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2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 2 - Joint-Stock Associations › 10 - Injunction Against Joint-Stock Association.

§  10.    Injunction  against joint-stock association.   An injunction
  order, suspending the general and ordinary  business  of  a  joint-stock
  association,  consisting  of  seven  or more persons, or suspending from
  office, or restraining from the performance of his  duties,  a  trustee,
  director,  or  other  officer thereof, can be granted only by the court,
  upon notice of the application therefor, to the proper  officer  of  the
  association, or to the trustee, director, or other officer enjoined.  If
  such  an  injunction order is made, otherwise than as prescribed in this
  section, it is void.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 2 - Joint-Stock Associations › 11 - Misnomer of Party Not Available.

§  11.   Misnomer of party not available.  Where an action, authorized
  by a law of the state, is  brought  against  one  or  more  persons,  as
  stockholders  of  a  joint-stock association, an objection to any of the
  proceedings cannot be taken, by a person properly made  a  defendant  in
  the  action,  on the ground that the plaintiff has joined with him, as a
  defendant in the action, a person, whose name appears on the stock-books
  of the association, as a stockholder thereof, by the name so  appearing;
  but who is misnamed, or dead, or is not liable for any cause.  In such a
  case,  the  court may, at any time before final judgment, upon motion of
  either party, amend the pleadings and other papers, without prejudice to
  the previous proceedings, by substituting the true name  of  the  person
  intended,  or by striking out the name of the person who is dead, or not
  liable, and, in a proper case, inserting the name of his  representative
  or successor.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 12 - Action or Proceeding by Unincorporated Association.

§  12.  Action or proceeding by unincorporated association.  An action
  or special proceeding may be maintained, by the president  or  treasurer
  of  an  unincorporated  association to recover any property, or upon any
  cause of action, for or upon which all the associates may maintain  such
  an  action  or  special  proceeding,  by  reason  of  their  interest or
  ownership therein, either jointly or in common.  An action may  likewise
  be maintained by such president or treasurer to recover from one or more
  members  of  such  association  his  or their proportionate share of any
  moneys lawfully expended by such association for  the  benefit  of  such
  associates,  or  to enforce any lawful claim of such association against
  such member or members.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 13 - Action or Proceeding Against Unincorporated Association.

§  13.    Action or proceeding against unincorporated association.  An
  action or special proceeding may be maintained, against the president or
  treasurer of such an association, to recover any property, or  upon  any
  cause  of  action,  for or upon which the plaintiff may maintain such an
  action or special proceeding, against all the associates, by  reason  of
  their  interest  or  ownership,  or  claim  of ownership therein, either
  jointly or in common, or their liability  therefor,  either  jointly  or
  severally.    Any  partnership, or other company of persons, which has a
  president or treasurer, is deemed an association within the  meaning  of
  this section.
The  service  of summons, subpoena or other legal process of any court
  upon the president,  vice  president,  treasurer,  assistant  treasurer,
  secretary,  assistant  secretary,  or business agent, in his capacity as
  such, shall constitute service upon a labor organization.  Such  service
  shall  be made on such individuals in the manner provided by law for the
  service of a summons on a natural person.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 14 - When Action Not to Abate.

§  14.   When action not to abate.  The death or legal incapacity of a
  member  of  the  association  does  not  affect  an  action  or  special
  proceeding,  brought  as  prescribed  in the last two sections.   If the
  officer, by or against whom it is brought, dies, is removed, resigns, or
  becomes otherwise incapacitated, during the pendency thereof, the  court
  must  make  an  order,  directing  it  to be continued by or against his
  successor in office, or any other officer, by or against whom  it  might
  have been originally commenced.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 15 - Effect of Judgment; Execution Thereupon.

§  15.    Effect of judgment; execution thereupon.  In such an action,
  the officer against whom  it  is  brought  cannot  be  arrested;  and  a
  judgment  against  him  does  not  authorize  an  execution to be issued
  against his property, or his person; nor does the docketing thereof bind
  his real property, or chattels real.  Where such a judgment is for a sum
  of money, an execution issued thereupon  must  require  the  sheriff  to
  satisfy  the same, out of any personal or real property belonging to the
  association, or owned, jointly or in common, by all the members thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 16 - Subsequent Action Against Members.

§  16.    Subsequent action against members.  Where an action has been
  brought against an officer, or a  counterclaim  has  been  made,  in  an
  action  brought  by  an  officer, as prescribed in this article, another
  action, for the same cause, shall not be brought against the members  of
  the association, or any of them, until after final judgment in the first
  action,  and  the return, wholly or partly unsatisfied or unexecuted, of
  an execution issued thereupon.  After such a return, the party in  whose
  favor the execution was issued, may maintain an action, as follows:
1.    Where  he  was  the  plaintiff, or a defendant recovering upon a
  counterclaim, he may maintain an  action  against  the  members  of  the
  association,  or, in a proper case, against any of them, as if the first
  action had not been brought, or the counterclaim had not been  made,  as
  the  case  requires; and he may recover therein, as part of his damages,
  the costs of the first action, or so much thereof, as the sum, collected
  by virtue of the execution, was insufficient to satisfy.
2.  Where he was a defendant, and the case is not  within  subdivision
  first  of  this  section,  he may maintain an action, to recover the sum
  remaining uncollected, against the persons who composed the association,
  when the action against him was commenced, or the survivors of them.
But this section does not affect the right of  the  person,  in  whose
  favor  the  judgment in the first action was rendered, to enforce a bond
  or undertaking, given in the course of the proceedings therein.  Section
  eleven of this chapter applies to an action brought,  as  prescribed  in
  this  section against the members of any association, which keeps a book
  for the entry of changes in the membership of the  association,  or  the
  ownership of its property; and to each book so kept.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 3 - Action or Proceeding by or Against Unincorporated Associations › 17 - Article Permissive; Effect Upon Statute of Limitations.

§  17.   Article permissive; effect upon statute of limitations.  This
  article does not prevent an action from being brought by or against  all
  the members of an association, except as prescribed in the last section.
  Where  an  action  is brought against the members of the association, as
  prescribed in subdivision first of the last section,  the  time  between
  the commencement of the action by or against the officer, and the return
  of  the first execution issued upon the final judgment rendered therein,
  is not a part of the time limited by law, for the  commencement  of  the
  second action.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 4 - Certificate of Designation by Associations Doing Business Within This State › 18-A - Electronic Service of Process.

§  18-a.  Electronic  service of process. The secretary of state shall
  advise any association subject to the laws of this chapter in  prominent
  written form as follows: (a) electronic service of process authorized by
  the  provisions  of this chapter is an optional program at no additional
  cost to the user; (b) any  association  subject  to  the  laws  of  this
  chapter  will continue to receive service of process by mail unless such
  association notifies the secretary of an affirmative choice  to  receive
  service  of  process  by way of the program through electronic means, in
  which case digital copies will be made accessible  but  paper  documents
  will  not  be  mailed;  and  (c)  such  choice  may  be  reversed by the
  association at any time and, thereafter, service by mail will resume.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 4 - Certificate of Designation by Associations Doing Business Within This State › 19 - Service of Process.

§  19.  Service  of process. Service of process against an association
  upon the secretary of state shall be made  in  the  manner  provided  by
  subdivision  one  or  two  of  this  section.  Either  option of service
  authorized pursuant to this section shall be available at no extra  cost
  to  the  consumer.  (1) Personally delivering to and leaving with him or
  her or with a person authorized by the secretary  of  state  to  receive
  such  service,  duplicate  copies  of  such process at the office of the
  department of state in the city of Albany. At the time of  such  service
  the plaintiff shall pay a fee of forty dollars to the secretary of state
  which  shall  be  a  taxable  disbursement. The secretary of state shall
  promptly send by certified mail one of such copies to the association at
  the  address  fixed  for  that  purpose,   as   herein   provided.   (2)
  Electronically  submitting  a  copy  of the process to the department of
  state together with the statutory fee, which  fee  shall  be  a  taxable
  disbursement, through an electronic system operated by the department of
  state,  provided  the  association  has  an email address on file in the
  department of state to which the secretary of state shall email a notice
  of the fact that process has been served electronically on the secretary
  of state. Service of process on such association shall be complete  when
  the  secretary  of  state  has  reviewed  and  accepted  service of such
  process. The secretary of state shall promptly send a notice of the fact
  that process against such association  has  been  served  electronically
  upon him or her, to such association at the email address on file in the
  department  of state, specified for the purpose and shall make a copy of
  the process available to such association. If the action  or  proceeding
  is instituted in a court of limited jurisdiction, service of process may
  be  made  in  the manner provided in this section if the cause of action
  arose within the territorial jurisdiction of the court and the office of
  the defendant, as set forth in its statement filed pursuant  to  section
  eighteen of this chapter, is within such territorial jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › GAS - General Associations › Article 4 - Certificate of Designation by Associations Doing Business Within This State › 19-A - Records and Certificates of Department of State.

§   19-a.  Records  and  certificates  of  department  of  state.  The
  department of state shall keep a record of each process served upon  the
  secretary of state under this chapter, including the date of service. It
  shall,  upon  request  made  within  ten  years of such service, issue a
  certificate under its seal certifying as to the receipt of  the  process
  by  an authorized person, the date and the place of such service and the
  receipt of the statutory fee. Process served upon the secretary of state
  under this chapter shall be destroyed by him after a period of ten years
  from such service.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 2 - The Sabbath.

§  2. The Sabbath.  The first day of the week being by general consent
  set apart for rest and religious uses, the law prohibits  the  doing  on
  that  day  of  certain  acts  hereinafter  specified,  which are serious
  interruptions of the repose and religious liberty of the community.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 4 - Punishment for Sabbath Breaking.

§  4.  Punishment  for  Sabbath  breaking.    Sabbath  breaking  is  a
  misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than five dollars and  not
  more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding
  five  days,  or  by  both,  but for a second or other offense, where the
  party shall have been previously convicted, it shall be punishable by  a
  fine  not  less  than ten dollars and not more than twenty dollars or by
  imprisonment in a county jail not less than five nor  more  than  twenty
  days, or both.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 6 - Persons Observing Another Day as a Sabbath.

§  6.  Persons observing another day as a Sabbath.  It is a sufficient
  defense to a prosecution for work or labor on the first day of the  week
  that the defendant uniformly keeps another day of the week as holy time,
  and  does  not  labor  on that day, and that the labor complained of was
  done in such manner  as  not  to  interrupt  or  disturb  other  persons
  observing the first day of the week as holy time.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 7 - Public Sports and Exercises on Sunday.

§  7.  Public  sports  and  exercises  on  Sunday.  All public sports,
  exercises or shows, except professional golf tournaments  and  games  of
  the  World  University  Games  conducted  in  Erie,  Genesee and Niagara
  counties in nineteen hundred ninety-three, upon the  first  day  of  the
  week,  and  all  noise  unreasonably disturbing the peace of the day are
  prohibited, except as hereinafter provided.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful  to
  conduct,  witness,  participate  or engage in any form of public sports,
  exercises or shows which are conducted or engaged in primarily  for  the
  entertainment   of   spectators,  not  specifically  prohibited  by  any
  provision of the law, on the first day of the week  after  five  minutes
  past  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  to  witness which the public is
  invited or an admission fee is charged, either directly  or  indirectly,
  in  a  city,  town  or  village  as  shall  be permitted by local law or
  ordinance heretofore or hereafter adopted by the common council or other
  legislative body of the city, town or  village  permitting  such  public
  sports,  exercises  or  shows  on such day and after such hour provided,
  however, the failure of a city, town or village in which  a  municipally
  owned  stadium,  arena or facility is located, to adopt such a local law
  or ordinance shall not prohibit such public sports, exercises  or  shows
  beginning  after  five  minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon on the
  first day of the week in any such stadium, arena or facility.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit  private  sports,
  games  or recreational activities which are engaged in primarily for the
  personal enjoyment, recreation and health of the  participants,  on  the
  first day of the week, conducted in a manner which does not constitute a
  serious   interruption  of  the  repose  or  religious  liberty  of  the
  community.
Notwithstanding any other provision  of  this  section,  it  shall  be
  lawful  for  pari-mutuel  facilities licensed in accordance with article
  two of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law to  conduct  or
  engage  in  activities authorized under their licensure on the first day
  of the week after twelve o'clock post meridian.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 8 - Trades, Manufactures, and Mechanical Employments Prohibited on Sunday.

§  8.  Trades,  manufactures, and mechanical employments prohibited on
  Sunday.    All  trades,  manufacturers,   agricultural   or   mechanical
  employments  upon  the first day of the week are prohibited, except that
  when the same are works of necessity they may be performed on  that  day
  in  their  usual  and  orderly  manner,  so as not to interfere with the
  repose and religious liberty of the community.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 9 - Public Traffic on Sunday.

§  9.  Public  traffic  on  Sunday.    All manner of public selling or
  offering for sale of any property upon Sunday is prohibited,  except  as
  follows: 1. Articles of food may be sold, served, supplied and delivered
  at any time before ten o'clock in the morning:
2.  Meals  may  be  sold to be eaten on the premises where sold at any
  time of the day;
3. Caterers may serve meals to their patrons at any time of the day;
4. Prepared  tobacco,  bread,  milk,  eggs,  ice,  soda-water,  fruit,
  flowers,   confectionery,   souvenirs,   items   of  art  and  antiques,
  newspapers, magazines, gasoline, oil, tires, cemetery monuments,  drugs,
  medicine  and surgical instruments may be sold and delivered at any time
  of the day.
5. Grocers, delicatessen dealers and bakeries may sell, supply,  serve
  and deliver cooked and prepared foods, between the hours of four o'clock
  in the afternoon and half-past seven o'clock in the evening, in addition
  to  the time provided for in subdivision one hereof, and, elsewhere than
  in cities and villages having a population of forty  thousand  or  more,
  delicatessen  dealers,  bakeries and farmers' markets or roadside stands
  selling fresh vegetables and other farm produce, and fishing tackle  and
  bait stores may sell, supply, serve and deliver merchandise usually sold
  by them, at any time of the day.
6.  Persons,  firms  or  corporations  holding licenses and/or permits
  issued under the  provisions  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law
  permitting the sale of beer at retail, may sell such beverages at retail
  on   Sunday   before  three  antemeridian  and  after  twelve  noon  for
  off-premises consumption to persons making  purchases  at  the  licensed
  premises to be taken by them from the licensed premises.
7.  Sale  at  public auction of thoroughbred, standardbred and quarter
  horse racehorses.
The provisions of this section, however, shall  not  be  construed  to
  allow  or  permit  the  public  sale or exposing for sale or delivery of
  uncooked flesh foods or meats, fresh or salt, at any hour or time of the
  day. Delicatessen dealers shall not be  considered  as  caterers  within
  subdivision three hereof.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 10 - Prosecutions for Conducting Business on Sunday by Certain Persons.

§  10.  Prosecutions  for  conducting  business  on  Sunday by certain
persons.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be  a  sufficient
defense  to  a  prosecution pursuant to this article, for conducting any
trade or business or public selling or offering for sale of any property
on Sunday, that the defendant
(1) as the proprietor of such business, uniformly keeps another day of
the week as holy time and keeps his place  of  business  closed  on  the
seventh day of the week,
(2)  does  not  himself  labor,  employ others to labor in, by or with
another conduct a trade or publicly sell or offer for sale any  property
on the day he keeps as holy time,
(3)  conducts  such  labor,  trade or business in its normal course on
Sunday by himself and members of his immediate family, and
(4) so conducts such trade,  public  selling  or  offer  to  sell  any
property  on  Sunday  in  such  manner  as  not to disturb the religious
observances of the community.
The term "day of the week" as used in  this  section  shall  mean  and
include  the  period  of  time  of not less than twenty-four consecutive
hours commencing at or before sundown on one day and terminating  at  or
after sundown on the following day.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 11 - Serving Civil Process on Sunday.

§  11.  Serving  civil process on Sunday.  All service or execution of
  legal process, of any kind whatever, on the first day  of  the  week  is
  prohibited, except in criminal proceedings or where service or execution
  is  specially authorized by statute. Service or execution of any process
  upon said day except as herein permitted is absolutely void for any  and
  every purpose whatsoever.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 12 - Forfeiture of Commodities Exposed for Sale on Sunday.

§  12.  Forfeiture  of  commodities  exposed  for sale on Sunday.   In
  addition to the penalty  imposed  by  section  four,  all  property  and
  commodities  exposed  for sale on the first day of the week in violation
  of the provisions of this article shall be forfeited. Upon conviction of
  the offender by a justice of the peace of a county,  or  by  any  police
  justice  or  magistrate,  such  officer  shall  issue  a warrant for the
  seizure of the forfeited articles, which, when seized, shall be sold  on
  one  day's  notice,  and the proceeds paid to the overseers of the poor,
  for the use of the poor of the town or city.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 13 - Maliciously Serving Process on Saturday on Person Who Keeps Saturday as Holy Time.

§  13.  Maliciously  serving  process  on Saturday on person who keeps
  Saturday as holy time.  Whoever maliciously procures any  process  in  a
  civil  action  to  be  served  on  Saturday,  upon  any person who keeps
  Saturday as holy time, and does not labor on that day,  or  serves  upon
  him  any  process  returnable  on  that day, or maliciously procures any
  civil action to which such person is a party to be adjourned to that day
  for trial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 14 - Processions and Parades on Sunday.

§  14.  Processions  and  parades  on  Sunday.  1. All processions and
  parades on Sunday in any city, excepting only  funeral  processions  for
  the  actual  burial  of the dead, and processions to and from a place of
  worship in connection with a religious  service  there  celebrated,  are
  forbidden;  and  in  such  excepted  cases  there  shall  be  no  music,
  fireworks, discharge of cannon or firearms, or other  disturbing  noise.
  At  a  military  funeral,  or at the funeral of a United States soldier,
  sailor or marine, or of a national guardsman, or of a deceased member of
  an association  of  veteran  soldiers,  sailors  or  marines,  or  of  a
  disbanded  militia  regiment, or of a secret fraternal society, or of an
  association  of  employees  of  the  national,   state,   or   municipal
  governments,  music  may  be  played  while  escorting the body; also in
  patriotic military processions on Sunday  previous  to  Decoration  day,
  known  as  memorial Sunday, to cemeteries or other places where memorial
  services are held, and also by organizations of the  national  guard  or
  naval  militia or of an association of employees of the national, state,
  or municipal governments, attending religious service on Sunday; but  in
  no  case  within  one  block of a place of worship where service is then
  being celebrated. Music may also be played in any  procession  conducted
  by  a  religious  organization or society in connection with a religious
  service or religious rally after one o'clock noon on Sunday.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, it shall be  lawful
  to conduct, witness, participate or engage in processions or parades and
  to  play  music  in  any  such  procession or parade on Sunday after two
  o'clock in the afternoon, in a  city,  town  or  village,  as  shall  be
  permitted by a local law or ordinance heretofore or hereafter adopted by
  the  common council or other legislative body of a city, town or village
  permitting such processions and parades on such day and after such hour.
3. This section shall not apply to a city with  a  population  of  one
  million  or  more;  provided, however, that if a parade or procession is
  held in such city on Sunday before two o'clock in  the  afternoon  there
  shall  be no music, fireworks, discharge of cannon or firearms, or other
  disturbing noise in relation thereto within one hundred and  fifty  feet
  of a place of worship.
4.  A  person  wilfully  violating  any  provision  of this section is
  punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars  or  imprisonment  not
  exceeding ten days, or by both.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 2 - Sabbath › 17 - Days of Rest and Recreation.

§  17. Days of rest and recreation. a. One day a week may be set aside
  for rest and recreation.
b. A day of rest and recreation may be determined by the owners  of  a
  business   or   commercial   enterprise,  which  shall  include  a  sole
  proprietorship, partnership or corporation.
c. A retail merchants association or organization shall not  have  the
  right to determine a day of rest and recreation for any of its members.
d.  Any  person,  corporation or association who knowingly attempts to
  force  or  coerce  an  owner  or  manager  of  a  business  to  make   a
  determination  in violation of this section shall be fined not less than
  two hundred fifty dollars and not more than five hundred dollars and for
  a second or other offense, where the party shall  have  been  previously
  convicted thereof, it shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one
  thousand dollars and not more than two thousand dollars.
e.  No  provision  of  this section shall be construed to prohibit any
  owner from doing business seven days a week, where  any  other  general,
  special  or local law, rule or regulation does not specifically prohibit
  such activity.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 21 - Commissions; Penalty.

§  21.  Commissions; penalty.  An auctioneer in any county, other than
  New York or Kings, shall not, without a previous agreement  in  writing,
  with  the  owner  or  consignee  of  the goods sold, demand or receive a
  greater compensation for his services  than  a  commission  of  two  and
  one-half  per  centum on the amount of any sale, public or private, made
  by him. For a violation of this  section  he  shall  refund  the  moneys
  illegally  received  and  forfeit  two hundred and fifty dollars to each
  person from whom he demands or  receives  an  unlawful  compensation  or
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 22 - Power of Common Council of Cities.

§ 22. Power of common council of cities.  Except as otherwise provided
  in  the  charter of the city, the common council of a city may designate
  such place within such city for the sale by auction of horses, carriages
  and household furniture, as it deems expedient.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 24 - Mock Auction.

§ 24. Mock auction.  A person who buys or sells, or pretends to buy or
  sell,  any  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise,  or any species of property
  except ships, vessels, or real or leasehold estate, exposed for sale  by
  auction,  if  an  actual sale, purchase, and change of ownership therein
  does not thereupon take place, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
  imprisonment for thirty days, or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred
  dollars or both.
A  person  who  obtains money or property from another, or obtains the
  signature of another to any writing, the false making of which would  be
  forgery,  by  means  of  any  false  or  fraudulent  sale of property or
  pretended property by auction, or by any of the practices known as  mock
  auctions,  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor;  and  in  addition thereto he
  forfeits any license he may hold to act as an auctioneer, and is forever
  disqualified from receiving a license to act as an  auctioneer  in  this
  state.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 25 - Records to Be Kept by Auctioneers.

§  25.  Records  to be kept by auctioneers. Every auctioneer or person
  engaged in the business of selling goods at auction, whether  acting  in
  his  own  behalf  or as the officer, agent or representative of another,
  shall, upon the receipt or acceptance  by  him  of  any  goods  for  the
  purpose  of  sale  at  auction, and before offering the same or any part
  thereof for sale at auction, write or cause to be written in a  book  to
  be  kept  by him for the purpose, the name and address of the person who
  employed him to sell such goods at auction, the name and address of  the
  person for whose benefit, behalf or account such goods are to be sold at
  auction;  the  name  and address of the person from whom such auctioneer
  received or accepted such goods; the name and address of the person  who
  was  the  owner,  the  authorized agent of the owner or the consignor of
  such goods immediately prior  to  the  receipt  or  acceptance  for  the
  purpose of sale at auction of the same by such auctioneer; the location,
  with  street  and number, if any, of such goods immediately prior to the
  receipt or acceptance of the same by such auctioneer for the purpose  of
  sale  at  auction;  the  date  of  the  receipt  or  acceptance  by such
  auctioneer of such goods for the purpose of sale at auction; the  place,
  with street and number, if any, in which such goods are to be held, kept
  or  stored  until  sold  or offered for sale at auction; the place, with
  street and number, if any, in which such goods are to be sold or offered
  for sale at auction; a description of such goods, the  quantity  thereof
  and the distinctive marks thereon, if any; the terms and conditions upon
  which  such  auctioneer  receives  or  accepts  such  goods  for sale at
  auction. The expression "goods" as used in this  section  signifies  any
  goods,  wares,  works  of  art,  commodity, compound or thing, chattels,
  merchandise or personal property which may be lawfully kept  or  offered
  for sale, but shall not include goods damaged at sea or by fire and sold
  or to be sold for the benefit of the owners, insurers or for the account
  of  whom  it may concern or goods sold by virtue of judicial decree. The
  word  "person"  as  used  in  this  section  includes   a   corporation,
  joint-stock  association or copartnership. Nothing herein shall apply to
  the sale of real property at auction. The foregoing records shall be  in
  addition  to  any  other  records  required  to  be kept pursuant to the
  uniform commercial code.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 26 - Record Open to Inspection.

§  26.  Record  open  to  inspection.    The said book and the entries
  therein, made as provided  by  the  preceding  section,  shall,  at  all
  reasonable times, be open to the inspection of the mayor and the head of
  the  police  department of the city in which the auctioneer conducts his
  business, the district attorney of any county  in  which  said  city  is
  located  or  which  is  a part of such city, and any person who shall be
  duly authorized in writing for that purpose by any or either of them and
  who shall exhibit such written authorization to such auctioneer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 27 - Penalties.

§  27. Penalties.  Any person who violates or does not comply with the
  provisions of section twenty-five hereof, or any  auctioneer  or  person
  engaged  in  the  business  of  selling goods at auction who shall fail,
  neglect or refuse to permit  or  allow  an  inspection  as  required  by
  section  twenty-six  hereof  of  the  book, which he is required to keep
  according to the provisions of  section  twenty-five  hereof,  shall  be
  guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 3 - Auctions and Auctioneers › 28 - Limitation.

§  28. Limitation.   Sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven
  hereof shall apply only to cities of the first class and do  not  repeal
  or  supersede  the  provisions  of  chapter thirty-two, title B, article
  twenty-one of the administrative code of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4 - Peddlers › 33 - Penalties.

§  33. Penalties. Every person found traveling and trading within this
  state contrary to the provisions of this article,  or  contrary  to  the
  terms  of  any  license  that  may  have  been granted to him under this
  article, shall, for each offense, forfeit  to  the  town  in  which  the
  offense shall be committed the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be applied
  to  the  support  of  the  poor  of  the town. Every person traveling or
  trading within this state, having a license, who refuses  to  produce  a
  license  as  a  peddler  to  any  officer  or  citizen  who  demands the
  production of the same shall, for each offense, forfeit to the  town  in
  which  the  demand  is made the sum of ten dollars, to be applied to the
  support of the poor thereof. The refusal of any such person to produce a
  license when demanded shall be presumptive evidence that he is traveling
  and trading without a license.
No action for the recovery of any  penalty  imposed  by  this  article
  shall  be  maintained  unless  it be brought within sixty days after the
  commission of the offense charged.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4 - Peddlers › 34 - Arrest and Conviction of Offender.

§  34. Arrest and conviction of offender. The public welfare officials
  shall see that the provisions of this  article  are  enforced  in  their
  respective towns. Any citizen may arrest any person trading as a peddler
  who  neglects  or  refuses  to  produce his license on demand, and shall
  immediately convey such person before some justice of the peace  of  the
  county.  If  the  fact  that the person so arrested has traded without a
  license be proved to the satisfaction of the justice, he  shall  convict
  such  person  of  an offense against this article and on such conviction
  shall issue his warrant to some constable of the county, commanding such
  constable to levy and collect from the personal property of the offender
  the sum of twenty-five dollars, with the costs of  the  proceeding,  not
  exceeding  five  dollars. The penalty collected on such warrant shall be
  paid by the justice to the public welfare official of the town where the
  offense was committed.
If it appears in said proceeding that the person arrested  refused  to
  produce  his  license or to disclose his name when lawfully required, no
  costs shall be allowed such defendant, nor shall he maintain  an  action
  for false imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4 - Peddlers › 35 - Municipal Regulations.

§  35.  Municipal  regulations.  This  article  shall  not  affect the
  application of any  ordinance,  by-law  or  regulation  of  a  municipal
  corporation  relating  to hawkers and peddlers within the limits of such
  corporations, but the provisions of this article are to be complied with
  in addition to  the  requirements  of  any  such  ordinance,  by-law  or
  regulation;  provided,  however,  that  no  such  by-law,  ordinance  or
  regulation shall prevent or in any manner interfere with the hawking  or
  peddling,  without  the  use  of  any  but a hand driven vehicle, in any
  street, avenue, alley, lane or park of a municipal corporation,  by  any
  honorably discharged member of the armed forces of the United States who
  (1)  was honorably discharged from such service, or (2) has a qualifying
  condition, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,  and
  has  received  a  discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
  such service, or (3) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section
  one of the veterans' services law, and has received  a  discharge  other
  than  bad  conduct  or  dishonorable  from  such  service,  and  who  is
  physically disabled as a  result  of  injuries  received  while  in  the
  service  of  said  armed  forces  and  the  holder  of a license granted
  pursuant to section thirty-two of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors › 37 - Definitions and Application.

§ 37. Definitions and application.
1. For the purposes of this article, the term "itinerant vendor" shall
  mean a merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store,
  who transports to a building, vacant lot, or other location, including a
  location  where  a  fee  is  charged  for  the  privilege of offering or
  displaying goods for sale and/or where a fee is charged  to  prospective
  buyers  for  admission  to the area where goods are offered or displayed
  for sale,  an  inventory  of  goods  for  the  purpose  of  offering  or
  displaying  such  goods for sale, but shall not include persons who sell
  by sample, catalog or brochure for future delivery,  or  who  make  sale
  presentations  pursuant  to  a  prior  invitation issued by the owner or
  legal occupant.
2. This article shall not be construed to  pre-empt  any  municipality
  from  adopting  a  local  law,  rules  or  regulations  containing  more
  stringent penalties than those provided in this article.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors › 38 - Prohibited Sales.

§  38. Prohibited sales. No itinerant vendor, except for an authorized
  manufacturer's representative or authorized distributor, shall offer for
  sale any of the following items:
1. Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a  child
  under the age of two years; or
2. Drugs as defined in section three thousand three hundred two of the
  public health law.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 4-A - Itinerant Vendors › 39 - Violations and Penalties.

§  39. Violations and penalties. 1. The provisions of this article may
  be enforced by the director of a municipal consumer affairs  office,  or
  by  the  town  attorney,  city  corporation  counsel,  or other lawfully
  designated enforcement officer of a municipality  or  local  government,
  and   all   monies  collected  thereunder  shall  be  retained  by  such
  municipality or local government.
2. Under such procedures as may be established by  a  municipality  or
  local government, whenever a violation of this article has occurred, the
  enforcement  agency  may  impose  a  civil  penalty of not more than one
  hundred dollars for each violation.
3. Each item  offered  for  sale  or  sold  in  violation  of  section
  thirty-eight of this article shall constitute a separate violation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 40 - Licenses.

§  40.  Licenses.  No  person,  corporation, partnership or firm shall
  hereafter carry on the  business  of  collateral  loan  broker,  without
  having  first obtained from the mayor of the city or licensing authority
  of the local governing body where the business is to  be  carried  on  a
  license  authorizing  such person to carry on the same in the manner and
  upon the conditions stated in the succeeding sections of  this  article.
  In  the  city of New York such license may be issued by the commissioner
  of consumer affairs. Nothing herein shall be  construed  to  prohibit  a
  collateral loan broker from employing the title pawnbroker in connection
  with  the  collateral  loan business. The title pawnbroker shall be used
  exclusively by a collateral loan broker.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 41 - Licenses, How Obtained; Penalty for Carrying on Business Without License.

§ 41. Licenses, how obtained; penalty for carrying on business without
  license.  The  mayor  or such local licensing authority may from time to
  time grant, under his or her hand and the official seal of  his  or  her
  office, to such citizens, or noncitizens lawfully admitted for permanent
  residence  in  the United States, as he or she shall deem proper and who
  shall produce to him satisfactory evidence of their  good  character,  a
  license authorizing such person to carry on the business of a collateral
  loan  broker,  which  license  shall  designate  the house in which such
  person shall  carry  on  said  business,  and  no  person,  corporation,
  partnership  or  firm  shall  carry on the business of a collateral loan
  broker without being duly licensed, nor in any other house than the  one
  designated  in  said license, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for
  each day he or they shall exercise or carry  on  said  business  without
  such  license  or  at  any  other  house than the one so designated. Any
  person receiving such license shall pay therefor the sum of five hundred
  dollars for the use of the city yearly where  such  business  is  to  be
  conducted  in a city with a population of more than one million persons,
  and where the business is to be conducted elsewhere  the  fee  for  such
  license  shall  not  exceed  two hundred fifty dollars yearly, and every
  such license shall expire one year from the date  thereof,  and  may  be
  renewed  on  application  to the mayor or local licensing authority each
  and every year on payment of the same sum and upon  performance  of  the
  other  conditions  herein  contained. Every person so licensed shall, at
  the time of receiving such license, file with the mayor  or  such  local
  licensing  authority  granting the same a bond to the local authorities,
  to be executed  by  the  person  so  licensed  and  by  two  responsible
  sureties,  in  the  penal sum of ten thousand dollars, to be approved by
  such mayor or local licensing authority, which bond shall be conditioned
  for the faithful performance of the duties and obligations pertaining to
  the business  so  licensed,  and  the  mayor  or  such  local  licensing
  authority shall have full power and authority to revoke such license for
  cause.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 42 - Action on Bond.

§  42.  Action  on  bond.  If  any  person  shall  be aggrieved by the
  misconduct of any  such  licensed  collateral  loan  broker,  and  shall
  recover judgment against him therefor, such person may, after the return
  unsatisfied,  either  in  whole or in part, of any execution issued upon
  said judgment, maintain an action in his own name upon the bond of  said
  collateral  loan  broker  in any court having jurisdiction of the amount
  claimed, provided such  court  shall,  upon  application  made  for  the
  purpose, grant such leave to prosecute.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 43 - Certain Entries to Be Made in Book.

§  43.  Certain entries to be made in book. Every such collateral loan
  broker shall keep a book in which shall be fairly written, at  the  time
  of  such  loan,  an  account  and  description of the goods, articles or
  things pawned or pledged, the amount of money loaned thereon,  the  time
  of  pledging the same, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, the
  name and residence of the person pawning or  pledging  the  said  goods,
  articles  or  things  and a notation of whether the pledgor claims to be
  the owner, consignee or agent of the owner.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 45 - Book to Be Open to Inspection.

§  45.  Book  to  be open to inspection. The said book and any and all
  other books and records regularly kept by such  collateral  loan  broker
  shall  at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the attorney
  general, the state comptroller, the mayor or local licensing  authority,
  all  judges of the criminal courts, the superintendent of police, police
  inspectors, captains of police and police justices of  such  cities,  or
  any  or either of them, or of any person who shall be duly authorized in
  writing for that purpose by any or either of them, and who shall exhibit
  such written authority to such collateral loan broker. The mayor or  the
  licensing  authority of any local governing body, the state comptroller,
  the attorney general and any person duly authorized by them  shall  have
  the  power  to  administer  oaths  and  to  examine  under oath any such
  collateral loan broker or any officer, or agent, of such collateral loan
  broker and any other person having custody or control of such books  and
  records.  Such  books and records shall be retained in the possession of
  the collateral loan broker, in good condition and in an orderly  fashion
  for at least a period of six years.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 46 - Rate of Interest.

§  46.  Rate  of  interest.  Notwithstanding  any  general  or special
  statutes, local laws and ordinances to the contrary, no collateral  loan
  broker  shall  ask,  demand or receive any greater rate of interest than
  four per centum per month, or any fraction of  a  month,  and  a  notice
  containing  a  list  of such rates of interest as herein provided and in
  accordance with the act of congress entitled "Truth in Lending Act"  and
  the regulations thereunder, as such act and regulations may from time to
  time  be amended shall be conspicuously displayed within the premises of
  such collateral loan broker. A minimum interest  charge  of  twenty-five
  cents per month may be made on any loan.
No collateral loan broker shall receive or be entitled to any interest
  or  charges  as  provided  by this article on any loan for any period of
  time exceeding fifteen months from the date of the making of such  loan,
  provided  however that where a loan is extended at the direct request of
  the pledgor, the collateral loan broker may receive and be  entitled  to
  any  interest  or  charges provided by this article on such loan for any
  period of time not to exceed  fifteen  months  from  the  date  of  such
  extension.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 5 - Collateral Loan Brokers › 47-A - Collateral Loan Broker Dealing With a Child.

§  47-a.  Collateral  loan  broker dealing with a child. No collateral
  loan broker or person in the employ of a collateral  loan  broker  shall
  receive  or  purchase any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from, or
  make any loan or advance or permit to  be  loaned  or  advanced  to  any
  child, actually or apparently under the age of eighteen years any money,
  or  in  any  manner  directly or indirectly receive any goods, chattels,
  wares or merchandise from any such child in pledge for loans made or  to
  be made to it or to any other person or otherwise howsoever. It shall be
  no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section, that in the
  transaction  upon  which the prosecution is based the child acted as the
  agent or representative of another, or that  the  defendant  dealt  with
  such child as the agent or representative of another.