Title GBS, General Business

§ 63. Certain property to be kept in separate piles. Every junk dealer\nshall on purchasing any of the property described in the last section\nplace and keep each separate purchase in a separate and distinct pile,\nbundle or package, in the usual place of business of such junk d…

§ 63-a. Purchasing property from a child. No owner, keeper or\nproprietor of a junk shop, junk cart or other vehicle or boat or vessel\nused for the collection of junk, or any person in the employ of such\nowner, keeper, or proprietor, or any collector of junk, shall receive or\…

§ 630. Enforcement. In addition to the remedies hereinbefore provided,\nthe attorney general may bring an action on behalf of the people of the\nstate to restrain further violations of this article, to enforce the\nprovisions of section six hundred twenty-two-a of this article a…

§ 631. Preemption. A political subdivision, otherwise authorized, may\nenact a local law, identical to the provisions of this article, to\nenable local enforcement of the provisions of this article and such\nlocal law. Any local law not identical with the provisions of this\nart…

§ 64. Penalty. Each violation of this article, either by the junk\ndealer, the agent or servant thereof, and each false statement made in\nor on any statement or tag above mentioned shall be a misdemeanor and\nthe person convicted shall, in addition to other penalties imposed,\n…

§ 640. Target marketing; prohibitions. 1. Definitions. For purposes of\nthis article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Personal identifiable information" shall mean any information\nobtained by a manufacturer or distributor of a home-use medical\ndia…

§ 641. Weight loss services and products. For the purposes of this\narticle:\n 1. "Weight loss services" shall mean counseling and educational\nactivities, including, but not limited to, recommending the use of\nweight loss products, which have the primary purpose of helping\nin…

§ 642. Weight loss services; notice. 1. Any person, firm or\ncorporation offering weight loss services or weight loss services and\nproducts in this state by means of selling or offering to sell such\nservices or products to the public shall either (i) conspicuously post a\nsign…

§ 643. Deceptive practices. It shall be a deceptive trade practice for\nany person, firm or corporation offering or providing weight loss\nservices or weight loss products to misrepresent, directly or\nindirectly:\n 1. the potential health risks of the weight loss services or pr…

§ 644. Local regulation. Nothing in this article shall be construed to\nrestrict the power of any county, city, town or village to adopt and\nenforce local laws, ordinances or regulations which exceed the minimum\nrequirements of this article, as long as such local laws, ordinan…

§ 645. Penalties. Each day a person, firm or corporation violates any\nprovision of this article shall constitute a single violation. Whenever\nthere shall be a violation of this article, an application may be made\nby the attorney general in the name of the people of the state …

§ 650. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "Membership campground act".\n

§ 651. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the terms:\n 1. "Advertising" means any written, printed, audio or visual\ncommunication by a membership campground operator or an employee or\nagent of a membership campground operator made in conjunction with the\npromotion…

§ 652. Applicability. 1. Except as provided herein, this article shall\napply to the sale or offer of sale of membership camping contracts to\nresidents of the state if the facilities which are the subject of the\nmembership camping contract are in the state, or if the sale or o…

§ 653. Specific disclosures. 1. Prior to the execution of a membership\ncamping contract, the purchaser must be provided with a disclosure\ndocument which shall begin with the following language printed in upper\ncase boldface type of a minimum size of ten points:\n DISCLOSURE D…

§ 654. Right of cancellation. 1. The purchaser may cancel a membership\ncamping contract with or without cause within three business days after\nthe execution of such contract. Notice of cancellation shall be\ndelivered by hand or mailed to the address specified in the contract.…

§ 654-a. Cancellation of membership camping contracts. 1. For the\npurposes of this section the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n a. "adult care facility" shall have the same meaning as such term is\ndefined in subdivision twenty-one of section two of the soc…

§ 655. Restriction on conveyance of campgrounds. 1. No membership\ncampground operator shall convey or transfer a membership campground\nunless the transferee takes title or possession subject to all rights of\npurchasers; or the membership campground operator immediately\nsubst…

§ 656. Advertising standards. Membership campground operators, their\nemployees and agents shall be subject to all relevant provisions of this\nchapter, including, but not limited to, sections three hundred\nforty-nine, three hundred fifty, and three hundred sixty-nine-ee in the…

§ 657. Escrow. 1. All monies, except dues, paid under a membership\ncamping contract that is sold under a representation that a major\ncapital improvement shall be constructed shall be placed in escrow.\n 2. All such funds received by a membership campground operator shall\nbe k…

§ 658. Violations. Any membership campground operator or his agents,\nemployees or assignees who violate any provision of this article shall\nbe liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars for\neach such violation.\n

§ 659. Contracts void and unenforceable. 1. Any membership camping\ncontract which does not comply with the applicable provisions of this\narticle shall be void and unenforceable as contrary to public policy.\n 2. Any waiver by the purchaser of the provisions of this article sha…

§ 660. Construction. 1. This article neither enlarges nor diminishes\nthe rights of parties in private litigation except as provided in this\nsection.\n 2. Any person who has been injured by reason of any violation of this\narticle may bring an action in his own name to enjoin s…

* § 670. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "video consumer privacy act".\n * NB There are 2 § 670's\n

* § 670. Repair, replacement and refund under new wheelchair\nwarranties. 1. As used in this section:\n a. "Collateral costs" means expenses incurred by a consumer in\nconnection with the repair of a nonconformity, including the costs of\nobtaining an alternative wheelchair or o…

§ 671. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. The legislature\nfinds and declares that the viewing of rented video tapes and movies in\nthe home is a popular and widespread leisure pastime. Innumerable retail\nestablishments in this state commonly record, often by compu…

§ 672. Definitions. 1. The term "consumer" means any renter,\npurchaser, or subscriber of goods or services from a video tape service\nprovider or video tape seller.\n 2. The term "ordinary course of business" means only debt collection\nactivities, order fulfillment, request pr…

§ 673. Wrongful disclosure of video tape rental records. 1. A video\ntape service provider who knowingly discloses, to any person, personally\nidentifiable information concerning any consumer of such provider shall\nbe liable to the aggrieved person for the relief provided in se…

§ 674. Wrongful disclosure of video tape sales records. 1. A video\ntape seller who knowingly discloses, to any person, personally\nidentifiable information concerning any consumer of such seller shall be\nliable to the aggrieved person for the relief provided in section six\nhu…

§ 675. Civil liability. 1. Any person found to be in violation of this\narticle shall be liable to the aggrieved consumer for all actual damages\nsustained by such consumer as a result of the violation, provided that\nany consumer who prevails or substantially prevails in an act…

§ 680. Legislative findings and declaration of policy. 1. The\nlegislature hereby finds and declares that the widespread sale of\nfranchises is a relatively new form of business which has created\nnumerous problems in New York. New York residents have suffered\nsubstantial losse…

§ 681. Definitions. 1. "Advertisement" includes any written or printed\ncommunication, or any communication by means of recorded telephone\nmessages or spoken on radio, television, or similar communications\nmedia, published in connection with an offer or sale of a franchise.\n …

§ 682. Scope. The disclosure requirements mandated by this article\napply to all written or oral arrangements between a franchisor and\nfranchisee in connection with the offer or sale of a franchise,\nincluding, but not limited to, the franchise offering, the franchise\nagreemen…

§ 683. Disclosure requirements. 1. It shall be unlawful and prohibited\nfor any person to offer to sell or sell in this state any franchise\nunless and until there shall have been registered with the department of\nlaw, prior to such offer or sale, a written statement to be know…

§ 684. Exemptions. 1. The department of law is hereby authorized and\nempowered to exempt by rule or regulation any person, franchise, or\ntransaction from any provision of section six hundred eighty-three of\nthis article or from any rule or regulation thereunder if the departm…

§ 685. Escrows and impoundments. If the department of law finds that\nthe applicant for registration has failed to demonstrate that adequate\nfinancial arrangements have been made to fulfill obligations to provide\nreal estate, improvements, equipment, inventory, training, or ot…

§ 686. Designation of secretary of state as agent for service of\nprocess; service of process. Any person who shall offer to sell or sell\na franchise in this state as a franchisor, subfranchisor or franchise\nsales agent shall be deemed to have irrevocably appointed the secreta…

§ 687. Fraudulent and unlawful practices. 1. It is unlawful for any\nperson to make any untrue statement of a material fact in any\napplication, notice, statement, prospectus or report filed with the\ndepartment under this article, or wilfully to omit to state in any such\nappli…

§ 688. Investigations. 1. Whenever it shall appear to the department\nof law, either upon complaint or otherwise, that any person has violated\nany provision of this article, the department:\n (a) may make such investigations within or outside of this state as it\ndeems necessar…

§ 689. Action by the department of law. 1. Whenever the department\nshall believe from evidence satisfactory to it that any person has\nengaged in or is engaged in or is about to engage in any practice or\ntransaction heretofore referred to as and declared to be an unlawful or\n…

§ 69. Sale of incarcerated individual made goods. No goods, wares, or\nmerchandise, manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part by\nincarcerated individuals, except incarcerated individuals or persons on\nparole, probation, or release, shall be sold in this state to any\np…

§ 69-a. Sale of goods produced with child labor. No goods, wares, or\nmerchandise, manufactured or produced in or for a factory or by\nindustrial homework or produced or mined in a mine or quarry in this or\nany other state, or in any territory, dependency or possession of the\n…

§ 69-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:\n 1. The term "child labor" shall be defined as employment of persons\nunder sixteen years of age.\n 2. The term "factory" shall be defined as provided in the first\nsentence of paragraph nine of section two of the labor law…

§ 69-c. Violations. A violation of the provisions of this article\nshall constitute a misdemeanor.\n

§ 69-d. Saving clause with respect to other laws. Nothing in this\narticle shall be deemed to modify, alter, repeal or amend any provision\naffecting terms, requirements, conditions, hours or wages of employment,\nor any definitions applicable thereto, contained in the labor law…

§ 69-e. Definitions. 1. "Scrap metal processing facility" shall mean\nan establishment engaged primarily in the purchase, processing and\nshipment of ferrous and/or non-ferrous scrap, the end product of which\nis the production of raw material for remelting purposes for steel\nm…

§ 69-f. License. It shall be unlawful for any person, association,\npartnership or corporation to engage in business as a scrap processor\nunless such scrap processor shall have complied with the provisions of\nthis article and obtained a license to do so from the mayor of the c…

§ 69-g. Records. 1. Such scrap processor shall record (i) each\npurchase of any pig or pigs of metal, bronze or brass castings or parts\nthereof, sprues or gates or parts thereof, utility wire or brass car\njournals, or of metal beer kegs, and (ii) each purchase of iron, steel\n…

§ 69-h. Penalty. 1. Each violation of this article by a scrap\nprocessor shall be a violation subject to a fine of not more than two\nhundred dollars, unless such violation shall be wilful, in which event\nit shall be a misdemeanor except, however, the scrap processor shall not\…

§ 69-l. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context\nrequires otherwise:\n 1. "Department" means the department of state.\n 2. "Person" means an individual, firm, company, partnership, limited\nliability company or corporation.\n 3. "Licensee" means a person as here…