A ticket or instrument
  issued as evidence of a right of passage upon the high  seas,  from  any
  port  in this state, to any port of any other state or nation, and every
  certificate or order issued  for  the  purpose,  or  under  pretense  of
  procuring  any  such  ticket  or instrument, and every receipt for money
  paid for such ticket or instrument must state the name of the vessel  on
  board  of  which  the  passage  is to be made, the name of the owners or
  consignees of such vessel, the name of the company, or line, if any,  to
  which such vessel belongs, its country of registry, the place from which
  such  passage  is  to  commence,  the  place  where  such  passage is to
  terminate, the day of the month and year upon which  the  voyage  is  to
  commence,  the  name of the person purchasing such ticket or instrument,
  or receiving such order, certificate or receipt,  and  the  amount  paid
  therefor;  and such ticket or instrument, order, certificate or receipt,
  unless sold or issued by the owners or consignees of such  vessel,  must
  be signed by their authorized agent.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-A - Passage Tickets › 124 - Sale of Tickets Not Filled Out, a Misdemeanor.

§  124.  Sale  of tickets not filled out, a misdemeanor.  A person who
  issues,  sells  or  delivers  to  another,   any   ticket,   instrument,
  certificate,  order  or  receipt,  which  is  not  made or filled out as
  prescribed in the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-A - Passage Tickets › 125 - Soliciting the Surrender of Tickets a Misdemeanor.

§  125. Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor.  Any hotel,
  boarding-house, lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor,  manager,
  clerk  or  other  employee or any runner, guide, porter or solicitor who
  solicits in any manner any immigrant or  steerage  passenger  inward  or
  outward  bound,  having  a  railroad or steamship ticket, order or other
  instrument  entitling  or  purporting  to  entitle  such  passenger   to
  transportation  or conveyance on any railroad or steamship, to surrender
  such ticket, order or other instrument to  such  hotel,  boarding-house,
  lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager or other employee
  or to any runner, guide, porter or solicitor or any other person for the
  purpose  of  detaining  any  such immigrant or steerage passenger in any
  such hotel,  boarding-house,  lodging-house,  or  restaurant,  shall  be
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-A - Passage Tickets › 126 - Purchase or Selling Partially Used Non-Transferable Railroad Tickets, a Misdemeanor.

§  126.  Purchase  or selling partially used non-transferable railroad
  tickets,  a  misdemeanor.    It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any   person,
  association  of  persons,  firm or corporation to buy or sell the unused
  portions of non-transferable railroad  tickets,  the  use  of  which  is
  restricted  to  the  original purchasers thereof by the railroad company
  issuing the same, or to act  as  vendor  or  broker  of  partially  used
  non-transferable railroad tickets or to solicit personally or by sign or
  advertisement  or  in any other manner to aid in the sale or purchase of
  partially used non-transferable railroad tickets. Any  person  violating
  any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 131 - Ownership of Merchandise Establishments and Services to Be Publicly Revealed and Displayed.

§  131.  Ownership  of  merchandise  establishments and services to be
  publicly revealed and displayed.  Every person, partnership, association
  or  corporation  owning  or  conducting  any  shop,   store   or   other
  establishment  or  service  wherein the sale of merchandise at retail or
  wholesale is carried on or transacted or a service  is  performed  as  a
  business  shall cause the true, full name, including the full first name
  or legally registered trade name or names of the proprietor or owner  or
  proprietors  or  owners  of  such  shop, store or other establishment or
  service to be publicly revealed and prominently and legibly displayed in
  the English language either upon a window of such shop, store  or  other
  establishment  or  place  where  a  service  is performed or upon a sign
  conspicuously placed upon the exterior of the  building  containing  the
  same. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a person, partnership,
  association  or  corporation  operating under a lease, a department in a
  shop, store or other establishment or service  as  aforesaid  where  the
  lessor  of  such shop, store or other establishment or service is liable
  to customers for merchandise sold by and the operations of  such  leased
  department.  Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall
  constitute a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 132 - Fictitious Copartnership Names.

§  132.  Fictitious  copartnership  names.  1.  A person who transacts
  business, using the name, as a partner, of one not interested  with  him
  as a partner, or using the designation "and company," or "& Co." when no
  actual  partner  is represented thereby is guilty of a misdemeanor. This
  section shall not apply to any case, where it is specially prescribed by
  statute that a partnership name may be continued in use by a  successor,
  survivor, or other person.
2.  Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed
  to  prohibit  the  use  of  the  designation  "and  associates"  or   "&
  associates"  by  a  professional  or professionals who actually practice
  such profession with or employ one or more other  professionals  engaged
  in such profession.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 133 - Use of Name or Address With Intent to Deceive.

§ 133. Use of name or address with intent to deceive.  No person, firm
  or  corporation  shall,  with  intent  to deceive or mislead the public,
  assume, adopt or use as, or as part of, a corporate,  assumed  or  trade
  name,  for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade, or for any
  other purpose,  any  name,  designation  or  style,  or  any  symbol  or
  simulation  thereof, or a part of any name, designation or style, or any
  symbol or simulation thereof, which may deceive or mislead the public as
  to the identity of such  person,  firm  or  corporation  or  as  to  the
  connection  of  such  person, firm or corporation with any other person,
  firm or corporation; nor shall any person,  firm  or  corporation,  with
  like  intent,  adopt  or  use as, or as part of, a corporate, assumed or
  trade name, for advertising purposes, or for the purposes of  trade,  or
  for  any  other  purpose,  any address or designation of location in the
  community which may deceive or mislead the public as to the true address
  or location of such person, firm or corporation.   A violation  of  this
  section  shall  be  a  misdemeanor. Whenever there shall be an actual or
  threatened violation of this section, an application may be  made  to  a
  court or justice having jurisdiction to issue an injunction, upon notice
  to the defendant of not less than five days, to enjoin and restrain such
  actual   or  threatened  violation;  and  if  it  shall  appear  to  the
  satisfaction of the court or justice  that  the  defendant  is  in  fact
  assuming,  adopting  or using such name, or is about to assume, adopt or
  use such name, and that the assumption, adoption or use of such name may
  deceive or mislead the public, an injunction may be issued by said court
  or  justice,  enjoining  and  restraining  such  actual  or   threatened
  violation  without  requiring  proof  that  any  person has in fact been
  deceived or misled thereby.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 134 - Fraudulent Use of the Name or Title of Secret Fraternity.

§  134. Fraudulent use of the name or title of secret fraternity.  Any
  person, firm,  association,  society,  order  or  organization,  or  any
  officer,  agent, representative or employee thereof, or person acting or
  pretending to act  on  behalf  thereof  who  in  a  newspaper  or  other
  publication  published  in  this  state,  or  in  any  letter,  writing,
  circular, paper, pamphlet or other written or printed notice, matter  or
  device  without  authority  of  the  grand  lodge  hereinafter mentioned
  fraudulently uses, or in any manner directly or indirectly aids  in  the
  use  of  the name or title of any secret fraternal association, society,
  order or organization which has had a grand lodge in this state for  ten
  years,  or  any  imitation of such name or title or any name or title so
  nearly resembling it as to be calculated  to  deceive,  or  who  without
  authority publishes, sells, lends, gives away, circulates or distributes
  any  letter,  writing,  circular,  paper,  pamphlet  or other written or
  printed notice, matter or device directly or indirectly advertising  for
  or  soliciting  members  or  applications  for membership in such secret
  fraternal association, society, order or organization, or in any alleged
  or pretended association,  society,  order  or  organization,  using  or
  designated  or  claimed  to  be  known  by  such  title  or imitation or
  resemblance thereof or who therein or thereby  offers  to  sell,  or  to
  confer  or  to communicate or to give information directly or indirectly
  where, how, of whom, or by what means any alleged or pretended degree or
  any alleged or pretended secret work or any alleged or pretended secrets
  of such secret fraternal association, society, order or organization  or
  any  alleged  or  pretended  association, society, order or organization
  designated or claimed  to  be  known  by  such  title  or  imitation  or
  resemblance  thereof  can or may be obtained, conferred or communicated,
  is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 135 - Unlawful Use of Name of Benevolent, Humane or Charitable Corporation.

§  135.  Unlawful  use  of  name  of  benevolent, humane or charitable
  corporation. No person, society or corporation  shall,  with  intent  to
  acquire  or  obtain  for  personal  or  business  purposes  a benefit or
  advantage, assume, adopt or use the name  of  a  benevolent,  humane  or
  charitable  organization incorporated under the laws of this state, or a
  name so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive  the  public
  with  respect to any such corporation. A violation of this section shall
  be a misdemeanor.   Whenever there shall  be  an  actual  or  threatened
  violation  of  this  section,  an  application may be made to a court or
  justice having jurisdiction to issue an injunction, upon notice  to  the
  defendant  of  not  less than five days, for an injunction to enjoin and
  restrain said actual or threatened violation; and if it shall appear  to
  the  satisfaction  of the court or justice that the defendant is in fact
  using the name of  a  benevolent,  humane  or  charitable  organization,
  incorporated  as  aforesaid,  or a name so nearly resembling it as to be
  circulated to deceive the public, an injunction may be  issued  by  said
  court  or  justice,  enjoining and restraining such actual or threatened
  violation, without requiring proof that any  person  has  in  fact  been
  misled or deceived thereby.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 138 - Use of Certain Governmental, Military or Naval Names.

§  138.  Use  of  certain governmental, military or naval names. 1. It
  shall be unlawful and is prohibited for any person, firm, corporation or
  association, not an agency  or  instrumentality  of  the  United  States
  government, selling or offering for sale goods, wares or merchandise, to
  use  or  cause  or  permit  to be used in the corporate or trade name or
  description of the seller or of the place  where  the  goods,  wares  or
  merchandise  are  offered  for  sale,  any  of  the  following  words or
  expressions, viz., "army," "navy,"  "marine  corps,"  "marines,"  "coast
  guard," "government," "post exchange," "P. X.," or "G. I.," unless there
  is  displayed  in conjunction therewith, in letters of at least the same
  size as such words or expressions, the words, "we sell articles acquired
  from the United States government  only,"  or  "we  sell  both  articles
  acquired from the United States government and non-government articles,"
  as the case may be.
2. No person, firm, corporation or association selling or offering for
  sale any article of merchandise, shall in any manner represent, contrary
  to  fact,  that  the  article  was  made  for,  or  acquired directly or
  indirectly from, the United States government or its military  or  naval
  forces  or  any  agency  of  the  United  States government, or that the
  article conforms to government specifications or requirements,  or  that
  it has been disposed of by the United States government.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 140 - Wearing Industry Badges, or Other Insignia of Identification by Unauthorized Persons.

§ 140. Wearing industry badges, or other insignia of identification by
  unauthorized  persons.  An employer of labor may adopt a badge, or other
  insignia of identification, to be worn or displayed by the employees for
  the purpose of identification while upon the premises  of  the  employer
  and  may  post a notice of the adoption of such badge, or insignia, near
  the main entrance of such premises. Such employer may deposit  with  the
  department  of  labor  a  replica  of  such  badge or insignia, and such
  department shall, if such badge or insignia  be  distinctive,  issue  to
  such employer a certificate authorizing the use thereof for the purposes
  of this section. Any person who, after the approval and adoption of such
  badge,  or  insignia,  without  authority  or permission of the employer
  adopting the same, wilfully wears such badge or displays such  insignia,
  or  any  facsimile  or any imitation thereof, or uses the same to obtain
  admittance to or remain upon the premises of the employer, is guilty  of
  a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 141 - Unlawful Use of the Name United Nations.

§  141.  Unlawful  use  of the name United Nations. No person, firm or
  corporation shall, without express authority from the secretary  general
  of  the  United  Nations,  assume,  adopt  or  use as, or as a part of a
  corporate, assumed or trade name, for advertising purposes, or  for  the
  purposes of trade, or for any other purpose, the name United Nations, or
  abbreviation  thereof; or any official emblem or other official insignia
  thereof; nor shall any person,  firm  or  corporation,  with  intent  to
  deceive  or  mislead the public, for any of such purposes, assume, adopt
  or use any  name,  designation  or  style,  or  simulation  thereof,  or
  designation  or  style,  or  simulation  thereof,  which  may deceive or
  mislead the public as to the true  identity  of  such  person,  firm  or
  corporation  or  as  to  the official connection of such person, firm or
  corporation with the United Nations.  A violation of this section  shall
  be  a  misdemeanor.  Whenever  there  shall  be  an actual or threatened
  violation of this section, an application may be  made  to  a  court  or
  justice  having  jurisdiction to issue an injunction, upon notice to the
  defendant of not less than five days, to enjoin and restrain such actual
  or threatened violation; and if it shall appear to the  satisfaction  of
  the  court  or justice that the defendant is in fact, assuming, adopting
  or using such name, or is about to assume, adopt or use such  name,  and
  that  the  assumption,  adoption  or  use of such name was not expressly
  authorized by the secretary general  of  the  United  Nations,  and  may
  deceive or mislead the public, an injunction may be issued by such court
  or   justice,  enjoining  and  restraining  such  actual  or  threatened
  violation without requiring proof that  any  person  has  in  fact  been
  deceived  or  mislead  thereby.  This  section  shall  not  prevent  the
  continued use of a corporate name  or  trade  name  heretofore  lawfully
  used.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 142 - Unlawful Possession or Use of an Identification Card Issued by United Nations.

§  142. Unlawful possession or use of an identification card issued by
  United Nations. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or use an
  identification card issued to another person by the United Nations.  Any
  person finding or otherwise coming into possession of the identification
  card of another  person  shall  forthwith  surrender  the  same  to  the
  official  in command at the headquarters of the United Nations or to any
  police officer or peace officer of the state. Any  person  who  wilfully
  violates any provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
  punishable  upon  conviction by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or
  by imprisonment of not more than ten days, or both.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-B - Use of Names and Symbols › 143 - False Identification Documents.

§  143.  False  identification  documents. 1. As used in this section,
  "false identification document" means any document, including a personal
  identification card, which is of a type intended  or  commonly  used  or
  accepted  for  the purpose of identification of individuals and which is
  not issued by or under the lawful authority of the  named  or  indicated
  issuer.  "False  identification  document" shall also include a personal
  identification document intended or commonly used or  accepted  for  the
  purpose of identification which resembles or is intended to resemble one
  issued  by  the named or indicated issuer even though that issuer may be
  fictitious.
2. No person, firm or corporation shall produce, advertise, offer  for
  sale,  sell,  distribute  or  otherwise transfer in this state any false
  personal identification document unless such  document  bears  the  word
  "NOVELTY" diagonally printed clearly and indelibly on both the front and
  back  of  such document in capital letters in not less than twelve point
  type.
3. Whenever there shall be a violation of this section, an application
  may be made by the attorney general in the name of  the  people  of  the
  state  of  New  York or by the corporation counsel for any city or by an
  attorney properly designated by the  governing  body  to  represent  any
  other  political  subdivision, to a court or justice having jurisdiction
  by a special proceeding to issue an injunction, and upon notice  to  the
  respondent  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 respondent 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.    Whenever  the court shall determine that a violation of this
  section has occurred, the court may impose a civil penalty of  not  more
  than  five  hundred  dollars  for each violation. In connection with any
  such proposed application, the attorney general, corporation counsel  or
  other properly designated attorney, as the case may be, 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. Each sale
  of a false identification  document  shall  constitute  a  separate  and
  distinct violation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-C - Cyber Piracy Protections; Domain Names › 147 - Definitions.

§  147.  Definitions.  For the purposes of this article, the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Domain name" means any alphanumeric designation that is registered
  with or assigned by any domain name registrar, domain name registry,  or
  other  domain  name  registration  authority  as  part  of an electronic
  address on the internet.
2. "Internet" means the international computer network of both federal
  and non-federal interoperable packet switched data networks.
3. "Traffic in" refers to  transactions  that  include,  but  are  not
  limited  to,  sales,  purchases,  loans, pledges, licenses, exchanges of
  currency, or any other transfer for consideration or receipt in exchange
  for consideration.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-C - Cyber Piracy Protections; Domain Names › 148 - Unlawful Registration of Domain Name.

§  148.  Unlawful  registration of domain name. 1. No person or entity
  shall register a domain name that consists of the name of another living
  person, or a name substantially and confusingly similar thereto, without
  that person's or entity's consent, with the specific  intent  to  profit
  from  such  name  by  selling the domain name for financial gain to that
  person or any third party.
2. A person or  entity  shall  be  only  liable  for  a  violation  of
  subdivision  one  of this section if such person or entity is the domain
  name registrant or such registrant's authorized licensee.
3. A person or entity who  in  good  faith  registers  a  domain  name
  consisting of the name of another living person, or a name substantially
  and  confusingly similar thereto, shall not be liable under this section
  if such name is used in, affiliated  with,  or  related  to  a  work  of
  authorship  protected under title 17 USC, including a work made for hire
  as defined in 17 USC 101, and if the person or  entity  registering  the
  domain  name  is the copyright owner or licensee of the work, the person
  or entity intends to sell the domain name in conjunction with the lawful
  exploitation of the work, and such registration is not prohibited  by  a
  contract between the registrant and the named person.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 9-C - Cyber Piracy Protections; Domain Names › 149 - Civil Remedies.

§  149.  Civil remedies. 1. Upon the commission of a violation of this
  article, an application may be made by the attorney general to  a  court
  having  jurisdiction to issue an injunction against the person or entity
  that registered the domain name in violation of this article,  and  upon
  notice to the respondent of not less than five days, the court may award
  injunctive  relief,  including  the  forfeiture  or  cancellation of the
  domain name. Upon receipt of a court order for  injunctive  relief,  the
  registrar,  domain  name  registry  or  other  domain  name registration
  authority with which the person or entity has registered the domain name
  with, shall comply with such order's requirements. If it shall appear to
  the satisfaction of the court that the person or entity  who  registered
  the domain name with the registrar, domain name registry or other domain
  name  registration authority, has committed a violation of this article,
  the court shall enjoin and restrain  such  person  or  entity  from  any
  further  violation without requiring proof that any person has, in fact,
  been injured or damaged thereby.
2. In addition to injunctive relief, the court may fine the person  or
  entity  that  registered a domain name in violation of this article, one
  thousand dollars for each day the violation occurs. The court  may  also
  order the transfer of the domain name as part of the relief awarded.
3.   The   registrar,  domain  name  registry  or  other  domain  name
  registration authority shall not be liable for  injunctive  or  monetary
  relief  under  this  section except in the case of bad faith or reckless
  disregard, which includes a willful failure to  comply  with  any  court
  order.
4. In a civil action commenced under this section, a domain name shall
  be  deemed  to  have  its  situs  within  the  state  if the domain name
  registrar, registry, or other domain name authority that  registered  or
  assigned the domain name is located within the state.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10 - Shooting Ranges › 150 - Shooting Ranges.

§  150.  Shooting  ranges.  1.  In  any action or proceeding commenced
against an owner or user of a shooting range where one or more causes of
action asserts a claim based on noise or noise pollution resulting  from
the  inherent  shooting  activity on such shooting range, it shall be an
affirmative defense that, at the time of the commencement of the  action
or  proceeding,  the shooting range is in compliance with any applicable
noise control laws or ordinances, or, if the  applicable  noise  control
laws  or ordinances have no legal force and effect against such owner or
user or there are no applicable noise control laws or ordinances at  the
time  of  the  effective date of this section, then the A-weighted sound
level of small arms fire on the shooting range does not exceed 90  dB(A)
for  one  hour out of a day, or does not exceed 85 dB(A) for eight hours
out of a day measured at, or adjusted to, a distance of one hundred feet
outside the real property boundary of the shooting range.  An  owner  or
user  may  move  for  judgment  dismissing  one or more causes of action
asserted against him on the ground that a  cause  of  action  cannot  be
maintained because of such affirmative defense.
2.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  in  any way limit the rights or
remedies which are otherwise available to a person under any other law.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of  this
section,  no  shooting  range  shall  be operated during the period from
10:00 PM until 7:00 AM unless a  local  law  or  ordinance  specifically
authorizes  the  operation of a shooting range during all or any portion
of such time period.
4. For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Shooting range" shall mean an outdoor range equipped with targets
for use with firearms and shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  all
rifle, pistol and shotgun ranges.
(b)  "A-weighted  sound  level"  shall  mean  the sound pressure level
measured by the use of an instrument with the  metering  characteristics
and  A-weighting  frequency  response  prescribed  by sound level meters
using the impulse response mode.
(c) "Sound pressure level" shall mean twenty times  the  logarithm  to
the  base  ten of the ratio of the root mean squared pressure of a sound
to a reference pressure of twenty micropascals. The unit applied to this
measure shall be the decibel (dB).
(d) "Small arms" shall mean  projectile  firearms  of  small  caliber,
including rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-A - Truth in Travel Act › 155 - Legislative Intent.

§  155.  Legislative intent. It is hereby determined and declared that
  the promotion of travel, either individually or as a group,  is  now  of
  such  volume  that  it  is  in  the public interest to subject it to the
  supervision of the appropriate political subdivisions of the  state  for
  the purpose of safeguarding the public against fraud, false advertising,
  misrepresentation and similar abuses.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-A - Truth in Travel Act › 158 - Prohibited Practices by Travel Consultants.

§ 158. Prohibited practices by travel consultants. It shall be illegal
  for   any  travel  consultant  and,  if  such  travel  consultant  is  a
  corporation, any officer or director thereof, to engage in any or all of
  the following enumerated practices:
1. Knowingly misrepresent the quality or kind of service, type or size
  of aircraft, vehicle, ship or  train,  time  of  departure  or  arrival,
  points  served,  route  to  be  traveled,  stops  to  be  made, or total
  trip-time from point of  departure  to  destination  or  other  services
  available,  reserved  or  contracted  for in connection with any trip or
  tour.
2. Knowingly misrepresent the fares and charges for transportation  or
  services in connection therewith.
3.   Knowingly   advertise   or  otherwise  offer  for  sale  or  sell
  transportation or services in connection  therewith  at  less  than  the
  rates, fares and charges specified in the currently effective tariffs of
  the  carrier, who is engaged to provide such transportation or services,
  or knowingly offer or give rebates  or  other  concessions  thereon,  or
  knowingly   assist  or  permit  a  person  or  persons  to  obtain  such
  transportation or services at less than such  lawful  rates,  fares  and
  charges.
4. Knowingly misrepresent that special priorities for reservations are
  available  when  such  special considerations are not in fact granted to
  members of the public generally.
5.  Knowingly  sell  transportation  to  a  person  or  persons  on  a
  reservation  or  charter  basis  for  specified space, flight or time or
  knowingly represent that such definite reservation or charter is or will
  be available or has been arranged, without a binding commitment  with  a
  carrier  for  the  furnishing of such definite reservation or charter as
  represented or sold.
6. Knowingly sell or issue tickets or other documents to passengers to
  be exchanged or  used  for  transportation  if  such  tickets  or  other
  documents  will  not  be  or  cannot  be legally honored by carriers for
  transportation.
7. Knowingly misrepresent the requirements  that  must  be  met  by  a
  person or persons in order to qualify for charter or group fare rates.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-A - Truth in Travel Act › 159 - Violations and Penalties.

§  159.  Violations  and penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided by
  law, any travel consultant who shall violate the terms  of  section  one
  hundred fifty-eight of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2.  Except as otherwise provided by law, any travel promoter who shall
  knowingly violate the terms of section one hundred fifty-eight-a of this
  article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
3. The district attorney of any county may bring an action in the name
  of the people of the state to restrain or prevent any violation of  this
  article or any continuance of any such violation.
4.  Enforcement;  penalties.  Whenever  there  shall be a violation of
  section one  hundred  fifty-seven-a,  one  hundred  fifty-eight  or  one
  hundred fifty-eight-a of this article, an 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 article, 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 article has occurred, the court
  may impose a civil penalty of not more than  five  hundred  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.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-A - Truth in Travel Act › 159-A - Severability.

§  159-a.  Severability.  If  any  provision  of  this  article or the
  application thereof to any person or circumstances is held  invalid  the
  invalidity  thereof shall not affect other provisions or applications of
  the article which can be given effect without the invalid  provision  or
  application,  and  to  this  end  the  provisions  of  this  article are
  severable.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-B - Transmission of Money to Foreign Countries. › 160 - Unauthorized Transmission of Money as Agent.

§ 160. Unauthorized transmission of money as agent. No person, firm or
  corporation  or unincorporated association shall represent himself to be
  an  agent  of  any   steamship   company,   express   company,   banking
  establishment  or  institution,  or  other  company,  for the purpose of
  receiving money for transmission or of transmitting the same  by  draft,
  traveller's  check,  money  order or otherwise to foreign countries, nor
  shall any person, firm, corporation  or  unincorporated  association  do
  business as such agent, unless thereto duly authorized.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-B - Transmission of Money to Foreign Countries. › 161 - Agent to Transmit Through Principal.

§  161.  Agent  to  transmit  through  principal.  No  such  agent  so
  authorized shall transmit any money received  for  transmission  by  him
  through any person, firm or corporation other than through the principal
  from whom such agent has duly received authority.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-B - Transmission of Money to Foreign Countries. › 162 - Certain Transmission Prohibited; Method of Transmission.

§  162.  Certain  transmission prohibited; method of transmission.  No
  steamship company, express  company,  or  other  company  and  no  agent
  thereof,  shall  receive any money as a depositary. Every such steamship
  company, express company, or other company and every  agent  thereof  in
  transmitting  any  money received for transmission, shall incorporate in
  the advice of draft, money order or other instrument by means  of  which
  such  money  is  transmitted  a  statement showing the amount thereof in
  terms of dollars and cents together with the amount thereof in terms  of
  the money standard of the country to which such money is transmitted.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-B - Transmission of Money to Foreign Countries. › 163 - Time of Transmission.

§  163. Time of transmission. Every agent authorized to act as such by
  any steamship company, express company, or otherwise for the purpose  of
  transmitting money, shall within two days after receipt thereof, deliver
  to  his  principal  the money so received. Every such steamship company,
  express company, or other company shall thereupon and within three  days
  after  receipt thereof from an agent, transmit the same to the person to
  whom such money has been consigned by the transmitter unless within such
  period of three days there be no mail bearing steamer  leaving  for  the
  point  of destination of such moneys, in which event such money shall be
  transmitted on the first steamship to leave thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 10-B - Transmission of Money to Foreign Countries. › 164 - Disposition of Undelivered Moneys.

§  164.  Disposition  of  undelivered moneys. Every steamship company,
  express  company,  or  other  company,  to  which  moneys  received  for
  transmission  are  returned  for  the  reason  that  the  same cannot be
  delivered shall forthwith notify  the  transmitter  thereof  by  mailing
  written  notice  to such transmitter at his last known address.  If such
  money be unclaimed for a period of ninety days after such  notice,  such
  company  shall immediately turn over such money to the state comptroller
  who shall maintain the same as a capital revolving fund for the  purpose
  of  paying  claimants thereof. After such moneys have remained unclaimed
  in the hands of the comptroller for five years, the same  shall  escheat
  to the state.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 172 - License Required.

§  172.  License  required. No person shall open, keep, maintain, own,
  operate or carry on any employment agency unless such person shall  have
  first  procured  a  license  therefor  as provided in this article. Such
  license shall be issued by the commissioner of labor, except that if the
  employment agency is to be conducted  in  the  city  of  New  York  such
  license  shall be issued by the commissioner of consumer affairs of such
  city. Such license shall be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  said
  agency.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 175 - Form and Contents of License.

§  175.  Form  and contents of license. 1. Every license shall contain
  the name of the person licensed, a designation  of  the  city,  town  or
  village,  street and number of the place in which the person licensed is
  authorized to carry on the said employment agency, and  the  number  and
  date  of  such  license.  If  the licensee is a corporation, the license
  shall be issued in the name of the corporation  and  the  names  of  the
  president  and  treasurer  individually  and  as  officers.    All other
  officers of the corporation and all stockholders of a corporation  whose
  stock is not publicly traded holding ten percent or more of the stock of
  such corporation shall be deemed licensees.
2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  licensee to notify promptly the
  commissioner of any changes of the persons  licensed  or  deemed  to  be
  licensees,  and  of any material change in the ownership or operation of
  the agency.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 176 - Assignment or Transfer of License; Change of Location; Additional Locations.

§  176.  Assignment  or  transfer  of  license;  change  of  location;
  additional locations. A license granted  as  provided  in  this  article
  shall  not  be  valid for any person other than the person to whom it is
  issued or any place other than that designated in the license and  shall
  not  be assigned or transferred without the consent of the commissioner.
  Applications for such consent shall be made in the  same  manner  as  an
  application  for  a  license,  and  all  the  provisions of sections one
  hundred seventy-three  and  one  hundred  seventy-four  shall  apply  to
  applications  for  such  consent.  The  location of an employment agency
  shall not be changed without the consent of the commissioner,  and  such
  change  of location shall be indorsed upon the license. A person who has
  obtained an employment agency license in accordance with the  provisions
  of  this  article,  may  apply  for  an additional license to conduct an
  additional employment agency,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of
  section  one  hundred  seventy-three. The manner of application, and the
  conditions and terms applicable to the issuance of such license shall be
  the same as for an initial or original  license  except  that  the  said
  license  shall  not  extend  beyond the termination date of the original
  license.   An additional bond shall be  furnished  to  the  commissioner
  issuing the additional license, and the terms of said bond shall be such
  as  to make it payable as well to the people of the state of New York or
  of the city of New York, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 178 - Action on Bond.

§  178.  Action  on  bond.  All  claims  or suits brought in any court
  against any licensed person may be brought in the  name  of  the  person
  damaged  upon  the bond deposited by such licensed person as provided in
  section one hundred seventy-seven and may be transferred and assigned as
  other claims for damages in civil suits. The amount of  damages  claimed
  by plaintiff, and not the penalty named in the bond, shall determine the
  jurisdiction   of  the  court  in  which  the  action  is  brought.  The
  commissioner may institute a suit against the  bond  on  behalf  of  any
  person  damaged.  Where such licensed person has departed from the state
  with intent to defraud his creditors  or  to  avoid  the  service  of  a
  summons  in  an action brought under this section, service shall be made
  upon the surety in the manner provided for service of a summons. A  copy
  of such summons shall be mailed to the last known post office address of
  the  residence  of  the licensed person and the place where he conducted
  such employment agency, as shown by the records of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 179 - Registers and Other Records to Be Kept.

§ 179. Registers and other records to be kept. It shall be the duty of
  every  licensed person to keep a register, approved by the commissioner,
  in which shall be entered, in the English  language,  the  date  of  the
  application  for employment, the date the applicant started work and the
  name and address of every applicant  from  whom  a  fee  or  deposit  is
  charged,  the  amount of the fee or deposit and the service for which it
  is received or charged. Such licensed person shall  also  enter  in  the
  same  or  in  a  separate register, approved by the commissioner, in the
  English language, the name and address of every employer from whom a fee
  is received or  charged  or  to  whom  the  licensed  person  refers  an
  applicant  who has paid or is charged a fee, the date of such employer's
  request or assent that applicants be furnished, the kind of position for
  which applicants are requested, the names of the  applicants  sent  from
  whom a fee or deposit is received or charged with the designation of the
  one  employed, the amount of the fee or deposit charged, and the rate of
  salary or wages agreed upon. It shall also be the duty of every licensed
  person to keep complete and accurate  written  records  in  the  English
  language  of  all  receipts and income received or derived directly from
  the operation of his employment agency, and to keep  records  concerning
  job  orders. No such licensed person, his agent or employees, shall make
  any false entry in such records. It shall be the duty of every  licensed
  person  to  communicate  orally  or  in writing with at least one of the
  persons mentioned as references for every applicant for work in  private
  families,  or  employed  in a fiduciary capacity, and the result of such
  investigation shall be kept on file in such agency for a  period  of  at
  least  three  years. Every register and all records kept pursuant to the
  requirements of this article shall be retained on the  premises  of  the
  agency  concerned  for  three years following the date on which the last
  entry thereon was made.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 182 - Cards to Be Furnished Nurses; Registry Records.

§  182.  Cards  to  be  furnished  nurses; registry records. A nurses'
  registry shall send out to practice nursing only persons  duly  licensed
  pursuant  to  article  one hundred thirty-nine of the education law as a
  registered professional nurse or licensed practical nurse. Every nurses'
  registry, before  sending  a  person  out  to  practice  nursing,  shall
  investigate  such  person's  educational  qualifications and verify such
  person's licensure  and  current  registration.  At  least  two  current
  written references shall be required of such person.  The record of such
  investigation and verification shall be kept on file in the registry.
Every  nurses'  registry  that sends out any such person shall at such
  time give to such person and send to the employer of such person a  card
  stating  (1)  such  person's  name, address and salary, (2) whether such
  person is a registered professional nurse or licensed  practical  nurse,
  (3)  the  number  of the current registration certificate issued to such
  person by the education department, and (4) a statement that the  record
  of  such  person's  educational  qualifications  and  experience  in the
  practice of nursing is on file in such registry and that a copy  thereof
  will  be  sent to such employer on request. A copy of such card shall be
  kept on file in the registry.
The  record  of  investigation  and  verification  and  the  card-copy
  required  by this section to be kept on file shall be open to inspection
  by any duly authorized agent of the university of the state of New York,
  and every  nurses'  registry  shall  furnish  a  complete  list  of  its
  registrants on request of such agent.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 186 - Return of Fees.

§  186.  Return of fees. 1. Excessive fee: Any employment agency which
  collects, receives or retains a fee or other payment contrary to  or  in
  excess  of  the  provisions of this article, shall return the fee or the
  excess portion thereof  within  seven  days  after  receiving  a  demand
  therefor.
2.  Failure  to  report:  If  a  job  applicant accepts employment and
  thereafter fails to report for work,  the  gross  fee  charged  to  such
  applicant  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  per  cent of the maximum fee
  allowed by section one hundred eighty-five of this  article.  If  a  job
  applicant  accepts employment and fails to report for work, no fee shall
  be charged to the employer.
3. Termination without employee's fault. If a  job  applicant  accepts
  employment  and  reports  for  work,  and  thereafter such employment is
  terminated without fault of the employee, the gross fee charged to  such
  employee  and  to  the employer each shall not exceed ten percent of the
  salary or wages received by such employee, and in no  event  shall  such
  fee exceed the maximum fee allowed by section one hundred eighty-five of
  this  article.  However,  if  such  employee  is a domestic or household
  employee recruited from a state outside of this state  the  fee  of  the
  employer  shall  not  exceed  thirty-three  and one-third percent of the
  wages or salary actually earned.
4. Termination under all  other  circumstances:  If  a  job  applicant
  accepts  employment and reports for work, and thereafter such employment
  is terminated under any other circumstances, the gross  fee  charged  to
  such  employee  and the employer each shall not exceed fifty per cent of
  the salary or wages received by such employee, and  in  no  event  shall
  such  fee  exceed  the  maximum  fee  allowed  by  section  one  hundred
  eighty-five of this article.