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2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 10 - Pay and Allowances › 220 - Expenses of Military Courts.

§ 220. Expenses of military courts.  1. While engaged in the execution
  of the duties imposed upon him or authorized to be performed by him by a
  military court, a marshal, police officer or peace officer shall be paid
  two  dollars  for  each  day  actually employed in the execution of such
  duties and mileage or actual necessary traveling expenses. Mileage shall
  be computed at the rate of ten cents for each mile necessarily  traveled
  going and returning to serve any process or mandate of a military court,
  the  distance  to  be  computed from the place where it is served to the
  place where it is returnable.
2. In addition to the compensation provided in subdivision one hereof,
  a marshal of a military court, police officer  or  a  peace  officer  as
  defined  in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law to whom a warrant
  is delivered for the collection of a fine imposed by the sentence  of  a
  military court shall be paid by retaining to his own use twenty-five per
  centum of the fines collected by him under such warrant. Said percentage
  shall be taxed by the officer issuing such warrant and shall be endorsed
  thereon  and  added to the amount of the fine collectible to satisfy the
  sentence of the military court.
3. The compensation and necessary expenses of a summary  court-martial
  and  of  the  clerk  thereof and the compensation and necessary expenses
  payable to marshals, police officers  and  peace  officers  pursuant  to
  subdivision  two of this section shall be paid from the military fund of
  the unit of the organized militia whose commanding officer appointed the
  military court in the same manner as other accounts are paid  from  such
  fund.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 10 - Pay and Allowances › 222 - Headquarters Allowances.

§ 222. Headquarters allowances.  1. On the certificate of the adjutant
  general,  the  comptroller  shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer in
  favor of the commanding officer of any unit to  which  an  allowance  is
  made  for  the  headquarters thereof in a sum not exceeding two thousand
  dollars. Such allowances in specified amounts shall be available for the
  headquarters of units  as  designated  by  the  adjutant  general  in  a
  schedule  filed by him and approved by the director of the budget within
  the amount of annual appropriations therefor.
2. The funds thus allowed shall only be  expended  by  the  respective
  commanding officers of the organizations to which the fund is allowed in
  accordance with regulations approved by the adjutant general.
3.  The  adjutant  general is hereby authorized and empowered to draw,
  use, apply or place in  escrow  to  the  benefit  of  any  unit  of  the
  organized  militia  and  of units of the organized militia in the active
  military service of the  United  States,  or  otherwise  to  direct  the
  disposition  of  any and all moneys and balances remaining on deposit to
  the credit of the custodian of any headquarters allowance of any unit of
  the organized militia which has been disbanded, deactivated, or  ordered
  or  called  into the active military service of the United States, or to
  pay bills chargeable against such headquarters allowance of disbanded or
  deactivated units or of units ordered or called into the active military
  service of the United States from such  moneys.  The  custodian  of  any
  headquarters  allowance  shall  pay  to  the  adjutant general, upon his
  order, all moneys remaining in his hands to the credit of any  disbanded
  or  deactivated  unit  of  the organized militia or of a unit ordered or
  called into the active military service of the United States.
All unexpended and unobligated  balances  of  headquarters  allowances
  remaining  to  the credit of any unit of the organized militia or of any
  disbanded or deactivated unit, and of any unit ordered  or  called  into
  the  active  military  service  of the United States shall at the end of
  each fiscal year be turned over to the adjutant general and  transmitted
  by him to the state treasurer.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 10 - Pay and Allowances › 223 - Definitions.

§ 223. Definitions.    The  word  "officer",  as used in this article,
  means a commissioned  officer,  a  commissioned  warrant  officer  or  a
  warrant officer.
The   term  "military  court",  as  used  in  this  article,  means  a
  court-martial, a court of inquiry or a provost court.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 235 - Relief From Civil or Criminal Liability; Exemption From Civil Process; Security for Costs.

§ 235. Relief  from  civil or criminal liability; exemption from civil
  process; security for costs.  1. Members of the militia ordered into the
  active service of the state pursuant to sections six and seven  of  this
  chapter,  shall not be liable civilly or criminally, for any act or acts
  done by them in the performance of  their  duty.    When  an  action  or
  proceeding  of  any nature shall be commenced in any court by any person
  against any officer of the militia for  any  act  done  by  him  in  his
  official capacity in the discharge of any duty under this chapter, or an
  alleged  omission  by him to do an act which it was his duty to perform,
  or against any person acting under the authority or order  of  any  such
  officer,  or by virtue of any warrant issued by him pursuant to law, the
  defendant may require the person instituting or prosecuting  the  action
  or  proceeding  to  file  security  for the payment of costs that may be
  awarded to the defendant therein, and the defendant  in  all  cases  may
  make  a  general  denial  and  give  the special matter in evidence.   A
  defendant, in whose favor a final judgment is rendered in an action or a
  final order is made in a special proceeding, shall recover treble costs.
2. No person belonging to the organized militia of the state shall  be
  arrested on any civil process while going to, remaining at, or returning
  from any place at which he may be required to attend for military duty.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 235-A - Income and Resources Not to Include Agent Orange Benefits.

§  235-a.  Income  and resources not to include agent orange benefits.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,  the  terms  "income"
  and  "resources"  for  the purpose of determining eligibility for or the
  amount of benefits under any means-tested state  or  state  assisted  or
  federally  assisted  program  including  but  not limited to programs of
  public assistance and care,  including  family  assistance,  safety  net
  assistance,  medical  assistance,  title  XX of the social security act,
  food stamp program, the program of additional state payments to  persons
  eligible  for  supplemental  security income, the low income home energy
  assistance  program  and  grants,  loans  and  scholarships  and   other
  means-tested  programs  for  educational  assistance,  shall not include
  payments received from the agent orange settlement  fund  or  any  other
  fund  established  pursuant  to the settlement in the in re agent orange
  product liability litigation,  M.D.L.  No.  381  (E.D.N.Y.)  and/or  any
  payments  received  from court proceedings brought for personal injuries
  sustained by veterans resulting  from  exposure  to  dioxin  or  phenoxy
  herbicides in connection with the war in Indochina in the period January
  first,  nineteen hundred sixty-two through May seventh, nineteen hundred
  seventy-five.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 236 - Right of Way.

§ 236. Right  of  way.    The  commanding  officer  of any unit of the
  organized militia parading or performing any military duty in any street
  or highway, may require any or all persons in such street or highway  to
  yield  the  right  of  way to such militia, provided the carriage of the
  United States mail, the legitimate  functions  of  the  police  and  the
  progress  and  operations of the hospital ambulances, fire engines, fire
  departments  and  apparatus  of  the  insurance  patrol  shall  not   be
  interfered  with  thereby.    All  others  who  shall  hinder, delay, or
  obstruct  any  unit  of  the  organized  militia  wherever  parading  or
  performing  any  military  duty, or who shall attempt so to do, shall be
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 237 - Free Passage Through Toll-Gates and Tunnels and Over Toll-Bridges and Ferries.

§ 237. Free   passage   through   toll-gates   and  tunnels  and  over
  toll-bridges and ferries.  Any person belonging to the organized militia
  shall, together with the conveyance in his charge and  property  of  the
  state  or  of  the  United States in his charge, be allowed to pass free
  through all toll-gates and tunnels and over all  toll-bridges  and  also
  over  all  ferries  if he is in uniform or presents an order for duty or
  certificate of an order for duty.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 238-B - Seizing Military Stores Belonging to the State.

§ 238-b. Seizing military stores belonging to the state.  A person who
  enters  any fort, magazine, arsenal, armory, arsenal yard or encampment,
  and seizes or takes  away  any  arms,  ammunition,  military  stores  or
  supplies belonging to the people of this state, is guilty of a felony.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 239 - Trespassers and Disturbers to Be Placed in Arrest; Sales and Gambling Prohibited.

§ 239. Trespassers  and  disturbers  to be placed in arrest; sales and
  gambling prohibited.  1. Any person who shall trespass upon any  armory,
  arsenal, camp, range, base or other facility of the organized militia or
  other  place  where  any  unit  of  the  organized militia is performing
  military duty, or who shall in any way or manner interrupt or molest the
  discharge of his military duties by any member of the organized  militia
  or  of  the  armed  forces of the United States or who shall trespass or
  prevent the passage of troops of the organized militia or of  the  armed
  forces  of the United States in the performance of their military duties
  may be placed in arrest by the commanding officer of the unit performing
  such military duty at the place where the offense is committed  and  may
  be  held  in  arrest  during  the continuance of the performance of such
  military duty.
2. The commanding  officer  of  any  unit  of  the  organized  militia
  performing military duty in or at any armory, arsenal, camp, range, base
  or  other  facility  of  the organized militia or other place where such
  unit is performing military duty may prohibit persons who hawk,  peddle,
  vend  or sell goods, wares, merchandise, food products or beverages upon
  the streets and highways from conducting  sales  or  auctions,  and  may
  prohibit  all  gambling within the limits of such armory, arsenal, camp,
  range, base or other facility of the organized militia  or  other  place
  where  such  unit  is performing military duty or within such limits not
  exceeding one mile  therefrom  as  he  may  prescribe.  Such  commanding
  officer  may in his discretion abate as common nuisances all such sales,
  auctions and gambling.
3. Any person who trespasses upon any missile site under  the  control
  or  jurisdiction of the New York army national guard, or who, in any way
  interrupts or molests the performance of duty by any person assigned  to
  such  site,  may  be apprehended and detained in custody at the site, by
  any member of the New York army national guard or any person  performing
  duty  at  such  site.  Any  person  so apprehended and detained shall be
  delivered, without delay, to a police officer, as defined in subdivision
  thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 240-A - Historic Military Commands.

§ 240-a. Historic  military  commands.   1. Historic military commands
  are those independent military organizations located within the state as
  were on the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred eighty-three and
  are now in existence, and whose members associate themselves together at
  regular meetings and elect  their  officers  in  accordance  with  their
  respective rules and regulations or constitutions and by-laws.
2. The Old Guard of the City of New York, the Troy Citizens Corps, the
  Utica  Citizens  Corps,  the  One  Hundred  Twenty-fourth New York State
  Volunteers and the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the state of New  York,
  are designated as historic military commands.
3.  The adjutant general may issue a certificate of election under the
  seal of the chief of staff to officers  of  historic  military  commands
  elected  pursuant  to  the  rules  and  regulations or constitutions and
  by-laws of their respective commands. Such certificate of election shall
  be in a format approved by the adjutant general and shall be provided by
  the command at no cost  to  the  state.  Elected  officers  of  historic
  military  commands  may  take their oath of office before any officer of
  the organized militia of the state.
4. Historic military commands and independent  military  organizations
  defined  in  section  two hundred forty of this chapter are not units of
  the militia of the state.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 241 - Devises and Bequests.

§ 241. Devises  and  bequests.   Any unit of the organized militia may
  take by devise and bequest real and personal property for its  uses  and
  purposes  as  a  military  organization, and may hold, mortgage, sell or
  otherwise dispose of the same.  The title to such property shall vest in
  the commissioned officer or officers of the unit and if there  be  three
  or more of such officers the property shall be managed by their majority
  vote  and  disposed  of  by their two-thirds vote.  Organizations of the
  veterans of such units and/or their predecessor units in  the  organized
  militia, in cases where the designation of the corresponding unit in the
  organized  militia  has  been  changed by proper authority, incorporated
  under general laws or special charter of the state, as  associations  of
  the  veterans  of  such  units  now  or  as  heretofore  constituted and
  designated and associations organized pursuant to  section  two  hundred
  sixty  of  this  chapter  shall, in addition to the powers and authority
  heretofore granted, possess the same authority herein  granted  to  each
  unit  of  the  organized  militia to take by devise and bequest real and
  personal  property  for  the  appropriate  uses  and  purposes  of  such
  organizations and associations and may hold, mortgage, sell or otherwise
  dispose  of  the  same,  and  use and apply the proceeds thereof and the
  income thereof to its appropriate purposes.  The title to such  property
  shall  vest  in  such  corporations or associations and shall be managed
  and/or disposed of as provided in  and  by  the  constitution,  by-laws,
  rules  and  regulations  now  in  force  or hereafter adopted in respect
  thereto.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 243-A - Non-Contributory Retirement Service Credit for Members of the New York State and Local Retirement Systems or the New York State Teachers' Retirement S

§ 243-a. Non-contributory retirement service credit for members of the
  New  York  state  and  local  retirement  systems  or the New York state
  teachers' retirement system called to active military duty on  or  after
  August  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety.    Notwithstanding  any other
  provision of law, any member of the New York state and local  employees'
  retirement  system,  the  New  York  state  and  local  police  and fire
  retirement system, or the New York state teachers' retirement system who
  is called to active military duty on or  after  August  first,  nineteen
  hundred   ninety   and   prior   to   January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-three, who is not receiving  full  salary  from  a  participating
  employer  and is otherwise eligible to receive retirement service credit
  in such system for such active military duty  pursuant  to  section  two
  hundred  forty-two or two hundred forty-three of this article, shall not
  be required to make member contributions to receive such credit.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 243-B - Civil Service Examinations by Military Personnel.

* § 243-b. Civil   service  examinations  by  military  personnel.  1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or  any  other  law,
  any  member  of  the  armed  forces  of the United States of America who
  having duly filed an application to compete in a  scheduled  competitive
  examination for civil service employment by the state of New York or any
  of  its  subdivisions and who due to active military duty is deprived of
  the opportunity to compete in such examination shall be provided with an
  opportunity to compete, under terms and conditions deemed appropriate by
  the state department of civil service or municipal commission, by way of
  a special military make-up examination.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter  or  any  other
  law,  any  member  of the force of the organized militia, as the term is
  defined in subdivision nine of section one of this  chapter  or  reserve
  armed  forces,  as  that  term  is defined in subdivision twenty-nine of
  section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law or any member of the
  armed forces of the United States who missed  the  application  deadline
  for  a scheduled competitive examination for civil service employment by
  the state of New York  or  any  of  its  subdivisions  due  to  military
  service,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three hundred one of
  this chapter or due to a call to active duty, pursuant to 10 USC 101 (d)
  (1), and is deprived of the opportunity to compete in  such  examination
  due  to military service, as defined in subdivision one of section three
  hundred one of this chapter or due to a call to active duty, pursuant to
  10 USC 101 (d) (1), shall be provided with an  opportunity  to  compete,
  under terms and conditions deemed appropriate by the state department of
  civil  service  or  municipal  commission,  by way of a special military
  make-up examination.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter  or  any  other
  law,  any  member  of the force of the organized militia, as the term is
  defined in subdivision nine of section one of this  chapter  or  reserve
  armed  forces,  as  that  term  is defined in subdivision twenty-nine of
  section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law or any member of the
  armed forces of the United States who missed  the  application  deadline
  for  a scheduled competitive examination for civil service employment by
  the state of New York  or  any  of  its  subdivisions  due  to  military
  service,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three hundred one of
  this chapter or due to a call to active duty, pursuant to 10 USC 101 (d)
  (1), and who returns from such duty prior to the administration of  such
  competitive  examination  shall  be  granted a waiver of the application
  requirement and allowed to compete in such upcoming examination.
* NB There are 2 § 243-b's
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 243-B*2 - Payment of Certain Pension Contributions by the City of New York.

* § 243-b. Payment of certain pension contributions by the city of New
  York.  As  used  in  this section, the term New York city veteran of the
  Persian Gulf emergency means a member of the New  York  city  employees'
  retirement  system,  the  teachers' retirement system of the city of New
  York, the New York city police pension fund,  the  New  York  city  fire
  department  pension fund, or the board of education retirement system of
  the city of New York, who is a member of  a  reserve  component  of  the
  armed  forces  of  the  United States ordered to active duty on or after
  August first, nineteen  hundred  ninety  and  prior  to  January  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three,  in  response  to the nation's military
  mission in the Persian Gulf, who is not receiving  full  salary  from  a
  participating  employer,  and  who  is  otherwise  eligible  to  receive
  retirement service credit in any of such systems  or  funds  for  active
  duty   pursuant   to  section  two  hundred  forty-two  or  two  hundred
  forty-three of this  article,  or  pursuant  to  the  federal  Veterans'
  Reemployment Rights Act.
Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, all benefits payable by a
  retirement system or pension fund to a New  York  city  veteran  of  the
  Persian  Gulf  emergency  due  to the retirement or death of such member
  shall be calculated as though such member had actually paid  the  amount
  of  all  contributions, together with applicable interest thereon, which
  such member would have been required to make if, during  the  period  of
  active  duty,  because  of  such Persian Gulf emergency, such member had
  been present and continuously performed the duties of the position  held
  at the time of his or her entry into active duty.
Each such member shall be credited with such contributions made on his
  or her behalf. The applicable interest thereon shall be calculated as to
  each  such  member  under the applicable provisions of law governing the
  crediting of interest to employee contributions for each such member.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any  additional  liability
  attributable to this section shall be paid into the retirement system or
  pension  fund  by  participating  employers  at  such  times and in such
  amounts as determined  by  the  actuary  in  a  manner  consistent  with
  appropriate actuarial methodology.
* NB There are 2 § 243-b's
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 243-C - Application Period for Civil Service Examinations for Military Personnel.

§ 243-c. Application   period   for  civil  service  examinations  for
  military personnel.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter,  any
  general  or  special  law,  rule or regulation to the contrary, a person
  serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United  States  during
  the  filing  period for a civil service examination, or a person who has
  been discharged therefrom with other than a dishonorable discharge after
  the filing period for a civil service examination has  commenced,  shall
  be  permitted  to file an application for such examination no later than
  ten business days prior to the scheduled date of such examination or the
  last date to file for such  examination,  whichever  is  later,  and  if
  qualified  shall  be  provided  with  an  opportunity to compete in such
  examination under terms and conditions deemed appropriate by  the  state
  department of civil service or municipal commission.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 243-D - Non-Contributory Retirement Service Credit for Members of the New York State and Local Retirement Systems, the New York City Retirement Systems or the New York State Teachers' Retirement System Called to Active Military Duty on or After September Eleventh, Two Thousand One.

§ 243-d. Non-contributory retirement service credit for members of the
  New  York  state  and  local  retirement  systems,  the  New  York  city
  retirement systems or the New York  state  teachers'  retirement  system
  called  to  active  military  duty  on  or after September eleventh, two
  thousand one. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member  of
  the  New York state and local employees' retirement system, the New York
  city retirement systems, the New York state and local  police  and  fire
  retirement system, or the New York state teachers' retirement system who
  is  called  to  active military duty on or after September eleventh, two
  thousand one and prior to January first, two thousand six,  who  is  not
  receiving  his  or  her full salary from a participating employer and is
  otherwise eligible to receive retirement service credit in  such  system
  for  such active military duty pursuant to section two hundred forty-two
  or two hundred forty-three of this article, shall  not  be  required  to
  make member contributions to receive such credit.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 244-A - Credit to Members of Public Retirement Systems for Military Service Performed During War.

§  244-a.  Credit to members of public retirement systems for military
  service performed during war. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision  of
  law,  a member of a public retirement system of the state, as defined in
  subdivision twenty-three of section five hundred one of  the  retirement
  and  social  security  law,  shall  be  eligible for credit for military
  service performed during a period of war upon attainment of no less than
  ten years of service and may obtain, upon application to such retirement
  system, a total not to exceed three years of service credit within three
  years prior to retirement for up to three years of military service as a
  member of the armed forces of the United  States  if  such  service  was
  rendered  during a period of war. For purposes of the New York state and
  local employees' retirement system and the  New  York  state  and  local
  police  and fire retirement system all such service shall be credible in
  all plans specified in the retirement and social security law.
2. In order to purchase  credit  pursuant  to  this  subdivision,  the
  member  shall  pay  into  the pension accumulation fund the contribution
  amount as determined by the comptroller, either in  a  lump  sum  or  in
  installments,  necessary  to  pay  in  full  the  cost  of such previous
  service. If such payment be made in installments, the same shall be paid
  within a period no greater than the number  of  months  of  such  member
  service granted.
3. In no event shall the credit granted pursuant to this section, when
  added  to credit granted for military service with any retirement system
  pursuant to this section or any other provision of law, exceed  a  total
  of three years.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 246 - Leave of Absence for Public Employees Who Are War Veterans to Continue Study.

§ 246. Leave  of  absence for public employees who are war veterans to
  continue study.   Notwithstanding the  provisions  of  any  law  to  the
  contrary,  every  public  officer  and employee, who served in the armed
  forces of the United States on or after  September  sixteenth,  nineteen
  hundred  forty, and prior to the termination of hostilities in world war
  II, or during the period of hostilities engaged in by the  armed  forces
  of  the  United  States on and after June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred
  fifty, or who served in the armed forces  of  the  United  States  after
  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five, and who is eligible
  under the provisions enacted by the congress of the United States  known
  as  "Servicemen's  Readjustment  Act of nineteen hundred forty-four," or
  "Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of nineteen  hundred  fifty-two,"
  or  "Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Act of nineteen hundred sixty-six,"
  to continue the pursuit of studies or to take a refresher or  retraining
  course  shall  be  granted  a leave of absence from his position for the
  period of such course of study, not to exceed four years.   Such  public
  officer  or  employee  shall  be  reinstated to his position provided he
  makes application for such reinstatement within  sixty  days  after  the
  termination of such course of study.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 248 - Oaths.

§ 248.   Oaths.   1. Any officer of any force of the organized militia
  and any officer in the active military service of the United  States  is
  hereby  authorized to administer the oath required for the enlistment of
  any person, the oath required for  the  appointment  of  any  person  to
  commissioned or warrant officer grade and any other oath required by the
  laws  of  the  United  States and by this chapter and by the regulations
  issued thereunder in connection with the enlistment  or  appointment  of
  any person in any of such forces.
2.   As  used  in  this  section  the  term  "officer"  shall  mean  a
  commissioned officer, commissioned warrant officer or warrant officer.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 249 - State and Municipal Officers and Employees Granted Leaves of Absence on July Fourth in Certain Cases.

§ 249. State  and  municipal  officers and employees granted leaves of
  absence on July fourth in certain cases. Each officer  and  employee  of
  the  state  or  of  a  municipal  corporation  or of any other political
  subdivision thereof who was a member of  the  national  guard  or  naval
  militia  or  a  member  of  the  reserve corps at a time when the United
  States was not  at  war  and  who  (i)  has  been  honorably  discharged
  therefrom, or (ii) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one
  of  the  veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than
  bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (iii) is a  discharged
  LGBT  veteran,  as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,
  and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
  such service, shall, in so far as practicable,  be  entitled  to  absent
  himself  or  herself from duties or service, with pay, on July fourth of
  each year. Notwithstanding the provisions of  any  general,  special  or
  local  law  or  the  provisions  of any city charter, no such officer or
  employee  shall  be  subjected  by  any  person  whatever  directly   or
  indirectly  by  reason  of  such  absence  to  any loss or diminution of
  vacation or holiday privilege or be prejudiced by reason of such absence
  with reference to promotion or continuance in office or employment or to
  reappointment to office or to re-employment.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 250 - Recording Certificates of Honorable Discharge.

§ 250. Recording  certificates of honorable discharge. Any certificate
  issued after April sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen, of  the  honorable
  separation  from  or service in the armed forces of the United States of
  any veteran, may be recorded in any one county, in  the  office  of  the
  county clerk, and when so recorded shall constitute notice to all public
  officials  of  the  facts set forth therein. It shall be the duty of the
  county clerk to record the certificate upon presentation thereof without
  the payment  of  any  fee.  For  any  purpose  for  which  the  original
  certificate  may  be required in the state of New York, a certified copy
  of the record shall be deemed sufficient and shall be accepted  in  lieu
  thereof. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, it shall be
  the  duty  of the county clerk of each county, to furnish without charge
  to any veteran, or parent, spouse, dependent or child of the veteran,  a
  certified  copy  of  the  certificate  of the veteran so recorded in the
  office of the county clerk. No  filed  certificate  or  any  information
  contained  therein,  shall be disclosed to any person except the veteran
  or parent, spouse, dependent or child of the veteran, representative  of
  the  estate  of the deceased veteran or a public official, acting within
  the scope of his or her employment, unless such disclosure is authorized
  in writing by the veteran. The provisions of this section also apply  to
  the counties within the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 250-A - Lt. Colonel Todd Clark Memorial Flag Presentment Program.

§  250-a. Lt. Colonel Todd Clark Memorial Flag Presentment Program. 1.
  There shall be established within the division  of  military  and  naval
  affairs,  by  the  adjutant general, the Lt. Colonel Todd Clark Memorial
  Flag Presentment Program. Pursuant to such program:
a.  The  adjutant  general  upon  request,  may,  in  his  discretion,
  authorize  the purchase and presentation of a flag of the United States,
  where such flag is not provided by the  United  States,  to  the  person
  designated  to  dispose  of  the  remains  of  a member of the organized
  militia who dies while on the active list, and whose service up  to  the
  date of death was honorable.
b. In the event the governor orders the flags of the United States and
  the  State  of New York, to be lowered to half staff, in memorial of the
  death of any service member of the army, navy (including marine  corps),
  air force, or coast guard of the United States, or any service member of
  the  army  national  guard,  air  national  guard,  state guard or naval
  militia, the adjutant general, shall, in cooperation with the office  of
  general  services,  arrange  for the procurement of a flag of the United
  States and a flag of the State of New York, which were flying  over  the
  capitol  building  at  the time such flags were lowered to half staff in
  compliance with the governor's  order.  Upon  the  procurement  of  such
  flags,  the  adjutant general, or his or her representative, shall offer
  the presentment of such flags, without cost, to the person designated to
  dispose of the remains of the service member, in whose honor such  flags
  were lowered in memorial.
2. For the purposes of this section only, the following persons in the
  order named shall be designated to dispose of the remains of a decedent:
a. Surviving spouse of decedent
b. Blood relatives of the decedent
c. Adoptive relatives of the decedent
d. Person standing in loco parentis to decedent
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 251 - Depriving Members of Organized Militia of Employment.

§ 251. Depriving members of organized militia of employment.  A person
  who,  either  by  himself or with another, wilfully deprives a member of
  the organized militia of his employment, or prevents his being  employed
  by  himself  or  another,  or  obstructs  or  annoys said member of said
  organized militia, or his employer, in respect of his  trade,  business,
  or  employment,  because,  said member of said organized militia is such
  member, or dissuades any person from enlistment in  the  said  organized
  militia  by  threat  of  injury  to  him  in case he shall so enlist, in
  respect  of  his  employment,  trade,  or  business,  is  guilty  of   a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 252 - Discrimination Against Members of Organized Militia.

§ 252. Discrimination  against  members  of  organized  militia.    No
  association or corporation, constituted or organized for the purpose  of
  promoting  the  success  of  the  trade,  employment, or business of the
  members thereof, shall by any constitution,  rule,  by-law,  resolution,
  vote,  or  regulation,  discriminate against any member of the organized
  militia of the state of New York, because of such membership in  respect
  of  the  eligibility  of  such  member  of the said organized militia to
  membership in such association or corporation,  or  in  respect  of  his
  right  to retain said last mentioned membership; it being the purpose of
  this section and the section immediately preceding to protect  a  member
  of  the  said  organized  militia  from  disadvantage  in  his  means of
  livelihood and liberty therein but not to give  him  any  preference  or
  advantage  on  account  of  his membership of said organized militia.  A
  person who aids in enforcing any such provisions against a member of the
  said organized militia with  the  intent  to  discriminate  against  him
  because of such membership, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 253 - Military Service by Parent; Effect on Child Custody Proceedings.

§   253.   Military   service  by  parent;  effect  on  child  custody
  proceedings.  Notwithstanding  any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to   the
  contrary,  child  custody  proceedings  filed  in  a  court of competent
  jurisdiction in  this  state,  involving  a  parent  who  is  activated,
  deployed,  or temporarily assigned to military service shall be governed
  by subdivision (f) of section six hundred fifty-one of the family  court
  act,  section  seventy-five-l  or  paragraph (a-2) of subdivision one of
  section two hundred forty of the domestic relations law.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 254 - Video Teleconferencing for Families of Persons Ordered to Active Duty.

§  254.  Video  teleconferencing  for  families  of persons ordered to
  active duty. 1. Definition. For the purposes of this section,  "military
  service"  shall mean military duty in the active military service of the
  United States, as defined in section three hundred one of this chapter.
2. The division of military and naval  affairs  shall  make  available
  teleconferencing   facilities  to  the  families,  which  shall  include
  spouses, domestic partners, children, and parents  and  such  others  as
  meet  criteria  established  by the division of every person in military
  service who is a  resident  of  this  state  so  as  to  facilitate,  in
  cooperation  with  the department of defense and the armed forces of the
  United States, communications between such persons in  military  service
  and their families.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 11 - Privileges, Prohibitions and Penalties › 255 - Benefit Information for National Guard Members and Families.

§ 255. Benefit information for national guard members and families.
1.  For the purpose of this section, "military service" shall have the
  same meaning as defined in section three hundred one of this chapter.
2. The division of military and naval  affairs  shall  make  available
  state  and  federal  benefit  information for national guard members and
  their spouses, domestic partners, children, and parents,  including  but
  not  limited  to,  information  from  the  state family support services
  program.  Such benefit information shall be made available in a  printed
  version and posted electronically on such division's website.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 12 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 261 - Formation of State Association.

§ 261. Formation  of state association.  The officers of the organized
  militia may organize themselves into an association.   Such  association
  may  adopt  by-laws  not inconsistent with the statutes of the state and
  regulations issued pursuant to this chapter and may alter and amend  the
  same  and  may  take  and hold such real and personal property as may be
  necessary for the purposes of the association.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 12 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 262 - Customs and Usage of the Armed Forces of the United States.

§ 262. Customs  and  usage  of  the armed forces of the United States.
  All matters relating to the organization, discipline and  government  of
  the  organized militia, not otherwise provided for in this chapter or in
  regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be decided by the customs and
  usage of the appropriate force or forces of  the  armed  forces  of  the
  United States.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 12 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 263 - Amendatory and Repealing Statutes.

§ 263. Amendatory  and repealing statutes.  No section or provision of
  this chapter or any part thereof shall be deemed to be repealed, altered
  or amended by any statute passed by the legislature unless such  statute
  explicitly  refers  to this chapter as the military law, or by its other
  titles as part of the general laws or annual legislation and  explicitly
  repeals, alters or amends the same or some part thereof.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 13 - New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act › 301 - Definitions.

§ 301. Definitions.  As used in this article:
1. The term "military service" means duty by a person, male or female,
  in  the  active  military  service  of  the  United States as defined in
  section one of this chapter and active duty in the military  service  of
  the  state  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the governor issued pursuant to
  section six or seven of this chapter.
2. The term "person" when used herein with reference to the holder  of
  any  right  alleged  to  exist  against a person in military service, or
  against a person secondarily liable  under  such  right,  shall  include
  individuals, partnerships, corporations, and any other forms of business
  association.
3.  The  term "court" as used herein, shall include any state court of
  competent jurisdiction, whether or not a court of record.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 13 - New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act › 301-A - Notice of Benefits to Persons in and Persons Enlisting in the State Organized Militia.

§ 301-a. Notice of benefits to persons in and persons enlisting in the
  state organized militia. The adjutant general shall ensure the giving of
  notice of the benefits accorded by this article and accorded by the laws
  of  this  state  to  persons  in  and  to persons enlisting in the state
  organized militia.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 13 - New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act › 301-B - Extension of Benefits to Dependents.

§  301-b.  Extension  of  benefits  to  dependents. 1. Dependents of a
  person in military service shall be entitled to the benefits accorded to
  persons in military service under the provisions of  this  article  upon
  application  to a court therefor, unless in the opinion of the court the
  ability of such dependents to comply with the terms of  the  obligation,
  contract,  lease, or bailment has not been materially impaired by reason
  of the military service of the  person  upon  whom  the  applicants  are
  dependent.
2.   If  no  court  proceeding  is  pending,  the  dependent  claiming
  entitlement may initially apply to any agency, private  party,  business
  or  other  entity  to  whom  the claim for benefit is made. Such agency,
  private party, business or other entity  shall  grant  such  entitlement
  unless  the  ability  of such dependents to comply with the terms of the
  obligation,  contract,  lease,  or  bailment  has  not  been  materially
  impaired  by  reason of the military service of the person upon whom the
  applicants are dependent. Such initial application  in  accordance  with
  this  subdivision  shall in no way affect the ability of such dependents
  to apply to a court as authorized by subdivision one of this section.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 13 - New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act › 301-C - Accident Prevention Course Information.

§  301-c.  Accident  prevention  course  information.  The division of
  military and naval affairs shall provide returning servicemen and  women
  who  have  returned  from  a combat theater or combat zone of operations
  with information about  accident  prevention  courses  approved  by  the
  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles  pursuant  to  article twelve-B of the
  vehicle and traffic law. This information may  be  provided  in  written
  form  to  be  available  at  Yellow Ribbon Reintegration programs or any
  other reintegration programs offered by the  division  or  may  be  made
  available  online  on  the  division's  website. The division shall also
  provide a link  to  the  department  of  motor  vehicles  website  pages
  containing information about the accident prevention courses.
2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 13 - New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act › 302 - Stay, Et Cetera, to Persons Secondarily Liable.

§ 302. Stay,  et cetera, to persons secondarily liable.  1.  Whenever,
  pursuant to any of the provisions of this article,  the  enforcement  of
  any  obligation or liability, the prosecution of any suit or proceeding,
  the entry or enforcement of any order, writ, judgment or decree, or  the
  performance  of  any  act,  may  be stayed, postponed or suspended, such
  stay, postponement or suspension may, in the discretion  of  the  court,
  likewise  be  granted  to  sureties,  guarantors,  endorsers  and others
  subject to the obligation or liability, the performance  or  enforcement
  of which is stayed, postponed or suspended.
2.  When  a judgment or decree is vacated or set aside, in whole or in
  part, as provided in this article, the same may, in  the  discretion  of
  the  court,  likewise  be  set  aside  and  vacated  as  to  any surety,
  guarantor,  endorsers,  accommodation  maker  or  other  person  whether
  primarily  or  secondarily liable upon the contract or liability for the
  enforcement of which the judgment or decree was entered.
3. Nothing contained in this article shall prevent a waiver in writing
  of the benefits afforded by subdivisions one and two of this section  by
  any  surety,  guarantor,  endorser, accommodation maker, or other person
  whether primarily or secondarily liable upon the obligation or liability
  except that after the date of enactment  of  this  subdivision  no  such
  waiver  shall  be  valid unless it is executed as an instrument separate
  from the obligation or liability in respect of which it applies, and  no
  such waiver shall be valid after the beginning of the period of military
  service if executed by an individual who, subsequent to the execution of
  such waiver becomes a person in military service.