Title GBS, General Business

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

§ 322. Standard of pressure. The minimum pressure of gas so furnished or supplied which shall be permitted in any service main in any such city shall be sufficient to balance a column of water one and one-half inches in height. The maximum pressure therein allowed shall be an am…

§ 322-b. Explosives and combustibles. 1. A person who makes or keeps gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by ordin…

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

§ 323. Penalty. A violation of any of the provisions of this article shall constitute a misdemeanor.

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

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

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

§ 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 state contrary to the provisions of this article, or contrary to the terms of any license that may have been granted to him under this article, shall, for each offense, forfeit to the town in which the offense…

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

§ 331. Penalty for failing to publish. 1. Any person, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or corporation publishing in the state of New York, a newspaper, magazine, book, pamphlet or any other periodical or printed publication which omits, fa…

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

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

§ 334. Misrepresentation of circulation of newspapers or periodicals. Every proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodicals who shall wilfully or knowingly misrepresent the circulation of such newspaper or periodical for the purpose of securing advertising or other patro…

§ 335. Inserting unauthorized advertisement in newspapers and magazines. Any person who, with intent to profit, directly or indirectly thereby, places or causes or produces an advertisement to be placed in or affixes or causes the same to be affixed to a newspaper without the co…

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

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

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

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

* § 336-b. Interactive information network service; disclosure. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "interactive information network service" means the furnishing or provision of an entertainment service or of an information service, which is furnished, provided, or de…

§ 337. Advertising to procure divorces. Whoever prints, publishes, distributes or circulates, or causes to be printed, published, distributed or circulated any circular, pamphlet, card, hand bill, advertisement, printed paper, book, newspaper or notice of any kind offering to ad…

§ 339. Reporting or publishing fictitious transactions in securities. A person who, with intent to deceive, reports or publishes, or causes to be reported or published as a purchase or sale of the stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or association,…

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

§ 339-b. Manipulation of prices of securities. Any person, who inflates, depresses, or causes fluctuations in, or attempts to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in, or combines or conspires with any other person or persons to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in, the ma…

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

§ 339-d. Transactions by brokers and dealers after insolvency. Any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing and selling as broker or dealer, stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of corporations, companies or associations who, knowing tha…

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

§ 339-f. Delivery to customers of memoranda of transactions by brokers. A person engaged in the business of purchasing or selling as broker stocks, bonds and other evidences of debt of corporations, companies or associations shall deliver to each customer on whose behalf a purch…

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

§ 340. Contracts or agreements for monopoly or in restraint of trade illegal and void. 1. Every contract, agreement, arrangement or combination whereby A monopoly in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in this state, is or may be es…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 349. Unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices unlawful. (a) Unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in this state are hereby declared unlawful. For the purposes of this sectio…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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