Title GBS, General Business

§ 199-c. Termination or refusal to renew a franchise without good cause prohibited; notice requirement; right of action. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this article, no distributor or agent thereof shall terminate, cancel or refuse to renew any franchise except for good caus…

§ 199-d. Repurchase of merchandise. In the event of any termination, cancellation or failure to renew a franchise, whether by mutual agreement or otherwise, a distributor shall make or cause to be made an offer in good faith to repurchase from the dealer at then current wholesal…

§ 199-e. Waiver provisions. Any provision of any franchise agreement purporting to waive any provision of this article shall be null and void.

§ 199-f. Application. This act shall not apply to a franchise granted prior to the effective date of this article provided that a renewal or extension of such a franchise shall not be excluded from the application of this article.

§ 199-g. Arbitration. Any action instituted pursuant to this article in connection with the termination, cancellation, or non-renewal of a franchise, or any part thereof, which provides for the arbitration of disputes arising thereunder in accordance with the rules of the Americ…

§ 199-h. Relationship to other laws. This article shall not be held to invalidate any provisions of the laws of this state unless there is a direct conflict between the provisions of this article and the provisions of such state law, in which case this article shall prevail.

§ 199-i. Dealers' rights to transfer, assign or dispose of the franchise upon notice to distributor. 1. Every franchise agreement and any other lease or agreement in connection therewith between a distributor and a dealer shall be transferable or assignable at the option of the …

§ 199-j. Dealer's right to deal with suppliers other than his distributor. 1. Any provision of a franchise which requires a dealer to purchase or sell products of the distributor other than motor fuel, or which prohibits a dealer from purchasing or selling such products of perso…

§ 199-k. Separability. If any provision of this article or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this article and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected by such holding…

§ 199-l. Removal of certain actions and proceedings. Where a proceeding is commenced to dispossess a dealer in a court which does not have jurisdiction to grant the relief provided in this article and the dealer demonstrates that he has a defense or counterclaim cognizable under…

§ 199-m. Dealers' rights of association. No distributor shall directly or indirectly, through any officer, agent or employee, restrict or inhibit the right of a dealer to join a trade association or to freely associate with other dealers for any lawful purpose. A failure to comp…

§ 199-n. Enforcement of dealers' rights of association; injunction; damages; limitation of actions. Any distributor or officer, agent or employee of a distributor who violates section one hundred ninety-nine-m of this article may be sued in the supreme court in the county in whi…

§ 199-o. Independent range estimate required. (a) Any entity that sells a zero-emission school bus to a school district or contractor for use in providing transportation services to a school district located within the state of New York shall be required to provide an independen…

§ 199-p. Penalties. Any person, firm, corporation, or association or agent or employee thereof who violates the provisions of this article shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation, which shall accrue to the state of New York an…

§ 2. The Sabbath. The first day of the week being by general consent\nset apart for rest and religious uses, the law prohibits the doing on\nthat day of certain acts hereinafter specified, which are serious\ninterruptions of the repose and religious liberty of the community.\n

§ 200. Safes; limited liability. Whenever the proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, inn or steamboat shall provide a safe or safe deposit boxes in the office of such hotel, motel or steamboat, or other convenient place for the safe keeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, b…

§ 201. Liability for loss of clothing and other personal property limited. 1. No hotel or motel keeper except as provided in the foregoing section shall be liable for damage to or loss of wearing apparel or other personal property in the lobby, hallways or in the room or rooms a…

§ 202. Loss by fire. No inn keeper shall be liable for the loss or destruction by fire of property received by him from a guest, stored or being with the knowledge of such guest in a barn or other out-building, where it shall appear that such loss or destruction was the work of …

§ 203. Value of animals. No animal belonging to a guest and destroyed by fire while on the premises of any inn keeper shall be deemed of greater value than three hundred dollars, unless an agreement shall be proved between such guest and inn keeper that a higher estimate shall b…

§ 203-a. Hotel and motel keeper's liability for property in transport. No hotel or motel keeper shall be liable in any sum exceeding the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the loss of or damage to property of a guest delivered to such keeper, his agent or employee, for tra…

§ 203-b. Posting of statute. Every keeper of a hotel or motel or inn shall post in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the registration office and in the public rooms of such hotel or motel or inn a printed copy of this section and section two hundred three-a.

§ 204. Register to be kept. The owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house shall keep for a period of three years a register which shall show the name, residence, date of arrival and departure of…

§ 204-a. Safety chain latches required. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in hotels, motels or motor courts shall install and maintain, on the inside of each entrance door to every rental unit for which there is…

§ 205. Human trafficking awareness and training. 1. Human trafficking recognition training program. a. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall mean any inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides lodging to transient guests. Such term shall…

§ 206. Rates to be posted; penalty for violation. Every keeper of a hotel or inn shall post in a public and conspicuous place and manner in the office or public room, and in the public parlors of such hotel or inn, a printed copy of this section and sections two hundred and two …

§ 206-a. Advertising of rates for motels and motor courts. No person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in motels and motor courts shall: (a) post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign pertaining to such establishment, tha…

§ 206-b. Posting of rates for motels and motor courts. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in motels and motor courts shall: Post in a conspicuous place or manner in each and every rental unit, a printed copy of t…

§ 206-c. Frauds on guests of hotels, boarding houses, rooming-houses and lodging houses. A person who for purposes of gain and by means of any false statement or representation regarding a hotel, boarding house, rooming-house or lodging house, shall divert or attempt to divert a…

§ 206-d. Posting of rates of various type accommodations. In addition to other provisions in this article relating to posting of rates, every keeper of a hotel, motel or inn shall post publicly and conspicuously at the place maintained for the registration of guests so that it c…

§ 206-e. Telephone call charges; disclosure; violations. 1. For the purpose of this section: (a) The term "aggregator" means any hotel, motel, innkeeper, school or hospital which is not a telegraph or telephone corporation, as defined in the public service law, which, in the ord…

§ 206-f. Information concerning services for human trafficking victims. 1. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall mean any inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides lodging to transient guests. Such term shall not include an establishmen…

§ 207. Sale of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his lien. Any keeper of a hotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house, rooming house or lodging-house, except an immigrant lodging-house, who shall have a lien for fare, lodging, accommodation or board upon a…

§ 208. Disposition of proceeds of sale. Such keeper shall, out of the proceeds of such sale, retain the amount of his lien or storage charges and the expense of advertising and sale, and shall make an entry of the articles sold, the amount received therefor, the amounts retained…

§ 209. Certain sales after eighteen months. Any keeper of a hotel, motel, apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house, rooming-house or lodging-house, except an immigrant lodging-house, whose lien for fare, lodging, accommodation or board upon any goods, baggage or other chattel proper…

§ 209-a. Registration of hotel and motel names. Any person or corporation now owning or now engaged in and conducting the business of an hotel or motel in the state of New York may register the name by which said hotel or motel is known and designated by filing in the office of …

§ 209-b. Index of registrants and registered names. The secretary of state and the respective county clerks shall keep an alphabetical index of all persons or corporations filing petitions under the authority of section two hundred nine-a, together with a similar index of the na…

§ 209-c. Registration of identical, similar or misleading names prohibited. The secretary of state shall not record, register or file any name or designation identical with or similar to any other name or designation filed or registered as herein provided as would be calculated …

§ 209-d. Penalties for violation. Any person or corporation violating any provisions of sections two hundred nine-a, two hundred nine-b and two hundred nine-c shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each day such violation shall continue after sixty days' written notice …

§ 209-e. Preservation of existing remedies; use of true name. Nothing in this article shall prevent, lessen, impeach, or avoid any remedy at law or in equity which any party aggrieved by any wrongful use of any such name or designation might have had if the foregoing provisions …

§ 209-f. Notice of assignment. Upon the assignment of any name registered as provided in this article, a written notice of such assignment, subscribed and acknowledged by the assignor, may be filed in each public office in which such name is registered, and thereupon the assigne…

§ 209-g. Notice of abandonment. The proprietor of a name registered as provided in this article, may file a written notice of abandonment thereof, subscribed and acknowledged by such proprietor in each public office in which the name is registered, and thereupon all rights of th…

§ 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-ha…

§ 217. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: 1. "Retail mercantile establishment" shall mean a place where goods, wares or merchandise are offered to the public for sale. 2. "Restocking fee" shall mean any amount…

§ 218. Defense of lawful detention. In any action for false arrest, false imprisonment, unlawful detention, defamation of character, assault, trespass, or invasion of civil rights, brought by any person by reason of having been detained on or in the immediate vicinity of the pre…

§ 218-a. Disclosure of refund policies. 1. Every retail mercantile establishment and online retailer shall conspicuously post, in the following manner, its refund policy as to all goods, wares or merchandise offered to the public for sale: (a) on a sign attached to the item itse…

§ 218-aa. Warranty disclosure. 1. As used in this section, the term "grey markets merchandise" means any brand-name consumer product normally accompanied by a warranty valid in the United States of America which is imported into the United States through channels other than the …

§ 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.

§ 220. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: 1. "commercial trampoline" shall mean a device that: (a) incorporates a trampoline bed; and (b) is used for entertainment or recreational jumping, springing, bouncing,…

§ 221. Exemptions. This article shall not apply to: 1. a playground that a school or local government operates, if: (a) the playground is an incidental amenity; and (b) the operating entity does not primarily derive revenue from operating the playground for a fee; 2. a gymnastic…

§ 222. Compliance with industry standards. A trampoline park owner shall ensure that the trampoline park complies with standards developed in conjunction with industry safety organizations regarding: 1. signage and notification for proper use of the trampoline park, safety proce…