Title GBS, General Business

* § 899-jjj. Effect of communication on privileges. All communication\nbetween the consumer's attorney in the legal claim and the consumer\nlegal funding company as it pertains to the consumer legal funding shall\nfall within the scope of the attorney client privilege, including…

§ 899-k. Required records. 1. An athlete agent shall retain the\nfollowing records for a period of five years:\n (a) the name and address of each individual represented by the athlete\nagent;\n (b) any agency contract entered into by the athlete agent; and\n (c) any direct costs…

§ 899-kk. Rulemaking authority. The attorney general may promulgate\nsuch rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate and enforce\nthe provisions of this article.\n

* § 899-kkk. Registration. 1. Unless a consumer litigation funding\ncompany has first registered with the state of New York pursuant to this\narticle, the company may not engage in the business of consumer\nlitigation funding in this state.\n 2. An applicant's registration must …

§ 899-l. Prohibited conduct. 1. An athlete agent, with the intent to\ninduce a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract, shall not:\n (a) give any materially false or misleading information or make a\nmaterially false promise or representation;\n (b) furnish anything of …

§ 899-ll. Scope. 1. This article shall apply to conduct that occurs in\nwhole or in part in the state of New York. For purposes of this article,\ncommercial conduct takes place wholly outside of the state of New York\nif the business collected such information while the covered …

* § 899-lll. Reporting. 1. Each consumer litigation funding company\nthat engages in business in the state shall submit a report to the\ndepartment of state no later than the thirty-first of January of each\nyear specifying:\n (a) number of consumer litigation fundings by the co…

§ 899-m. Criminal sanctions. 1. Except as provided in subdivision two\nof this section, an athlete agent who violates the provisions of section\neight hundred ninety-nine-l of this article shall be guilty of a class A\nmisdemeanor.\n 2. An athlete agent who violates: (a) the pro…

§ 899-mm. Remedies. Whenever it appears to the attorney general,\neither upon complaint or otherwise, that any person, within or outside\nthe state, has engaged in or is about to engage in any of the acts or\npractices stated to be unlawful in this article, the attorney general\…

* § 899-mmm. Severability. If any provision of this article is, for\nany reason, declared unconstitutional or invalid, in whole or in part,\nby any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed\nseverable, and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affe…

§ 899-n. Civil remedies. 1. An educational institution shall have a\nright of action against an athlete agent for damages caused by any\nviolation of this article. In an action brought pursuant to this\nsection, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing\npla…

§ 899-o. Administrative penalty. The secretary of state may assess a\ncivil penalty against an athlete agent not to exceed twenty-five\nthousand dollars for a violation of section eight hundred ninety-nine-l\nof this article.\n

§ 899-p. Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and\nconstruing this article in this state, consideration shall be given to\nthe need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject\nmatter among states that enact it.\n

§ 9. Public traffic on Sunday. All manner of public selling or\noffering for sale of any property upon Sunday is prohibited, except as\nfollows: 1. Articles of food may be sold, served, supplied and delivered\nat any time before ten o'clock in the morning:\n 2. Meals may be sold…

§ 90. Fictitious bills of lading, receipts and vouchers. A person who:\nBeing the master, owner or agent of any vessel, or officer or agent of\nany railway, express or transportation company, or otherwise being or\nrepresenting any carrier, delivers any bill of lading, receipt o…

§ 900. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall\nhave the following meanings:\n 1. "Peer-to-peer car sharing" shall mean the authorized use of a\nshared vehicle by an individual other than the vehicle's owner through a\npeer-to-peer car sharing program.\n …

§ 901. Requirements for doing business. 1. No shared vehicle shall be\nclassified as a commercial vehicle, for-hire vehicle, transportation\nnetwork company or TNC vehicle as defined in article forty-four-B of the\nvehicle and traffic law, taxi-cab, rental vehicle as defined in …

§ 902. Program liability. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of\nlaw, or any provision in a shared vehicle owner's policy of motor\nvehicle liability insurance, in the event of a loss, death, or injury\nthat shall occur during the peer-to-peer car sharing period, the\npeer-t…

§ 903. Lien implications; notification. When a vehicle owner first\nregisters as a shared vehicle owner in a peer-to-peer car sharing\nprogram and prior to such time as when the shared vehicle owner makes a\nshared vehicle available for peer-to-peer car sharing in the\npeer-to-p…

§ 904. Insurable interest. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of\nlaw to the contrary, a peer-to-peer car sharing program administrator\nshall have an insurable interest in a shared vehicle during the\npeer-to-peer car sharing period.\n 2. Nothing in this section shall creat…

§ 905. Disclosures. 1. Each peer-to-peer car sharing program agreement\nmade in this state shall disclose and separately state or itemize to the\nshared vehicle owner and the shared vehicle driver:\n (a) the daily rate, fees, and, if applicable, any insurance or\nprotection pack…

§ 906. Driver's license verification; data retention. 1. A\npeer-to-peer car sharing program administrator shall not enter into a\npeer-to-peer car sharing program agreement with a driver unless the\ndriver who will operate the shared vehicle furnishes proof, by\nelectronic mean…

§ 907. Data privacy protections. Notwithstanding any other provision\nof the law to the contrary, all trip data, personal information, images,\nvideos, and other recorded images collected by any peer-to-peer car\nsharing program administrator that is authorized to operate pursua…

§ 908. Responsibility for equipment. A peer-to-peer car sharing\nprogram administrator shall have sole responsibility for any equipment,\nsuch as a global positioning system, or GPS, or other special equipment\nwhich is put in or on such shared vehicle to monitor or facilitate t…

§ 909. Safety recalls. 1. At the time when a shared vehicle owner\nregisters a shared vehicle in a peer-to-peer car sharing program, and\nprior to the time when the shared vehicle owner makes a shared vehicle\navailable for car sharing in the peer-to-peer car sharing program, an…

§ 91. Offenses by pipe-line corporations. A pipe-line corporation, or\na person being the officer, agent, manager or representative thereof,\nwho:\n 1. Accepts, makes or issues any receipt, certificate or order of any\nkind for any commodity, unless the commodity represented is …

§ 910. Discrimination based on age prohibited. 1. It shall be unlawful\nfor any corporation, partnership, firm, institution, sole proprietorship\nor other entity or person engaged in the business of peer-to-peer car\nsharing to refuse to make a shared vehicle available to any pe…

§ 911. Discrimination on the basis of credit card ownership\nprohibited. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership,\ninstitution, sole proprietorship, corporation or other entity engaged in\nthe business of peer-to-peer car sharing to refuse to make a shared\nveh…

§ 912. Discrimination in peer-to-peer car sharing prohibited. 1. No\ncorporation, partnership, firm, institution, sole proprietorship or\nother entity or person engaged in the business of peer-to-peer car\nsharing shall refuse to make a shared vehicle available to any person\not…

§ 913. Optional vehicle protection; requirements. 1. (a) (i) A\npeer-to-peer car sharing program administrator shall not charge a\nseparately itemized fee solely for optional vehicle protection, except\nas follows:\n (A) the fee charged by a peer-to-peer car sharing program\nadm…

§ 914. Geographical discrimination prohibited. It shall be unlawful\nfor any peer-to-peer car sharing program administrator to engage in any\nof the following practices solely on the basis of the geographical\nlocation of the residence of a New York state resident attempting to\…

§ 915. Global positioning systems. A peer-to-peer car sharing program\nadministrator shall not use information from any global positioning\nsystem technology to determine or impose any costs, fees, charges, or\npenalties on a shared vehicle driver for such driver's use of a shar…

§ 916. Notice. In accordance with any applicable federal law or rule,\nevery peer-to-peer car sharing program shall display the following\nnotice prominently and in a clear and conspicuous location on its\nwebsite, with lettering that is legible: "NOTICE: New York State Law\npro…

§ 917. Electronic notice authorized. 1. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of this article, and the peer-to-peer car sharing act,\nincluding, without limitation, sections two thousand three hundred five,\nthree thousand four hundred fifty-nine, three thousand four hundred\nsix…

§ 918. Airport transactions. If an airport operator, including but not\nlimited to the public authority responsible for regulating commerce at\nsuch airport within this state, requests that a peer-to-peer car sharing\nprogram administrator enter into an airport concession agreem…

§ 919. Enforcement. 1. Except where a different penalty is\nspecifically imposed pursuant to any provision of this article, any\npeer-to-peer car sharing program found by a court of competent\njurisdiction to have violated a provision of this article shall be\nsubject to a penal…

§ 92. Erroneous bills of lading or receipts, issued in good faith,\nexcepted. No person can be convicted of an offense under the last two\nsections, for the reason that the contents of any barrel, box, case,\ncask or other vessel or package mentioned in the bill of lading, recei…

§ 93. Duplicate receipts must be marked "duplicate." A person\nmentioned in sections ninety and ninety-one, who issues any second or\nduplicate receipt or voucher, of a kind specified in those sections, at\na time while a former receipt or voucher for the merchandise specified\n…

§ 94. Selling, hypothecating or pledging property received for\ntransportation or storage. A person mentioned in sections ninety and\nninety-one, who sells or pledges any merchandise for which a bill of\nlading, receipt or voucher has been issued by him, without the consent\nin …

§ 95. Bill of lading or receipt issued by warehouseman must be\ncanceled on redelivery of the property. A person mentioned in section\nninety, who delivers to another any merchandise for which a bill of\nlading, receipt or voucher has been issued, unless such bill of lading,\nre…

§ 96. Property demanded by process of law. The last two sections do\nnot apply to any case where property is demanded by virtue of legal\nprocess.\n

§ 97. Penalty for failure to issue bill of lading. Any person who,\nbeing the owner, master or agent of any vessel transporting merchandise\nor property between ports of this state, departs with such vessel or\ncauses such vessel to depart from the port where such merchandise or…

§ 98. Issue of bill of lading for goods not received. Any officer,\nagent or servant of a common carrier, who with intent to defraud issues\nor aids in issuing a bill of lading knowing that all or any part of the\ngoods for which such bill of lading is issued have not been recei…

§ 99. Issue of bill of lading containing false statement. Any officer,\nagent, or servant of a common carrier, who with intent to defraud issues\nor aids in issuing a bill of lading for goods knowing that it contains\nany false statement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n