Title CVR, Civil Rights

§ 47-b. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. Persons with a disability accompanied by guide dogs, hearing dogs or service dogs shall be guaranteed the right to have such dogs in their immediate custody while exercising any of the rights and privileges set forth in this article, provided…

§ 47-c. Penalties. 1. Any person or legal entity, public or private, violating any provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation. 2. Any person or legal entity, public or private, violating section forty-seven and/or subdivision one or two of section forty-seven-b of …

§ 48. Definitions. As used in this article, the term "unique genetic disorder" shall mean and be limited to sickle cell trait, carriers of Tay-sachs disease or carriers of Cooley's anemia.

§ 48-a. Employment of persons with certain genetic disorders. Unless it can be clearly shown that a person's unique genetic disorder would prevent such person from performing the particular job, no person who is otherwise qualified shall be denied equal opportunities to obtain a…

§ 48-b. Penalties. Any person or legal entity, public or private, who or which violates any provision of section forty-eight-a of this article shall be guilty of a violation.

§ 5. Military service by citizens. No citizen of this state can be constrained to arm himself, or to go out of this state, or to find soldiers or men of arms, either horsemen or footmen, without the grant and assent of the people of this state, by their representatives in senate…

§ 50. Right of privacy. A person, firm or corporation that uses for advertising purposes, or for the purposes of trade, the name, portrait, picture, likeness, or voice of any living person without having first obtained the written consent of such person, or if a minor of such mi…

§ 50-b. Right of privacy; victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. 1. The identity of any victim of a sex offense, as defined in article one hundred thirty or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law, or of an o…

§ 50-c. Private right of action. If the identity of the victim of an offense defined in subdivision one of section fifty-b of this article is disclosed in violation of such section, any person injured by such disclosure may bring an action to recover damages suffered by reason o…

§ 50-d. Personnel records of court officers. 1. As used in this section, "personnel records of court officers" means all personnel records of court officers as defined in paragraph a of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, used to evaluate perfor…

§ 50-e. Personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants. 1. As used in this section, "personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants" means all personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants as de…

§ 50-f. Right of publicity. 1. For purposes of this section: a. "deceased performer" means a deceased personality domiciled in this state at the time of death who, for gain or livelihood, was regularly engaged in acting, singing, dancing, or playing a musical instrument. b. "dec…

§ 50-g. Disclosure of convictions sealed pursuant to section 160.57 of the criminal procedure law. 1. Any person who has had a conviction sealed pursuant to section 160.57 of the criminal procedure law may bring a cause of action for damages against a party who, without consent …

§ 51. Action for injunction and for damages. Any person whose name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained as above provided may maintain an equitable action …

§ 52. Televising, broadcasting or taking motion pictures of certain proceedings prohibited. No person, firm, association or corporation shall televise, broadcast, take motion pictures or arrange for the televising, broadcasting, or taking of motion pictures within this state of …

§ 52-a. Private right of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential premises. 1. Any owner or tenant of residential real property shall have a private right of action for damages against any person who installs or affixes a video imaging device on property adjoining suc…

§ 52-b. Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image. 1. Any person depicted in a still or video image, including an image created or altered by digitization, regardless of whether or not the original still or video image was consensuall…

* § 52-c. Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of a sexually explicit depiction of an individual. 1. For the purposes of this section: a. "depicted individual" means an individual who appears, as a result of digitization, to be giving a performance t…

*§ 52-c. Employers engaged in electronic monitoring; prior notice required. 1. For purposes of this section, employer means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, or association with a place of business in the state. It shall not include the state or any political subdi…

§ 52-d. Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of a personal image. 1. Any crime victim depicted in a still or video image which was unlawfully disseminated as provided in section 250.71 of the penal law shall have a cause of action against such indivi…

§ 53. Copies of documents and statements to be filed. Every existing membership corporation, and every existing unincorporated association having a membership of twenty or more persons, which corporation or association requires an oath as a prerequisite or condition of membershi…

§ 54. Resolutions concerning political matters. Every such corporation or association shall, within ten days after the adoption thereof, file in the office of the secretary of state every resolution, or the minutes of any action of such corporation or association, providing for …

§ 55. Anonymous communications prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any such corporation or association to send, deliver, mail or transmit to any person in this state who is not a member of such corporation or association any anonymous letter, document, leaflet or other written …

§ 56. Offenses; penalties. Any corporation or association violating any provision of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. Any officer of such corporation or association and ev…

§ 57. Additional penalties. In addition to the penalties provided by section fifty-six of this article, a violation of the provisions of this article may be restrained at the suit of the people by the attorney-general.

§ 6. Exemption from military service. All such inhabitants of this state of any religious denomination whatever, as from scruples of conscience may be averse to bearing arms, are to be excused therefrom by paying to the state an equivalent in money; and the legislature is requir…

§ 60. Petition for change of name. 1. A petition for leave to assume another name may be made by a resident of the state to the county court of the county or the supreme court in the county in which the petitioner resides, or, if the petitioner resides in the city of New York, e…

§ 61. Contents. 1. The petition shall be in writing, signed by the petitioner and verified in like manner as a pleading in a court of record, and shall specify the grounds of the application, the name, date of birth, place of birth, age and residence of the individual whose name…

§ 62. Notice. 1. If the petition be to change the name of an infant, notice of the time and place when and where the petition will be presented must be served, in like manner as a notice of a motion upon an attorney in an action, upon (a) both parents of the infant, if they be l…

§ 63. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is satisfied thereby, or by the affidavit and certificate presented therewith, that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable objection to the change of name proposed, and if the petition be to change the n…

§ 64. Effect. 1. If the order is entered, the petitioner shall be known by the name which is thereby authorized to be assumed. If the surname of a parent be changed as provided in this article, any minor child of such parent at the time of such change may thereafter assume such …

§ 64-a. Sealing name change papers. 1. If the court shall find that open record of an applicant's change of name would jeopardize such applicant's personal safety, based on totality of the circumstances, the court shall, at the request of the applicant or sua sponte, order the r…

§ 65. Optional change of name upon marriage, divorce or annulment. 1. Any person may, upon marriage, elect to assume a new name according to the provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section fifteen of the domestic relations law. 2. Any person may, upon divorce or an…

§ 67. Petition for change of sex designation. 1. A petition for leave to change sex designation may be made by a resident of the state to the county court of the county or the supreme court in the county in which such resident resides, or, if such resident resides in the city of…

§ 67-a. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is satisfied thereby, or by the affidavit and certificate presented therewith, that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable objection to the change of sex designation proposed, and if the petition is to…

§ 67-b. Sealing change of sex designation papers. 1. Upon request of the applicant or sua sponte, the court shall order the records of such change of sex designation proceeding to be sealed, to be opened only by order of the court for good cause shown or at the request of the ap…

§ 7. Quartering soldiers. No soldier can in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

§ 70. Vexatious suits. If a person vexatiously or maliciously, in the name of another but without the latter's consent, or in the name of an unknown person, commences or continues, or causes to be commenced or continued, an action or special proceeding, in a court, of record or …

§ 70-a. Actions involving public petition and participation; recovery of damages. 1. A defendant in an action involving public petition and participation, as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section seventy-six-a of this article, may maintain an action, claim, cros…

§ 70-b. Unlawful interference with protected rights. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "legally protected health activity" shall have the same meaning as defined by section 570.17 of the criminal procedure law. 2. A claim of unlawful interference with protected right…

§ 71. Damages in action for suing in name of another. In an action, brought by the adverse party, as prescribed in the last section, the plaintiff, if he recovers final judgment, is entitled to recover treble damages. In an action, brought by the person whose name was used, as p…

§ 72. Term of imprisonment of civil prisoner. No person shall be imprisoned within the prison walls of any jail for a longer period than three months under an execution or any other mandate against the person to enforce the recovery of a sum of money less than five hundred dolla…

§ 73. Code of fair procedure for investigating agencies. 1. As used in this section the following terms shall mean and include: (a) "Agency". A standing or select committee of either house of the legislature or a joint committee of both houses; a duly authorized subcommittee of …

§ 74. Privileges in action for libel. A civil action cannot be maintained against any person, firm or corporation, for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial proceeding, legislative proceeding or other official proceeding, or for any heading of the report whic…

§ 75. Defamation by radio or television. 1. The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory stateme…

§ 76. Action for libel: evidence, separate verdicts. At the trial of any civil action for libel, the defendant may prove, for consideration by the jury in fixing the amount of the verdict, that the plaintiff has already recovered damages, or has received, or agreed to receive, c…

§ 76-a. Actions involving public petition and participation; when actual malice to be proven. 1. For purposes of this section: (a) An "action involving public petition and participation" is a claim based upon: (1) any communication in a place open to the public or a public forum…

§ 77. Special damages in action for slander of a woman. In an action of slander of a woman imputing unchastity to her, it is not necessary to allege or prove special damages.

§ 78. Mitigating circumstances in action for libel or slander. In an action for libel or slander the defendant may prove mitigating circumstances, including the sources of his information and the grounds for his belief, whether or not he has pleaded or attempted to prove any def…

§ 79. Forfeiture of office and suspension of civil rights. 1. Except as provided in subdivision two a sentence of imprisonment in a state correctional institution for any term less than for life or a sentence of imprisonment in a state correctional institution for an indetermina…