Title GBS, General Business

§ 229-a. Marking certain articles, silver, sterling silver or solid\nsilver. Any person, firm, corporation or association who makes or sells\nor offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or its possession, with\nintent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, …

§ 229-b. Selling silverware marked coin or coin silver. Any person,\nfirm, corporation or association who makes or sells, or offers to sell\nor dispose of, or has in his or its possession with intent to sell or\ndispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded w…

§ 229-c. Marking soldered metal sterling or sterling silver. Any\nperson, firm, corporation or association who makes or sells, or offers\nto sell or dispose of, or has in his or its possession with intent to\nsell or dispose of, any article of merchandise, whose component parts\…

§ 229-d. Marking soldered metal coin or coin silver. Any person, firm,\ncorporation or association who makes or sells, or offers to sell or\ndispose of, or has in his or its possession with intent to sell or\ndispose of, any article of merchandise, whose component parts are made…

§ 229-e. Marking metal placed on leather or other substances sterling\nor sterling silver. Any person, firm, corporation or association who\nmakes or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or its\npossession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of mercha…

§ 229-f. Marking metal placed on leather or other substances, coin or\ncoin silver. Any person, firm, corporation or association who makes or\nsells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or its possession\nwith intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise c…

§ 229-g. Marking watch cases sterling or sterling silver. Any person,\nfirm, corporation or association who makes or sells, or offers to sell\nor dispose of or has in his or its possession with intent to sell or\ndispose of, any article of merchandise comprised of works or movem…

§ 229-h. Marking watch cases coin or coin silver. Any person, firm,\ncorporation or association who makes or sells, or offers to sell or\ndispose of, or has in his or its possession with intent to sell or\ndispose of, any article of merchandise comprised of works or movements\np…

§ 229-i. Marking articles made of gold. (1) Any person, firm,\ncorporation or association who or which makes or sells or offers to sell\nor dispose of, has in his or its possession with intent to sell or\ndispose of, any article of merchandise, except watch cases and flatware,\n…

§ 229-j. Sale of artificially colored diamonds. Any person, firm,\ncorporation or association, and any agent or employee thereof, who or\nwhich shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any diamond which shall\nhave been artificially colored or tinted by coating, irradiating,\nheat…

§ 23. Automobile auctioneer. 1. Definitions. The term "automobile\nauctioneer" as used in this section means any person, not claiming title\nin himself, who sells or offers for retail sale more than five motor\nvehicles, motorcycles or trailers in any calendar year, or who displ…

§ 230. Definitions. In this article unless the context otherwise\nrequires: "Article" means any article of merchandise and includes any\nportion of such article, whether a distinct part thereof, or not\n(including every part thereof whether or not separable and also\nincluding m…

§ 231. Application of quality mark. 1. When an article is composed of\nmechanism, works or movements and of a case or cover containing the\nmechanism, works or movements, a quality mark applied to the article\nshall be deemed not to be, nor to be intended to be, applied to the\n…

§ 232. Trade mark. If there is any quality mark printed, stamped or\nbranded on the article itself there must also be printed, stamped or\nbranded on the said article itself the following mark, to wit: a trade\nmark duly applied for or registered under the laws of the United Sta…

§ 233. Quality marks; description. All quality marks applied to any\narticle shall be equal in size and equally visible, legible, clear and\ndistinct and no quality mark which is false, deceptive or misleading\nshall be applied to any article or to any descriptive device therefo…

§ 234. Quality; contents. There shall not be applied to any article\nany quality mark nor any colorable imitation thereof, nor any\ncontraction thereof, nor any addition thereto, nor any words or letters,\nnor any mark purporting to be or resembling a quality mark except as\nfol…

§ 235. Whenever provided for in this article, except as specifically\nexcepted in paragraph d of the preceding section, the word "platinum"\nmay be applied by spelling it out in full or by the abbreviation\n"plat.", the word "iriduim" may be applied by spelling it out in full or…

§ 236. Prima facie proof. 1. In any action relating to the\nenforcement of any provision of this article, a certificate duly issued\nby an assay office of the treasury department of the United States,\ncertifying the weight of any article, or any part thereof, or of the\nkind, w…

§ 237. Penalties. Any person or persons, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or association or any officer, director, employee or agent\nthereof who makes, or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in\nhis or its possession, with intent to sell or dispose of, any article as\…

§ 238. Effect of invalidity of any part of this article. If any part\nof this article, or the application thereof to any particular situation,\nis held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid on account\nof unconstitutionality, such adjudication shall not affect the…

§ 239. Definitions. As used in this article the term:\n 1. "Appraiser" shall mean any person or persons, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or association or any officer, director, employee or agent\nthereof who purports to ascertain and state the true value of property.\n 2. "Prop…

§ 239-a. Certain appraisals; penalty. Any appraiser who knowingly\ngives a written appraisal of property with intent to defraud, deceive,\nor injure another person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association\nor any officer, director, employee, or agent thereof shall be guil…

§ 239-b. Action to restrain and prevent. The attorney-general may\nbring an action in the name and in behalf of the people of the state\nagainst any appraiser, to restrain and prevent a violation of this\narticle, wherever the same may have been made.\n

§ 239-c. Civil liability. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation,\nassociation or officer, director, employee, or agent thereof sustaining\ndamages by reason of a knowingly misleading, deceptive or fraudulent\nappraisal may bring a civil action for actual damages together wi…

§ 24. Mock auction. A person who buys or sells, or pretends to buy or\nsell, any goods, wares, or merchandise, or any species of property\nexcept ships, vessels, or real or leasehold estate, exposed for sale by\nauction, if an actual sale, purchase, and change of ownership there…

§ 240. Definitions. When used in this article,\n 1. "Aircraft" means any contrivance, now or hereafter invented, for\navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other\ncontrivance designed for use, and carried primarily for safety\nequipment.\n 2. "Avigation" means…

§ 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license. The public safety\nrequiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable,\nin the interest of aeronautical progress, that a person engaging within\nthis state in operating aircraft, in any form of avigation fo…

§ 242. Possession and exhibition of license certificate. The\ncertificate of the license required by the preceding section shall be\nkept in the personal possession of the licensee when he is operating\naircraft within this state and must be presented for inspection upon the\nde…

§ 243. Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal\nregistration. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform\nregulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical\nprogress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,\n…

§ 245. Air traffic rules. The following air traffic rules shall govern\nthe operations and use of aircraft in New York state, except that they\nshall not apply to aircraft used exclusively in the governmental service\nof the United States, or exclusively in the service of the na…

§ 246. Penalties for violation of the foregoing provisions. A person\nwho violates any of the foregoing provisions of this article shall be\nguilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than one\nhundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, …

§ 247. Examination of wrecked aircraft before destruction or removal.\nWhen an aircraft falls or lands in a wrecked condition or is wrecked by\nthe fall or in landing and an occupant thereof is killed or severely\ninjured thereby or escapes death or injury by the use of a parach…

§ 248. Aircraft on Lake Mahopac, Lake Moraine, Lake George, and Lake\nOscawana, Owasco Lake and Greenwood Lake prohibited. The taking off\nfrom or landing upon the surface of Lake Mahopac in the town of Carmel\nand county of Putnam, or upon the surface of Lake Moraine, also know…

§ 248-a. Operation of aircraft on certain lakes in the town of\nLewisboro, county of Westchester. No aircraft may take off from or land\nupon the surface of Lakes Waccabuc, Oscaleta, Truesdale and Rippowan, in\nthe town of Lewisboro and Lake Kitchawan, in the towns of Lewisboro …

§ 249. Location of privately-owned airports. 1. Legislative findings\nand purpose. The continuing development and the rapid growth of air\ntransportation and the use of aircraft for various purposes, both\ncommercial and private, during the last twenty years, has substantially\n…

§ 25. Records to be kept by auctioneers. Every auctioneer or person\nengaged in the business of selling goods at auction, whether acting in\nhis own behalf or as the officer, agent or representative of another,\nshall, upon the receipt or acceptance by him of any goods for the\n…

§ 250. Service of summons on nonresidents or residents who depart from\nstate. 1. The use or operation by a nonresident of an aircraft within or\nabove this state, or the use or operation of an aircraft within or above\nthis state in the business of a nonresident, or the use or …

§ 251. Liability of an owner of aircraft. 1. Except as provided in\nsubdivision three every owner of an aircraft shall be liable and\nresponsible for death occasioned or injuries to person or property\nsustained, within or above this state, as a result of the use or\noperation o…

§ 251-a. Notice of insurance coverage in aircraft rental agreements.\nIn addition to the requirements prescribed in section two hundred\nfifty-one of this article relating to liability of an owner of an\naircraft:\n 1. Every person who, in the ordinary course of such person's bu…

§ 251-b. Flight school background checks. 1. For the purposes of this\nsection:\n "Criminal history information" shall mean a record of all convictions\nof crimes maintained on an individual by the division of criminal\njustice services pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision f…

§ 251-c. Disqualification of a flight instruction school applicant. An\napplicant to an aeronautical facility, flight school or institution of\nhigher learning shall be disqualified from receiving air or flight\ninstruction if, after reviewing criminal history information on the…

§ 252. Definitions. For purposes of this article:\n (a) The term "consumer" means an individual.\n (b) The term "creditor' means a person regularly engaged in the\nbusiness of making loans.\n (c) The term "seller" means a person who sells or agrees to sell\npersonal property or …

§ 253. Consumer defenses. A creditor, who made a consumer loan the\nproceeds of which were primarily used in a consumer sale, shall be\nsubject to all of the defenses of a consumer arising from such consumer\nsale, provided that the creditor knowingly participated in or was\ndir…

§ 254. Creditor relationship. Without limiting the scope of section\ntwo hundred fifty-three, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that\nthe creditor shall have knowingly participated in or shall have been\ndirectly connected with a consumer sale if:\n (a) the creditor is a p…

§ 255. The provisions of this article shall not apply to consumer\nsales made pursuant to article nine of the personal property law, credit\ncard transactions, consumer sales of personal property or services which\ncould require or entail the execution of a promissory note pursu…

§ 26. Record open to inspection. The said book and the entries\ntherein, made as provided by the preceding section, shall, at all\nreasonable times, be open to the inspection of the mayor and the head of\nthe police department of the city in which the auctioneer conducts his\nbu…

§ 260. Cutting and harvesting ice by adjoining proprietors. Whenever\nthe owner or lessee of lands bordering upon the Hudson river shall\nrequire the ice formed in said river between the center thereof and said\nlands for the purpose of filling any icehouse now erected, or which…

§ 261. Protection of rights. Whenever such ice shall have been so\nstaked out, all ice lying between the center of the said river, as\nhereinafter defined, and such lands, or so much thereof as shall be\nrequired for the purpose of filling the icehouse erected thereon, as\nafore…

§ 262. Center of river defined. The center of such river is hereby\ndefined to be a line halfway between low-water mark on the east bank and\nlow-water mark on the west bank of such river. Where an island\nintervenes, having an icehouse or icehouses thereon, the center of the\nr…

§ 263. Catskill creek. This article shall apply to lands bordering\nupon navigable tide water of the Catskill creek.\n