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2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 48 - Sale of Unclaimed Pledge by Collateral Loan Broker.

§  48.  Sale of unclaimed pledge by collateral loan broker. 1. No pawn
or pledge made with a collateral loan broker shall  be  sold  until  the
same shall have remained four months in his possession.
2. All sales of defaulted pledges shall be public or private with each
such pledge being individually offered for sale.
(a)  If  at public sale, then it shall be by public auction, and shall
be conducted by licensed auctioneers within the state of New  York.  All
bids for the purchase of any defaulted pledge offered at such sale shall
be  oral,  and  expressed  in  dollars  and cents without the use of any
special signs, signals or motions, if less  than  eleven  people  attend
such sale.
(b)  A  private sale may be at any time and place and on any terms but
every aspect of the disposition  including  the  method,  manner,  time,
place  and  terms  must  be  commercially  reasonable  and  conducted in
conformity with applicable uniform commercial code provisions  regarding
the disposal of collateral after default.
(c)  In  addition to any other provision contained in this article and
article twenty-two-A of this chapter, section three  hundred  forty-nine
of  this  chapter  shall  apply to a violation of the private and public
sale provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 49 - Notice of Such Sale; Report.

§  49. Notice of such sale; report.  1. No pledge shall be sold unless
  written or printed notice of intention to sell with a statement  of  the
  article or articles to be sold has been first mailed by letter addressed
  to  the  pledgor  at  the address given at the time of pledging at least
  thirty days prior to the date of sale.  If the sale shall be  by  public
  auction,  then notice of every such sale shall be published for at least
  six days previous thereto, in at  least  two  of  the  daily  newspapers
  printed  in the city where the business shall be carried on, and also in
  two daily newspapers of the city where the sale is to take place and  to
  be  designated by said mayor, and such notice shall specify the time and
  place at which  such  sale  is  to  take  place  and  the  name  of  the
  auctioneers  by  whom  the  same  is  to  be  conducted  together with a
  statement of the class of pledges to be sold and the inclusive dates and
  numbers of the pawn tickets of the pledges to be sold. If the pledge, at
  such sale, shall be purchased back by the collateral  loan  broker,  the
  pledgor  shall  be entitled to redeem same within ten days thereafter by
  tendering to the collateral loan broker the amount of the loan with  the
  interest  due thereon, the amount of the auctioneer's lawful commission,
  lawful extra care charges, and the expense of the advertisement  of  the
  sale.
2.  Any  collateral  loan broker who sells defaulted pledges at public
  auction, pursuant to this article, shall file with  the  office  of  the
  local  governing body issuing such license within thirty days after such
  sale, a verified report setting  forth  the  name  and  address  of  the
  collateral  loan  broker,  the  date  when and place where such sale was
  held, the name and address of the auctioneer that  conducted  such  sale
  and shall include a schedule of each of the defaulted pledges offered at
  such  sale,  together with their pledge numbers, the amount received for
  each pledge and a statement that each of  the  pledges  so  listed  were
  delivered  over  to the auctioneer and actually offered for sale at such
  auction, and in the event the collateral loan broker, during the  course
  of  such  sale purchases back any such pledge, a statement setting forth
  which pledges were purchased back by  the  collateral  loan  broker.  An
  affidavit  of  publication  made by the newspaper in which the notice of
  each such sale was published, as  provided  by  section  fifty  of  this
  article,  shall  be  annexed  to  every  report  filed  pursuant  to the
  provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 50 - Disposition of Proceeds.

§  50.  Disposition of proceeds. 1. The surplus money, if any, arising
  from any such sale, after deducting the amount of the loan, the interest
  then due on the  same,  the  auctioneer's  commissions,  if  applicable,
  lawful  extra  care  charges and the expense of the advertisement of the
  sale, if applicable, shall be paid over by the collateral loan broker to
  the person who would be entitled to redeem the pledge in  case  no  such
  sale had taken place.
2. In the event there is any surplus money due to a pledgor after such
  sale,  the  collateral loan broker shall give the pledgor written notice
  thereof, by mailing to such pledgor, directed  to  him  at  the  address
  given  at the time of pledging or in the event such pledgor has notified
  the collateral loan broker, in writing, of a change of address, to  such
  new  address,  within  thirty days after such sale, a notice which shall
  state the name and address of the collateral loan broker, the number  of
  the pledge, the date of sale and the amount of any surplus. In the event
  any  person  entitled  to  such surplus fails to make claim for the same
  within one year from the date of such sale, such surplus shall  be  paid
  over,  by  the  collateral  loan  broker,  to  the  state comptroller in
  accordance with the provisions of section one thousand three hundred one
  of the abandoned property law.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 51 - Violation of This Article.

§  51.  Violation  of  this  article.  The  mayor  or  local licensing
  authority so licensing such collateral loan broker shall have full power
  and authority after a hearing to impose fines and penalties of not  less
  than  twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars upon persons
  offending against any of the foregoing provisions of  this  article  for
  each  and every offense, excepting sections forty and forty-one, and may
  also suspend or  revoke  the  license  of  the  collateral  loan  broker
  willfully violating any of the aforesaid provisions.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 52 - Term "Collateral Loan Broker", How to Be Construed.

§  52.  Term  "collateral  loan broker", how to be construed. The term
  "collateral loan broker" contained in this article shall be construed so
  as to include any person, partnership, or corporation: (1) loaning money
  on deposit or pledge of personal  property,  other  than  securities  or
  printed  evidences  of indebtedness; or (2) dealing in the purchasing of
  personal property on condition of selling back at a stipulated price; or
  (3) designated or doing business as furniture storage warehousemen,  and
  loaning  and advancing money upon goods, wares or merchandise pledged or
  deposited as collateral security.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 54 - Violation of Article.

§  54.  Violation  of  article.  Any person, partnership, corporation,
  company or association who willfully violates any of the  provisions  of
  this  article  shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of
  not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for  not  more  than
  one year or both.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 55 - Rules and Regulations.

§   55.  Rules  and  regulations.  The  state  comptroller  is  hereby
  authorized and empowered to  require  the  keeping  of  such  additional
  books,  records,  entries  and  reports  as he may deem necessary and to
  determine the amount of the surplus payable as abandoned property in the
  event of non-compliance with the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5-A - Commercial Installment Sales › 56 - Limitation on Refunds Under Commercial Installment Sales Agreements.

§  56.  Limitation  on  refunds  under  commercial  installment  sales
  agreements. An agreement for the sale of  equipment,  machinery  or  the
  accessories  or parts thereto to a commercial or business enterprise for
  its use or for the purpose of resale which provides for the financing of
  such purchase by an installment sale provision shall  provide  that  any
  refund due as a result of an early termination of the agreement shall be
  determined according to a generally accepted actuarial method.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 60 - Definitions.

§ 60. Definitions. As used in this article:
1. "Junk metal" means any product made of steel, copper, copper alloy,
  brass,  aluminum, or aluminum alloy that is readily used or useable by a
  public utility, railroad, county,  city  or  state  highway  department,
  public or private school, or an institution of higher education or which
  has  an  established market for resale to scrap processors as defined in
  section sixty-nine-e of this chapter.
2. "Junk dealer" means  any  individual,  firm,  corporation,  limited
  liability  company, or partnership engaged in the business of purchasing
  and reselling valuable metal either at a permanently  established  place
  of  business  or  in  connection with a business of an itinerant nature,
  including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores,  auto  wreckers,  salvage
  yards,  collectors  of  or  dealers in junk and junk cars or trucks, but
  shall not include any individual, firm, corporation,  limited  liability
  company,  or  partnership duly licensed as a scrap processor as provided
  in article six-c of this chapter.
3. "Purchase" means acquiring a junk metal product or  products  by  a
  junk  dealer for a consideration, but does not include purchases between
  scrap processors.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 60-A - Licenses.

§  60-a.  Licenses.  It shall be unlawful for any person, association,
  partnership or corporation to  engage  in  the  business  of  buying  or
  selling  old  metal,  which business is herein designated junk business,
  and which person, association,  partnership  or  corporation  is  herein
  designated junk dealer, unless such junk dealer shall have complied with
  the  provisions of this article and obtained a license so to do from the
  mayor of the city, if the principal  place  of  business  of  such  junk
  dealer  is  in  a  city,  or  the  mayor of the village if such place of
  business is in an incorporated village, otherwise from the supervisor of
  the town in which such place of business is located; for  which  license
  shall be paid such mayor or supervisor for the use of such city, village
  or  town,  the  sum  of five dollars, which license shall expire on June
  thirtieth of each year. The provisions of this article shall  not  apply
  to any person, association, partnership or corporation duly licensed and
  engaged in the business of scrap processing as provided in article six-C
  hereof.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 61 - Persons Not Entitled to License.

§  61.  Persons  not  entitled  to  license.  No  person, association,
  partnership or corporation shall be entitled to or receive such  license
  who  or which, and in case of a partnership or association any member of
  which, has been since January first, nineteen hundred and three, or  who
  or  which shall hereafter be convicted of larceny or knowingly receiving
  stolen property, or of a violation of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 62 - Statement Required From Persons Selling Certain Property.

§  62.  Statement  required  from persons selling certain property. On
  purchasing any pig or pigs of metal, bronze or brass castings  or  parts
  thereof,  sprues  or  gates  or  parts thereof, copper wire or brass car
  journals, or metal beer  kegs,  such  junk  dealer  shall  cause  to  be
  subscribed  by  the  person  from whom purchased a statement as to when,
  where and from whom he or she obtained such property, also  his  or  her
  identity  as  verified  by a government issued identification card, age,
  residence by city, village or town, and the street and  number  thereof,
  if  any,  the  driver's  license number or information from a government
  issued identification card, if any, of such person, and  otherwise  such
  description  as  will  reasonably locate the same, his or her occupation
  and name of his or her employer and place  of  employment  or  business,
  which  statement  the  junk dealer shall forthwith file in the office of
  the chief of police of the city or village in  which  the  purchase  was
  made,  if  made  in a city or incorporated village, and otherwise in the
  office of the sheriff of the county in which made. The junk metal dealer
  shall also make and retain a copy of the government issued  photographic
  identification  card used to verify the identity of the person from whom
  the junk metal was purchased and shall retain this copy  in  a  separate
  book  or  register  for  two years from the date of purchase of the junk
  metal and include an additional copy of  this  identification  with  the
  information required to be transmitted to the chief of police or sheriff
  pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 63 - Certain Property to Be Kept in Separate Piles.

§ 63. Certain property to be kept in separate piles. Every junk dealer
  shall  on  purchasing  any of the property described in the last section
  place and keep each separate purchase in a separate and  distinct  pile,
  bundle  or  package, in the usual place of business of such junk dealer,
  without removing, melting, cutting or destroying  any  article  thereof,
  for a period of five days immediately succeeding such purchase, on which
  package,  bundle  or  pile shall be placed and kept by such dealer a tag
  bearing the name and residence of the seller, with the  date,  hour  and
  place of purchase, and the weight thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 63-A - Purchasing Property From a Child.

§  63-a.  Purchasing  property  from  a  child.  No  owner,  keeper or
  proprietor of a junk shop, junk cart or other vehicle or boat or  vessel
  used  for  the  collection  of junk, or any person in the employ of such
  owner, keeper, or proprietor, or any collector of junk, shall receive or
  purchase any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from any child  under
  the  age of sixteen years. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a
  violation of this section,  that  in  the  transaction  upon  which  the
  prosecution  is  based the child acted as the agent or representative of
  another, or that the defendant dealt with such child  as  the  agent  or
  representative of another.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6 - Junk Dealers › 64 - Penalty.

§  64.  Penalty.  Each  violation  of this article, either by the junk
  dealer, the agent or servant thereof, and each false statement  made  in
  or  on  any  statement or tag above mentioned shall be a misdemeanor and
  the person convicted shall, in  addition  to  other  penalties  imposed,
  forfeit  his  license to do business. But nothing herein contained shall
  apply to cities of the first class.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-A - Convict Made Goods › 69 - Sale of Incarcerated Individual Made Goods.

§  69. Sale of incarcerated individual made goods. No goods, wares, or
  merchandise, manufactured, produced  or  mined  wholly  or  in  part  by
  incarcerated  individuals, except incarcerated individuals or persons on
  parole, probation, or release, shall  be  sold  in  this  state  to  any
  person,  firm,  association  or  corporation except that nothing in this
  section shall be construed to forbid the sale of such goods produced  in
  the  correctional  facilities of this state to the state, the government
  of the United States or to any  state  of  the  United  States,  or  any
  political  subdivision  thereof,  or for any public institution owned or
  managed and controlled  by  the  state,  or  any  political  subdivision
  thereof,   as  provided  in  section  one  hundred  eighty-four  of  the
  correction law, or any public corporation or eleemosynary association or
  corporation funded in whole or in part by any federal,  state  or  local
  funds,  or  to  forbid the sale, subject to the rules and regulations of
  the head of the department or other like governmental  authority  having
  jurisdiction,  of any product resulting from occupational therapy within
  any penal or  correctional  institution,  as  provided  in  section  one
  hundred ninety-seven of the correction law.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of parts
  and components produced by incarcerated individual labor in correctional
  industry programs of the government of the United States or any state of
  the  United  States,  or  any  political  subdivision  thereof,  to  the
  department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision's  division  of
  correctional industries for use in its manufacturing operations.
A  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this section shall constitute a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-B - Sale of Goods Produced With Child Labor › 69-A - Sale of Goods Produced With Child Labor.

§  69-a.  Sale of goods produced with child labor. No goods, wares, or
  merchandise, manufactured  or  produced  in  or  for  a  factory  or  by
  industrial  homework or produced or mined in a mine or quarry in this or
  any other state, or in any territory, dependency or  possession  of  the
  United States, on or after the date this article takes effect, wholly or
  in  part  through  the use of child labor shall be sold in this state to
  any person, firm, association or corporation, provided that  the  seller
  shall  have  notice  that  such  goods,  wares  or  merchandise  were so
  manufactured, produced or mined.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-B - Sale of Goods Produced With Child Labor › 69-B - Definitions.

§ 69-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
1.  The  term  "child labor" shall be defined as employment of persons
  under sixteen years of age.
2. The term "factory" shall  be  defined  as  provided  in  the  first
  sentence of paragraph nine of section two of the labor law. Goods, wares
  and  merchandise  shall  be  deemed to be manufactured or produced for a
  factory if labor, other than that incident to agriculture or farming, be
  done for a factory at any place  upon  its  work  or  upon  any  of  the
  materials   entering   into  its  product,  whether  under  contract  or
  arrangement with any person in charge of or connected with such  factory
  directly  or  indirectly  through one or more contractors or other third
  persons.
3. The term "industrial home work" shall be  defined  as  provided  in
  section three hundred fifty of the labor law.
4.  The  term "employment" shall be defined as permitting or suffering
  another to work.
5. The term "notice" shall  be  deemed  to  include,  but  not  to  be
  confined to, information derived from a label affixed to goods, wares or
  merchandise or to any package, container, crate or unit of rolling stock
  in which the same are contained.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-B - Sale of Goods Produced With Child Labor › 69-D - Saving Clause With Respect to Other Laws.

§  69-d.  Saving  clause  with  respect to other laws. Nothing in this
  article shall be deemed to modify, alter, repeal or amend any  provision
  affecting terms, requirements, conditions, hours or wages of employment,
  or  any  definitions applicable thereto, contained in the labor law, the
  education law or any other law, general, special or local.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-C - Scrap Processors › 69-E - Definitions.

§  69-e.  Definitions. 1. "Scrap metal processing facility" shall mean
  an establishment engaged  primarily  in  the  purchase,  processing  and
  shipment  of  ferrous and/or non-ferrous scrap, the end product of which
  is the production of raw  material  for  remelting  purposes  for  steel
  mills, foundaries, smelters, refiners, and similar users.
2.  "Scrap  processor" shall mean any person, association, partnership
  or corporation operating  and  maintaining  a  "scrap  metal  processing
  facility".
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-C - Scrap Processors › 69-F - License.

§  69-f.  License.  It  shall be unlawful for any person, association,
  partnership or corporation to engage in business as  a  scrap  processor
  unless  such  scrap processor shall have complied with the provisions of
  this article and obtained a license to do so from the mayor of the city,
  if the place of business of such scrap processor is in a  city,  or  the
  mayor  of  the  village  if  the place of business is in an incorporated
  village, otherwise from the supervisor of the town in which  such  place
  of  business  is  located,  or  from the licensing authority of any such
  municipality; for which license shall be paid such mayor  or  supervisor
  or  licensing  authority  for the use of such city, village, or town the
  sum of seventy-five dollars if such place of business is  the  principal
  place  of  business of such scrap processor in this state, otherwise the
  sum of fifty dollars, which license shall expire on  June  thirtieth  of
  each year.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-C - Scrap Processors › 69-G - Records.

§  69-g.  Records.  1.  Such  scrap  processor  shall  record (i) each
  purchase of any pig or pigs of metal, bronze or brass castings or  parts
  thereof,  sprues  or  gates  or parts thereof, utility wire or brass car
  journals, or of metal beer kegs, and (ii) each purchase of  iron,  steel
  and/or  nonferrous  scrap  for  a  price  of  fifty dollars or more, and
  preserve such record for a period of three  years;  which  record  shall
  show  the  date  of  purchase,  name of seller, his residence address by
  street, number, city, village or town, the driver's  license  number  or
  information  from  a government issued photographic identification card,
  if any, of such person, or by such description as will reasonably locate
  the seller, the type and  quantity  of  such  purchase;  and  the  scrap
  processor  shall  cause  such  record  to be signed by the seller or his
  agent. It shall be unlawful for any seller to  refuse  to  furnish  such
  information  or  to  furnish  incorrect  or incomplete information. Such
  scrap processor shall also make and retain  a  copy  of  the  government
  issued  photographic  identification card used to verify the identity of
  the person from whom the scrap metal was purchased and shall retain this
  copy in a separate book, register or electronic archive  for  two  years
  from the date of purchase.
2.  Such  records  shall  be  available  for  inspection by the police
  department of the state or the municipality in which  the  establishment
  is located.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-C - Scrap Processors › 69-H - Penalty.

§  69-h.  Penalty.  1.  Each  violation  of  this  article  by a scrap
  processor shall be a violation subject to a fine of not  more  than  two
  hundred  dollars,  unless such violation shall be wilful, in which event
  it shall be a misdemeanor except, however, the scrap processor shall not
  be liable for any violation of this article by a seller, his agent, or a
  purported seller or agent.
2. Each violation of this article by a seller or his agent shall be  a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-L - Definitions.

§  69-l.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this article, unless the context
  requires otherwise:
1. "Department" means the department of state.
2. "Person" means an individual, firm, company,  partnership,  limited
  liability company or corporation.
3.  "Licensee"  means a person as herein defined licensed to engage in
  the business of installing, servicing or maintaining  security  or  fire
  alarm systems under this article.
4.  "To engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining
  security or fire alarm systems" means and refers to a person  who  holds
  himself  out  directly  or  indirectly,  as being able, or who offers or
  undertakes, by any means or method, to install, service  or  maintain  a
  security  or  fire alarm system to detect intrusion, break-in, movement,
  sound or fire.
5. "Fee", "examination fee", "license fee" and "renewal fee" mean  the
  fees required to accompany an application for examination or fingerprint
  processing  for  or  issuance  of  any license, including any temporary,
  apprentice or renewal license, pursuant to this article. Such fee  shall
  be non-refundable.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-M - License Required.

§  69-m.  License  required.  1.  On and after October first, nineteen
  hundred  ninety-two,  no  person  shall  engage  in  the   business   of
  installing,  servicing  or maintaining security or fire alarm systems or
  hold himself out as being able so to do unless he is  licensed  therefor
  pursuant  to  this  article.    Nothing  herein  shall prohibit a person
  licensed  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  article  from
  employing  individuals  to  assist  in  the  installation,  servicing or
  maintaining of security or fire alarm systems,  provided  such  licensee
  issues  identification  cards  on  a form prescribed by the secretary of
  state to each unlicensed individual.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  a license shall not be required of a person to engage in the business of
  installing,  servicing  or maintaining security or fire alarm systems if
  such an alarm system is to be installed in a motor vehicle, water vessel
  or  aircraft  or  is  a   battery-operated   smoke   detection   device.
  Furthermore,  a  property  owner  or proprietor who purchases or owns an
  alarm system to be installed by him or his employees onto  his  property
  or  place  of  business  shall  not  fall  under  the provisions of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-N - Powers of the Secretary of State.

§  69-n.  Powers  of the secretary of state. In addition to the powers
  and duties elsewhere prescribed in this article, the secretary of  state
  shall have power:
1.  To  appoint an adequate number of assistants, inspectors and other
  employees as may be necessary  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this
  article, to prescribe their duties, and to fix their compensation within
  the amount appropriated therefor.
2.  To  examine  into the qualifications and fitness of applicants for
  licenses under this article.
3. To keep records of all licenses issued, suspended or revoked.
4. To prepare a manual of rules and regulations  for  the  conduct  of
  examinations  and to furnish copies thereof to persons desiring the same
  upon payment of a reasonable fee therefor.
5. To adopt such rules  and  regulations  not  inconsistent  with  the
  provisions of this article, as may be necessary with respect to the form
  and  content  of  applications  for licenses, the reception thereof, the
  investigation and examination of applicants  and  their  qualifications,
  and the other matters incidental or appropriate to his powers and duties
  as  prescribed  by  this  article  and for the proper administration and
  enforcement of the provisions of this article, and to  amend  or  repeal
  any of such rules and regulations.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-PP - Licensed Master Electrician Waiver.

§  69-pp.  Licensed  master  electrician  waiver. 1. Any person who is
  licensed by any municipality as a master electrician and who engages  in
  the  business  of  installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire
  alarm  systems  within  such  municipality  shall  be  waived  from  the
  provisions of this article upon registration with the secretary of state
  in accordance with the provisions of this section.
2.  Each  licensed  master electrician seeking a waiver shall register
  with the secretary of state on a form prescribed by the secretary.  Such
  form shall include at least: the individual's name and home address, the
  business's  name  and  address,  a listing of jurisdictions in which the
  master electrician is licensed, a listing  of  all  appropriate  license
  numbers   and  such  other  information  as  the  secretary  shall  deem
  necessary. No applicant for a waiver  shall  be  required  to  meet  the
  provisions of section sixty-nine-o of this article.
3.  Any  waiver  shall  only  apply  for  engaging  in the business of
  installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm  systems  in
  municipalities  where  such  master  electrician  is  licensed. However,
  should a licensed master electrician for any reason become unlicensed by
  any municipality, such master electrician shall immediately  inform  the
  secretary  of  state  of such action. The secretary of state may suspend
  any waiver granted upon the basis of the master electrician license.
4. A master electrician who engages in  the  business  of  installing,
  servicing   or   maintaining   security   or   fire   alarm  systems  in
  municipalities where such master electrician is not duly licensed, shall
  be required to be licensed pursuant to this article.
5. A master electrician who is licensed in any municipality within the
  state shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements  of  paragraphs
  (b) and (c) of subdivision one of section sixty-nine-o of this article.
6.  The fee for all waivers granted to any master electrician shall be
  established by the secretary of state and shall not exceed fifty dollars
  every two years. Provided, however, that any person licensed pursuant to
  this article prior to the effective date of this section shall be exempt
  from the waiver fee for periods prior to October first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-four. Such waiver shall be valid for a two  year  period  and  be
  renewable for two year periods thereafter.
7.  Any  license  issued  by  any  municipality  establishing a master
  electrician license after July fifteenth, nineteen hundred  ninety-three
  shall  not  be  grounds for a waiver pursuant to this section unless the
  secretary determines that the  standards  for  such  master  electrician
  license are not lower than those of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-R - Fees.

§  69-r.  Fees.  1. The fee for a license to engage in the business of
  installing, servicing or maintaining  security  or  fire  alarm  systems
  shall  be  two  hundred  dollars  plus an amount to be determined by the
  division  of  criminal  justice  services  to  cover  the  cost  of  the
  division's  fingerprint search and report. For each renewal thereof, the
  fee shall be one hundred dollars plus an amount to be determined by  the
  division  of  criminal  justice  services  to  cover  the  cost  of  the
  division's fingerprint search and report.
2. The fee for taking an  examination  under  this  article  shall  be
  fifteen  dollars; provided, however, that if the applicant qualifies for
  a license as the result of  such  examination,  the  fee  paid  for  the
  privilege  of  taking  such examination shall be included in the license
  fee for the license issued to him thereon.
3. The fee for issuing a duplicate license  in  substitution  for  one
  lost, destroyed or mutilated shall be twenty-five dollars.
4. The fee for changing a name or address shall be ten dollars.
5.  The  fees hereinabove set forth shall be those for licenses issued
  for the license period of two years or fraction of such period.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-S - Suspension and Revocation of Licenses.

§ 69-s. Suspension and revocation of licenses.  1. A license to engage
in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire
alarm systems may be suspended or revoked, or in lieu thereof a fine not
exceeding  one  thousand dollars per violation payable to the department
may be imposed or a reprimand issued by the secretary of state, for  any
one or more of the following causes:
(a) Fraud or bribery in securing a license;
(b)  The  making of any false statement as to a material matter in any
application or other statement or certificate required by or pursuant to
this article;
(c) Incompetency;
(d) Failure to display the license as provided in this article;
(e) Violation of any provision of this article,  or  of  any  rule  or
regulation adopted hereunder;
(f)  Conviction of a felony involving fraud, theft, perjury or bribery
or other cause which would permit  disqualifications  from  receiving  a
license upon the original application.
2.  Whenever  the  license  to  engage  in the business of installing,
servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems is revoked, such
license shall not be reinstated or reissued until after  the  expiration
of a period of five years from the date of such revocation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-SS - Revocation, Suspension, Reprimands, Fines; Unlicensed Activities.

§   69-ss.   Revocation,  suspension,  reprimands,  fines;  unlicensed
  activities. 1. The secretary of state shall, before imposing any fine or
  reprimand on a person thereof, or before issuing any order directing the
  cessation of unlicensed activities, and at least ten days prior  to  the
  date  set  for the hearing, notify in writing such person, or the person
  alleged to have engaged in unlicensed activities, of  any  charges  made
  and  shall afford such person an opportunity to be heard in person or by
  counsel in reference thereto. Such  written  notice  may  be  served  by
  delivery of same personally to the person charged, or by mailing same by
  certified  mail  to the last known business or other address provided by
  such person to the secretary of state, or by any  method  authorized  by
  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules  for the service of a summons. The
  hearing on such  charges  shall  be  at  such  time  and  place  as  the
  department shall prescribe.
2.  The department, acting by such officer or person in the department
  as the secretary of  state  may  designate,  shall  have  the  power  to
  subpoena and bring before the officer or person so designated any person
  in  this  state,  and  administer  an  oath to and take testimony of any
  person or cause his deposition to be taken. A subpoena issued under this
  section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-T - Hearing on Charges; Decision.

§ 69-t. Hearing on charges; decision. No license shall be suspended or
  revoked nor shall any fine or reprimand be imposed until after a hearing
  had  before an officer or employee of the department designated for such
  purpose by the secretary of state, upon notice to  the  licensee  of  at
  least  ten  days.  The  notice  shall  be served either personally or by
  certified mail and shall state the date and place  of  hearing  and  set
  forth  the  ground  or  grounds  constituting  the  charges  against the
  licensee. The licensee shall have the opportunity to  be  heard  in  his
  defense  either  in  person  or by counsel and may produce witnesses and
  testify in his behalf. A stenographic record of  the  hearing  shall  be
  taken and preserved. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. The
  person  conducting  the  hearing  shall  make  a  written  report of his
  findings and a recommendation to the secretary of  state  for  decision.
  The secretary of state shall review such findings and the recommendation
  and,  after  due deliberation, shall issue an order accepting, modifying
  or  rejecting  such  recommendation  and  dismissing  the   charges   or
  suspending or revoking the license or in lieu thereof imposing a fine or
  reprimand  upon  the  licensee.  For  the  purpose  of this article, the
  secretary of  state  or  any  officer  or  employee  of  the  department
  designated  by  him,  may  administer  oaths,  take  testimony, subpoena
  witnesses and compel  the  production  of  books,  papers,  records  and
  documents deemed pertinent to the subject of investigation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-U - Judicial Review.

§  69-u.  Judicial  review.    The action of the secretary of state in
  suspending, revoking or  refusing  to  issue  or  renew  a  license,  or
  imposing  a fine or reprimand on the holder thereof may be reviewed by a
  proceeding brought under and pursuant to article  seventy-eight  of  the
  civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-V - Violations and Penalties.

§  69-v.  Violations and penalties.   Any person who shall directly or
  indirectly  engage  in  the  business  of   installing,   servicing   or
  maintaining  security  or  fire alarm systems or hold himself out to the
  public as being able so to do without a license therefor, or  who  shall
  violate any of the provisions of this article, or having had his license
  suspended  or  revoked,  shall  continue  to  engage  in the business of
  installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm  systems  or
  who,  without  a  license  to  engage  in  the  business  of installing,
  servicing or maintaining security or fire  alarm  systems,  directly  or
  indirectly employs, permits or authorizes an unlicensed person to engage
  in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire
  alarm  systems,  shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
  shall be punishable by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by a
  fine of not more than one thousand dollars or  by  both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment  upon  the first conviction and by imprisonment of not more
  than one year or by a fine of not less than  one  thousand  dollars  nor
  more  than  five  thousand dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment
  upon a subsequent conviction.  Each violation of this article  shall  be
  deemed a separate offense.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-VV - Civil Penalties.

§  69-vv.  Civil penalties. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
  of law, with respect to violations  of  section  sixty-nine-ss  of  this
  article, the secretary of state is authorized, upon the complaint of any
  person  or  on  his  or her own initiative, to investigate and prosecute
  violations of the provisions of such section  by  persons  not  licensed
  pursuant  to  this  article  and may impose a fine of up to one thousand
  dollars for the first violation; two thousand dollars for a second  such
  violation; five thousand dollars for a third violation; and ten thousand
  dollars  for  a  fourth  violation  and  each  subsequent violation. The
  attorney general, acting on  behalf  of  the  secretary  of  state,  may
  commence an action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to
  obtain  a  judgment against such unlicensed person in an amount equal to
  that imposed as a fine.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-W - Official Acts Used as Evidence.

§  69-w.  Official  acts  used as evidence.   The official acts of the
  secretary of state and department shall be prima facie evidence  of  the
  facts  therein  and  shall be entitled to be received in evidence in all
  actions at law and other legal proceedings in any court  or  before  any
  board, body or officer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-X - Disposition of Moneys Derived From Operation of Article.

§  69-x.  Disposition  of  moneys  derived  from operation of article.
  Processing fees for the fingerprint search conducted by the division  of
  criminal  justice  services  shall  accompany  the fingerprint cards and
  shall be deposited to the credit of  the  general  fund.  All  remaining
  moneys  derived from the operation of this article shall be deposited in
  the business and licensing  services  account  established  pursuant  to
  section ninety-seven-y of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-Y - Separability Clause.

§ 69-y. Separability clause.  If any part or provision of this article
  or  the  application  thereof  to any person or circumstance be adjudged
  invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment  shall  be
  confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly
  involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such judgment shall have been
  rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of
  this  article  or  the  application  thereof   to   other   persons   or
  circumstances  and  the  legislature  hereby declares that it would have
  enacted this article or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such
  provision or application thereof been apparent.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-Z - Applicability.

§  69-z. Applicability. 1. The provisions of this article shall not be
  construed to limit in any way the authority of a city with a  population
  of one million or more to enact, implement and continue to enforce local
  laws  and  regulations  governing home improvement contractors and their
  agents or employees that were in effect prior to the effective  date  of
  this  article, or to enact, implement and enforce any amendments thereto
  after the effective date of this article.
2. The provisions of this article  shall  govern  notwithstanding  any
  other  law  to  the  contrary;  provided,  however, that local law shall
  govern with respect to inspection of fire alarms by a fire  marshall  or
  any other person designated under such local law; and provided, further,
  that  this  article shall not be held to invalidate any provision of the
  laws of this state or any subdivision thereof unless there is  a  direct
  conflict between the provision of this article and the provision of such
  law  or  unless  such  law is duplicative of this article, in which case
  this article shall prevail, except as provided otherwise in  subdivision
  one  of  this  section.  Except  as  provided in subdivision one of this
  section, no  local  law  shall  require  any  fee  or  license  for  the
  installation,  servicing  or  maintaining  of  security  or  fire  alarm
  systems, except that which is provided pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 7 - Private Investigators, Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard and Patrol Agencies › 70-A - Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard or Patrol Agencies.

§  70-a.  Bail enforcement agents and watch, guard or patrol agencies.
  1. The department of state  shall  have  the  power  to  issue  separate
  licenses  to  bail  enforcement  agents  and  to  watch, guard or patrol
  agencies. Nothing in this article shall prevent a  private  investigator
  licensed  hereunder  from  performing  the services of a watch, guard or
  patrol agency or bail enforcement agent  as  defined  in  this  article;
  however,  a  watch, guard or patrol agency or bail enforcement agent may
  not perform the services of a private investigator as  defined  in  this
  article.
2. No person, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company or
  corporation  shall  engage in the business of bail enforcement agents or
  the business of watch, guard or patrol agency, or advertise  his,  their
  or  its business to be that of bail enforcement agent or watch, guard or
  patrol agency, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such
  agency or notwithstanding the fact that other functions and services may
  also be performed for fee, hire or reward, without having first obtained
  from the department  of  state  a  license  so  to  do,  as  hereinafter
  provided,  for each bureau, agency, sub-agency, office and branch office
  to be owned, conducted, managed or  maintained  by  such  person,  firm,
  company,  partnership,  limited liability company or corporation for the
  conduct of such business.
3. Any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation who  violates
  any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 7 - Private Investigators, Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard and Patrol Agencies › 74-A - Notification.

§  74-a.  Notification.  Prior  to  taking  or attempting to take into
  custody a person, a bail enforcement agent  shall  notify  a  local  law
  enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the person
  is  believed  to be located of such bail enforcement agent's intentions.
  The notification shall be provided on a form prescribed by the local law
  enforcement agency. Notwithstanding, the form shall include  information
  including  but  not  limited  to  name, address, local address and motor
  vehicle registration of said agent. The local law enforcement agency  in
  prescribing  such form may consult with the division of criminal justice
  services. A  representative  of  a  local  law  enforcement  agency  may
  accompany  a  bail  enforcement  agent  when  the bail enforcement agent
  enters what is believed to be an occupied structure to search for or  to
  apprehend a person.