Title GBS, General Business

§ 325. Prohibiting the use of petroleum well casings and pipes for\ntransporting potable water. No person shall construct a water well which\nis to be used to convey or transport a potable water supply using\npetroleum well casings and pipes.\n

§ 326. Private right of action. A consumer injured by a violation of\nthis section may bring an action to recover damages. Judgment may be\nentered for three times the actual damages suffered by a consumer or\nfive hundred dollars, whichever is greater. A court may also award\na…

§ 327. Violations. 1. Any person who shall violate any of the\nprovisions of this article shall be subject to a civil penalty not to\nexceed one thousand dollars.\n 2. Upon any violation of the provisions of this article, an\napplication may be made by the attorney general in th…

§ 33. Penalties. Every person found traveling and trading within this\nstate contrary to the provisions of this article, or contrary to the\nterms of any license that may have been granted to him under this\narticle, shall, for each offense, forfeit to the town in which the\noff…

§ 330. Publication of owner's name. 1. Every newspaper, magazine or\nother periodically printed publication published in this state, shall\npublish in every copy of every issue, upon the editorial page or in one\nof the first four pages of the publication, the full name and addr…

§ 331. Penalty for failing to publish. 1. Any person, partnership,\nlimited partnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or\ncorporation publishing in the state of New York, a newspaper, magazine,\nbook, pamphlet or any other periodical or printed publication which\nomits…

§ 332. Penalty for false statement. Any person, partnership, limited\npartnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or corporation\ncausing or knowingly permitting his, their or its name or names to be\npublished in such manner as to indicate or denote that he, they or it …

§ 333. Contracts with Sunday papers. All contracts or agreements of\nany nature made with the publishers or proprietors of any paper dated,\npublished or issued on the first day of the week shall be as valid,\nlegal and binding, as contracts made with newspapers dated or publish…

§ 334. Misrepresentation of circulation of newspapers or periodicals.\nEvery proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodicals who shall\nwilfully or knowingly misrepresent the circulation of such newspaper or\nperiodical for the purpose of securing advertising or other pa…

§ 335. Inserting unauthorized advertisement in newspapers and\nmagazines. Any person who, with intent to profit, directly or indirectly\nthereby, places or causes or produces an advertisement to be placed in\nor affixes or causes the same to be affixed to a newspaper without the…

§ 335-a. Magazines sold by subscription. 1. Every publisher of a\nmagazine sold by subscription shall disclose by a notice on the mailing\nlabel of each magazine mailed pursuant to subscription, the month and\nyear in which the subscription expires. Such notice shall be printed …

§ 336. Telephone directory to contain certain notice. 1. Every\ntelephone directory hereafter distributed to the members of the general\npublic in this state or in any portion thereof which lists the calling\nnumbers of telephones of any telephone exchange located in this state\…

§ 336-a. Telephone corporation; coin operated telephones\nimplementation of system to call an operator without use of coins; rules\nand regulations of public service commission. 1. All telephone\ncorporations doing business in this state and providing coin pay\ntelephones shall …

* § 336-b. Public pay telephone volume controls. 1. Each telephone\ncorporation doing business in this state which provides public pay\ntelephones, including those owners or providers of customer owned\ncurrency operated telephones (COCOT's), shall provide at least\ntwenty-five …

* § 336-b. Interactive information network service; disclosure. 1. For\nthe purposes of this section, the term "interactive information network\nservice" means the furnishing or provision of an entertainment service\nor of an information service, which is furnished, provided, or…

§ 337. Advertising to procure divorces. Whoever prints, publishes,\ndistributes or circulates, or causes to be printed, published,\ndistributed or circulated any circular, pamphlet, card, hand bill,\nadvertisement, printed paper, book, newspaper or notice of any kind\noffering t…

§ 339. Reporting or publishing fictitious transactions in securities.\nA person who, with intent to deceive, reports or publishes, or causes to\nbe reported or published as a purchase or sale of the stocks, bonds or\nother evidences of debt of a corporation, company or associati…

§ 339-a. False statement or advertisement as to securities. Any\nperson, who, with intent to deceive, makes, issues or publishes, or\ncauses to be made, issued or published, any statement or advertisement\nas to the value or as to facts affecting the value of the stocks, bonds\n…

§ 339-b. Manipulation of prices of securities. Any person, who\ninflates, depresses, or causes fluctuations in, or attempts to inflate,\ndepress or cause fluctuations in, or combines or conspires with any\nother person or persons to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in,\nth…

§ 339-c. Trading by brokers against customers' orders. A broker, who,\nbeing employed by a customer to buy and carry upon margin the stocks,\nbonds or other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or\nassociation, while acting as broker for such customer in respect of such\n…

§ 339-d. Transactions by brokers and dealers after insolvency. Any\nperson, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of\npurchasing and selling as broker or dealer, stocks, bonds or other\nevidences of debt of corporations, companies or associations who,\nknowing…

§ 339-e. Hypothecation of customer's securities. Any person, firm,\nassociation or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing and\nselling as a broker or dealer stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt\nof corporations, companies or associations, who\n 1. Having in his or…

§ 339-f. Delivery to customers of memoranda of transactions by\nbrokers. A person engaged in the business of purchasing or selling as\nbroker stocks, bonds and other evidences of debt of corporations,\ncompanies or associations shall deliver to each customer on whose behalf\na p…

§ 34. Arrest and conviction of offender. The public welfare officials\nshall see that the provisions of this article are enforced in their\nrespective towns. Any citizen may arrest any person trading as a peddler\nwho neglects or refuses to produce his license on demand, and sha…

§ 340. Contracts or agreements for monopoly or in restraint of trade\nillegal and void. 1. Every contract, agreement, arrangement or\ncombination whereby\n A monopoly in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce or in the\nfurnishing of any service in this state, is or may …

§ 340-a. Monies recovered. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,\nall monies recovered or obtained under this article by a state agency or\nstate official or employee acting in their official capacity shall be\nsubject to subdivision eleven of section four of the state financ…

§ 340-b. Agreements to not compete with respect to residential rental\ndwelling units. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall\nhave the following meanings:\n (a) "Algorithm" means a computational process that uses a set of rules\nto define a sequence of operations…

§ 341. Penalty. Every person or corporation, or any officer or agent\nthereof, who shall make or attempt to make or enter into any such\ncontract, agreement, arrangement or combination or who within this state\nshall do any act pursuant thereto, or in, toward or for the consumma…

§ 342. Action to restrain and prevent. The attorney-general may bring\nan action in the name and in behalf of the people of the state against\nany person, trustee, director, manager or other officer or agent of a\ncorporation, or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to re…

§ 342-a. Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general. In lieu of any\npenalty otherwise prescribed for a violation of a provision of this\narticle and in addition to an action pursuant to section three hundred\nforty-two of this article, the attorney-general may bring an actio…

§ 342-b. Recovery of damages by attorney general. In addition to\nexisting statutory authority to bring such actions on behalf of the\nstate and public authorities, the attorney general may also bring action\non behalf of any political subdivision or public authority of the stat…

§ 342-c. Tolling of the period of limitations by proceedings of the\nUnited States. Whenever any civil or criminal proceeding is instituted\nby the federal government to prevent, restrain, or punish violations of\nthe federal antitrust laws, the running of the period of limitati…

§ 343. Investigation by the attorney general. Whenever it shall appear\nto the attorney general, either upon complaint or otherwise, that any\nperson or persons, partnership, corporation, company, trust or\nassociation shall have engaged in or engages in or is about to engage in…

§ 345. Witnesses' immunity. Upon any investigation before the attorney\ngeneral or his deputy or other officer designated by him, or in any\ncriminal proceeding before any court or grand jury, pursuant to or for a\nviolation of any of the provisions of this article, the attorney…

§ 347. Criminal prosecution. The attorney general may prosecute every\nperson charged with the commission of a criminal offense in violation of\nthe laws of this state, applicable to or in respect of the practices or\ntransactions referred to in this article. In any such prosecu…

§ 347-a. Fines payable to the office of victim services. Following\nsentencing for a crime pursuant to section three hundred forty-one of\nthis article or upon a judgment pursuant to section three hundred\nforty-two-a of this article, the court in its discretion may determine\nt…

§ 349. Unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices unlawful. (a)\nUnfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices in the conduct of any\nbusiness, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in this\nstate are hereby declared unlawful. For the purposes of this sec…

§ 349-a. Pricing. 1. As used in this section, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Algorithm" means a computational automated process that uses a\nset of rules to define a sequence of operations.\n (b) "Clear and conspicuous disclosure" means disclosure…

§ 349-b. Residential telephone equipment advertising, sale and\nwarranty requirements. 1. For the purpose of this section:\n (a) "Residential telephone equipment" shall mean customer premises\nequipment such as telephone handsets, designed for use on the\nresidential premises of…

§ 349-b-1. Voice over internet protocol 911 disclosure. 1. For the\npurpose of this section:\n (a) "Consumer" or "purchaser" means a retail customer who purchases\nvoice over internet protocol services for personal use in a place of\nresidence or elsewhere in New York state;\n (…

§ 349-c. Additional civil penalty for consumer frauds against elderly\npersons. 1. Definition. As used in this section elderly person means a\nperson who is sixty-five years of age or older.\n 2. Supplemental civil penalty. (a) In addition to any liability for\ndamages or a civi…

§ 349-d. Energy services company consumers bill of rights. 1. For the\npurpose of this section:\n (a) "Energy services" shall mean electricity and/or natural gas;\n (b) "Energy services company" or "ESCO" shall mean an entity eligible\nto sell energy services to end-use customer…

§ 349-e. Counterfeit and non-functional airbags. 1. As used in this\nsection:\n (a) "Airbag" shall mean any component of an inflatable restraint\nsystem, as such term is defined in section one hundred nineteen-b of the\nvehicle and traffic law, and that is designed for the speci…

§ 349-f. Pension poaching prevention. 1. For purposes of this section:\n (a) The term "veterans' benefits matter" means the preparation,\npresentation, or prosecution of any claim affecting any person who has\nfiled or expressed an intent to file a claim for any benefit, program…

§ 349-g. Restrictions on applications for and use of credit cards and\nmedical financial products. 1. For purposes of this section, the\nfollowing terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Medical financial products" shall mean medical credit cards and\nthird-party medical…

§ 349-h. Observant consumer protection law. 1. No person selling or\nexposing for sale any mezuzah or tefillin which, to the seller's\nknowledge, does not satisfy orthodox Hebrew ritual requirements shall\nrepresent, by direct or implied oral or written statement, that such\nmez…

§ 35. Municipal regulations. This article shall not affect the\napplication of any ordinance, by-law or regulation of a municipal\ncorporation relating to hawkers and peddlers within the limits of such\ncorporations, but the provisions of this article are to be complied with\nin…

§ 35-a. Veterans of the armed forces who vend in cities having a\npopulation of one million or more. Subject to the provisions of this\nsection but notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of any general,\nspecial or local law:\n 1. (a) In cities having a population of one mi…

§ 350. False advertising unlawful. False advertising in the conduct of\nany business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in\nthis state is hereby declared unlawful.\n

§ 350-a. False advertising. 1. The term "false advertising" means\nadvertising, including labeling, of a commodity, or of the kind,\ncharacter, terms or conditions of any employment opportunity if such\nadvertising is misleading in a material respect. In determining whether\nany…