Title GBS, General Business

§ 1601. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.

§ 161. Agent to transmit through principal. No such agent so authorized shall transmit any money received for transmission by him through any person, firm or corporation other than through the principal from whom such agent has duly received authority.

§ 162. Certain transmission prohibited; method of transmission. No steamship company, express company, or other company and no agent thereof, shall receive any money as a depositary. Every such steamship company, express company, or other company and every agent thereof in trans…

§ 163. Time of transmission. Every agent authorized to act as such by any steamship company, express company, or otherwise for the purpose of transmitting money, shall within two days after receipt thereof, deliver to his principal the money so received. Every such steamship com…

§ 164. Disposition of undelivered moneys. Every steamship company, express company, or other company, to which moneys received for transmission are returned for the reason that the same cannot be delivered shall forthwith notify the transmitter thereof by mailing written notice …

§ 165. Application of article. This article shall not apply to any person, firm, corporation or association under the supervision of the department of financial services.

§ 166. Violations; penalty. Every person, firm or corporation and every officer thereof, who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 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 reta…

§ 170. Application of article. This article shall apply to all employment agencies in the state.

§ 1700. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Artificial intelligence", "artificial intelligence technology", or "AI" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, …

§ 1701. Prohibitions and requirements. It shall be unlawful for any operator to operate for or provide an AI companion to a user unless such AI companion contains a protocol to take reasonable efforts for detecting and addressing suicidal ideation or expressions of self-harm exp…

§ 1702. Notifications. An operator shall provide a clear and conspicuous notification to a user at the beginning of any AI companion interaction which need not exceed once per day and at least every three hours for continuing AI companion interactions which states either verball…

§ 1703. Enforcement. 1. Whenever the attorney general shall believe from evidence satisfactory to them that an operator has engaged in or is about to engage in any of the acts or practices stated to be unlawful in this article or in violation of section seventeen hundred one or …

§ 1704. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its op…

§ 171. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: 1. "Commissioner" means the industrial commissioner of the state of New York, except that in the application of this article to the city of New York the term "commissioner" means the commissioner of consumer affairs of such city…

§ 172. License required. No person shall open, keep, maintain, own, operate or carry on any employment agency unless such person shall have first procured a license therefor as provided in this article. Such license shall be issued by the commissioner of labor, except that if th…

§ 173. Application for license. 1. An application for such license shall be made to the commissioner of labor, except that if the employment agency is to be conducted in the city of New York the application for such license shall be made to the commissioner of consumer affairs o…

§ 174. Procedure upon application; grant of license. 1. Upon the receipt of an application for a license, the commissioner shall cause the name and address of the applicant, the name under which the employment agency is to be conducted, and the street and number of the place whe…

§ 175. Form and contents of license. 1. Every license shall contain the name of the person licensed, a designation of the city, town or village, street and number of the place in which the person licensed is authorized to carry on the said employment agency, and the number and d…

§ 176. Assignment or transfer of license; change of location; additional locations. A license granted as provided in this article shall not be valid for any person other than the person to whom it is issued or any place other than that designated in the license and shall not be …

§ 177. Bonds and license fees. 1. Every person licensed under the provisions of this article to carry on the business of an employment agency shall pay to the commissioner a license fee in accordance with the following schedule before such license is issued. The minimum fee for …

§ 178. Action on bond. All claims or suits brought in any court against any licensed person may be brought in the name of the person damaged upon the bond deposited by such licensed person as provided in section one hundred seventy-seven and may be transferred and assigned as ot…

§ 179. Registers and other records to be kept. It shall be the duty of every licensed person to keep a register, approved by the commissioner, in which shall be entered, in the English language, the date of the application for employment, the date the applicant started work and …

* § 1800. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Artificial intelligence", "artificial intelligence technology", or "AI" shall mean a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predic…

* § 1801. Prohibition. 1. Except as otherwise provided for in this article, it shall be unlawful for an operator to provide unsafe AI companion features to a covered user unless: (a) the covered user is not a covered minor; and (b) the operator has used methods that are permissi…

* § 1802. Enforcement. 1. Whenever it appears to the attorney general, either upon complaint or otherwise, that any person, within or outside the state, has engaged in or is about to engage in any of the acts or practices deemed unlawful pursuant to this article, the attorney ge…

* § 1803. Rulemaking. The attorney general may promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to effectuate and enforce the provisions of this article. Such rules or regulations may specify that information collected under this article shall not be used for any purpose other than…

* § 1804. Determination of covered minor. 1. To the extent rules or regulations referenced in section eighteen hundred three of this article or rules and regulations regarding age assurance methods promulgated pursuant to article forty-five of this chapter are not in effect, an …

* § 1805. Applicability. This article shall apply to conduct that occurs in whole or in part in the state of New York. For purposes of this article, conduct takes place wholly outside of the state of New York if a covered AI companion is accessed by a user who is physically loca…

§ 181. Contracts, statements of terms and conditions, and receipts. It shall be the duty of every employment agency to give to each applicant for employment: 1. A true copy of every contract executed between such agency and such applicant, which shall have printed on it or attac…

§ 182. Cards to be furnished nurses; registry records. A nurses' registry shall send out to practice nursing only persons duly licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-nine of the education law as a registered professional nurse or licensed practical nurse. Every nurses' …

§ 184. Recruitment of domestic or household employees who are residents of other states; findings and policy. The acute shortage of domestic or household employees in this state has led to extensive recruitment of such employees from other states in the continental United States…

§ 184-a. Recruitment of domestic or household employees from outside the continental United States. 1. Purposes. The recruitment of domestic or household employees from outside the continental United States involves special problems and special services not encompassed in other …

§ 185. Fees. 1. Circumstances permitting fee. An employment agency shall not charge or accept a fee or other consideration unless in accordance with the terms of a written contract with a job applicant and after such agency has been responsible for referring such job applicant t…

§ 185-a. Domestic dayworkers who are transported to the place of employment. 1. Purposes. The lack of adequate local transportation in certain suburban and urban communities of the state has caused employment agencies to provide transportation to daily domestic workers, to and f…

§ 186. Return of fees. 1. Excessive fee: Any employment agency which collects, receives or retains a fee or other payment contrary to or in excess of the provisions of this article, shall return the fee or the excess portion thereof within seven days after receiving a demand the…

§ 187. Additional prohibitions. An employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: (1) Induce or attempt to induce any employee to terminate his employment in order to obtain other employment through such agency, provided, however, that this pro…

§ 188. Copies of law to be posted. 1. Every licensed person shall post in a conspicuous place in the main room of such agency sections one hundred seventy-eight, one hundred eighty-one, one hundred eighty-five, and one hundred eighty-six, of this article. Such poster shall also …

§ 189. Enforcement of provisions of this article. 1. This article, article nineteen-B of the labor law and sections 37.01, 37.03 and 37.05 of the arts and cultural affairs law shall be enforced by the commissioner of labor, except that in the city of New York this article and su…

§ 190. Penalties for violations. Any person who violates and the officers of a corporation and stockholders holding ten percent or more of the stock of a corporation which is not publicly traded, who knowingly permit the corporation to violate sections one hundred seventy-two, o…

§ 191. Definition. Whenever used in this article: "employer fee paid employment agency" means any person who on behalf of employers procures or attempts to procure employees for "Class B" employment (as defined in section one hundred eighty-five of this article) and who in no in…

§ 192. Prohibited activities. An employer fee paid employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: 1. Direct an applicant to an employer for the purpose of obtaining employment without having first obtained a bona fide order therefor; however, a…

§ 193. Penalties for violation. Any person violating the provisions of section one hundred ninety-two of this article shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year or both. Cr…

§ 194. Employment agency fees; reimbursement from employee to employer prohibited. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor. (b) "Employer" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, receiver, …

§ 198-a. Warranties. (a) As used in this section:\n (1) "Consumer" means the purchaser, lessee or transferee, other than\nfor purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle which is used primarily for\npersonal, family or household purposes and any other person entitled by\nthe terms of…

§ 198-b. Sale or lease of used motor vehicles. a. Definitions. As used\nin this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Consumer" means the purchaser, or lessee, other than for purposes\nof resale, of a used motor vehicle primarily used for personal…

§ 198-c. Automobile trade-in protection. (a) As used in this section, "dealer" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined by section four hundred fifteen of the vehicle and traffic law. (b) When a dealer purchases or obtains a vehicle in trade in a retail sale or lease …

§ 199. Penalties. Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of section one hundred ninety-six of this article shall be liable in an action brought on behalf of the people of the state of New York in the sum of one thousand dollars for each of such violations.

§ 199-a. Definitions. As used in this article, the terms: 1. "Distributor" means any person engaged in the sale, consignment, or distribution of motor fuels to dealers. 2. "Dealer" means any person engaged in the retail sale of motor fuels for use in motor vehicles under a franc…

§ 199-b. Disclosures to prospective dealers. A distributor shall disclose in writing to any prospective dealer the following information, before any franchise is entered into: 1. The gallonage volume history, if any, of the location under negotiation for and during the three yea…