Title GBS, General Business

§ 121. Owners, pursers and clerks allowed to sell tickets. The provisions of this article do not prevent the actual owners or consignees of any vessel, from selling passage tickets thereon; nor do they prevent the purser or clerk of any vessel from selling in his office on board…

§ 122. Station masters, conductors and agents allowed to sell tickets. The provisions of this article do not prevent the station master or other ticket agent upon any railway, from selling in his office at any station on such railway, any passage tickets upon such railway; nor d…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 130. Filing of certificates by persons conducting business under assumed name or as partners. 1. No person shall hereafter (i) carry on or conduct or transact business in this state under any name or designation other than his or its real name, or (ii) carry on or conduct or t…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 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 forms. 1. Prior to the opening of the program for enrollment, the board shall design and disseminate, or cause to be designed and disseminated, to all employers employer informational materials and employee inf…

§ 131. Ownership of merchandise establishments and services to be publicly revealed and displayed. Every person, partnership, association or corporation owning or conducting any shop, store or other establishment or service wherein the sale of merchandise at retail or wholesale …

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

§ 1311. Payments. Employee contributions deducted by the participating employer through payroll deduction shall be remitted by the participating employer to the program using one or more payroll deduction IRAs established or authorized by the board under this article, either: 1.…

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

§ 1313. Duty and liability of participating employers. 1. Participating employers shall not have any liability for an employee's decision regarding whether to participate in, or opt out of, the program or for the investment decisions of the board or of any enrollee. 2. A partici…

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

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

§ 1316. Regulations. The commissioner may issue such rules and regulations as he or she deems necessary to implement the terms of this article.

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

§ 133. Use of name or address with intent to deceive. No person, firm or corporation shall, with intent to deceive or mislead the public, assume, adopt or use as, or as part of, a corporate, assumed or trade name, for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade, or for any…

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

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

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

§ 137. Unauthorized wearing or use of badge, name or insignia of certain orders and societies. 1. Any person who wilfully wears, or attaches to any motor vehicle, the badge, insignia, rosette or the button of the Grand Army of the Republic, the insignia, badge or rosette of the …

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

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

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

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

§ 1401. Surrogacy programs regulated under this article. The provisions of this article apply to surrogacy programs arranging or facilitating transactions contemplated by a surrogacy agreement, regardless of whether such agreement ultimately comports with the requirements under …

§ 1402. Assisted reproduction service providers regulated under this article. The provisions of this article apply to agents, gamete banks, fertility clinics, and other entities if: 1. The agent, gamete bank, fertility clinic, or other entity does business in this state; or 2. A…

§ 1403. Conflicts of interest; prohibition on payments; funds in escrow; licensure; notice of surrogates' bill of rights. A surrogacy program to which this article applies: (a) Shall keep all funds paid by or on behalf of the intended parent or parents other than funds paid to t…

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

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

§ 1410. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Construction contractor" means any person, sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity who by oneself or thr…

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

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

§ 1413. Discrimination prohibited. No hiring party, as defined in this article, shall threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny a work opportunity to, or discriminate against a freelance worker, or take any other action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reasonabl…

§ 1414. Violations. 1. The attorney general shall be authorized to investigate complaints regarding a violation of this article and provide appropriate remedies. Whenever the attorney general shall believe from evidence satisfactory to them that any hiring party has engaged in o…

§ 1415. Additional rights. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, any provision of a contract purporting to waive rights under this article is void as against public policy. 2. The provisions of this article supplement, and do not diminish or replace, any other basis of liabili…

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

* § 1420. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Affiliate" means a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with a specified person, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries. 2. "Artif…