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2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 25 - Public Holiday, Saturday or Sunday in Contractual Obligations; Extension of Time Where Performance of Act Authorized or Required by Contract Is Due On

§  25.  Public holiday, Saturday or Sunday in contractual obligations;
  extension of time where performance of act  authorized  or  required  by
  contract  is  due  on  Saturday,  Sunday  or  public holiday. 1. Where a
  contract by its terms authorizes or requires the payment of money or the
  performance of a condition on a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday, or
  authorizes or requires the payment of money  or  the  performance  of  a
  condition  within  or  before  or after a period of time computed from a
  certain day, and such period of time ends on a  Saturday,  Sunday  or  a
  public  holiday,  unless the contract expressly or impliedly indicates a
  different intent, such payment may be made or condition performed on the
  next succeeding business day, and if the  period  ends  at  a  specified
  hour,  such payment may be made or condition performed, at or before the
  same hour of such next succeeding business day, with the same force  and
  effect  as  if  made  or  performed  in accordance with the terms of the
  contract.
2. Where time is extended by virtue of the provisions of this section,
  such extended time shall not be included in the computation of  interest
  unless  the  contract  so  provides,  except  that  when  the  period is
  specified as a number of months, such extended time shall be included in
  the computation of interest unless the contract otherwise provides.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all time  deposits  and
  certificates  of  deposit  of  banking  organizations  that  mature on a
  Saturday, Sunday or bank holiday shall continue to  accrue  interest  at
  the same rate fixed for the term of the deposit or certificate until the
  first  banking  day  next  succeeding the date of maturity, at which the
  principal and all accrued  interest  may  be  withdrawn,  unless  sooner
  withdrawn by the depositor.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 25-A - Public Holiday, Saturday or Sunday in Statutes; Extension of Time Where Performance of Act Is Due on Saturday, Sunday or Public Holiday.

§  25-a.  Public holiday, Saturday or Sunday in statutes; extension of
  time where performance of act is  due  on  Saturday,  Sunday  or  public
  holiday. 1. When any period of time, computed from a certain day, within
  which or after which or before which an act is authorized or required to
  be done, ends on a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday, such act may be
  done  on  the  next  succeeding business day and if the period ends at a
  specified hour, such act may be done at or before the same hour of  such
  next  succeeding  business  day,  except  that  where  a  period of time
  specified by contract ends on a Saturday, Sunday or  a  public  holiday,
  the  extension of such period is governed by section twenty-five of this
  chapter.
2. Where time is extended by virtue of the provisions of this section,
  such extended time shall not be included in the computation of interest,
  except that when the period is specified as a  number  of  months,  such
  extended time shall be included in the computation of interest.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 25-C - Investment in Bond and Mortgage or Note and Mortgage.

§  25-c.  Investment  in  bond and mortgage or note and mortgage.  The
  term bond and mortgage or the term note and mortgage  as  heretofore  or
  hereafter  used in any statute which prescribes or authorizes investment
  therein, with or without a specified ratio of  real  property  security,
  shall  be deemed to include a share or part of a bond and mortgage or of
  a note and mortgage, as the case may be, prior  in  lien  to  all  other
  shares  and  parts thereof and, for all purposes in connection with such
  an investment in a share or part, any specified ratio of  real  property
  security  shall  be  determined  on  the basis of the investment in such
  share or part.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 26 - Judge.

§  26.  Judge.  The  term  "judge"  includes  every  judicial  officer
  authorized, alone or with others, to hold or preside  over  a  court  of
  record.  It  also includes a justice, surrogate, recorder, Town Justice,
  Village Justice, City Justice or other judicial  officer  authorized  or
  required  to  act  or  prohibited  from acting in or with respect to the
  matter or thing referred to in the provision wherein that word is used.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 26-B - Just Compensation as Including Loss of Mortgage Financing.

§  26-b.  Just  compensation  as including loss of mortgage financing.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, whenever property is
  taken pursuant to the  power  of  eminent  domain  (whether  denominated
  condemnation,  appropriation or otherwise) just compensation required by
  the state constitution shall include an amount sufficient to  compensate
  for  the  loss  of existing mortgage financing if such property was used
  prior to taking primarily as a residence however, such amount shall  not
  exceed  fifteen  thousand dollars. In computing the amount of such loss,
  the following shall be considered: (a) the difference  in  the  interest
  rate  payable  on the existing mortgage from that prevailing at the date
  of taking in the area where the property is  located  for  new  mortgage
  loans  on similar types of property to similar borrowers; (b) the length
  of time from the  date  of  taking  to  the  maturity  of  the  existing
  mortgage,  and (c) the prevailing costs to similar mortgage borrowers on
  similar types of property at the date of taking in the  area  where  the
  property  is  located of obtaining and closing a new mortgage loan in an
  amount equal to the unpaid principal balance of the existing mortgage.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 27 - Last, Preceding, Next and Following.

§  27. Last, preceding, next and following. A reference to the last or
  preceding section, or other provision of a statute, means the section or
  other division immediately preceding, and a reference  to  the  next  or
  following  section  or  other division of a statute means the section or
  other division immediately following.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 28 - Mental Disability, Mental Illness, Developmental Disability, Addictive Disorder and Addiction Disorder.

§  28.  Mental  disability,  mental illness, developmental disability,
  addictive disorder and addiction disorder. The terms mental  disability,
  mental   illness,   developmental  disability,  addictive  disorder  and
  addiction disorder shall have the  same  meaning  as  they  are  defined
  pursuant to section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 28-A - Mandate.

§  28-a.  Mandate. "Mandate" includes a writ, process or other written
  direction, issued pursuant to law, out of a court, or made  pursuant  to
  law,  by  a  court,  a judge or person acting as a judicial officer, and
  commanding a court, board or other body, or an officer or other  person,
  named or otherwise designated therein, to do or to refrain from doing an
  act therein specified.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 28-C - Down's Syndrome.

§  28-c.  Down's  syndrome. 1. On and after the effective date of this
  section, the term "mongolism" or "mongoloid" used as a synonym  for  the
  genetic  disorder  known as Down's syndrome shall not be utilized in any
  statute,  local  law,  ordinance,  charter,  or   rule   or   regulation
  promulgated  or  any publication published by the state or any political
  subdivision thereof, and the term, Down's syndrome,  shall  be  used  in
  place  of  "mongolism"  or  "mongoloid"  when  referring to such genetic
  disorder.
2. Wherever the term "mongolism" or "mongoloid" appears  in  any  such
  statute,  local  law,  ordinance,  charter  or  rule  or  regulation  or
  publication enacted, promulgated or published  prior  to  the  effective
  date  of  this section such term shall be deemed to refer to the genetic
  disorder known as Down's syndrome.
3. Whenever  the  term  "mongolism"  or  "mongoloid"  appears  in  any
  publication  of the state or any political subdivision thereof published
  prior to the effective date of this section which is to  be  republished
  on   or   after   January   first,   nineteen  hundred  eighty-one  such
  republication shall be made only after such terms are deleted.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 30 - Month, Computation.

§ 30. Month, computation. A number of months after or before a certain
  day  shall  be  computed by counting such number of calendar months from
  such day, exclusive of the calendar month in which such day occurs,  and
  shall  include  the day of the month in the last month so counted having
  the same numerical order in days of the month as the day from which  the
  computation  is made, unless there be not so many days in the last month
  so counted, in which case the period computed shall expire with the last
  day of the month so counted.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 31 - Month in Statute, Contract and Public or Private Instrument.

§ 31. Month in statute, contract and public or private instrument.  In
  a  statute,  contract  or public or private instrument, unless otherwise
  provided in such contract or instrument or by law, the term month  means
  a calendar month and not a lunar month.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 32 - Municipal Officers.

§  32.  Municipal  officers.  A  reference  to  several  officers of a
  municipal corporation holding the same office, or to  a  board  of  such
  officers,  shall  be  deemed to refer to the single officer holding such
  office, when but one person is chosen to fill such office  in  pursuance
  of law.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 34 - Now.

§  34.  Now.  The  term now in any provision of a statute referring to
  other laws in force, or to  persons  in  office,  or  to  any  facts  or
  circumstances  as  existing,  relates  to  the  laws in force, or to the
  person  in  office,  or  to  the  facts   or   circumstances   existing,
  respectively, immediately before the taking effect of such provision.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 36 - Oath, Affidavit and Swear.

§  36. Oath, affidavit and swear. The terms oath and affidavit include
  every mode authorized by law of attesting the truth  of  that  which  is
  stated.  The  term  swear  includes  every  mode  authorized  by law for
  administering an oath.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 37 - Person.

§ 37. Person. The term person includes a corporation and a joint-stock
  association.    When used to designate a party whose property may be the
  subject of any offense, the term person also includes the state, or  any
  other  state,  government  or country which may lawfully own property in
  the state.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 37-B - Population.

§  37-b.  Population.  1. The term population when used in relation to
  this state, or a municipality or other subdivision thereof, or a portion
  of such a municipality or subdivision, shall, unless otherwise  provided
  in  relation to such use, mean population as shown by the latest federal
  census published as a final population count by the United States bureau
  of the census.
2. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the  term  population  when
  used  in  relation  to  payments  of aid or assistance by the state to a
  municipality or other subdivision thereof shall mean population as shown
  by the  latest  federal  census  of  such  municipality  or  subdivision
  published as a final population count by the United States bureau of the
  census  prior  to the commencement of the state fiscal year during which
  such aid or assistance is payable.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 39 - Property, Personal.

§   39.  Property,  personal.  The  term  personal  property  includes
  chattels,  money,  things  in  action,  and  all   written   instruments
  themselves,  as distinguished from the rights or interests to which they
  relate, by which any right, interest, lien or incumbrance in, to or upon
  property, or any debt or financial obligation is created,  acknowledged,
  evidenced,  transferred,  discharged or defeated, wholly or in part, and
  everything, except real property, which may be the subject of ownership.
Oil wells and all  fixtures  connected  therewith,  situate  on  lands
  leased  for oil purposes and oil interests, and rights held under and by
  virtue of any lease or contract or other right or license to operate for
  or produce petroleum oil, shall be  deemed  personal  property  for  all
  purposes except taxation.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 41 - Quorum and Majority.

§  41. Quorum and majority. Whenever three or more public officers are
  given any power or authority, or three or more persons are charged  with
  any  public  duty  to  be performed or exercised by them jointly or as a
  board or similar body, a majority of the whole number of such persons or
  officers, gathered together in the presence of each other or through the
  use of videoconferencing, at a meeting duly held at a time fixed by law,
  or by any by-law duly adopted by such board or  body,  or  at  any  duly
  adjourned  meeting  of  such  meeting,  or at any meeting duly held upon
  reasonable notice to all of them, shall constitute a quorum and not less
  than a majority of the whole number may perform and exercise such power,
  authority or duty. For the purpose of this provision  the  words  "whole
  number"  shall  be  construed  to mean the total number which the board,
  commission, body or other group of persons or officers would  have  were
  there no vacancies and were none of the persons or officers disqualified
  from acting.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 41-A - Recital in Record of Meeting as Evidence.

§  41-a.  Recital  in  record of meeting as evidence. A recital in any
  order, resolution or  other  record  of  any  proceeding  of  a  meeting
  referred  to  in section forty-one of this chapter that such meeting had
  been held or adjourned as provided in said section, or that it had  been
  held  upon  notice  to  the members, as therein provided, is prima facie
  evidence thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 42 - Register of County.

§  42.  Register  of  county.  Any act done in pursuance of law by the
  register of a county shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  compliance  with  any
  provision  of  law  authorizing  or requiring such act to be done by the
  county clerk of such  county,  and  any  instrument  or  writing  filed,
  entered or recorded in pursuance of law in the office of a register of a
  county,  shall  be  deemed  to be a compliance with any provision of law
  authorizing or requiring such paper to be filed, entered or recorded, as
  the case may be, in the office of the clerk of  such  county.  The  term
  county  clerk  when  used in relation to conveyances of real property or
  the filing or recording of instruments which are or may be filed in  the
  office  of  the register of a county, shall include the register of each
  county in which there is a register.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 43 - Seal of Court, Public Officer or Corporation.

§ 43. Seal of court, public officer or corporation. A seal of a court,
  public  officer  or  corporation  may  be  impressed  directly  upon the
  instrument or writing to be sealed, or upon wafer, wax or other adhesive
  substance affixed thereto, or upon paper,  or  other  similar  substance
  affixed  thereto  by mucilage or other adhesive substance, or may appear
  as a facsimile, or be engraved or printed or  reproduced  in  any  other
  manner.    A  seal  of  a  corporation  upon  a  corporate bond or other
  corporate obligation for the  payment  of  money  may  be  a  facsimile,
  engraved or printed.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 44 - Seal, Private.

§  44.  Seal,  private.  The  private  seal  of a person, other than a
  corporation, to any instrument or writing shall consist of a wafer,  wax
  or  other  similar  adhesive  substance  affixed thereto, or of paper or
  other similar substance affixed thereto, by mucilage or  other  adhesive
  substance,  or  of  the word "seal," or the letters "L.S.," opposite the
  signature.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 44-A - Seal on Written Instrument.

§  44-a.  Seal  on  written  instrument. Except as otherwise expressly
  provided by statute, the presence or absence of a seal  upon  a  written
  instrument   executed   after   August  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred
  forty-one shall be without legal effect.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 45 - Seal, Private as Corporate Seal.

§  45.  Seal, private as corporate seal. An instrument or writing duly
  executed, in the corporate name of a corporation, which shall  not  have
  adopted  a  corporate  seal,  by  the proper officers of the corporation
  under their private seals, shall be deemed to have been  executed  under
  the corporate seal.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 46 - Signature.

§  46.  Signature. The term signature includes any memorandum, mark or
  sign, written, printed, stamped,  photographed,  engraved  or  otherwise
  placed  upon  any  instrument  or  writing  with  intent  to  execute or
  authenticate such instrument or writing.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 47-A - Superintendent of Schools.

§  47-a.  Superintendent  of  schools.  The  term  "superintendent  of
  schools" shall mean the chief school officer of a school district  other
  than  the  city  school  district of the city of New York or a community
  school district therein.  Except for purposes of  section  one  thousand
  seven  hundred  eleven  of  the education law, any reference in any law,
  ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, proceeding, process,  notice,
  order,  decree,  judgement,  record or other public document or paper to
  the terms "district principal", "supervising principal" or "principal of
  the district" shall be deemed to mean "superintendent of schools".
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 50 - Time, Computation.

§  50.  Time,  computation. Time shall continue to be computed in this
  state according to the Gregorian or new style. The  first  day  of  each
  year  after the year seventeen hundred and fifty-two is the first day of
  January, according to such style.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 52 - Time, Standard.

§  52.  Time,  standard. 1. The standard time throughout this state is
  that of the seventy-fifth meridian of  longitude  west  from  Greenwich,
  except  as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and
  legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby.
2. At two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in  April  of  each
  year  the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one hour
  from  that  of  the  seventy-fifth  meridian  of  longitude  west   from
  Greenwich,  and  the time so advanced shall continue to be standard time
  throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,
  when such standard time, as so advanced, shall be retarded  to  that  of
  the  seventy-fifth  meridian west from Greenwich; and during such period
  in each year all courts and public  officers,  and  legal  and  official
  proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 53-A - Trial Juror; Trial Jury.

§  53-a.  Trial  juror; trial jury. The terms "trial juror" and "trial
  jury", are respectively equivalent  to  the  terms  "petit  juror",  and
  "petit jury", as used in the constitution and laws of the state.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 57 - Year, Common and Leap.

§  57.  Year,  common  and  leap.  For  the  purpose  of computing and
  reckoning the days of the year in the same regular course in the future,
  every year, the number of which in the Christian era is  a  multiple  of
  four,  is  a  bissextile  or  leap  year consisting of three hundred and
  sixty-six days, unless such number of the year  is  a  multiple  of  one
  hundred  and  the first two figures thereof treated as a separate number
  is not a multiple of four, and every year which is not a leap year is  a
  common year consisting of three hundred and sixty-five days.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 58 - Year in Statute, Contract and Public or Private Instrument.

§ 58. Year in statute, contract and public or private instrument.  The
  term  year  in a statute, contract, or any public or private instrument,
  means three hundred and sixty-five days, but the added  day  of  a  leap
  year  and  the  day  immediately preceding shall for the purpose of such
  computation be counted as one day. In a statute, contract or  public  or
  private  instrument,  the  term  year means twelve months, the term half
  year, six months, and the term a quarter of a year, three months.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 59 - Bastard; Illegitimate Child.

§ 59. Bastard; illegitimate child. The term "bastard" or "illegitimate
  child"  in a statute means a child born out of wedlock. Hereafter in any
  local law,  ordinance  or  resolution  or  in  any  public  or  judicial
  proceeding or in any process, notice, order, decree, judgment, record or
  other  public  document  or  paper,  the term "bastard" or "illegitimate
  child" shall not be used, but the term "child born out of wedlock" shall
  be used in substitution therefor and with the same force and effect.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 60 - Newspapers.

§  60.  Newspapers.  a.  In  any  case  in which notice of any fact is
  required by law to be published or advertised in a newspaper,  the  term
  "newspaper"  shall  mean a paper of general circulation which is printed
  and distributed ordinarily not less frequently than once a week, and has
  been so for at least one year immediately preceding such publication  or
  advertisement,   and  which  contains  news,  articles  of  opinion  (as
  editorials), features, advertising,  or  other  matter  regarded  as  of
  current  interest,  has  a paid circulation and (except for such a paper
  which has been printed and distributed not less frequently than  once  a
  week  for  a  period of ten years prior to January one, nineteen hundred
  seventy-five)  has  been  entered  at  United  States   post-office   as
  second-class   matter.  A  publication  which  is  distributed  or  made
  available primarily for advertising purposes  to  the  public  generally
  without  consideration  being  paid therefor shall not be deemed to be a
  "newspaper" for the purpose of  publication  or  advertisement  of  such
  notice   required   by   law.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  this
  subdivision to the contrary, a  publication  which  was  designated  and
  publishing  notice  as  an official newspaper prior to the year nineteen
  hundred forty and continued to be so designated and  publishing  for  at
  least  thirty  years  after  such year shall be deemed to be a newspaper
  within the meaning of this subdivision.
b. The terms "daily newspaper" and "newspaper published each  business
  day"  in a statute, contract, or any public or private instrument, mean,
  respectively, a newspaper customarily published on each business day  of
  the  year,  whether or not such newspaper is published on any other day.
  The term "business day" when used herein  does  not  include  Saturdays,
  Sundays or legal holidays.
c.  The  term "newspaper of a county, city, town or village" when used
  in a statute shall mean a newspaper published,  circulated,  printed  or
  distributed in the county, city, town or village.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 61 - Date for Determining Last Completed Assessment Rolls.

§  61.  Date  for  determining  last  completed  assessment  rolls. In
  computing the amount which may be raised by tax  on  real  estate  by  a
  county,   city,   village  or  school  district  within  the  limitation
  prescribed by article eight of the constitution, the  determinations  as
  to the last completed assessment roll, as defined in subdivision seven-a
  of section 2.00 of the local finance law, shall be made on or before the
  date  upon which the amount to be raised by tax on real estate by or for
  such county, city, village or school district  is  actually  determined.
  For  the  purposes  of  this  section an assessment roll shall mean such
  assessment roll as finally completed by the assessors or  other  officer
  or body authorized to prepare such roll.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 62 - Size of Type.

§  62. Size of type. Whenever a requirement of law relating to size of
  type is stated in point size, the type size requirement shall be  deemed
  met  if  the  x-height of the type is a minimum of forty-five percent of
  the  specified  point  size.  Each  point  shall  be  measured  as  .351
  millimeter.  The  x-height  size  shall be measured as it appears on the
  page. The x-height is the height of the lower case letters, exclusive of
  ascenders or descenders.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2-A - Classification of Corporations and Definitions › 65 - Classification of Corporations.

§  65.  Classification  of  corporations.  a.  A  corporation shall be
  either,
1. A public corporation,
2. A corporation formed other than for profit, or
3. A corporation formed for profit.
b. A public corporation shall be either,
1. A municipal corporation,
2. A district corporation,
3. A public benefit corporation.
c. A corporation formed other than for profit shall be either,
1. A religious corporation,
2. An education corporation,
3. A cooperative corporation,
4. A not-for-profit corporation, or
5. Any other corporation formed other than for profit which is  not  a
  public  corporation.  A  reference  in  a  general  law  to  a  class of
  corporations described in  accordance  with  this  classification  shall
  include all corporations belonging to such class.
d. A corporation formed for profit shall be either,
1. A business corporation,
2. A moneyed corporation,
3. A railroad corporation,
4. A transportation corporation, or
5. A benefit corporation.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 3 - Ancient Statutes and Resolutions › 70 - Statutes of England and Great Britain Inoperative in This State.

§ 70. Statutes of England and Great Britain inoperative in this state.
  A  statute  of  England or Great Britain shall not be deemed to have had
  any force or effect in this state since May first, seventeen hundred and
  eighty-eight.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 3 - Ancient Statutes and Resolutions › 71 - Acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York Inoperative.

§  71.  Acts of the legislature of the colony of New York inoperative.
  Acts of the legislature of the colony of New York shall not be deemed to
  have had any force or effect in this state since December  twenty-ninth,
  eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 3 - Ancient Statutes and Resolutions › 72 - Resolutions of the Congress of the Colony and the Convention of New York Inoperative.

§  72. Resolutions of the congress of the colony and the convention of
  New York inoperative. The resolutions of the congress of the  colony  of
  New  York  and  of the convention of the state of New York, shall not be
  deemed to be the laws of this state hereafter.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 4 - References, Titles and Head Notes › 80 - References to Repealed Provisions.

§  80. References to repealed provisions. If any provision of a law be
  repealed and, in substance, re-enacted, a reference in any law  to  such
  repealed  provision  shall  be  deemed  a  reference  to such re-enacted
  provision.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 4 - References, Titles and Head Notes › 81 - Titles and Head Notes.

§  81.  Titles  and  head  notes. If the title of any article or other
  division of a statute, or the head note of a section shall be amended or
  repealed in the body of the statute,  or  if  a  new  article  or  other
  division  having  a  title,  or  a new section having a new head note be
  added to a statute, the corresponding title or head note, if any, in  an
  abstract  of  contents at the beginning of the statute, article or other
  division of the statute shall be deemed to be correspondingly amended or
  repealed, although there be no express reference thereto.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 5 - Effect of Repeals › 90 - Effect of the Repeal of a Repealing Statute.

§  90.  Effect  of  the  repeal  of  a  repealing  statute. The repeal
  hereafter or by this chapter  of  any  provision  of  a  statute,  which
  repeals  any  provision  of  a prior statute, does not revive such prior
  provision.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 5 - Effect of Repeals › 92 - Effect of the Repeal of an Amending Statute.

§  92.  Effect  of  the  repeal  of  an  amending  statute. The repeal
  hereafter or by this chapter of any provision of a statute, which amends
  a provision of a prior statute, leaves such  prior  provision  in  force
  unless  the  amendatory  statute  be  a  substantial re-enactment of the
  statute amended.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 5 - Effect of Repeals › 93 - Effect of Repealing Statute Upon Existing Rights.

§  93. Effect of repealing statute upon existing rights. The repeal of
  a statute or part thereof shall not  affect  or  impair  any  act  done,
  offense  committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability,
  penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time such repeal
  takes  effect,  but  the  same  may  be  enjoyed,  asserted,   enforced,
  prosecuted  or  inflicted,  as  fully  and to the same extent as if such
  repeal had not been effected.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 5 - Effect of Repeals › 94 - Effect of Repealing Statute Upon Pending Actions and Proceedings.

§   94.   Effect   of  repealing  statute  upon  pending  actions  and
  proceedings. Unless otherwise specially provided by law, all actions and
  proceedings, civil or criminal, commenced under  or  by  virtue  of  any
  provision of a statute so repealed, and pending immediately prior to the
  taking  effect  of  such repeal, may be prosecuted and defended to final
  effect in the same manner as they might if such provisions were  not  so
  repealed.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 5 - Effect of Repeals › 95 - Effect of the Repeal of a Statute by Another Statute Substantially Re-Enacting the Former.

§   95.  Effect  of  the  repeal  of  a  statute  by  another  statute
  substantially re-enacting the former. The provisions of a law  repealing
  a  prior  law,  which are substantial re-enactments of provisions of the
  prior law, shall be construed as a continuation of  such  provisions  of
  such  prior law, modified or amended according to the language employed,
  and not as new enactments.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 6 - Effect of Consolidated Laws › 100 - Effect of Consolidation Upon Laws Passed at Same Session or Before Consolidation Takes Effect.

§  100.  Effect  of  consolidation upon laws passed at same session or
  before consolidation takes effect. No provision of any  chapter  of  the
  consolidation  of  the  general  laws,  of which this chapter is a part,
  shall supersede or repeal by implication any  law  passed  at  the  same
  session  of  the  legislature  at which any such chapter was enacted, or
  passed after the enactment of any such chapter and before it shall  have
  taken  effect;  and  an  amendatory law passed at such session or at any
  subsequent session begun before any such chapter takes effect, shall not
  be deemed repealed, unless  specifically  designated  in  the  repealing
  schedule of such chapter.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 6 - Effect of Consolidated Laws › 101 - Effect of Consolidated Laws on Penal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Civil Practice Law and Rules.

§  101.  Effect  of consolidated laws on penal law, criminal procedure
  law and civil practice law and rules. The consolidated laws shall not be
  construed to amend, repeal or otherwise  affect  any  provision  of  the
  penal law, civil practice law and rules or criminal procedure law unless
  expressly so stated.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 7 - Application of Chapter › 110 - Application of Chapter.

§  110.  Application  of  chapter. This chapter is applicable to every
  statute unless its general  object,  or  the  context  of  the  language
  construed,  or other provisions of law indicate that a different meaning
  or application was intended from that  required  to  be  given  by  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions › 2 - Definitions.

§  2.  Definitions.  The term "municipal corporation," as used in this
  chapter, includes only a  county,  town,  city  and  village.  The  term
  "governing  board"  includes  the  board of supervisors of a county, the
  town board of a town, the common council of a city,  and  the  board  of
  trustees of a village.
a.  "Urban  renewal." The term "urban renewal" shall mean a program as
  defined in article fifteen of this chapter.
b. "Infant" or "minor". The term "infant" or "minor", as used in  this
  chapter,  shall  mean  a person who has not attained the age of eighteen
  years.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 3 - Compensation for Property of a Municipal Corporation, School District or District Corporation Taken by Eminent Domain.

§  3.  Compensation  for  property  of a municipal corporation, school
  district or district corporation taken by eminent domain. Where property
  of a municipal corporation, school district or district  corporation  is
  taken  in  the  exercise  of  the  power of eminent domain for a purpose
  substantially different from that for which it is held by such municipal
  corporation, school district or district corporation, just  compensation
  to  the  municipal  corporation, school district or district corporation
  shall be made in the same manner, to the same extent and subject to  the
  same limitations as though it were private property.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 3-A - Rate of Interest on Judgments and Accrued Claims Against Municipal Corporations.

§  3-a.  Rate  of  interest  on  judgments  and accrued claims against
  municipal corporations. 1. Except as provided in subdivisions two,  four
  and five of this section, the rate of interest to be paid by a municipal
  corporation  upon  any  judgment  or accrued claim against the municipal
  corporation shall not exceed nine per centum per annum.
2. The rate of interest to be paid upon any judgment or accrued  claim
  against   the   municipal   corporation   arising  out  of  condemnation
  proceedings or action to recover damages for wrongful  death  shall  not
  exceed six per centum per annum.
3. The term "municipal corporation" as used in this section shall mean
  and  include  a  city,  county,  village,  town,  school  district, fire
  district, a special or public district  organized  for  the  purpose  of
  financing  the  costs  of public improvements or a pension or retirement
  system supported in whole or in part by any such city, county,  village,
  town, school district or special or public district.
4.  Payments  of interest or principal on any note or bond of the city
  of New York issued on or after the effective date of this act  which  is
  guaranteed  under  the  New York City Loan Guarantee Act of 1978, Public
  Law 95-339, and which such city has not paid or made funds available  to
  pay  when  due, shall accrue interest at the rate borne for principal by
  such obligation from such due date  until  (i)  there  shall  have  been
  deposited  with  an  independent trustee sufficient monies to cover such
  overdue payment and any interest accrued thereon to  the  date  of  such
  deposit  and  (ii)  the making of such deposit shall have been announced
  for three days in succession in a newspaper of  general  circulation  in
  the city of New York.
5.  Bonds, notes and certificates of participation, and agreements and
  instruments  related  to  the  foregoing,  as  authorized  pursuant   to
  paragraph  (e)  of section 54.10, section 54.90 or section 168.00 of the
  local finance law, or section one hundred nine-b  of  this  chapter  may
  provide  for  the payment of interest on judgments and claims payable to
  or for the account of providers of credit or liquidity support or  their
  successors  in interest, notwithstanding any limitations imposed by this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 3-B - Limitation on Real Estate Tax in New York City.

§  3-b.  Limitation on real estate tax in New York city. 1. The amount
  to be raised by tax on real estate in any fiscal year commencing  on  or
  after  July  first,  nineteen hundred fifty-four by the city of New York
  and the counties contained therein for  city  and  county  purposes,  in
  addition  to  providing  for  the  interest  on and the principal of all
  indebtedness, shall not, except as otherwise provided herein, exceed  an
  amount  equal  to a combined total of two and one-half per centum of the
  average full valuation of taxable real estate  of  such  city  less  the
  amount  to  be raised by tax on real estate in such year for the payment
  of the interest on and redemption of certificates or other  evidence  of
  indebtedness  described in paragraphs A and D of section five of article
  eight of the constitution, or renewals thereof; provided, however,  that
  for  the fiscal year commencing July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three
  the amount to be so raised by tax as provided in this section  shall  be
  not in excess of a combined total of two per centum computed as provided
  herein plus fifty million dollars. The average full valuation of taxable
  real  estate of such city shall be determined as provided by section ten
  of article eight of the constitution.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  if any railroad, as defined in the rapid transit law, is operated by the
  board  of  transportation  or any other agency, except the New York city
  transit authority created  pursuant  to  title  fifteen  of  the  public
  authorities  law,  on  or after July first in any year, the amount to be
  raised by tax as provided in subdivision one of this section  shall  not
  be  in  excess  of a combined total percentage of two per centum for the
  city's fiscal year commencing July first in such year and no more.    In
  addition,  for  the  fiscal year commencing July first, nineteen hundred
  fifty-three,  this  further  limitation  to  two  per  centum  with   no
  additional  amount, as set forth in this subdivision, shall apply unless
  the board of estimate shall have entered into an agreement  pursuant  to
  the   provisions  of  section  eighteen  hundred  three  of  the  public
  authorities law, as amended, on or before June first,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-three  with  such  authority  to transfer to it transit facilities
  owned by the city, and such transfer is completed prior to  July  first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-three.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 4 - Investigation of Expenditures of Towns and Villages.

§   4.  Investigation  of  expenditures  of  towns  and  villages.  If
  twenty-five freeholders in any  town  or  village  shall  present  to  a
  justice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which such town
  or  village is situated, an affidavit, stating that they are freeholders
  and have paid taxes on real property within such town or village  within
  one  year, that they have reason to believe that the moneys of such town
  or village are being unlawfully or corruptly expended, and  the  grounds
  of  their belief, such justice, upon ten days' notice to the supervisor,
  and the officers of the town disbursing the funds to which  such  moneys
  belong,  or  the  trustees  and  treasurer  of the village, shall make a
  summary investigation  into  the  financial  affairs  of  such  town  or
  village,  and the accounts of such officers, and, in his discretion, may
  appoint experts to make such investigation, and  may  cause  the  result
  thereof to be published in such manner as he may deem proper.
The  costs  incurred  in  such  investigation  shall  be  taxed by the
  justice, and paid, upon his order, by the  officers  whose  expenditures
  are  investigated,  if  the  facts  in  such  affidavit be substantially
  proved, and otherwise, by the freeholders making such affidavit. If such
  justice shall be satisfied that any  of  the  moneys  of  such  town  or
  village  are  being  unlawfully  or  corruptly  expended,  or  are being
  appropriated for purposes to which they are not properly applicable,  or
  are  improvidently  squandered  or  wasted,  he shall forthwith grant an
  order restraining such unlawful or corrupt expenditure,  or  such  other
  improper use of such moneys.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 5-A - Electronic or Wire Transfers.

§  5-a. Electronic or wire transfers. 1. Notwithstanding any other law
to the contrary, whenever an officer of a local government, as that term
is defined in section ten of this article,  is  authorized  or  directed
pursuant  to  law  to  disburse  or  transfer  on  behalf  of  the local
government funds in the custody of the officer, that  officer  shall  be
authorized  to disburse or transfer such funds by means of electronic or
wire  transfer.  Such  disbursement  shall  be  otherwise   subject   to
applicable laws, provided that:
(a)  the  governing  board  of the local government has entered into a
written agreement with the bank or trust company  in  which  such  funds
have  been deposited, prescribing the manner in which electronic or wire
transfer of such funds shall be accomplished, identifying by number  and
name those accounts from which electronic or wire transfers may be made,
identifying  which  officer  or  officers  are  authorized  to order the
electronic  or  wire  transfer  of  funds  from  those   accounts,   and
implementing  a  security procedure as defined in section 4-A-201 of the
uniform commercial code; and
(b) the bank or trust company processing the transfer shall provide to
the officer ordering the electronic or wire transfer  of  funds  written
confirmation  of  each  such  transaction no later than the business day
following the day on which the funds are transmitted.
2. It shall be the duty of the governing board of the local government
to adopt a  system  of  internal  controls  for  the  documentation  and
reporting  of  all  transfers  or disbursements of funds accomplished by
electronic or wire transfer.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 2 - General Municipal Finances › 6-I - Airport Development and Amortization Funds.

§ 6-i. Airport development and amortization funds. a. There shall be a
  fund  set  up  for each airport acquired, constructed or maintained by a
  municipal   corporation,   which   fund   shall   be   known   as    the
  "................  airport  development  fund". There shall be paid into
  such fund all payments for leases, permits or other privileges  at  such
  airport,  received  prior  to its construction or to the commencement of
  its operation. All moneys paid into such fund shall be used  solely  for
  the acquisition, construction or physical development of such airport.
b. There shall be a fund set up for each airport hereafter acquired or
  constructed by a municipal corporation, which fund shall be known as the
  "................  airport  amortization fund". There shall be paid into
  such fund all revenues derived from the operation of such airport except
  parking fees, sightseeing fees and rentals derived from leases  of  real
  property  at  such  airport  not used exclusively for air transportation
  operations. The moneys paid into such  fund  shall  be  applied  to  the
  payment   of   interest   on  and  the  retirement  of  any  outstanding
  indebtedness incurred for  the  acquisition  and  construction  of  such
  airport  but  any  balance remaining beyond the amount required for such
  purposes  shall  be  paid  into  the  general  fund  of  such  municipal
  corporation for general municipal purposes.