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2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 14 - Aircraft › 248 - Aircraft on Lake Mahopac, Lake Moraine, Lake George, and Lake Oscawana, Owasco Lake and Greenwood Lake Prohibited.

§  248.  Aircraft on Lake Mahopac, Lake Moraine, Lake George, and Lake
  Oscawana, Owasco Lake and Greenwood Lake prohibited.    The  taking  off
  from  or  landing upon the surface of Lake Mahopac in the town of Carmel
  and county of Putnam, or upon the surface of Lake Moraine, also known as
  Madison reservoir, in the town of Madison and county of Madison,  except
  when  a  landing  and  subsequent  take  off  is  necessary under actual
  distress conditions, and the operation of aircraft on or over the waters
  of Lake George, and on or over the waters of Lake Oscawana in  the  town
  of  Putnam  Valley, county of Putnam, or of Owasco Lake in the county of
  Cayuga or of Greenwood Lake in the town of Warwick, county of Orange for
  the carriage of passengers for hire, from and to points on such lakes or
  on the shores thereof, is a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 14 - Aircraft › 248-A - Operation of Aircraft on Certain Lakes in the Town of Lewisboro, County of Westchester.

§  248-a.  Operation  of  aircraft  on  certain  lakes  in the town of
  Lewisboro, county of Westchester. No aircraft may take off from or  land
  upon the surface of Lakes Waccabuc, Oscaleta, Truesdale and Rippowan, in
  the  town of Lewisboro and Lake Kitchawan, in the towns of Lewisboro and
  Pound Ridge, and county  of  Westchester,  except  when  a  landing  and
  subsequent take-off is necessary under actual distress conditions.
A violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 14 - Aircraft › 251 - Liability of an Owner of Aircraft.

§  251.  Liability  of an owner of aircraft.  1. Except as provided in
  subdivision three every  owner  of  an  aircraft  shall  be  liable  and
  responsible  for  death  occasioned  or  injuries  to person or property
  sustained, within or above this  state,  as  a  result  of  the  use  or
  operation  of the aircraft in the business of the owner or otherwise, by
  any person using or operating the aircraft with the permission,  express
  or  implied,  of  such  owner,  in  any  case  where the person using or
  operating the aircraft, or his estate, would be liable for such death or
  injuries.
2. As used in this section, "owner" means any  person  (other  than  a
  lien  holder  or,  in  the cases hereinafter described, a secured party)
  having the property in or title to an aircraft, and also any  lessee  or
  bailee having the exclusive use thereof, under a lease or otherwise, for
  a period of thirty days or more, and their liability under this section,
  where  both  are  liable,  shall be joint and several. If an aircraft be
  sold under a contract which reserves a security interest in the aircraft
  in favor of the vendor, such vendor or his  assignee  shall  not,  after
  delivery  of  such aircraft, be deemed an owner within the provisions of
  this section, but the  vendee  or  his  assignee,  receiving  possession
  thereof,  shall  be  deemed such owner notwithstanding the terms of such
  contract, until the vendor or his assignee shall  retake  possession  of
  such  aircraft.  A  secured  party  in  whose  favor there is a security
  interest in an aircraft out of his possession shall not,  by  reason  of
  such security interest, be deemed an owner within the provisions of this
  section.
3.  Subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  where  the
  permission to use or operate the  aircraft  is  the  permission  of  the
  lessor, expressed or implied, in a bona fide lease of the aircraft for a
  period  of thirty days or more, that the aircraft be used or operated by
  the lessee or by persons using or operating it with  the  permission  of
  the lessee.
4.  All bonds executed by or policies of insurance issued to the owner
  of an aircraft shall contain  a  provision  for  indemnity  or  security
  against  the  liability and responsibility provided in this section; but
  this provision shall not be construed  as  requiring  that  such  policy
  include  insurance  against  any  liability  of  the  insured,  being an
  individual, for death of or injuries to his or her spouse or for  injury
  to property of his or her spouse.
5.  This  section does not relieve an owner of aircraft from liability
  under any other statute or rule of law or affect the  liability  of  the
  person using or operating the aircraft.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 14 - Aircraft › 251-A - Notice of Insurance Coverage in Aircraft Rental Agreements.

§  251-a.  Notice of insurance coverage in aircraft rental agreements.
In addition to  the  requirements  prescribed  in  section  two  hundred
fifty-one  of  this  article  relating  to  liability  of an owner of an
aircraft:
1. Every person who, in the ordinary course of such person's business,
rents an aircraft to another person, shall  deliver  to  such  renter  a
written  notice  stating  the  nature  and  extent of insurance coverage
provided, if any, for the renter against loss of or damage to  the  hull
of  the  aircraft,  or  against  liability arising out of the ownership,
maintenance or use of the aircraft; such notice shall contain  the  name
of  the  person  giving  the  notice,  and shall be in substantially the
following form:
NOTICE OF INSURANCE COVERAGE
As a renter of aircraft, you are hereby notified that:
(1) You (are) (are not) (strike phrase not applicable) insured under a
policy  or  policies  of  insurance  provided  by  the  undersigned  and
providing  liability  coverage  to  renters  of aircraft. If coverage is
provided,   it   is   in    the    following    amount    or    amounts:
$________________________.
(a)  The  above  insurance  is  subject  to  a  deductible  amount  of
$____________________.
(2) You (are) (are not) (strike phrase  not  applicable)  insured  for
hull damage to the aircraft. If hull insurance is provided, it is in the
amount of $________________.
(a) The above insurance is subject to a
deductible amount of $________________.
(3)  Although  insurance  may  be  provided  for liability and/or hull
coverage,  the  undersigned's  insurance  carrier  has  full  rights  to
subrogate  against  you  for  any payments it may be required to make on
account of any damage or loss arising  out  of  your  operation  of  the
aircraft.  It  is  suggested  that you carry insurance to protect you to
partially or fully cover this possibility.
_____________________________
Signature of Person or Officer
of Company Renting Aircraft)
Dated_________________, 19_____
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
2. The notice delivered pursuant to subdivision one  of  this  section
shall  constitute  a  material  part  of  any rental agreement, and each
renter shall give written acknowledgement of receipt of such notice.
3. Delivery of the above notice to a renter  shall  cover  all  future
rentals,  unless the insurance coverage set forth in the original notice
has been reduced or eliminated.
4. Copies of the notices provided  for  in  subdivision  one  of  this
section  shall  be  maintained  by the owner for a period of three years
from the last date that the renter has  rented  an  aircraft  from  such
owner.
5.  Whoever  fails  to  deliver  the  notice  in  accordance  with the
provisions of subdivision one of this section shall be  fined  not  less
than  one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for a first
offense, and not less than  five  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  one
thousand dollars for a second or subsequent offense.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 14 - Aircraft › 251-C - Disqualification of a Flight Instruction School Applicant.

§ 251-c. Disqualification of a flight instruction school applicant. An
  applicant  to  an aeronautical facility, flight school or institution of
  higher learning shall be  disqualified  from  receiving  air  or  flight
  instruction  if,  after  reviewing  criminal  history information on the
  applicant and applying the criteria set forth in article  twenty-three-A
  of  the  correction  law,  the  commissioner of the division of criminal
  justice  services  or  the  authorized  official  of  the   aeronautical
  facility,  flight  school  or institution of higher education determines
  that the individual should not be permitted to receive such instruction.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 15 - Specious Cash Sales › 252 - Definitions.

§ 252. Definitions. For purposes of this article:
(a) The term "consumer" means an individual.
(b)  The  term  "creditor'  means  a  person  regularly engaged in the
business of making loans.
(c) The term "seller" means a person  who  sells  or  agrees  to  sell
personal property or furnishes or renders or agrees to furnish or render
services.
(d)  The term "consumer loan" means a loan of money by a creditor to a
consumer for which the consumer's obligation is payable in  installments
or for which a finance or other charge is or may be imposed.
(e) The term "consumer sale" means a sale by a seller to a consumer of
personal   property  or  services  for  personal,  family  or  household
purposes.
(f) The term "person related to the seller" means with respect  to  an
individual seller:
(1) the spouse of the seller;
(2) a brother, brother-in-law, sister or sister-in-law of the seller;
(3) an ancestor or lineal descendant of the seller or his spouse; and
(4)  any  other  relative,  by  blood or marriage of the seller or his
spouse who shares a residence with the seller.
(g) The term "person related to the seller" means with respect to  any
other seller:
(1)  a  person  directly  or  indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with the seller;
(2) an officer or director of  the  seller,  or  a  person  performing
similar  functions  with  respect  to the seller; the spouse of any such
person; and any other relative by blood or marriage of any  such  person
who shares a residence with such person.
(h)  A creditor who is not an individual shall be a "person related to
the seller" if an officer of the creditor or a person performing similar
functions, whose duties include participation in or supervision over the
consumer loan the proceeds of which were primarily used in the  consumer
sale,  is  a  person  related  to  the  seller under (f) and (g) of this
section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 15 - Specious Cash Sales › 253 - Consumer Defenses.

§  253.  Consumer  defenses.  A creditor, who made a consumer loan the
  proceeds of which were primarily used  in  a  consumer  sale,  shall  be
  subject  to all of the defenses of a consumer arising from such consumer
  sale, provided that  the  creditor  knowingly  participated  in  or  was
  directly  connected  with  such  consumer sale. The creditor's liability
  under this article shall not exceed the amount owing to the creditor  at
  the time the defenses of the consumer are asserted against the creditor.
  Rights  of  the  consumer  under  this article can only be asserted as a
  matter of defense to or set-off against a claim by the  creditor.    The
  creditor  shall be subrogated to the rights of the consumer arising from
  the consumer sale and shall have recourse  against  the  seller  to  the
  extent  of  any  liability  incurred  by  the  creditor pursuant to this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 15 - Specious Cash Sales › 254 - Creditor Relationship.

§  254.  Creditor  relationship. Without limiting the scope of section
two hundred fifty-three, there shall be a  rebuttable  presumption  that
the  creditor  shall  have  knowingly participated in or shall have been
directly connected with a consumer sale if:
(a) the creditor is a person related to the seller; or
(b) the seller prepared forms or documents used to evidence or  secure
the consumer loan; or
(c)  the  creditor supplied forms to the seller which were used by the
consumer to apply for, evidence or secure the consumer loan.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 15 - Specious Cash Sales › 255 - .

§  255.  The  provisions  of  this article shall not apply to consumer
  sales made pursuant to article nine of the personal property law, credit
  card transactions, consumer sales of personal property or services which
  could require or entail the execution of a promissory note  pursuant  to
  section four hundred three of the personal property law, or transactions
  involving the purchase of an automobile.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 16 - Ice › 260 - Cutting and Harvesting Ice by Adjoining Proprietors.

§  260.  Cutting and harvesting ice by adjoining proprietors. Whenever
  the owner or lessee of lands  bordering  upon  the  Hudson  river  shall
  require the ice formed in said river between the center thereof and said
  lands  for the purpose of filling any icehouse now erected, or which may
  at the time of the formation of such ice hereafter  be  erected  on  any
  such  lands  adjoining  the same, such owner or lessee of said lands and
  icehouses shall have the exclusive privilege of cutting  and  harvesting
  all  the  ice  so  formed in said river in front of and adjacent to said
  lands and between the same and the center of said river;  provided  such
  owner  or  lessee  shall have indicated his intention of exercising such
  privilege by staking out so much of said ice as shall  be  required  for
  said  purpose,  which  said staking out shall not be required to be done
  until the ice has attained a thickness of  four  inches;  and  provided,
  also, such owner or lessee shall surround the cuttings and openings made
  with  fences  of  bushes or other safeguards to warn all persons of such
  cuttings and openings. And, whenever  any  icehouse  is  located  on  an
  island  in  said  river,  this  article  shall  apply  to all ice formed
  opposite the shores of such island in  both  channels  into  which  said
  river  shall  be  divided  by  such  island,  subject  to  the provision
  hereinafter contained; and it shall not be lawful for any  person  other
  than the owner or lessee of such lands and icehouses, whether located on
  the  banks  of the river or on such island, to take possession of or cut
  the ice so staked out in  said  river  or  channel  between  the  center
  thereof  and  his  lands, and the same is prohibited after such owner or
  lessee shall have complied with the foregoing requirements.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 16 - Ice › 261 - Protection of Rights.

§  261.  Protection  of  rights.  Whenever such ice shall have been so
  staked out, all ice lying between the  center  of  the  said  river,  as
  hereinafter  defined,  and  such  lands,  or so much thereof as shall be
  required for the purpose of filling the  icehouse  erected  thereon,  as
  aforesaid,  shall  be  and  become the personal property of the owner or
  lessee of such lands and icehouses, and any person trespassing  upon  or
  taking the same for commercial purposes or otherwise, shall be liable to
  such  owner  or  lessee  for  the value of the ice so taken, and for any
  damage, in like manner as for an injury done to any other property,  and
  an action may be maintained for a permanent injunction, or for the value
  of  the  ice so taken, or for any damage; and a temporary injunction may
  be granted, restraining any defendant from trespassing  upon  or  taking
  the   said  ice  for  commercial  purposes  or  otherwise,  pending  the
  determination of  the  action.    Nothing  contained  in  this  article,
  however,  shall  be  construed  as in any manner affecting, impairing or
  interfering with the right of any owner, lessee  or  occupant  of  lands
  bordering  upon or adjacent to the Hudson river or Catskill creek to the
  unrestricted use of the premises owned, leased or occupied  by  him  for
  any lawful purpose.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 16 - Ice › 262 - Center of River Defined.

§  262.  Center  of  river defined. The center of such river is hereby
  defined to be a line halfway between low-water mark on the east bank and
  low-water mark  on  the  west  bank  of  such  river.  Where  an  island
  intervenes,  having  an icehouse or icehouses thereon, the center of the
  river, for the purpose of this article, is hereby defined to be  a  line
  in  each  channel  into  which  said  river  is thereby divided, halfway
  between low-water mark along the shore of  such  island  bordering  upon
  such  channel  and  the  banks of such river opposite such island. Where
  there are, or shall be, dykes erected along both banks of said river, or
  along either shore of such island and also along the bank of said river,
  opposite thereto, the center of said river is hereby  defined  to  be  a
  line  halfway between said dykes. Where there is, or shall be erected, a
  dyke along one shore of such island, or along one  bank  of  said  river
  only,  the  center  of said river is hereby defined to be a line halfway
  between said dyke and low-water mark along the  opposite  bank  of  said
  river,  or  along  the  opposite  shore  of such island, where an island
  intervenes.  Nothing in this article shall be construed to  deprive  the
  public  from  the  right to travel or drive over such ice for any or all
  legitimate purposes whatever.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 16 - Ice › 264 - Mohawk Basin, at Green Island.

§  264. Mohawk basin, at Green Island. Whenever the owner or lessee of
  lands contiguous to lands of the state bordering on the Mohawk basin  at
  Green  Island,  and  lying between the lands of such owner or lessee and
  such basin, shall require the ice  formed  in  such  river  between  the
  center  thereof  and  such lands of the state for the purpose of filling
  any icehouse now erected, or which may at the time of the  formation  of
  such  ice  hereafter  be erected, on such lands contiguous to such state
  lands, such owner or lessee of such lands and icehouses shall  have  the
  exclusive   privilege,  and  without  obtaining  any  permit  under  any
  provision of the canal law, of cutting and harvesting  all  the  ice  so
  formed  in  such  basin  in  said river in front of and adjacent to such
  lands of the state between the same and the center  of  the  basin,  and
  opposite such privately owned or leased lands; provided that the nearest
  boundary  of said land is not more than fifty (50) feet removed from the
  shore line of the basin, and provided such owner or  lessee  shall  have
  indicated  his  intention of exercising such privilege by staking out so
  much of said ice as shall be required for said  purpose,  which  staking
  out shall not be required before the ice has a thickness of four inches,
  and provided, also, such owner or lessee shall surround any cuttings and
  openings  with  fences of bushes or other safeguards as a warning to all
  persons. It shall not be lawful for any person other than the  owner  or
  lessee  of such lands and icehouses to take possession of or cut the ice
  so staked out within the area covered by the  privilege  above  granted,
  and  the  same  is  prohibited  after  such  owner  or lessee shall have
  complied with the foregoing requirements. The provisions of section  two
  hundred  and sixty-one, relative to ice in the Hudson river, shall apply
  to ice within the area staked out in the Mohawk basin  by  an  owner  or
  lessee  in  compliance with the provisions of this section. This section
  shall not apply to that portion of the land where the  nearest  boundary
  recedes more than fifty (50) feet from the shore line of the basin.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 16 - Ice › 265 - Ice Cutting and Ice Bridges.

§  265.  Ice  cutting and ice bridges. A person or corporation cutting
  ice in or upon any waters within the boundaries of this  state  for  the
  purpose  of removing the ice for sale or use, must surround the cuttings
  and openings made with fences or guards  of  boards  or  other  material
  sufficient to form an obstruction to the free passage of persons through
  such  fences  or guards into the place where such ice is being cut. Such
  fences or guards must be erected at or before the time of commencing the
  cuttings or openings, and must be maintained until ice has again  formed
  therein  to  the  thickness  of  at least three inches, or until the ice
  about such openings has melted or broken up.  Whoever  omits  to  comply
  with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17 - Milk Cans › 270 - Unlawful Detention of Milk Cans.

§  270.  Unlawful detention of milk cans. No person shall, without the
  consent of the owner or shipper, or his agent, use,  sell,  dispose  of,
  buy  or traffic in any can, irrespective of its condition, or the use to
  which it may have been applied, belonging to any dealer in or shipper of
  milk or cream in this state or which may be shipped to any town, village
  or city in the state, which can has the name or initials of such  owner,
  dealer  or  shipper  stamped,  marked or fastened thereupon, or wilfully
  mar, erase or change by re-marking or otherwise such name or initials.
If any person, without the consent of such owner, dealer  or  shipper,
  or  his agent, uses, sells, disposes of, buys, traffics in or has in his
  possession or under his control any such can, it  shall  be  presumptive
  evidence  that such use, sale, disposal, purchase, traffic or possession
  is unlawful.
Any such owner, dealer or shipper, or his agent, may  take  possession
  of  any  can  used  in  violation of this article wherever found, and if
  filled or partly filled with milk or cream,  and  the  person  in  whose
  possession  it  is found does not, when requested, immediately empty the
  same, such owner, dealer or shipper, or his agent, may  empty  the  same
  into  the  street  or elsewhere, and shall not be liable for damages for
  any act done pursuant to the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17 - Milk Cans › 271 - Penalty and Action to Recover.

§  271.  Penalty  and  action  to  recover.  Any  person violating any
  provision of this article shall forfeit  to  such  owner  or  dealer  or
  shipper  or his agent the sum of fifty dollars for every such violation,
  and an action may be brought therefor in the  name  of  any  such  agent
  without  joining  the  real party in interest that he represents, and in
  any such action brought for any such violation different persons may  be
  joined  as  plaintiffs, whether jointly or severally interested therein,
  and different persons may be  joined  as  defendants  therein  who  have
  severally  violated  any  such  provisions, and a recovery may be had in
  favor of one or more of such plaintiffs against  one  or  more  of  such
  defendants.
Such  action  may  be brought in a court of record having jurisdiction
  thereof, and the place of trial thereof shall in such case  be  laid  in
  the  county  where the defendant resides at the time of the commencement
  thereof, or it may be brought in a justice court or other court  not  of
  record  having  similar  jurisdiction,  in  the town, city or county for
  which such court is constituted and in which the  defendant  resides  at
  the  time  of  the  commencement  of the action. Any such action must be
  begun within one year after the cause of action accrued.
The civil court of the city of New York shall have  jurisdiction  over
  actions  brought  under the provisions of this article against residents
  of said city and such court and the judges thereof shall in such actions
  have and exercise all the powers now conferred by said article on courts
  not of record, and the sheriff of the city of New York and the  marshals
  of said city shall have to like extent the powers of constables provided
  in said article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17 - Milk Cans › 272 - Search Warrant.

§ 272. Search warrant. If at the time of the issue of the summons in a
  court  not  of record, the plaintiff or his agent make affidavit that he
  has reason to believe and does believe that any defendant has  any  such
  can  or cans secreted upon his premises, the justice or other magistrate
  or court issuing the summons must,  without  requiring  an  undertaking,
  grant  an  order for the arrest of the defendant, which order shall also
  contain a direction to the officer  to  whom  the  same  is  issued,  to
  immediately  search  the  place or premises mentioned in said affidavit,
  and if any such can or cans are there found, to bring the same  together
  with the defendant or other persons in whose possession said can or cans
  are found, before such justice, magistrate or court. The proceedings may
  be  amended  at  any  time by adding parties or otherwise as justice may
  require; and the judgment may provide for the disposition of the can  or
  cans so found.
If  upon  the  issue  of  any  such  process,  the constable, or other
  officer, shall be unable to find the person or  persons  therein  named,
  but  shall  find  any  can or cans, as therein set forth, he shall bring
  such can or cans before such justice or magistrate, who shall  thereupon
  proceed  to determine the right of such complainant thereto, and if upon
  such hearing had thereon he shall be satisfied that  such  can  or  cans
  rightfully  belong  to  such  complainant, or that he is entitled to the
  possession thereof,  he  shall  forthwith  deliver  the  same  into  his
  possession or the possession of his agent.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17 - Milk Cans › 273 - Railroad or Steamboat Company May Act as Agent of Owner.

§  273.  Railroad or steamboat company may act as agent of owner.  The
  several superintendents of the railroad companies, and the branches  and
  connections thereof, and steamboat lines operating their roads or lines,
  or  any  portion  thereof,  in  this  state shall have power to collect,
  gather and take into  possession  from  any  person  or  whenever  found
  thereupon,  any cans belonging to any such owner, dealer or shipper, and
  return the same to such owner, dealer or  shipper  and  may  appoint  an
  agent for that purpose, and such superintendent and such agent appointed
  by  him shall have the same power and authority under this article as an
  agent of such owner, dealer or shipper.
The certificate of such  superintendent  appointing  such  agent  duly
  acknowledged  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  of  the  appointment and
  authority of such agent.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17 - Milk Cans › 274 - Assistance of Police Officer or Constable.

§   274.  Assistance  of  police  officer  or  constable.  Any  person
  authorized by this article to seize and take into his or her  possession
  any  such  cans  may,  in case of resistance, call to his or her aid any
  police officer or constable of the town, village or city who shall  when
  so  called  on assist him or her in seizing or taking possession of such
  cans.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 275 - Definitions.

§ 275. Definitions. As used in this article:
(a)  "Name,  mark  or  device"  means any word, name, symbol, picture,
design or any combination thereof, produced upon, and used by  a  person
to indicate ownership of vessels, receptacles or utensils.
(b)  "Person"  means  any  individual, firm, partnership, corporation,
association, union or other organization.
(c) "Produced  upon"  means  branded,  stamped,  stenciled,  engraved,
etched, blown, embossed, impressed, or otherwise permanently placed upon
any vessel, receptacle or utensil.
(d)  "Vessels,  receptacles  and  utensils"  include  all packages and
containers and accessories used in selling or distributing  any  natural
or   processed   product,   compound,  mixture,  or  substance,  or  any
combination thereof, and designed and intended for re-use by the  person
filing hereunder in the normal course of trade, and includes, but is not
limited  to,  bottles, jars, milk or cream dispensers, siphons or siphon
heads, kegs, pails, cans and closures therefor,  boxes,  cases,  crates,
freezers,  tubs,  refrigeration  boxes,  blocks, moulds, trays, pans and
tanks.
(e) For purposes of this article, a name, mark or device is  "used  in
this  state"  when  it  is  produced  upon  the  vessels, receptacles or
utensils and the vessels, receptacles or  utensils  are  placed  in  the
channels of trade.
(f)  The use of the singular and plural shall be inclusive each of the
other to carry out the intent and purpose of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 276 - Filing of Statement.

§  276.  Filing  of statement. A person who uses in this state a name,
mark or device to indicate ownership of vessels, receptacles or utensils
may file in the office of the secretary  of  state,  on  a  form  to  be
furnished  or approved by him, a statement subscribed by such person and
affirmed by him as true, under the penalties of perjury  setting  forth,
but not limited to, the following information:
(a)  The name and business address of the person filing the statement;
and, if a corporation, the state of incorporation.
(b) The nature of the business of the person filing.
(c) The type of vessels, receptacles and utensils in  connection  with
which the name, mark or device is used.
The  statement  shall  include  or be accompanied by a copy, specimen,
facsimile or counterpart of such name, mark or device in  quadruplicate,
together with a filing fee of fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 277 - Certificate of Filing.

§  277.  Certificate of filing.  Upon compliance with the requirements
  of this article, the secretary of state shall cause a certificate to  be
  issued and delivered to the person filing the statement. The certificate
  shall  be  issued  over  the signature of the secretary of state and the
  seal of the department of state, and it shall show the name and business
  address of the person claiming ownership of the vessels, receptacles  or
  utensils  upon which the name, mark or device is produced; the nature of
  the business of the person filing; the type of vessels,  receptacles  or
  utensils on which the name, mark or device is produced and used; a copy,
  specimen, facsimile or counterpart of such name, mark or device as filed
  in  the  secretary of state's office, or a reproduction thereof; and the
  filing date.
Any certificate issued under the provisions hereof and duly  certified
  by  the  secretary of state, or a certified copy of the statement filed,
  shall be admissible in evidence in any action or judicial proceedings in
  any court of this state as competent and sufficient proof of the  filing
  pursuant  to  this  article,  and  shall  be prima facie evidence of the
  ownership by the person filing hereunder of all vessels, receptacles and
  utensils upon which such name, mark or device is produced.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 278 - Filing Under Prior Law.

§  278.  Filing under prior law. At the end of twelve months following
  the effective date of this article, the secretary of state shall  cancel
  all  certificates  issued  under  sections three hundred sixty and three
  hundred sixty-one of article twenty-four of the  general  business  law,
  unless  a  new  statement  shall  have  been  filed  under this article;
  provided, however, that such certificates issued under  such  prior  law
  shall  remain  in  full force and effect and shall be entitled to all of
  the benefits of this article during said twelve months' period or  until
  the said statement has been filed.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 279 - Assignment.

§  279. Assignment. The certificate of the filing of any name, mark or
  device under this article and the benefits obtained thereunder shall  be
  assignable  with  the  sale  of  the vessels, receptacles or utensils on
  which the same are produced and used. Assignments  shall  be  made  upon
  forms  supplied  by the secretary of state, which shall be duly executed
  and may be recorded upon the payment of a fee of fifty  dollars  payable
  to the secretary of state who, after recording the assignment, may, upon
  request of the assignee, issue in his name a new certificate.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 279-B - Cancellation.

§  279-b.  Cancellation.  The secretary of state shall cancel from the
register:
(1) Any certificate concerning which  the  secretary  of  state  shall
receive  a  voluntary  request  for cancellation thereof from the person
filing or from the assignee;
(2)  Any  certificate  in  respect  of  which  a  court  of  competent
jurisdiction shall order cancellation on any legal or equitable ground.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 279-C - Deposits on Vessels, Receptacles or Utensils.

§  279-c. Deposits on vessels, receptacles or utensils. The requiring,
  taking, paying or accepting of any deposit  for  any  purpose  upon  any
  vessel,  receptacle  or utensil shall not be deemed to constitute a sale
  of such property, either optional or otherwise, for the purposes of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 17-A - Filing of Names, Marks and Devices Used on Certain Vessels, Receptacles and Utensils › 279-D - Prohibited Acts.

§  279-d.  Prohibited  acts.  It  is  hereby declared unlawful for any
  person to fill or use, to give, buy, take, destroy,  sell  or  otherwise
  dispose  of, or traffic in, vessels, receptacles or utensils, upon which
  a name, mark or device which has been filed hereunder  is  produced,  or
  refuse  to  return  such  vessel, receptacle or utensil on demand of the
  owner, or to deface, erase, obliterate, cover up or otherwise remove  or
  conceal  any  such  name,  mark  or  device, unless in each case written
  consent of the owner is obtained or unless the vessels,  receptacles  or
  utensils shall have been purchased from the said owner.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.