Title GBS, General Business

§ 264. Mohawk basin, at Green Island. Whenever the owner or lessee of\nlands contiguous to lands of the state bordering on the Mohawk basin at\nGreen Island, and lying between the lands of such owner or lessee and\nsuch basin, shall require the ice formed in such river between t…

§ 265. Ice cutting and ice bridges. A person or corporation cutting\nice in or upon any waters within the boundaries of this state for the\npurpose of removing the ice for sale or use, must surround the cuttings\nand openings made with fences or guards of boards or other materia…

§ 27. Penalties. Any person who violates or does not comply with the\nprovisions of section twenty-five hereof, or any auctioneer or person\nengaged in the business of selling goods at auction who shall fail,\nneglect or refuse to permit or allow an inspection as required by\nse…

§ 270. Unlawful detention of milk cans. No person shall, without the\nconsent of the owner or shipper, or his agent, use, sell, dispose of,\nbuy or traffic in any can, irrespective of its condition, or the use to\nwhich it may have been applied, belonging to any dealer in or shi…

§ 271. Penalty and action to recover. Any person violating any\nprovision of this article shall forfeit to such owner or dealer or\nshipper or his agent the sum of fifty dollars for every such violation,\nand an action may be brought therefor in the name of any such agent\nwitho…

§ 272. Search warrant. If at the time of the issue of the summons in a\ncourt not of record, the plaintiff or his agent make affidavit that he\nhas reason to believe and does believe that any defendant has any such\ncan or cans secreted upon his premises, the justice or other ma…

§ 273. Railroad or steamboat company may act as agent of owner. The\nseveral superintendents of the railroad companies, and the branches and\nconnections thereof, and steamboat lines operating their roads or lines,\nor any portion thereof, in this state shall have power to colle…

§ 274. Assistance of police officer or constable. Any person\nauthorized by this article to seize and take into his or her possession\nany such cans may, in case of resistance, call to his or her aid any\npolice officer or constable of the town, village or city who shall when\ns…

§ 275. Definitions. As used in this article:\n (a) "Name, mark or device" means any word, name, symbol, picture,\ndesign or any combination thereof, produced upon, and used by a person\nto indicate ownership of vessels, receptacles or utensils.\n (b) "Person" means any individua…

§ 276. Filing of statement. A person who uses in this state a name,\nmark or device to indicate ownership of vessels, receptacles or utensils\nmay file in the office of the secretary of state, on a form to be\nfurnished or approved by him, a statement subscribed by such person a…

§ 277. Certificate of filing. Upon compliance with the requirements\nof this article, the secretary of state shall cause a certificate to be\nissued and delivered to the person filing the statement. The certificate\nshall be issued over the signature of the secretary of state an…

§ 278. Filing under prior law. At the end of twelve months following\nthe effective date of this article, the secretary of state shall cancel\nall certificates issued under sections three hundred sixty and three\nhundred sixty-one of article twenty-four of the general business l…

§ 279. Assignment. The certificate of the filing of any name, mark or\ndevice under this article and the benefits obtained thereunder shall be\nassignable with the sale of the vessels, receptacles or utensils on\nwhich the same are produced and used. Assignments shall be made up…

§ 279-a. Records. The secretary of state shall keep for public\nexamination a record of all names, marks or devices filed under this\narticle.\n

§ 279-b. Cancellation. The secretary of state shall cancel from the\nregister:\n (1) Any certificate concerning which the secretary of state shall\nreceive a voluntary request for cancellation thereof from the person\nfiling or from the assignee;\n (2) Any certificate in respect…

§ 279-c. Deposits on vessels, receptacles or utensils. The requiring,\ntaking, paying or accepting of any deposit for any purpose upon any\nvessel, receptacle or utensil shall not be deemed to constitute a sale\nof such property, either optional or otherwise, for the purposes of…

§ 279-d. Prohibited acts. It is hereby declared unlawful for any\nperson to fill or use, to give, buy, take, destroy, sell or otherwise\ndispose of, or traffic in, vessels, receptacles or utensils, upon which\na name, mark or device which has been filed hereunder is produced, or…

§ 279-e. Penalties. Any person offending against the provisions hereof\nshall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for the\nfirst offense by imprisonment of not less than ten days nor more than\none year, or by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than…

§ 279-f. Presumption. The possession by any junk dealer or dealer in\nsecond-hand materials or articles, without the written consent of the\nperson who filed hereunder or his assignee, of any vessels, receptacles\nor utensils upon which a name, mark or device has been produced s…

§ 279-g. Search warrant to discover vessels, receptacles or utensils.\nWhenever any person who has filed under this article, or his authorized\nagent, shall make oath before any magistrate or court of competent\njurisdiction that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that …

§ 279-h. Construction. Nothing in this article shall be construed as\npreventing the enforcement of rights and remedies under any other\nstatute concerning vessels, receptacles or utensils upon which a name,\nmark or device indicating ownership thereof has been produced, whether…

§ 279-i. Saving clause. No suit, proceeding or appeal pending on the\neffective date of this article shall abate or be affected in any way by\nreason of the enactment of this article.\n

§ 28. Limitation. Sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven\nhereof shall apply only to cities of the first class and do not repeal\nor supersede the provisions of chapter thirty-two, title B, article\ntwenty-one of the administrative code of the city of New York.\n

§ 280. Duty of carrier as to unclaimed articles. The proprietors of\nthe several lines of stages and the proprietors of the several canal\nboat lines, and the proprietors of the several steamboats, who shall\nhave any unclaimed trunks, boxes or baggage within their custody, shal…

§ 281. Description to be made and published. In case there shall not\nbe any information obtained as to the owner, it shall be the duty of the\nperson having the possession thereof, to make out a correct written\ndescription of all such property as shall have been unclaimed for …

§ 282. Packages to be opened and contents sold; proceeds of sale. In\ncase the said property shall remain unclaimed for sixty days after the\nsaid publication, it shall be the duty of the person or company having\npossession thereof, to apply to a magistrate of the town or city …

§ 283. Lien for expenses of proceedings. The person making the entry\nof unclaimed property as above specified, shall be entitled to twelve\nand a half cents for each trunk, box, bale, package or bundle so\nentered, and shall have a lien on the property so entered, until payment…

§ 284. Penalty for violation of preceding sections. In case any person\nshall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of the preceding\nsections of this article, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for\neach and every trunk, box or bundle of baggage so neglected as …

§ 285. Sale of unclaimed articles by express companies; notice\nthereof; disposition of proceeds of sale. Every express company, or\nperson engaged in the express business, who shall have had any unclaimed\narticle, goods or things, not perishable, in its or his possession, for\…

§ 286. Surplus to be paid to owner. Such express company, or person\nengaged in the express business, shall make an entry of the balance of\nthe proceeds of the sale, if any, of each article, goods or thing\ndirected to the same person, as near as can be ascertained, and at any\…

§ 287. After five years if unclaimed to be paid to county treasurer.\nIn case such balance shall not be claimed by the rightful owner within\nfive years after the sale as above specified, then it shall be paid to\nthe county treasurer, for the use of the county poor of said coun…

§ 3. Sabbath breaking. A violation of the foregoing prohibition is\nSabbath breaking.\n

§ 300. Standard of domestic distilled spirits. Domestic distilled\nspirits, at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, which have a\nspecific gravity of nine thousand three hundred and thirty-five as\ncompared with the gravity of pure distilled water at the same\ntemperature …

§ 302. Storage of petroleum. Crude petroleum, earth or rock oil, or\nany of its products, shall not be kept on sale or stored in any place or\nbuilding within the corporate limits of any city in this state, except\nin the city of New York, unless in detached and properly ventila…

§ 303. Standard test and storage of refined petroleum and kerosene\noil. Refined petroleum or kerosene oil shall not be kept on sale or\nstored in any such city, the fire test of which shall be less than one\nhundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, determined by authorized inspector…

§ 304. Standard and storage of illuminating oils. No person shall\nmanufacture or have in his possession or sell or give away for\nilluminating or heating purposes in lamps or stoves within this state,\nany oil or burning fluid wholly or partly composed of naphtha, coal oil,\npe…

§ 304-a. Unauthorized manufacture, sale or use of illuminating oils. A\nperson who violates any provision of this article relating to the\nstandard, manufacture, sale, or use or storage of any oil or burning\nfluid, wholly or partly composed of naphtha, coal oil, petroleum or\np…

§ 305. Inspectors of storage. The inspectors of buildings or other\nproper authorities in every such city shall make an examination of all\nthe premises where any of the articles or substances specified in the\npreceding sections of this article are kept or stored, and report an…

§ 306. Fire and light within one hundred and fifty feet of warehouses\nin the counties of New York, Kings, Queens and Nassau prohibited. No\nperson shall bring, have, keep or use or suffer or permit to be brought,\nkept, had or used on board of any ship, vessel, canal boat, barg…

§ 306-a. Violating law to prevent conflagrations. A person who\nviolates any of the provisions of section three hundred and six of this\nchapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n

§ 307. Penalties and the enforcement thereof. Every person violating\nthe provisions of this article, relating to the test for refined\npetroleum and oil, shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of\nfive hundred dollars for each violation.\n Every person violating any p…

§ 308. Retail sale and delivery of certain flammable liquids and\nkerosene. 1. Definition. As used in this section:\n "Flammable liquid" shall mean any liquid which has a flash point of\nseventy degrees Fahrenheit, or less, as determined by a Tagliabue or\nequivalent closed cup …

§ 32. Licenses to veterans of the armed forces of the United States.\n1. Every member of the armed forces of the United States who (a) was\nhonorably discharged from such service, or (b) has a qualifying\ncondition, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and\nh…

§ 320. Standard of purity. The gas furnished or supplied by any\ncorporation, association, partnership or person in any city of the\nsecond class shall be free from sulphuretted hydrogen, to be determined\nby exposing for thirty seconds a slip of white paper saturated with\nacet…

§ 321. Standard of illuminating power. The maximum illuminating power\nrequired and minimum illuminating power permitted of gas so furnished or\nsupplied in any such city shall be as follows: If a coal gas, sixteen\ncandles; if a mixed coal and water gas, eighteen candles; and i…

§ 322. Standard of pressure. The minimum pressure of gas so furnished\nor supplied which shall be permitted in any service main in any such\ncity shall be sufficient to balance a column of water one and one-half\ninches in height. The maximum pressure therein allowed shall be an…

§ 322-b. Explosives and combustibles. 1. A person who makes or keeps\ngunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible\nmaterial, within a city or village, or carries such materials through\nthe streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by\no…

§ 322-c. Gas space heating appliances to be equipped with back draft\ndiverters and automatic shutoff devices. On and after July first,\nnineteen hundred sixty-five it shall be unlawful to manufacture or\nassemble, or to sell or offer for sale, or to install, use or maintain\nin…

§ 323. Penalty. A violation of any of the provisions of this article\nshall constitute a misdemeanor.\n

§ 324. Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to\nin this article, shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Petroleum" shall mean oil or petroleum of any kind and in any form\nincluding, but not limited to, oil, petroleum, fuel oil, crude oil,\npetroleum mix…