Title GBS, General Business

§ 121. Owners, pursers and clerks allowed to sell tickets. The\nprovisions of this article do not prevent the actual owners or\nconsignees of any vessel, from selling passage tickets thereon; nor do\nthey prevent the purser or clerk of any vessel from selling in his\noffice on b…

§ 122. Station masters, conductors and agents allowed to sell tickets.\nThe provisions of this article do not prevent the station master or\nother ticket agent upon any railway, from selling in his office at any\nstation on such railway, any passage tickets upon such railway; no…

§ 123. What must be stated in passage ticket. A ticket or instrument\nissued as evidence of a right of passage upon the high seas, from any\nport in this state, to any port of any other state or nation, and every\ncertificate or order issued for the purpose, or under pretense of…

§ 124. Sale of tickets not filled out, a misdemeanor. A person who\nissues, sells or delivers to another, any ticket, instrument,\ncertificate, order or receipt, which is not made or filled out as\nprescribed in the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n

§ 125. Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor. Any hotel,\nboarding-house, lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager,\nclerk or other employee or any runner, guide, porter or solicitor who\nsolicits in any manner any immigrant or steerage passenger inward…

§ 126. Purchase or selling partially used non-transferable railroad\ntickets, a misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any person,\nassociation of persons, firm or corporation to buy or sell the unused\nportions of non-transferable railroad tickets, the use of which is\nrestricte…

§ 127. Unlawful acts relating to passage tickets, reservations or\npassenger accommodations. 1. Definitions. Whenever used in this section\n a. The term "established tariff charge" is the charge set forth in the\ntariff as published and filed by the railroad, parlor or sleeping …

§ 13. Maliciously serving process on Saturday on person who keeps\nSaturday as holy time. Whoever maliciously procures any process in a\ncivil action to be served on Saturday, upon any person who keeps\nSaturday as holy time, and does not labor on that day, or serves upon\nhim a…

§ 130. Filing of certificates by persons conducting business under\nassumed name or as partners. 1. No person shall hereafter (i) carry on\nor conduct or transact business in this state under any name or\ndesignation other than his or its real name, or (ii) carry on or conduct\n…

§ 1300. Definitions. All terms shall have the same meaning as when\nused in a comparable context in the Internal Revenue Code. As used in\nthis article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Board" shall mean the New York secure choice savings program boar…

§ 1301. Program established. There is hereby established a retirement\nsavings program in the form of an automatic enrollment payroll deduction\nIRA, known as the New York state secure choice savings program. The\ngeneral administration and responsibility for the proper operatio…

§ 1302. Composition of the board. There is hereby created the New York\nstate secure choice savings program board.\n 1. The board shall consist of the following seven members:\n (a) the commissioner, or his or her designee, who shall serve as\nchair;\n (b) the state comptroller,…

§ 1303. Fiduciary duty. The board, the individual members of the\nboard, the trustees, any other agents appointed or engaged by the board,\nand all persons serving as program staff shall discharge their duties\nwith respect to the program solely in the interest of the program's\…

§ 1304. Duties of the board. In addition to the other duties and\nresponsibilities stated in this article, the board shall, itself or\nthrough the use of appropriate financial organizations as managers:\n 1. Cause the program to be designed, established and operated in a\nmanner…

§ 1305. Risk management. The board shall annually prepare, or cause to\nbe prepared, and adopt a written statement of investment policy that\nincludes a risk management and oversight program. This investment policy\nshall prohibit the board and the program from borrowing for inv…

§ 1306. Financial organizations. 1. The board shall engage, after an\nopen bid process, a financial organization or organizations to invest\nassets of the program. In selecting the financial organization or\norganizations, the board shall take into consideration and give weight\…

§ 1307. Investment options. 1. The board shall establish or authorize\na default investment option for enrollees who fail to elect an\ninvestment option. In making such determination, the board shall\nconsider the cost, risk profile, benefit level and ease of enrollment.\nThe bo…

§ 1308. Benefits. Interest, investment earnings, and investment losses\nshall be allocated to individual program accounts as authorized by the\nboard pursuant to this article. An individual's retirement savings\nbenefit under the program shall be an amount equal to the balance i…

§ 1309. Employer and employee informational materials and disclosure\nforms. 1. Prior to the opening of the program for enrollment, the board\nshall design and disseminate, or cause to be designed and disseminated,\nto all employers employer informational materials and employee\…

§ 131. Ownership of merchandise establishments and services to be\npublicly revealed and displayed. Every person, partnership, association\nor corporation owning or conducting any shop, store or other\nestablishment or service wherein the sale of merchandise at retail or\nwholes…

§ 1310. Program implementation and enrollment. Except as otherwise\nprovided in this article, the program shall be implemented, and\nenrollment of employees shall begin no later than December thirty-first,\ntwo thousand twenty-one. The provisions of this section shall be in\nfor…

§ 1311. Payments. Employee contributions deducted by the participating\nemployer through payroll deduction shall be remitted by the\nparticipating employer to the program using one or more payroll\ndeduction IRAs established or authorized by the board under this\narticle, either…

§ 1312. Duty and liability of the state. 1. The state shall have no\nduty or liability to any party for the payment of any retirement savings\nbenefits accrued by any enrollee under the program. Any financial\nliability for the payment of retirement savings benefits in excess of…

§ 1313. Duty and liability of participating employers. 1.\nParticipating employers shall not have any liability for an employee's\ndecision regarding whether to participate in, or opt out of, the program\nor for the investment decisions of the board or of any enrollee.\n 2. A pa…

§ 1314. Audit and reports. 1. The board shall annually submit:\n (a) an audited financial report, prepared in accordance with generally\naccepted accounting principles, on the operations of the program during\neach calendar year by July first of the following year to the governo…

§ 1315. Delayed implementation. The board may delay the implementation\nof the program an additional twelve months beyond the date established\nin section thirteen hundred ten of this article if the board determines\nthat further delay is necessary to address legal, financial or…

§ 1316. Regulations. The commissioner may issue such rules and\nregulations as he or she deems necessary to implement the terms of this\narticle.\n

§ 132. Fictitious copartnership names. 1. A person who transacts\nbusiness, using the name, as a partner, of one not interested with him\nas a partner, or using the designation "and company," or "& Co." when no\nactual partner is represented thereby is guilty of a misdemeanor. T…

§ 133. Use of name or address with intent to deceive. No person, firm\nor corporation shall, with intent to deceive or mislead the public,\nassume, adopt or use as, or as part of, a corporate, assumed or trade\nname, for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade, or for …

§ 134. Fraudulent use of the name or title of secret fraternity. Any\nperson, firm, association, society, order or organization, or any\nofficer, agent, representative or employee thereof, or person acting or\npretending to act on behalf thereof who in a newspaper or other\npubl…

§ 135. Unlawful use of name of benevolent, humane or charitable\ncorporation. No person, society or corporation shall, with intent to\nacquire or obtain for personal or business purposes a benefit or\nadvantage, assume, adopt or use the name of a benevolent, humane or\ncharitabl…

§ 136. Exhibition or display of the flag. Any person who: a. In any\nmanner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed,\nany word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement,\nof any nature upon any flag, standard, color, shield or ensign of …

§ 137. Unauthorized wearing or use of badge, name or insignia of\ncertain orders and societies. 1. Any person who wilfully wears, or\nattaches to any motor vehicle, the badge, insignia, rosette or the\nbutton of the Grand Army of the Republic, the insignia, badge or rosette\nof …

§ 138. Use of certain governmental, military or naval names. 1. It\nshall be unlawful and is prohibited for any person, firm, corporation or\nassociation, not an agency or instrumentality of the United States\ngovernment, selling or offering for sale goods, wares or merchandise,…

§ 14. Processions and parades on Sunday. 1. All processions and\nparades on Sunday in any city, excepting only funeral processions for\nthe actual burial of the dead, and processions to and from a place of\nworship in connection with a religious service there celebrated, are\nfo…

§ 140. Wearing industry badges, or other insignia of identification by\nunauthorized persons. An employer of labor may adopt a badge, or other\ninsignia of identification, to be worn or displayed by the employees for\nthe purpose of identification while upon the premises of the …

§ 1400. Definitions. As used in this section:\n (a) The definitions in section 581-102 of the family court act shall\napply.\n (b) "Payment" means any type of monetary compensation or other\nvaluable consideration including but not limited to a rebate, refund,\ncommission, unear…

§ 1401. Surrogacy programs regulated under this article. The\nprovisions of this article apply to surrogacy programs arranging or\nfacilitating transactions contemplated by a surrogacy agreement,\nregardless of whether such agreement ultimately comports with the\nrequirements un…

§ 1402. Assisted reproduction service providers regulated under this\narticle. The provisions of this article apply to agents, gamete banks,\nfertility clinics, and other entities if:\n 1. The agent, gamete bank, fertility clinic, or other entity does\nbusiness in this state; or…

§ 1403. Conflicts of interest; prohibition on payments; funds in\nescrow; licensure; notice of surrogates' bill of rights. A surrogacy\nprogram to which this article applies:\n (a) Shall keep all funds paid by or on behalf of the intended parent\nor parents other than funds paid…

§ 1404. Regulations. 1. The department of health, in consultation with\nthe department of financial services, shall promulgate rules and\nregulations to implement the requirements of this article regarding\nsurrogacy programs and assisted reproduction service providers in a\nman…

§ 141. Unlawful use of the name United Nations. No person, firm or\ncorporation shall, without express authority from the secretary general\nof the United Nations, assume, adopt or use as, or as a part of a\ncorporate, assumed or trade name, for advertising purposes, or for the\…

§ 1410. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Construction contractor" means any person, sole proprietor,\npartnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association\nor other legal entity who by oneself o…

§ 1411. Contracted compensation payments. 1. Except as otherwise\nprovided by law, the contracted compensation shall be paid to a\nfreelance worker either:\n (a) on or before the date such compensation is due under the terms of\nthe contract; or\n (b) if the contract does not sp…

§ 1412. Written contracts. 1. Whenever a hiring party retains the\nservices of a freelance worker, as such terms are defined in this\narticle, the contract between such party and worker shall be reduced to\nwriting. The hiring party must furnish a copy of such written contract,\…

§ 1413. Discrimination prohibited. No hiring party, as defined in this\narticle, shall threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny a work\nopportunity to, or discriminate against a freelance worker, or take any\nother action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reason…

§ 1414. Violations. 1. The attorney general shall be authorized to\ninvestigate complaints regarding a violation of this article and provide\nappropriate remedies. Whenever the attorney general shall believe from\nevidence satisfactory to them that any hiring party has engaged i…

§ 1415. Additional rights. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, any\nprovision of a contract purporting to waive rights under this article is\nvoid as against public policy.\n 2. The provisions of this article supplement, and do not diminish or\nreplace, any other basis of li…

§ 142. Unlawful possession or use of an identification card issued by\nUnited Nations. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or use an\nidentification card issued to another person by the United Nations. Any\nperson finding or otherwise coming into possession of the ide…

* § 1420. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Affiliate" means a person controlling, controlled by, or under\ncommon control with a specified person, directly or indirectly, through\none or more intermediaries.\n 2.…