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2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1312 - Unclaimed Amounts or Securities Held by Foreign Corporations Not Authorized to Do Business in the State of New York.

§  1312.  Unclaimed amounts or securities held by foreign corporations
  not authorized to do business in the state of New York. 1.  Any  amounts
  or  securities  defined  as  abandoned property by articles three, four,
  five, five-a, seven and sections thirteen hundred one, thirteen  hundred
  thirteen,  thirteen hundred fifteen and thirteen hundred sixteen of this
  chapter, unclaimed for the periods of time prescribed in  such  articles
  and   sections  and  held  by  any  corporation,  banking  organization,
  insurance company, broker or dealer, utility, joint  stock  association,
  individual  engaged  in  the  conduct of business, association of two or
  more individuals, committee, business trust or any other entity, whether
  profit or non-for-profit, chartered or organized  in  another  state  or
  under the laws of another state and not authorized to do business in the
  state  of  New York, which are payable to or receivable by persons whose
  last known addresses on the records of such corporations  or  enumerated
  organizations  are  located within the state of New York shall be deemed
  abandoned property.
2. Any such abandoned property held or owing by such a corporations or
  organizations to which the right to receive a  refund  of  the  same  is
  established  to  the  satisfaction of such corporations or organizations
  shall cease to be deemed abandoned.
3.  Such abandoned property shall be paid or delivered  to  the  state
  comptroller  on  the  same  dates  and  in  the same manner as presently
  prescribed for such property by this chapter,  except  that  publication
  otherwise  required  by this chapter shall not be applicable to property
  deemed abandoned by virtue of this section.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1313 - Unclaimed Property Held by Sales Finance Companies and Insurance Premium Finance Agencies.

§  1313.  Unclaimed  property  held  by  sales  finance  companies and
insurance premium finance agencies. 1. When used  in  this  section  the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a)  "Company"  shall  mean  a  sales  finance  company  as defined in
subdivision seven of section four hundred ninety-one of the banking law,
but shall not mean a banking  institution  as  defined  in  section  one
hundred three of this chapter.
(b) "Agency" shall mean an insurance premium finance agency as defined
in  subdivision  seven of section five hundred fifty-four of the banking
law, but shall not mean a banking institution as defined in section  one
hundred three of this chapter.
(c)  "Amount"  shall  mean  any  amount  held or owing by a company or
agency which is payable to any person or other entity  as  a  refund  or
rebate  pursuant  to  the provisions of articles eleven-b or twelve-b of
the banking law.
2. Any amount held or owing by a company or  agency  shall  be  deemed
abandoned property when:
(a) such amount is payable to a person or other entity and,
(b) such amount, on the thirtieth day of June in any year has remained
unpaid to such person or other entity for three years.
3.  In  the succeeding month of October in each year, and on or before
the tenth day thereof, each company or  agency  holding  amounts  deemed
abandoned  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  pay the same to the state
comptroller, excepting such amounts as since the preceding thirtieth day
of June have ceased to be abandoned.
4. Such payment shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth such
information as the  state  comptroller  may  require  relative  to  such
amounts.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1314 - Unclaimed Consumer Credit Balances.

§   1314.   Unclaimed   consumer   credit  balances.  1.  Any  amounts
  transferable to the New York  state  department  of  audit  and  control
  pursuant  to  section seven hundred fifteen of the general business law,
  to be held pursuant to the provisions of  the  abandoned  property  law,
  shall  be  transferred to the state comptroller during the first fifteen
  days of the month of February immediately  succeeding  the  thirty-first
  day  of December in the year in which the three year period of retention
  prescribed in said section is concluded.
2. Such transfer of moneys shall be accompanied by a  written  report,
  affirmed  as true and accurate under penalty of perjury, in such form as
  the state comptroller may prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1316 - Unclaimed Insurance Proceeds Other Than Life Insurance.

§ 1316. Unclaimed insurance proceeds other than life insurance. 1. Any
  amount  issued  and  payable  on  or  after July first, nineteen hundred
  seventy-four payable to a resident of this state  on  or  because  of  a
  policy of insurance other than life insurance, which is held or owing by
  a  domestic  insurer  or  a foreign insurer authorized to do business in
  this state or by an agent or agency of such  insurer,  shall  be  deemed
  abandoned  property  if unclaimed for three years by the person entitled
  thereto. Where such amount is held or owing by a domestic insurer for an
  unknown person or a person whose address  is  unknown,  such  amount  is
  presumed to be payable to a resident of this state.
2.  Every  insurer shall cause to be published, on or before the first
  day of May in each year, a list of such abandoned property in  the  same
  manner  as that prescribed for life insurance companies by section seven
  hundred two of this chapter.
3. Such property which was deemed abandoned  pursuant  to  subdivision
  one of this section shall be paid or delivered to the comptroller within
  the  first  ten  days  of  September of each year. Such payment shall be
  accompanied by a true and accurate report that shall be in such form and
  manner as the state comptroller may prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1317 - Unclaimed Security Deposits Held by the Title Insurance Companies.

§  1317.  Unclaimed  security  deposits  held  by  the title insurance
  companies. 1. Any amount held or owing by a domestic  or  foreign  title
  insurer  or  by an agent or representative of such insurer as a security
  deposit, relating to the transfer or financing of real property  located
  in  this  state, made as an inducement to issue a title insurance policy
  shall  be  deemed  abandoned  property  if  unclaimed  as  of   December
  thirty-first  in  any  year  for  three  years from the date of deposit,
  unless there has been written communication from the depositor or  other
  person  entitled  thereto  to the insurer to its agent or representative
  within said three-year period.
2. Any such property deemed abandoned as  of  the  preceding  December
  thirty-first  shall  be paid and delivered to the comptroller within the
  first ten days of March in each year, together with  a  report  of  said
  property,  including  a  listing  of depositors and lienholders, in such
  form as the comptroller may prescribe.
3. The title insurer or  its  agent  or  representative  shall  retain
  records  of  the  names and addresses of the depositors and lienholders,
  and any records necessary to show proof of entitlement of such deposits.
4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  the
  rights  of  a  depositor to payment from a title insurer or its agent or
  representative  pursuant  to  a  security  deposit  agreement  and   the
  obligations  of  such insurer its agent or representative to fulfill the
  requirements specified  in  any  such  agreement  shall  in  no  way  be
  affected,  impaired  or  enlarged  by  reason  of the provisions of this
  section or by reason of the payment or delivery to  the  comptroller  of
  abandoned  property hereunder. Claim for reimbursement may be filed with
  the comptroller by any title insurer or its agent or representative  who
  may  be  required  to  pay  or  deliver  any  abandoned  property to the
  comptroller pursuant to this section.
5. The comptroller may require proof that the title insurer  has  made
  payment  on the underlying claim under the terms of the security deposit
  agreement and is entitled to reimbursement therefor and after audit  the
  comptroller shall pay the same.
6.  The  comptroller  shall  not  be  liable  for  any  action  by the
  comptroller made in good faith or based upon representations made  by  a
  title insurer pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1318 - Unclaimed Spousal and Child Support.

§  1318.  Unclaimed spousal and child support. Any amount representing
  child support or child and spousal support paid to a support  collection
  unit  established by a social services district which has been delivered
  to the state comptroller pursuant to subdivision seven  of  section  one
  hundred  eleven-h  of  the social services law shall be deemed abandoned
  property. On or before the  tenth  day  of  April  in  each  year,  such
  abandoned  property shall be paid to the state comptroller. Such payment
  shall be accompanied by a verified written report in such  form  as  the
  state comptroller may prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 13 - Miscellaneous Unclaimed Property › 1319 - Unclaimed Virtual Currency.

§  1319.  Unclaimed  virtual currency. 1. Any virtual currency held or
owing by any banking organization, corporation or other  entity  engaged
in   virtual  currency  business  activity  which  shall  have  remained
unclaimed by the person entitled thereto for  a  period  of  five  years
shall be deemed abandoned property if:
(a)  the  last  known  address  of the person entitled to such virtual
currency as shown on the books and records of the entity engaging in the
virtual currency business activity is located in the state; or
(b) the last known address of the  person  entitled  to  such  virtual
currency is not shown on the books and records of the entity engaging in
the virtual currency business activity and the entity is incorporated in
this state.
2. (a) Any virtual currency held or owing by a banking organization, a
corporation  or other entity engaged in virtual currency business deemed
abandoned under this section as of the thirtieth day  of  the  preceding
June  shall  be  paid  or  delivered to the comptroller on or before the
tenth day of the next succeeding November.
(b) Payment or delivery shall be accompanied by a  true  and  accurate
report  setting forth information relating to such abandoned property as
the comptroller may require.
3. Virtual currency reported  to  the  comptroller  pursuant  to  this
section  shall  be  sold  on  any established exchange, or by such other
means  as  the  comptroller  shall  deem  advisable,  as  soon  as   the
comptroller in his or her discretion deems practicable.
4.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  virtual currency, less all costs
incurred in connection  with  such  sale,  shall  be  deposited  by  the
comptroller  in  the  abandoned  property  fund and any claimant to such
virtual currency shall be entitled only to the proceeds of the  sale  of
such virtual currency by the comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1400 - Statutes of Limitations Not a Bar.

§  1400.  Statutes  of  limitations not a bar.   The expiration of any
  period of time specified by law, during which an  action  or  proceeding
  may  be  commenced or enforced to secure payment of a claim for money or
  recovery of property, shall not prevent any such money or property  from
  being  deemed  abandoned  property, nor affect any duty to file a report
  required by this chapter or to pay or deliver to the  state  comptroller
  any  such  abandoned  property;  and shall not serve as a defense in any
  action or proceeding by or on behalf of the state comptroller to  compel
  the  filing  of  any  report or the payment or delivery of any abandoned
  property required by this chapter or to enforce or collect  any  penalty
  provided by this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1401 - Comptroller to Maintain Public Record.

§  1401.  Comptroller to maintain public record. The state comptroller
  shall maintain a public record of all names and last known addresses  of
  the  person  or  persons appearing to be entitled to abandoned property,
  heretofore paid to the state or hereafter paid or delivered to the state
  comptroller pursuant to this chapter. In addition, the state comptroller
  shall maintain a searchable database on the state comptroller's  website
  in  such  form  and manner as the state comptroller deems reasonable and
  appropriate, subject to the requirements set forth in  section  fourteen
  hundred  two  of  this  article.  The  state  comptroller  shall place a
  disclaimer  prominently  on  his  or  her  website  advising  that  this
  searchable  database  does not contain complete information with respect
  to abandoned property paid to the state or  paid  or  delivered  to  the
  state  comptroller,  and  provide contact information prominently on the
  website to enable interested parties to inquire whether they  appear  on
  an  abandoned  property listing. Other identifying information set forth
  in any report or record made or delivered to the state comptroller shall
  be retained by him but shall  be  considered  confidential  and  may  be
  disclosed  only  in  the  discretion of the state comptroller. The state
  comptroller shall not reveal  the  amount  of  any  abandoned  property,
  except  to  a person who has presented satisfactory proof of an interest
  in or title to such property.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1402 - Publication of Abandoned Property by State Comptroller.

§ 1402. Publication of abandoned property by state comptroller. 1. (a)
Notwithstanding  anything  to the contrary set forth in section fourteen
hundred one of this article, the comptroller shall maintain  on  his  or
her  website  in  a  readily searchable format, a list of such abandoned
property as has been paid or delivered to the  comptroller  that  has  a
value  of  over  twenty  dollars, for a period of twelve months prior to
April first, two thousand eleven, and any such abandoned property as has
been paid or delivered to the comptroller thereafter that has a value of
over twenty dollars, provided that when sixty or more months has  passed
after  such  property has been paid or delivered to the comptroller, the
comptroller shall not be required to post such property on  his  or  her
website  if  he or she does not deem it reasonable and appropriate to do
so.
(b) The provisions of this subdivision shall not  apply  to  abandoned
property  paid  pursuant  to  section one thousand three hundred of this
chapter or section four hundred twenty-four of the vehicle  and  traffic
law.
2.  Such  list  shall be in such form and classified in such manner as
the state comptroller shall determine and shall include:
(a) the names and last known addresses of all persons  appearing  from
the  records  in  the  comptroller's  office, as set forth in the report
filed by the holder, to be entitled to receive such  abandoned  property
exceeding twenty dollars in value; and
(b) such other information as the state comptroller may determine.
3.  Such listing shall include a statement that: (a) information about
the property and its return to the owner may be available  to  a  person
having  a  legal or beneficial interest in the property, upon request to
the comptroller; and
(b) a  public  record  is  maintained  in  the  office  of  the  state
comptroller  of  all  abandoned  property  in  accordance  with  section
fourteen hundred one of this article; and that  a  claim  for  any  such
abandoned  property should be filed with the state comptroller at his or
her office in the city of Albany.
4. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the state
comptroller may omit from such list the name and last known  address  of
any  person  where  special  circumstances  make  it desirable that such
information be withheld.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1407 - Payment by Comptroller.

§  1407.  Payment  by comptroller.   Any claim which is allowed by the
  comptroller or ordered to be  paid  by  him  by  a  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction  pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen hundred six
  of this article, together with such costs and disbursements  as  may  be
  allowed  by the court, shall be paid, together with any interest accrued
  on such claim pursuant to section fourteen hundred five of this article,
  out of the abandoned property fund, except for any claim relating  to  a
  security pursuant to subdivision two-a of section fourteen hundred three
  of  this  article,  which  shall  be  paid in accordance with procedures
  established by the comptroller, and the comptroller shall not be  liable
  in  any  action  for any claim including interest if any, paid by him in
  good faith.
If during any session of the legislature there are insufficient moneys
  in the abandoned property fund to pay all claims, including any interest
  accrued thereon, which have been allowed by  the  state  comptroller  or
  ordered  to  be  paid  by  him by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
  state comptroller shall so  certify  to  the  legislature,  which  shall
  appropriate  from  the  general  fund  to the abandoned property fund an
  amount sufficient to pay such claims.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1409 - Payment for Publication.

§  1409.  Payment  for publication.   Any amount paid by a person to a
  newspaper or newspapers for any publication of names as required by this
  chapter shall be charged pro rata against all abandoned property held or
  owing by such person at the time of such publication,  except  abandoned
  property of individual amounts of less than fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1410 - Designation of Newspapers.

§ 1410. Designation of newspapers. Any notice required by this chapter
  shall  be  published  in  such  newspapers as shall be designated by the
  state comptroller, except that in no case shall a notice be published in
  a newspaper other than one  specified  in  the  section  requiring  such
  publication.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1411 - Waiver of Publication.

§  1411.  Waiver  of  publication. The state comptroller may waive the
  publication of any notice required by  this  chapter,  except  a  notice
  required  by  section  fourteen hundred two, whenever in his opinion the
  cost of publishing such notice would be unreasonable in relation to  the
  amount of abandoned property.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1412-A - Retention of Books and Records.

§  1412-a.  Retention  of  books and records. 1. Except as provided in
  section  five  hundred  thirteen-a  of  this  chapter,   every   person,
  co-partnership,  unincorporated  association  or corporation required to
  file a report of abandoned property  pursuant  to  this  chapter,  shall
  retain  for  a  period  of  five years following the thirty-first day of
  December of the year for which such report has been  filed,  all  books,
  records   and   documents   necessary  to  establish  the  accuracy  and
  completeness of such report. The books,  records  and  documents  to  be
  retained  pursuant  to  this section shall include but not be limited to
  general and subsidiary ledgers; journal entry records; cash receipts and
  disbursements journals; cancelled checks;  bank  reconciliations;  trial
  balances;   financial   statements   and   supporting  data;  claim  and
  confirmation letters; charts of accounts; independent  auditor  reports;
  and  copies  of  abandoned  property  reports.  Such  books, records and
  documents so retained shall be made available to the  state  comptroller
  upon his request in the performance of his duties under this chapter.
2.  Every  report of abandoned property filed pursuant to this chapter
  for which supporting books, records and documents  are  required  to  be
  retained  for  five years as provided in subdivision one above, shall be
  presumed to be accurate following such five  year  period  unless  prior
  thereto  the  comptroller  has  made  a  certification  or  commenced  a
  proceeding pursuant to subdivision three  of  section  fourteen  hundred
  twelve of this chapter.
3. Property subject to this chapter which is payable or deliverable to
  a  payee  or  owner and which has remained unpaid or undelivered because
  such payee or owner is unknown, cannot be located due to the lack  of  a
  valid,  present  address  on  the records of the payor or holder, or for
  other reasons, shall be recorded  by  year  of  receipt  on  a  separate
  account  identifying  the nature and origin of such property, maintained
  in the books and records of the payor or holder. Any  transfer  of  such
  property  from  such  separate  account during the applicable periods of
  inactivity specified in this chapter to precede  abandonment,  shall  be
  supported  by  adequate  information in the books, records and documents
  set forth in subdivision one of this section or in section five  hundred
  thirteen-a  of  this  chapter,  sufficient to establish the accuracy and
  propriety of the transfer.  Property  which  remains  in  such  separate
  accounts  at  the  expiration  of any such period of inactivity shall be
  included in abandoned property reports filed with the state  comptroller
  pursuant to this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1415 - Deduction of Certain Charges.

§  1415.  Deduction of certain charges. No deduction shall be made for
service, handling or maintenance charges from property  subject  to  the
abandoned  property  law,  by  the  holder of such property, unless such
deduction is made pursuant to:
(a)  the  laws  of  the  state  of  New  York  including  therein  the
regulations of the New York state department of financial services; or
(b)  a valid contract which provides, specifically, that the deduction
shall not be refundable or otherwise restored to  the  owner;  and  such
deduction is made in the normal course of business of the holder.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1416 - Restriction on Agreement to Locate And/or Retrieve Abandoned Property.

§  1416.  Restriction on agreement to locate and/or retrieve abandoned
property. 1. For the  purposes  of  this  section,  "abandoned  property
location  services"  shall  include  any  service  for  a  fee providing
assistance to consumers for the purposes of locating  and/or  retrieving
property held by the comptroller pursuant to this chapter.
2.  This  section shall apply to any person, corporation, association,
partnership or other entity which sells  or  offers  to  sell  abandoned
property location services for abandoned property delivered to the state
and  held by the state comptroller; provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to a client's agreement with an attorney  or  accountant
where:
(a)  the  services in question can only be performed by an attorney or
accountant; or
(b) there is a  pre-existing  relationship  between  the  attorney  or
accountant and the client; or
(c)  the  agreement  results from an effort initiated by the client to
engage the attorney or accountant.
3. No agreement for abandoned property location services  pursuant  to
this chapter shall be valid unless such agreement:
(a) is:
(i) in such form as may be prescribed by the comptroller;
(ii) in writing;
(iii) signed by the property owner; and
(iv) witnessed and acknowledged by a notary public;
(b) discloses the nature of the property;
(c) discloses the name and address of the comptroller; and
(d)  discloses,  in  a  clear  and conspicuous manner, and in at least
twelve-point boldface type:
"Abandoned funds held by the State can be obtained directly  from  the
Office  of  the  State  Comptroller  by  the owner of such funds without
paying a fee. These funds are held indefinitely by  the  Office  of  the
State Comptroller. For more information, contact the Office of the State
Comptroller  at  (insert the current telephone number established by the
Office of the State Comptroller for receiving inquiries  from  consumers
regarding unclaimed funds) or (insert the current address of the website
of the Office of the State Comptroller)".
4.  No  such  agreement shall be valid if it provides for payment of a
fee in excess of fifteen percent of the value of recoverable property.
5. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an owner from
asserting, at any  time,  that  any  agreement  for  abandoned  property
location services is based on an excessive or unjust consideration.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1417 - Agreements With Other States.

§  1417.  Agreements  with  other  states. 1. The state comptroller is
authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with appropriate officers
or agencies of other states to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
2. Reciprocal agreements entered into pursuant  to  this  section  may
include within their terms:
(a)  agreement  to  receive  and distribute abandoned property between
agreeing states, in accordance with existing law, and the manner of such
distribution;
(b) agreements for cooperation between agreeing states, including  the
exchange  of  information  and  data and use of personnel, in performing
audits and other functions relating to  securing  compliance  with  this
chapter and the applicable statutes of the agreeing states by holders of
unclaimed property.
3. (a) For purposes of this section the term "states" shall mean those
states,  the  district  of Columbia and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
which have  enacted  laws  relating  to  the  disposition  of  unclaimed
property  and  such  laws  require  that the property be held thereby in
custody subject to claim by the person or persons  entitled  thereto  at
any time.
(b)  For  purposes  of  this  section  the phrase "existing law" shall
include within its meaning decisions of the supreme court of the  United
States.
4.  No  reciprocal  agreement  made pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall become effective until approved as to form by the attorney
general (of each agreeing state).
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1418 - Property for New York Residents Held by Other States.

§  1418.  Property for New York residents held by other states. 1. All
  property heretofore or hereafter reported and paid to  any  other  state
  pursuant to the provisions of such other state's unclaimed property laws
  shall  be  deemed  abandoned  property subject to the provisions of this
  chapter if the  last  known  address  of  the  apparent  owner  of  such
  property, as it appears on the books and records of such other state, is
  within this state.
2.  The  state comptroller, as custodian of unclaimed funds, is hereby
  authorized to claim such funds from any other state  on  behalf  of  the
  apparent  owners  of  such funds whose last known address is within this
  state, or may enter into  a  reciprocal  agreement  with  another  state
  pursuant  to  section fourteen hundred seventeen of this article for the
  payment of such funds to this state.
3. The attorney general shall be authorized to maintain an  action  in
  any  court of appropriate jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this
  section if so requested by the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1419 - Reporting of Abandoned Property in the Aggregate.

§   1419.   Reporting   of   abandoned   property  in  the  aggregate.
  Notwithstanding any provision of  this  chapter  to  the  contrary,  the
  holder  of  property  which  must be reported and delivered to the state
  comptroller as abandoned property need not specify the name, address  or
  other  information  identifying the owner of any such property amounting
  to  twenty  dollars  or  less  in  the  report  provided  to  the  state
  comptroller  when  such  property is delivered to the state comptroller,
  and shall instead report abandoned property in amounts of twenty dollars
  or  less  in  the  aggregate;  provided,  however,  that  the  foregoing
  provision  shall  not  be  construed  to relieve any holder of abandoned
  property from its responsibility to deliver all abandoned  property,  in
  any amount, to the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1420 - Property Held by Agricultural Cooperative Corporation.

§  1420.  Property  held by agricultural cooperative corporations.  1.
For the purposes of this section, "agricultural cooperative corporation"
shall include any corporation organized or qualified to do  business  in
this  state  pursuant  to  the  cooperative  corporations  law, which is
operated  primarily  for  the  benefit  of  producers  of   agricultural
products, as such term is defined in subdivision (a) of section three of
the  cooperative  corporations law.  Notwithstanding any other provision
of this chapter to the contrary, any share of stock,  credit,  dividend,
profit,  patronage  refund,  distribution, interest, equity certificate,
equity retain, payment, or other money or property which:
(a) is in the possession of an  agricultural  cooperative  corporation
organized  or  qualified  to  do  business in this state pursuant to the
cooperative corporations law;
(b) evidences  membership  in  or  resulted  from  patronage  with  an
agricultural   cooperative   corporation  or  the  predecessor  of  such
corporation; and
(c) is held for, allocated to the account of, allocated in the name of
or owing by  the  agricultural  cooperative  corporation  to  a  member,
stockholder,  patron  or  other  person;  shall  not be deemed abandoned
property or otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1421 - Property Held by Rural Electric Cooperatives.

§  1421.  Property  held  by  rural  electric cooperatives. 1. For the
purposes of this section, "rural electric  cooperatives"  shall  include
any  corporation  organized  or  qualified  to do business in this state
pursuant to the rural electric cooperative law.
2.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this  chapter  to  the
contrary,  any  share  of  stock,  credit,  dividend,  profit, patronage
refund,  distribution,  interest,  equity  certificate,  equity  retain,
payment, or other money or property which:
(a)  is in the possession of a rural electric cooperative organized or
qualified to do business in this state pursuant to  the  rural  electric
cooperative law; or
(b)  evidences  membership  in or resulted from patronage with a rural
electric cooperative or the predecessor of such cooperative; or
(c) is held for, allocated to the account of, allocated in the name of
or owing by a rural  electric  cooperative  to  a  member,  stockholder,
patron  or  other  person;  shall  not  be  deemed abandoned property or
otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 14 - General Provisions › 1422 - Mailing of Notice to Owners of Record.

§  1422.  Mailing  of  notice  to  owners  of record. 1. Any holder of
  unclaimed funds  which  is  not  otherwise  required  to  perform  owner
  notification  mailings  under the provisions of this chapter shall send,
  not less than ninety days prior to the  applicable  reporting  date  for
  such  unclaimed  property,  a written notice by first-class mail to each
  person appearing to be the owner of  property  listed  in  a  report  of
  abandoned  property  required  to  be filed under the provisions of this
  chapter, at the address of the owner as it  appears  on  the  books  and
  records   of   the   holder;   provided,  however,  that  the  foregoing
  requirements shall not apply where (a)  the  holder  does  not  have  an
  address  for  the owner; or (b) the holder can demonstrate that the only
  address that the holder has pertaining to the owner is not  the  current
  address of the owner.
2.  Where  notice is required by subdivision one of this section, each
  holder shall, with respect to property listed in such report whose value
  is in excess of one thousand dollars, send a second  written  notice  to
  the  owner  by  certified  mail,  return receipt requested not less than
  sixty days prior to the applicable reporting  date  for  such  unclaimed
  property,  provided that no notice pursuant to this subdivision shall be
  required where: (a) such holder has received a claim from the  owner  of
  the property; or (b) the original mailing was returned as undeliverable.
3.  The written notice required by this section shall advise the owner
  that the property to which the owner appears  to  be  entitled  will  be
  reported  as  abandoned  property  and  will  be  remitted  to the state
  comptroller unless such property is claimed by an entitled party  before
  the required remittance date.
4.  The failure of any holder of abandoned property to comply with the
  requirements of this section shall not in any way affect  the  reporting
  of abandoned property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
5.  Costs  paid  to  the  postal  authorities  by holders of unclaimed
  property to provide  such  written  notice  by  certified  mail,  return
  receipt  requested,  may  be  deducted  from  the  property as a service
  charge.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 15 - Laws Repealed; Constitutionality; Effective Date › 1501 - Constitutionality.

§  1501. Constitutionality.  If any part, provision or section of this
  chapter, or the application of any such part, provision  or  section  in
  any  particular  respect,  shall  be  adjudged by any court of competent
  jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in  part,
  such  judgment  shall  be  confined  in  its operation to the particular
  provision or section or application directly involved in the controversy
  in which such judgment shall have been rendered and  shall  not  affect,
  impair  or  invalidate  the  remainder of such provisions or sections or
  their application in  other  respects;  and  to  the  extent  that  such
  provisions  or  sections  are  not unconstitutional or ineffective, they
  shall remain in full force and effect.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions; Matters of Public Interest. › 2 - Definitions.

§ 2. Definitions.   When   used  in  this  chapter,  unless  otherwise
  expressly stated, or unless the  context  or  subject  matter  otherwise
  requires:
1. "Department" means the state department of agriculture and markets;
2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
3. The terms "food" and food "products," shall include all articles of
  food,  drink,  confectionery  or  condiment,  whether  simple,  mixed or
  compound, used or intended for use by man or  animals,  and  shall  also
  include  all  substances  or  ingredients  to  be  added to food for any
  purpose;
4. The production of foods means the producing of food upon  the  farm
  or  elsewhere  by  the  tillage  of  the  soil,  the commercial raising,
  shearing, feeding and  management  of  animals  or  other  agricultural,
  horticultural, ranching or dairying processes and shall also include the
  manufacture of foods.
5.  "Farm  product"  means  any  agricultural,  dairy or horticultural
  product, or any product  designed  for  food  manufactured  or  prepared
  principally from an agricultural, dairy or horticultural product and the
  commercial  raising,  shearing,  feeding  and management of animals on a
  ranch.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions; Matters of Public Interest. › 3 - Declaration of Policy and Purposes.

§ 3. Declaration  of policy and purposes. The agricultural industry is
  basic to the life of our state. It  vitally  concerns  and  affects  the
  welfare,  health,  economic  well-being  and  productive  and industrial
  capabilities of all our people. It is the policy and duty of  the  state
  to promote, foster, and encourage the agricultural industry, with proper
  standards  of  living for those engaged therein; to design and establish
  long-range programs for its stabilization and profitable  operation;  to
  increase  through education, research, regulation, and scientific means,
  the quantity, quality, and efficiency of its production; to improve  its
  marketing  system;  to  encourage  adequate  and  skilled assistance for
  agricultural enterprises; to maintain at  fair  prices  uncontrolled  by
  speculation the instrumentalities and products of agriculture; to remove
  unnecessary  or  unfair  costs  and  obstacles  in  the  transportation,
  storage, processing, distribution, marketing, and sale  of  agricultural
  products;  to  prevent  frauds  in  the  traffic  therein; to promote an
  expanded  demand  for  the  state's  agricultural   products   and   the
  intelligent  uses  thereof  by  consumers as pure and wholesome food; to
  protect  the   public   health   and   to   eliminate   the   evils   of
  under-nourishment;  to  encourage  the selection and consumption of food
  according to sound dietary and nutritional principles;  to  improve  our
  citizens' overall health and to combat the increasing incidence of adult
  and  childhood  obesity; and to make our people conscious of the bond of
  mutual self-interest between our urban and our rural populations.
Accordingly, all laws enacted concerning the agricultural industry and
  its allied subjects, whether included in this chapter or not, are to  be
  deemed  an  exercise of the police power of the state and a discharge of
  its obligations  for  the  promotion  of  the  general  welfare  through
  state-wide  laws  and  regulations,  local  initiative  and  government,
  cooperative action between groups and  localities,  home-rule  measures,
  individual enterprise, civic consciousness, and appropriate coordination
  with   the  federal  government  and  as  between  educational  research
  institutions within the state.
Such laws and  all  governmental  measures  adopted  pursuant  thereto
  should  receive  a liberal interpretation and application in furtherance
  of the aforesaid policy and purposes.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 5 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets.

§ 5. Commissioner  of  agriculture  and  markets.    The  head  of the
  department of agriculture and  markets  shall  be  the  commissioner  of
  agriculture  and markets, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and
  with the advice and consent of the senate, and hold office until the end
  of the term of the governor by whom he  was  appointed,  and  until  his
  successor  is  appointed  and  has  qualified.    He  shall  be a person
  qualified by training and experience  for  the  duties  of  his  office.
  Subject  to removal by the governor, the commissioner of agriculture and
  markets in office at the time this section takes  effect  shall  be  the
  head  of  the  department of agriculture and markets and shall hold such
  office until his successor is appointed and has qualified.  In  addition
  to  the  powers  and duties specifically prescribed by this chapter, the
  commissioner shall have supervision over and direction of  all  officers
  and  employees  and  of  the  affairs  of  the  department.  He shall be
  responsible for the enforcement and carrying into effect  of  the  laws,
  rules  and  orders  pertaining to matters as to which the department has
  functions, powers and duties.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 6 - Deputy Commissioners.

§ 6. Deputy   commissioners.  The  commissioner  may  appoint  and  at
  pleasure remove such deputies and other officers and  assistants  as  he
  may  find necessary, and assign them the work which shall be under their
  respective supervision, and fix their compensation  within  the  amounts
  appropriated  therefor,  subject  to the approval of the director of the
  budget.   Each of such deputies, officers  and  assistants  shall  be  a
  person  qualified  by training and experience for the performance of the
  duties so assigned to him.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 8 - Counsel.

§ 8. Counsel.    There  shall  be  a  counsel  of the department to be
  appointed by the commissioner and who shall serve during the pleasure of
  the commissioner. The counsel of  the  department  shall  represent  and
  appear  for  the department in all actions and proceedings involving any
  question under this chapter or within the jurisdiction of the department
  under any general or special law or under or in reference  to  any  act,
  order  or  proceeding  of  or  before  the commissioner, and shall, when
  directed, intervene, if possible, in behalf of  the  department  in  any
  action  or  proceeding  involving  or  relating to any matter within the
  jurisdiction or powers of the department as  herein  prescribed,  except
  that  the  attorney-general  of  the state shall continue to have direct
  charge of and bring such actions as he may deem necessary  for  any  and
  all  violations  of this chapter.   The said counsel shall, also, act as
  counsel for any officer of the department in the conduct of  a  hearing,
  investigation or inquiry instituted under authority of the department or
  as  provided  in  this  chapter. He shall advise the commissioner or any
  officer of the department, when so requested, in regard to  all  matters
  in  connection  with  their powers and duties, and perform generally all
  duties and services as counsel of the department which may reasonably be
  required of him.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 9 - Bureaus.

§ 9. Bureaus.  Existing  bureaus in the department are continued until
  consolidated or abolished pursuant to this section. The commissioner may
  establish such divisions, bureaus, and other units within the department
  as may  be  necessary  for  the  administration  and  operation  of  the
  department  and the proper exercise of its powers and the performance of
  its duties, under this chapter, and may, from time to time,  consolidate
  or abolish such divisions, bureaus or other units within the department.
  Notwithstanding  any inconsistent provision of law, the commissioner may
  determine the official functions of each division, bureau, or other unit
  within the department. There shall be a director of each  bureau  to  be
  appointed by the commissioner and who shall serve during the pleasure of
  the  commissioner. The directors of bureaus in the department who are in
  office when this chapter takes effect shall continue  in  office  during
  the pleasure of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 11 - Other Officers and Employees.

§ 11. Other  officers  and  employees.  There  shall  be  such agents,
  inspectors, chemists,  experts,  statisticians,  accountants  and  other
  assistants  and  employees, as the commissioner shall deem necessary for
  the exercise of the powers and the performance  of  the  duties  of  the
  department under this chapter.
Such officers and employees shall be appointed by the commissioner and
  hold  office  during  the pleasure of the commissioner. The officers and
  employees of the department who are in office when  this  chapter  takes
  effect shall continue in office during the pleasure of the commissioner.
The  commissioner  may  transfer  officers  or  employees  from  their
  positions  to  other  positions  in  the  department,  or   abolish   or
  consolidate such positions.
Prior  to  the  appointment  of  inspectors  and  investigators by the
  department, applicants for such positions shall be  fingerprinted  as  a
  condition  of  employment.  Such  fingerprints shall be submitted to the
  division of criminal justice  services  for  a  state  criminal  history
  record  check,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three thousand
  thirty-five of the education law, and may be submitted  to  the  federal
  bureau of investigation for a national criminal history record check.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 12 - Oaths of Office.

§ 12. Oaths of office. The commissioner, the deputy commissioners, the
  counsel  and  the  secretary  shall,  before entering upon the duties of
  their offices, take and subscribe the  constitutional  oath  of  office.
  Such oaths shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 13 - Salaries of Officers; Expenses.

§ 13. Salaries   of   officers;  expenses.  The  annual  salaries  and
  compensation of the deputy commissioners, the counsel, secretary and all
  other officers and employees of the department shall  be  fixed  by  the
  commissioner within the limits of appropriations made therefor.
The  reasonable  and  necessary  traveling  and  other expenses of the
  commissioner,  deputy  commissioners,  secretary,  counsel   and   other
  officers  and employees of the department, while actually engaged in the
  performance of their duties, shall be paid in accordance with the  rules
  and  regulations  of  the department of audit and control from the state
  treasury upon the audit of the comptroller, upon  vouchers  approved  by
  the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 2 - Department of Agriculture and Markets; Jurisdiction; General Powers and Duties › 14 - Offices of Department.

§ 14. Offices  of  department.  The principal office of the department
  shall be in the county of Albany in office space to be designated by the
  commissioner of general services pursuant to law. Branch  offices  shall
  be  established  and  maintained by the department in such places as the
  commissioner of agriculture and markets  may  determine.    The  offices
  shall be supplied with all necessary books, stationery, office equipment
  and  furniture,  to  be furnished and paid for in the manner provided by
  law.