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2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 303 - Standard Test and Storage of Refined Petroleum and Kerosene Oil.

§  303.  Standard  test  and storage of refined petroleum and kerosene
  oil. Refined petroleum or kerosene oil shall not  be  kept  on  sale  or
  stored  in  any such city, the fire test of which shall be less than one
  hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, determined by authorized  inspectors
  using  G.  Tagliabue's or other improved instruments; and the barrels or
  packages containing the same shall be legibly stamped or marked with the
  inspector's official stamp or  mark.  If  stored  above  the  cellar  or
  basement  of  any building and in barrels of not over forty-five gallons
  each, or in metallic vessels or tanks for the convenience of  retailing,
  the  quantity  so  stored  shall not exceed the contents of ten barrels,
  unless packed  in  hermetically  sealed  metallic  packages,  when  such
  quantity  shall  not exceed one hundred barrels. If stored in cellars or
  basements surrounded by walls of brick or stone, and at least  two  feet
  below  the level of the sidewalk, street or adjacent land, such quantity
  shall not exceed the contents of one hundred and fifty  barrels,  unless
  stored  in warehouses specially adapted for the purpose pursuant to this
  article. No more than five barrels thereof shall be kept  or  stored  in
  any building occupied wholly or in part as a dwelling.
Not  more  than  ten  barrels  of  benzine or naphtha shall be kept or
  stored in any building, and not more than three barrels thereof  in  any
  building any part of which is occupied as a dwelling.
This  and the preceding section shall not prevent the storage of crude
  or refined petroleum in wrought-iron tanks detached  from  any  building
  and   especially  adapted  for  that  purpose,  or  in  other  tanks  so
  constructed that the top is at least two feet below the  street  or  the
  adjoining  land  and  covered  with  at  least  one  foot  of earth, and
  appurtenant to or connected with a refinery, with the  approval  of  the
  inspectors of buildings, fire marshal or other proper authorities.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 304 - Standard and Storage of Illuminating Oils.

§  304.  Standard  and  storage  of illuminating oils. No person shall
  manufacture or  have  in  his  possession  or  sell  or  give  away  for
  illuminating  or  heating purposes in lamps or stoves within this state,
  any oil or burning fluid wholly or partly composed of naphtha, coal oil,
  petroleum or products thereof,  or  of  other  substances  or  materials
  emitting  an  inflammable  vapor which will flash at a temperature below
  one hundred degrees  Fahrenheit  according  to  the  tag  closed  tester
  prescribed  and  the  method adopted by the American Society for Testing
  Materials for flash point of volatile flammable liquids.
No such oil or fluid which will ignite  at  a  temperature  below  two
  hundred and ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the standard
  method  of  test  for  flash and fire points by means of open cup of the
  American Society for Testing Materials shall be burned or be carried  as
  freight in any passenger or baggage car or passenger boat moved by steam
  or  electric power in this state, or in any stage or street car, however
  propelled, except that coal oil,  petroleum  and  its  products  may  be
  carried,  when  securely  packed  in  barrels  or  metallic packages, in
  passenger boats propelled by steam when there are no other public  means
  of transportation.
Naphtha  and  other  illuminating products of petroleum which will not
  stand the  flash  test  required  by  this  section,  may  be  used  for
  illuminating or heating purposes only in the following cases:
1.  In  street lamps and open air receptacles apart from any building,
  factory or inhabited house in which the vapor is burned.
2. In dwellings, factories or other places of business when  vaporized
  in  secure  tanks or metallic generators made for that purpose, in which
  the vapor so generated is used for lighting or heating.
3. For use in the manufacture of illuminating gas in gas manufactories
  situated apart from dwellings and other buildings.
Any person violating any provision of this section  shall  forfeit  to
  the city or village, or if not in a city or village to the town in which
  the  violation  occurs,  the  sum  of one hundred dollars for every such
  violation, and for every day or  part  of  a  day  that  such  violation
  occurs.
This  section  shall  not apply to the city of New York, and shall not
  supersede but shall be in addition to the ordinances or  regulations  of
  any  city  or village made pursuant to law for the inspection or control
  of combustible materials therein.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 304-A - Unauthorized Manufacture, Sale or Use of Illuminating Oils.

§ 304-a. Unauthorized manufacture, sale or use of illuminating oils. A
  person  who  violates  any  provision  of  this  article relating to the
  standard, manufacture, sale, or use or storage of  any  oil  or  burning
  fluid,  wholly  or  partly  composed  of naphtha, coal oil, petroleum or
  products manufactured therefrom, or  of  other  substance  or  materials
  which  will flash at a temperature below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit,
  or relating to the burning or carriage of any such oil  or  fluid  which
  will  ignite at a temperature below three hundred degrees Fahrenheit, is
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 305 - Inspectors of Storage.

§  305.  Inspectors  of  storage. The inspectors of buildings or other
  proper authorities in every such city shall make an examination  of  all
  the  premises  where  any of the articles or substances specified in the
  preceding sections of this article are kept or stored,  and  report  any
  violation  thereof  to  the  authorities of the city whose duty it is to
  enforce the provisions thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 306 - Fire and Light Within One Hundred and Fifty Feet of Warehouses in the Counties of New York, Kings, Queens and Nassau Prohibited.

§  306. Fire and light within one hundred and fifty feet of warehouses
  in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens  and  Nassau  prohibited.  No
  person shall bring, have, keep or use or suffer or permit to be brought,
  kept,  had  or  used  on  board  of any ship, vessel, canal boat, barge,
  lighter, boat or other craft lying at or  within  the  distance  of  one
  hundred  and  fifty  feet  of  any  warehouse,  yard,  shed, dock, pier,
  bulkhead, wharf or other place within the counties of New  York,  Kings,
  Queens  or  Nassau  at,  in  or  upon  which petroleum oil or any of its
  products is stored or is kept for export or in quantities exceeding  ten
  thousand  gallons,  or  at,  in  or upon any such warehouse, shed, yard,
  dock, pier, bulkhead or other place, any lighted match or lighted cigar,
  cigarette or pipe, or any fire or light of any kind,  except  in  strict
  conformity   to   the   written  permission  of  the  owner,  lessee  or
  superintendent of such warehouse,  yard,  shed,  dock,  pier,  bulkhead,
  wharf  or  other  place, specifying the fire or light to be kept, had or
  used, the particular purpose for and the place or spot at which the same
  may be so kept, had or used and the particular manner of keeping, having
  and using the same.
This section shall not apply to steam  tugs  while  transacting  their
  ordinary  business  nor  to  steam fire engines engaged in extinguishing
  fires.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 307 - Penalties and the Enforcement Thereof.

§  307.  Penalties and the enforcement thereof. Every person violating
  the provisions of  this  article,  relating  to  the  test  for  refined
  petroleum  and  oil, shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of
  five hundred dollars for each violation.
Every person violating any provision of this article, relating to  the
  storage  or keeping for sale of any article, substance or product herein
  specified, shall forfeit to the people of the  state,  the  sum  of  two
  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  each  day and part of a day that such
  violation continues.
Every person violating any provisions of this article, relating to the
  incumbering of  any  sidewalk  or  street,  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of
  twenty-five  dollars  for each day and part of a day that such violation
  continues, to be paid, if in a city or village, to such city or village,
  and elsewhere, to the town in which such violation occurs.
The mayor and common council of every city or other proper authorities
  thereof, shall, by ordinance  or  resolution,  provide  for  the  proper
  enforcement of the provisions of the preceding sections of this article,
  and  in  every  such city, the moneys collected by the city as penalties
  for the violation of any such ordinance or resolution or of any of  such
  provisions,  shall be applied to the support of the poor therein, except
  in Brooklyn, where they shall be paid into the widows and orphans'  fund
  of  the fire department, and except in Buffalo, where they shall be paid
  to the treasurer of the firemen's benevolent association of the city for
  its use and benefit.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 19 - Oil and Distilled Spirits › 308 - Retail Sale and Delivery of Certain Flammable Liquids and Kerosene.

§  308.  Retail  sale  and  delivery  of certain flammable liquids and
  kerosene. 1. Definition.  As used in this section:
"Flammable liquid" shall mean any liquid which has a  flash  point  of
  seventy  degrees  Fahrenheit,  or  less, as determined by a Tagliabue or
  equivalent closed cup test device.
2. a. No person engaged in the retail sale of flammable liquids  shall
  deliver  any  such liquids from bulk storage into portable containers of
  five gallons capacity or less unless the container is of sound metal  or
  other  unbreakable  material  construction,  has  a  tight  closure with
  screwed or spring cover and is fitted with a spout or so  designed  that
  the contents can be poured without spilling.
b. No person shall carry a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe, nor use a
  match  or  other  open flame while he is dispensing flammable liquids at
  retail sale from bulk storage.
3. No person engaged in the retail sale of kerosene shall deliver  any
  such  liquid  from bulk storage into portable containers of five gallons
  capacity or less unless  the  container  is  of  sound  metal  or  other
  unbreakable  material  construction, has a tight closure with screwed or
  spring cover, is fitted with a spout or so designed  that  the  contents
  can be poured without spilling, and is clearly and conspicuously labeled
  as containing kerosene.
4.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply to the sale,
  purchase or delivery of bona fide commercial packs of household products
  sold in the original sealed container as put up  for  package,  sale  or
  distribution  by the manufacturer or packager, including but not limited
  to packs of medicinals, beverages or food.
5. The provisions of this section shall not apply in cities  having  a
  population of one million or more.
6. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
  civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each violation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20 - Gas › 320 - Standard of Purity.

§  320.  Standard  of  purity.  The  gas  furnished or supplied by any
  corporation, association, partnership or  person  in  any  city  of  the
  second  class shall be free from sulphuretted hydrogen, to be determined
  by exposing for thirty seconds a slip  of  white  paper  saturated  with
  acetate  of  lead  to a jet of gas flowing about five feet per hour, and
  each one hundred cubic feet shall not contain more than  ten  grains  of
  ammonia nor twenty grains of sulphur.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20 - Gas › 321 - Standard of Illuminating Power.

§  321. Standard of illuminating power. The maximum illuminating power
  required and minimum illuminating power permitted of gas so furnished or
  supplied in any such city shall be as follows: If a  coal  gas,  sixteen
  candles;  if  a  mixed  coal  and  water gas, eighteen candles; and if a
  carburetted water gas, twenty candles.  A  candle  shall  mean  a  sperm
  candle,  six  to  a pound, burning at the rate of one hundred and twenty
  grains of spermaceti per hour. The test for illuminating power shall  be
  made with gas obtained from a service pipe or main located at a distance
  of  not less than one mile nor more than one and one-half miles from any
  distributing holder, using, for coal gas and mixed coal  and  water  gas
  containing  more  than  fifty per centum of coal gas an F Argand burner,
  and for mixed coal and water gas containing fifty per centum and less of
  coal gas and for carburetted water gas a number seven  slit  union  Bray
  burner, on a basis of consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20 - Gas › 322 - Standard of Pressure.

§  322. Standard of pressure. The minimum pressure of gas so furnished
  or supplied which shall be permitted in any service  main  in  any  such
  city  shall  be sufficient to balance a column of water one and one-half
  inches in height. The maximum  pressure  therein  allowed  shall  be  an
  amount  sufficient  to balance a column of water three and three-fourths
  inches in height, plus  an  allowance  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  for
  variation  of  each  one  hundred  feet  of  increase in altitude in the
  distributing system between the holder and  the  point  of  consumption,
  except that no maximum pressure shall be prescribed in service mains the
  pressure  of  gas from which is regulated by service governors, supplied
  and maintained without charge to consumers.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20 - Gas › 322-B - Explosives and Combustibles.

§  322-b.  Explosives and combustibles. 1. A person who makes or keeps
  gunpowder,  nitro-glycerine,  or  any  other  explosive  or  combustible
  material,  within  a  city or village, or carries such materials through
  the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited  by  law  or  by
  ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2.  A  person  who  manufactures gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine,
  liquid or compressed air or gases, except acetylene gas and other  gases
  used  for  illuminating  purposes,  naptha,  gasoline,  benzine  or  any
  explosive articles or compounds, or manufactures  ammunition,  fireworks
  or  other  articles  of  which  such substances are component parts in a
  cellar, room, or apartment  of  a  tenement  or  dwelling-house  or  any
  building  occupied in whole or in part by persons or families for living
  purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
3. And a person who, by the careless, negligent, or  unauthorized  use
  or  management  of  gunpowder  or other explosive substances, injures or
  occasions the injury of the person or property of another, is guilty  of
  a misdemeanor.
4.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall knowingly present, attempt to
  present, or cause to  be  presented  or  offered  for  shipment  to  any
  railroad,  steamboat,  steamship,  express  or  other company engaged as
  common carrier of  passengers  or  freight,  dynamite,  nitro-glycerine,
  powder  or other explosives dangerous to life or limb, without revealing
  the true nature of said explosives or substance so offered or  attempted
  to  be offered to the company or carrier to which it shall be presented,
  shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
5. Any person who, while engaged in the unauthorized  distillation  of
  any  liquid  containing  methyl  or  ethyl  alcohol,  causes injuries or
  occasions the injury of the person or property of another by  reason  of
  such distillation is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Nothing  in  this  section contained shall be construed to prohibit or
  forbid the manufacture and sale of sodawater, seltzer-water, ginger ale,
  carbonic or mineral water or the charging with liquid carbonic acid  gas
  of such waters or ordinary waters, or of beer, wines, ales or other malt
  and  vinous beverages in such cellar, room or apartment of a tenement or
  dwelling-house, or any building occupied in whole or in part by  persons
  or families for living purposes.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20 - Gas › 322-C - Gas Space Heating Appliances to Be Equipped With Back Draft Diverters and Automatic Shutoff Devices.

§  322-c.  Gas space heating appliances to be equipped with back draft
  diverters and automatic  shutoff  devices.  On  and  after  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-five  it  shall  be  unlawful to manufacture or
  assemble, or to sell or offer for sale, or to install, use  or  maintain
  in  any  building  used  or  occupied  as a residence, any space heating
  appliance  using  natural  and/or  manufactured  gas  fuel  unless  such
  appliance  is  equipped  with  (a)  a  back draft diverter with vents of
  sufficient capacity to permit the discharge  of  combustion  gases  away
  from the burning gas, except where such appliance (i) is provided with a
  sealed  combustion  chamber  directly  vented to the outside, or (ii) is
  listed by an accredited third party agency as an unvented  appliance  in
  compliance with American National Standard Z21.11.2 and meets or exceeds
  standards  established  by  rules and regulations promulgated, and which
  may be periodically amended, by the department of health and approved by
  the state  fire  prevention  and  building  code  council,  and  (b)  an
  automatic  shutoff  device  to  prevent  the flow of gas if the flame or
  pilot light, thereof is extinguished; provided,  however,  that  nothing
  contained  herein  shall  be  construed  as  repealing  or in any manner
  limiting,  restricting  or  diminishing  any  power  conferred  by   any
  provision  of  law  upon  any city having a population of one million or
  more, or any body, agency or officer thereof, to enact  or  adopt  local
  laws,  ordinances,  other  local  enactments  or  rules  or  regulations
  relating in any manner to gas space heating appliances, so long as  such
  local  laws,  ordinances,  enactments, rules or regulations in so far as
  the same relate to the subject matter of  this  section,  are  not  less
  restrictive  than  the  provisions of this section.   A violation of the
  provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20-A - Petroleum Well Casings and Pipes › 324 - Definitions.

§  324. Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to
  in this article, shall have the following meanings:
1. "Petroleum" shall mean oil or petroleum of any kind and in any form
  including, but not limited to, oil,  petroleum,  fuel  oil,  crude  oil,
  petroleum  mixed  with  one  or  more  other  substances,  gasoline  and
  kerosene.
2. "Petroleum well casings and pipes" shall mean  those  well  casings
  and  pipes  which  were  at any time used to convey or transport therein
  petroleum.
3. "Consumer" shall mean a person who purchases well casings and pipes
  for personal, family or household purposes.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20-A - Petroleum Well Casings and Pipes › 325 - Prohibiting the Use of Petroleum Well Casings and Pipes for Transporting Potable Water.

§  325.  Prohibiting  the  use of petroleum well casings and pipes for
  transporting potable water. No person shall construct a water well which
  is to be used to convey  or  transport  a  potable  water  supply  using
  petroleum well casings and pipes.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20-A - Petroleum Well Casings and Pipes › 326 - Private Right of Action.

§  326.  Private right of action. A consumer injured by a violation of
  this section may bring an action to recover  damages.  Judgment  may  be
  entered  for  three  times  the actual damages suffered by a consumer or
  five hundred dollars, whichever is  greater.  A  court  may  also  award
  attorneys' fees to a prevailing plaintiff consumer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 20-A - Petroleum Well Casings and Pipes › 327 - Violations.

§  327.  Violations.  1.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any of the
  provisions of this article shall be subject to a civil  penalty  not  to
  exceed one thousand dollars.
2.   Upon  any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  article,  an
  application may be made by the attorney  general  in  the  name  of  the
  people  of  the  state  of  New  York  to  a  court  or  justice  having
  jurisdiction to issue an injunction and upon notice to the defendant  of
  not  less  than five days, to enjoin and restrain the continuance of the
  violation. If it shall appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court  or
  justice  that the defendant has violated this section, an injunction may
  be issued by the court or justice, enjoining and restraining any further
  violation, without requiring proof that any person has,  in  fact,  been
  injured  or  damaged thereby. In any such proceeding, the court may make
  allowances to the attorney general  as  provided  in  paragraph  six  of
  subdivision  (a)  of  section  eight thousand three hundred three of the
  civil practice law and rules, and direct restitution.
In connection  with  an  application  made  under  this  section,  the
  attorney general is authorized to take proof and to make a determination
  of  the  relevant  facts  and  to issue subpoenas in accordance with the
  civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 330 - Publication of Owner's Name.

§  330.  Publication  of owner's name. 1. Every newspaper, magazine or
  other periodically printed publication published in  this  state,  shall
  publish  in every copy of every issue, upon the editorial page or in one
  of the first four pages of the publication, the full name and address of
  the owner, owners, proprietor or proprietors of such publication; and if
  said publication shall be owned or published by a corporation, then  the
  name  of  the  corporation  and  the  address  of its principal place of
  business shall be published, together with the full names and  addresses
  of  the  president,  secretary  and  treasurer  thereof; and if the said
  publication shall be  owned  or  published  by  a  partnership,  limited
  partnership, or an unincorporated joint stock association, then the full
  names  and  addresses  of the partners, or officers and managers of said
  partnership,   limited   partnership   or   unincorporated   joint-stock
  association  shall  be  published  in  like  manner.  The representative
  capacities of those named shall be indicated in like manner.
2. Every publication  printed  or  reprinted  after  September  first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-three  which is so composed or illustrated as a
  whole as to be devoted to  the  description  or  portrayal  of  bondage,
  sadism,  masochism  or other sexual perversion or to the exploitation of
  sex or nudity and published  in  this  state  shall  conspicuously  have
  imprinted  on  the  cover, title, or copyright page or at the end of the
  publication the true name and address of the publisher or printer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 331 - Penalty for Failing to Publish.

§  331.  Penalty  for  failing to publish. 1. Any person, partnership,
  limited   partnership,   unincorporated   joint-stock   association   or
  corporation  publishing in the state of New York, a newspaper, magazine,
  book, pamphlet or any other  periodical  or  printed  publication  which
  omits,  fails  or  neglects to carry out the provisions of the preceding
  section shall be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  for  each  issue  of  such
  publication  over  which  such  neglect or failure so to do extends; and
  upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars
  nor more than five hundred dollars.
2. Whenever such publications are  discovered  and  the  identity  and
  address  of  neither  the  owner,  the  proprietor, the publisher or the
  printer appears as required by this article and  cannot  be  ascertained
  after  reasonable diligence, then upon a verified application of a peace
  officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or of any police officer
  showing such circumstances, a magistrate, may issue an  order  directing
  that such publications be seized and destroyed by such officer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 332 - Penalty for False Statement.

§  332.  Penalty for false statement. Any person, partnership, limited
  partnership,  unincorporated  joint-stock  association  or   corporation
  causing  or  knowingly  permitting his, their or its name or names to be
  published in such manner as to indicate or denote that he, they or it is
  or are the publisher or publishers of a publication such as specified in
  section three hundred and thirty of this  article,  and  not  indicating
  truly,  shall  be  liable  to  the  same extent as the real publisher or
  publishers would be in any suit for damages involving  such  publication
  in  the subject-matter thereof brought against such person, partnership,
  limited   partnership,   unincorporated   joint-stock   association   or
  corporation  as the publisher or publishers, or as the alleged publisher
  or publishers of such publication.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 333 - Contracts With Sunday Papers.

§  333.  Contracts  with Sunday papers. All contracts or agreements of
  any nature made with the publishers or proprietors of any  paper  dated,
  published  or  issued  on  the  first day of the week shall be as valid,
  legal and binding, as contracts made with newspapers dated or  published
  on any other day of the week.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 334 - Misrepresentation of Circulation of Newspapers or Periodicals.

§  334. Misrepresentation of circulation of newspapers or periodicals.
  Every proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodicals who  shall
  wilfully  or knowingly misrepresent the circulation of such newspaper or
  periodical for the purpose of securing advertising  or  other  patronage
  shall be deemed guilty of a misdemanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 335 - Inserting Unauthorized Advertisement in Newspapers and Magazines.

§   335.   Inserting  unauthorized  advertisement  in  newspapers  and
  magazines. Any person who, with intent to profit, directly or indirectly
  thereby, places or causes or produces an advertisement to be  placed  in
  or  affixes  or causes the same to be affixed to a newspaper without the
  consent  of  the  publisher  of  said  newspaper;  or  who  directly  or
  indirectly places or causes or procures an advertisement to be placed in
  or  affixes or causes the same to be affixed to a magazine or periodical
  without the consent of the publisher of such magazine or periodical, and
  in a way calculated to lead the readers thereof  to  believe  that  such
  advertisement   was  circulated  by  such  publisher,  is  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor.
The placing of an advertisement,  notice,  circular,  pamphlet,  card,
  hand  bill,  printed  notice of any kind in or the affixing thereof to a
  newspaper, magazine, or periodical  is  presumptive  evidence  that  the
  person  or  persons  or  corporation or corporations whose name or names
  appear thereon as proprietor, advertiser, vendor, or exhibitor, or whose
  goods, wares, and merchandise are advertised therein, caused or procured
  the same to be so placed or affixed with intent to profit thereby.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 336 - Telephone Directory to Contain Certain Notice.

§  336.  Telephone  directory  to  contain  certain  notice.  1. Every
  telephone directory hereafter distributed to the members of the  general
  public  in  this state or in any portion thereof which lists the calling
  numbers of telephones of any telephone exchange located  in  this  state
  shall  contain  a  notice  which  explains  the  offense  of "unlawfully
  refusing to yield a party line" provided for  in  the  penal  law,  such
  notice to be printed in type which is not smaller than any other type on
  the  same  page and to be preceded by the word "warning" printed in type
  at least as large as the largest type on the same page:  provided,  that
  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall not apply to those directories
  distributed solely for business advertising purposes, commonly known  as
  classified  directories,  nor  to  any  telephone  directory  heretofore
  distributed to the general  public.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation
  providing   telephone   service   which  distributes  or  causes  to  be
  distributed in this state copies  of  a  telephone  directory  which  is
  subject  to  the provisions of this subdivision and which do not contain
  the notice herein provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Every telephone directory hereafter distributed by or on behalf  of
  a person, firm or corporation providing telephone service to the members
  of  the  general  public  in  this state or in any portion thereof which
  lists the calling numbers  of  telephones,  of  any  telephone  exchange
  located  in  this  state  shall  contain  a  notice,  in  clear, concise
  language, which will direct the consumer to call the business office for
  information pertaining to the costs of all available  local  residential
  telephone services. The notice shall include the telephone number of the
  local business office.
3.  Every telephone directory hereafter distributed by or on behalf of
  a person, firm or corporation providing telephone service to the members
  of the general public in this state or  in  any  portion  thereof  which
  lists  the  calling  numbers  of  telephones,  of any telephone exchange
  located in this  state,  shall  contain  a  notice,  in  clear,  concise
  language  in a prominent place in such directory, informing the consumer
  of all available local residential telephone services.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 336-A - Telephone Corporation; Coin Operated Telephones Implementation of System to Call an Operator Without Use of Coins; Rules and Regulations of Public Ser

§    336-a.    Telephone   corporation;   coin   operated   telephones
  implementation of system to call an operator without use of coins; rules
  and  regulations  of  public  service  commission.  1.   All   telephone
  corporations  doing  business  in  this  state  and  providing  coin pay
  telephones shall implement a system whereby calls may  be  made  to  the
  operator without charge and without requiring the insertion of any coins
  into   such   pay  telephone  pursuant  to  the  rules  and  regulations
  promulgated by the public service commission in the manner provided  for
  in subdivision two of this section.
2.   The  public  service  commission  shall  establish,  by  rule  or
  regulation, the effective date for implementing the system  mandated  in
  subdivision  one  of  this  section.  Such  rules  and regulations shall
  further provide for the method and manner of implementing  such  system.
  Such  rules and regulations shall be promulgated not later than one year
  next succeeding the effective date of this section. Notwithstanding  the
  immediately  preceding  sentence,  the  public  service commission shall
  forward copies of the final draft of such rules and regulations  to  the
  governor  and  the  legislature,  at  least forty-five days prior to the
  proposed effective date of such rules and regulations. In no event shall
  such forwarding be made later than the two hundred seventieth  day  next
  succeeding the effective date of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 336-B - Public Pay Telephone Volume Controls.

* §  336-b.  Public  pay  telephone volume controls. 1. Each telephone
  corporation doing business in  this  state  which  provides  public  pay
  telephones,  including  those  owners  or  providers  of  customer owned
  currency  operated  telephones  (COCOT's),  shall   provide   at   least
  twenty-five  percent  of its public pay telephones installed on or after
  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three  with  volume   control
  equipment  to  enable  deaf  or  hard  of  hearing persons to access and
  utilize telecommunications services. The telephones with volume  control
  equipment  shall  be  distributed evenly among the public pay telephones
  provided by the corporation. Each public pay  telephone  with  a  volume
  control  shall  have signage either on the telephone or in the immediate
  vicinity thereof, identifying that telephone as being  equipped  with  a
  deaf or hard of hearing volume control.
2.  Whenever  more than two public pay telephones are installed within
  fifty feet of each other then at  least  one  such  telephone  shall  be
  equipped with volume control equipment.
3. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all buildings
  or facilities constructed for public use.
4. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the
  following meanings:
a. "Building  or facility" shall mean all or any portion of buildings,
  structures, equipment, roads, walks,  parking  lots,  parks,  sites,  or
  other real property or interest in such property;
b. "Public  use"  shall mean any interior and exterior rooms or spaces
  made available to the general public. Public use may be  provided  at  a
  building or facility that is privately or publicly owned;
c. "Signage"  shall mean the display of written, symbolic, tactile, or
  pictorial information.
* NB There are 2 § 336-b's
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21 - Publications › 337 - Advertising to Procure Divorces.

§  337.  Advertising  to  procure divorces. Whoever prints, publishes,
  distributes  or  circulates,  or  causes  to  be   printed,   published,
  distributed  or  circulated  any  circular,  pamphlet,  card, hand bill,
  advertisement, printed paper, book, newspaper  or  notice  of  any  kind
  offering  to advise on laws of any foreign state, nation or jurisdiction
  for the express purpose of procuring or aiding in procuring any divorce,
  severance, dissolution, or annulment or any  marriage,  or  offering  to
  procure   or  to  aid  in  procuring  any  divorce,  or  the  severance,
  dissolution, or annulment of any marriage, or offering to engage, appear
  or act as attorney or counsel in any suit for alimony or divorce or  the
  severance,  dissolution  or  annulment  of  any marriage, either in this
  state or elsewhere, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section  shall  not
  apply  to  the  printing  or  publishing  of any notice or advertisement
  required or authorized by any law of this state.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339 - Reporting or Publishing Fictitious Transactions in Securities.

§  339. Reporting or publishing fictitious transactions in securities.
  A person who, with intent to deceive, reports or publishes, or causes to
  be reported or published as a purchase or sale of the stocks,  bonds  or
  other  evidences  of  debt of a corporation, company or association, any
  transaction therein, whereby no actual change of ownership  or  interest
  is effected, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-A - False Statement or Advertisement as to Securities.

§  339-a.  False  statement  or  advertisement  as  to securities. Any
  person, who, with intent to deceive,  makes,  issues  or  publishes,  or
  causes  to  be made, issued or published, any statement or advertisement
  as to the value or as to facts affecting the value of the stocks,  bonds
  or  other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or association, or
  as to the financial condition or facts affecting the financial condition
  of any corporation, company or association which has issued, is  issuing
  or  is  about to issue stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt, and who
  knows,  or  has  reasonable  ground  to  believe   that   any   material
  representation,   prediction  or  promise  made  in  such  statement  or
  advertisement is false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-B - Manipulation of Prices of Securities.

§  339-b.  Manipulation  of  prices  of  securities.  Any  person, who
  inflates, depresses, or causes fluctuations in, or attempts to  inflate,
  depress  or  cause  fluctuations  in,  or combines or conspires with any
  other person or persons to inflate, depress or  cause  fluctuations  in,
  the  market  prices of the stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of a
  corporation, company or association, or of an issue or any  part  of  an
  issue of the stock, bonds or evidences of debt of a corporation, company
  or association, by means of pretended purchases and sales thereof, or by
  any  other fictitious transactions or devices, for or on account of such
  person or of any other person, or for or on account of  the  persons  so
  combining   or  conspiring,  whereby  either  in  whole  or  in  part  a
  simultaneous change of ownership or of interest in such stocks, bonds or
  evidences of debt, or of such issue or part of an issue thereof, is  not
  effected,  is  guilty  of a misdemeanor. A pretended purchase or sale of
  any such stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt whereby, in  whole  or
  in  part,  no  simultaneous  change  of ownership or interest therein is
  effected, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this section
  by the person  or  persons  taking  part  in  the  transaction  of  such
  pretended purchase or sale.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-C - Trading by Brokers Against Customers' Orders.

§ 339-c. Trading by brokers against customers' orders.  A broker, who,
  being  employed  by  a customer to buy and carry upon margin the stocks,
  bonds  or  other  evidences  of  debt  of  a  corporation,  company   or
  association, while acting as broker for such customer in respect of such
  stocks,  bonds or other evidences of debt, sells for his own account the
  same kind or issue of stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt  of  such
  corporation,  company  or  association, with intent to trade against the
  customer's order, or, who, being employed by  a  customer  to  sell  the
  stocks,  bonds  or  other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or
  association, while acting as broker for such customer in respect to  the
  sale of such stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt, purchases for his
  own account the same kind or issue of stock, bonds or other evidences of
  debt  of  such corporation, company or association, with intent to trade
  against the customer's order, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-D - Transactions by Brokers and Dealers After Insolvency.

§  339-d.  Transactions  by brokers and dealers after insolvency.  Any
  person, firm, association or corporation  engaged  in  the  business  of
  purchasing  and  selling  as  broker  or  dealer, stocks, bonds or other
  evidences of  debt  of  corporations,  companies  or  associations  who,
  knowing  that he or it is insolvent, accepts or receives from a customer
  ignorant of such broker's or dealer's insolvency, money,  stocks,  bonds
  or  other  evidences of debt belonging to the customer otherwise than in
  liquidation of, or as security for, an existing indebtedness, is  guilty
  of  a misdemeanor. Any person, firm, association or corporation shall be
  deemed insolvent  within  the  meaning  of  this  section  whenever  the
  aggregate  of  his  or  its  property shall not, at a fair valuation, be
  sufficient in amount to pay his or its debts.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-E - Hypothecation of Customer's Securities.

§  339-e.  Hypothecation  of  customer's securities. Any person, firm,
  association or corporation engaged in the  business  of  purchasing  and
  selling  as  a broker or dealer stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt
  of corporations, companies or associations, who
1. Having in his or its possession, for  safe  keeping  or  otherwise,
  stocks,  bonds  or  other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or
  association belonging to a customer, without having any lien thereon  or
  any  special  property therein, pledges or disposes thereof without such
  customer's consent; or
2. Having in his or its possession stocks, bonds or other evidences of
  debt of a corporation, company or association belonging to a customer on
  which he or it has a lien for indebtedness due  to  him  or  it  by  the
  customer,  pledges  the  same  for more than the amount due to him or it
  thereon, or otherwise disposes thereof  for  his  or  its  own  benefit,
  without  the  customer's  consent,  and  without  having  in  his or its
  possession or subject to his or its  control,  stocks,  bonds  or  other
  evidences  of  debt of the kind and amount to which the customer is then
  entitled, for delivery to him upon his demand therefor and tender of the
  amount due thereon, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 21-A - Fraudulent Transactions in Securities › 339-F - Delivery to Customers of Memoranda of Transactions by Brokers.

§  339-f.  Delivery  to  customers  of  memoranda  of  transactions by
  brokers. A person engaged in the business of purchasing  or  selling  as
  broker  stocks,  bonds  and  other  evidences  of  debt of corporations,
  companies or associations shall deliver to each customer on whose behalf
  a purchase or sale of such securities is made  by  him  a  statement  or
  memorandum  of  such  purchase  or sale, a description of the securities
  purchased or sold, the name of the person, firm or corporation from whom
  such securities were purchased, or to which the same were sold, and  the
  day,  and  the hours between which the transaction took place.  A broker
  who refuses to deliver such statement or memorandum to a customer within
  twenty-four hours after a written demand therefor,  or  who  delivers  a
  statement  or  memorandum  which  is  false  in any material respect, is
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 22 - Monopolies › 340-A - Monies Recovered.

§  340-a.  Monies  recovered. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
  all monies recovered or obtained under this article by a state agency or
  state official or employee acting in their official  capacity  shall  be
  subject to subdivision eleven of section four of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 22 - Monopolies › 341 - Penalty.

§  341.  Penalty. Every person or corporation, or any officer or agent
  thereof, who shall make or attempt  to  make  or  enter  into  any  such
  contract, agreement, arrangement or combination or who within this state
  shall do any act pursuant thereto, or in, toward or for the consummation
  thereof,  wherever  the  same may have been made, is guilty of a class E
  felony, and on  conviction  thereof  shall,  if  a  natural  person,  be
  punished  by  a  fine  not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, or by
  imprisonment for not longer than four years, or by both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment;  and  if  a  corporation,  by  a fine of not exceeding one
  million dollars. An indictment or information based on  a  violation  of
  any  of  the provisions of this section must be found within three years
  after its commission. No criminal proceeding barred by prior  limitation
  shall be revived by this act.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 22 - Monopolies › 342 - Action to Restrain and Prevent.

§ 342. Action to restrain and prevent.  The attorney-general may bring
  an  action  in the name and in behalf of the people of the state against
  any person, trustee, director, manager or other officer or  agent  of  a
  corporation,  or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to restrain
  and prevent the doing in this state of any act  herein  declared  to  be
  illegal,  or any act in, toward or for the making or consummation of any
  contract,  agreement,  arrangement  or  combination  herein  prohibited,
  wherever  the same may have been made.  In such an action, the court may
  award to the plaintiff a sum not in excess of twenty thousand dollars as
  an additional allowance.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 22 - Monopolies › 342-A - Recovery of Civil Penalty by Attorney-General.

§ 342-a. Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general. In lieu of any
  penalty  otherwise  prescribed  for  a  violation of a provision of this
  article and in addition to an action pursuant to section  three  hundred
  forty-two  of  this article, the attorney-general may bring an action in
  the name and in behalf of the people of the state  against  any  person,
  trustee,  director,  manager or other officer or agent of a corporation,
  or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to recover a  penalty  in
  the sum specified in section three hundred forty-one of this article for
  the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be illegal, or any
  act  in,  toward  or  for  the  making  or consummation of any contract,
  agreement, arrangement or combination herein  prohibited,  wherever  the
  same  may  have been made. The action must be brought within three years
  after the commission of the act upon which it is based.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 22 - Monopolies › 342-B - Recovery of Damages by Attorney General.

§  342-b.  Recovery  of  damages  by  attorney general. In addition to
  existing statutory authority to bring such  actions  on  behalf  of  the
  state and public authorities, the attorney general may also bring action
  on  behalf of any political subdivision or public authority of the state
  upon the request of such political subdivision or  public  authority  to
  recover  damages  for  violations of section three hundred forty of this
  article,  or  to  recover  damages  provided  for  by  federal  law  for
  violations  of  the  federal  antitrust  laws.  In  any class action the
  attorney general may bring on  behalf  of  these  or  other  subordinate
  governmental   entities,   any   governmental   entity   that  does  not
  affirmatively exclude itself from the action, upon due  notice  thereof,
  shall be deemed to have requested to be treated as a member of the class
  represented  in  that  action.    The attorney general, on behalf of the
  state of New York, shall be entitled to retain from any moneys recovered
  in such actions the costs and expenses of such services.