Title GOB, General Obligations

§ 18-103. Duties of ski area operators. Every ski area operator shall have the following duties: 1. To equip all trail maintenance vehicles with such warning implements or devices as shall be specified by the commissioner of labor pursuant to section eight hundred sixty-seven of…

§ 18-104. Duties of passengers. All passengers shall have the following duties: 1. To familiarize themselves with the safe use of any tramway prior to its use; 2. To remain in the tramway if the operation of a passenger tramway, as defined pursuant to section two hundred two-c o…

§ 18-105. Duties of skiers. All skiers shall have the following duties: 1. Not to ski in any area not designated for skiing; 2. Not to ski beyond their limits or ability to overcome variations in slope, trail configuration and surface or subsurface conditions which may be caused…

§ 18-106. Duties of skiers and ski area operators with respect to inherent risks. It is recognized that skiing is a voluntary activity that may be hazardous regardless of all feasible safety measures that can be undertaken by ski area operators. Accordingly: 1. Ski area operator…

§ 18-107. Construction. Unless otherwise specifically provided in this article, the duties of skiers, passengers, and ski area operators shall be governed by common law.

§ 18-108. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article that can be given effect without the invalid provision or applica…

§ 18-201. Specifications of liability for employers and employees. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, partnership, joint venture, joint-stock association, corporation, association, trust or other legal entity. (b) The words "employer", …

§ 18-301. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "safety in agricultural tourism act".

§ 18-302. Definitions. For purposes of this article: 1. "Agricultural tourism" means activities, including the production of maple sap and pure maple products made therefrom, farm and winery tours, equine activities both outdoors and indoors but excluding equine therapy, u-pick …

§ 18-303. Responsibilities of operators and visitors of agricultural tourism areas. 1. Operators of agricultural tourism areas shall have the following additional responsibilities: a. To post and maintain way finding signage to delineate the paths, areas and buildings that are o…

§ 18-400. Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "LIBOR" shall mean, for purposes of the application of this article to any particular contract, security or instrument, U.S. dollar LIBOR (formerly known as the London interb…

§ 18-401. Effect of LIBOR discontinuance on agreements. 1. On the LIBOR replacement date, the recommended benchmark replacement shall, by operation of law, be the benchmark replacement for any contract, security or instrument that uses LIBOR as a benchmark and: a. contains no fa…

§ 18-402. Continuity of contract and safe harbor. 1. The selection or use of a recommended benchmark replacement as a benchmark replacement under or in respect of a contract, security or instrument by operation of section 18-401 of this article shall constitute: a. a commerciall…

§ 18-403. Severability. If any provision of this article or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, …

§ 19-101. Laws repealed. 1. The following sections of the civil rights law are hereby repealed: Section sixteen, as added by chapter one hundred fifty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-one; Section seventeen, as added by chapter eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred …

§ 19-103. Effective date. This act shall take effect September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred sixty-four.

§ 3-101. When contracts may not be disaffirmed on ground of infancy. 1. A contract made on or after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-four by a person after he has attained the age of eighteen years may not be disaffirmed by him on the ground of infancy. 2. A contract ma…

§ 3-102. Obligations of certain minors for hospital, medical and surgical treatment and care. 1. An obligation incurred by a married minor for hospital, medical and surgical treatment and care for such minor or such minor's children shall not be voidable because of minority. For…

§ 3-103. Contracts pursuant to the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944" as amended; when they may not be disaffirmed. 1. A veteran, eligible for the benefits provided for in Section 1801 and following of Title 38 of the United States Code, and the spouse of such veteran, rega…

§ 3-107. Certain contracts of parents or guardians respecting employment of infants not enforceable unless approved. Where a contract providing for performance or rendering of services by an infant is one which the supreme court or surrogate's court has jurisdiction to approve a…

§ 3-109. Payment of wages to minor; when valid. Where a minor is in the employment of a person other than his parent or guardian, payment to such minor of his wages is valid, unless such parent or guardian notify the employer in writing, within thirty days after the commencement…

§ 3-111. Negligence of parent or other custodian not imputed to infant. In an action brought by an infant to recover damages for personal injury the contributory negligence of the infant's parent or other custodian shall not be imputed to the infant.

§ 3-112. Liability of parents and legal guardians having custody of an infant for certain damages caused by such infant. 1. The parent or legal guardian, other than the state, a local social services department or a foster parent, of an infant over ten and less than eighteen yea…

§ 3-301. Powers of married woman. 1. A married woman has all the rights in respect to property, real or personal, and the acquisition, use, enjoyment and disposition thereof, and to make contracts in respect thereto with any person, including her husband, and to carry on any bus…

§ 3-303. Contracts in contemplation of marriage. A contract made between persons in contemplation of marriage, remains in full force after the marriage takes place.

§ 3-305. Contract of married woman not to bind husband. A contract made by a married woman does not bind her husband or his property.

§ 3-307. Liability of husband for antenuptial debts. A husband who acquires property of his wife by antenuptial contract or otherwise, is liable for her debts contracted before marriage, but only to the extent of the property so acquired.

§ 3-309. Husband and wife may convey to each other or make partition. Husband and wife may convey or transfer real or personal property directly, the one to the other, without the intervention of a third person; and may make partition or division of any real property held by the…

§ 3-311. Marriage relationship not to affect construction of instruments and transactions involving personal property. 1. Where an instrument or transaction creating or transferring an interest in personal property would create a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common in persons n…

§ 3-313. Right of action by or against married woman, and by husband or wife against the other, for torts. 1. A married woman has a right of action for an injury to her person, property or character or for an injury arising out of the marital relation, as if unmarried. She is li…

§ 3-315. Married woman's right of action for wages. 1. A married woman shall have a cause of action in her own sole and separate right for all wages, salary, profits, compensation or other remuneration for which she may render work, labor or services or which may be derived from…

§ 3-501. Effect of death upon power of attorney given by persons engaged in certain occupations. 1. No agency created by a power of attorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of execution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes, either a. a pers…

§ 3-503. Required information and statement in applications for\nlicenses to conduct occupations; fulfillment of child support\nobligations. 1. As used in this section:\n a. "Agency" means the legal authority or entity responsible for\ndetermining whether or not a license shall …

§ 5-101. Definitions of terms as used in certain sections. 1. As used in sections 5-331, 5-703 and 5-1115, the term "conveyance" includes every instrument, in writing, except a will, by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, assigned or surrendere…

§ 5-1101. Agreements relating to securities. An agreement, promise or undertaking for the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment or delivery of a certificate or other evidence of debt, issued by the United States or by any state, or a municipal or other corporation, or of any shar…

§ 5-1103. Written agreement for modification or discharge. An agreement, promise or undertaking to change or modify, or to discharge in whole or in part, any contract, obligation, or lease, or any mortgage or other security interest in personal or real property, shall not be inv…

§ 5-1105. Written promise expressing past consideration. A promise in writing and signed by the promisor or by his agent shall not be denied effect as a valid contractual obligation on the ground that consideration for the promise is past or executed, if the consideration is exp…

§ 5-1107. Written assignment. An assignment shall not be denied the effect of irrevocably transferring the assignor's rights because of the absence of consideration, if such assignment is in writing and signed by the assignor, or by his agent.

§ 5-1109. Written irrevocable offer. Except as otherwise provided in section 2-205 of the uniform commercial code with respect to an offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods, when an offer to enter into a contract is made in a writing signed by the offeror, or by his agent, whic…

§ 5-1111. Execution by agent in real property transactions; written authorization required. If executed by an agent, any agreement, promise, undertaking, assignment or offer required by section 5-1103, 5-1105, 5-1107 or 5-1109 to be in writing, which affects or relates to real p…

§ 5-1113. Written or published promise or reward. A promise to pay a reward for return of lost or mislaid property is not unenforceable because of absence of consideration if the promise was made in writing or the promisor caused it to be published.

§ 5-1115. Promises and warranties in conveyances made without consideration. A promise or warranty by the grantor in a deed or conveyance of an estate or interest in real property and acknowledged or proved in the manner prescribed by law to entitle it to be recorded shall not b…

§ 5-1301. How interest calculated. Whenever, in any statute, act, deed, written or verbal contract, or in any public or private instrument whatever, any certain rate of interest is or shall be mentioned, and no period of time is stated for which such rate is to be calculated, in…

§ 5-1311. Uniform vendor and purchaser risk act. 1. Any contract for the purchase and sale or exchange of realty shall be interpreted, unless the contract expressly provides otherwise, as including an agreement that the parties shall have the following rights and duties: a. When…

§ 5-1401. Choice of law. 1. The parties to any contract, agreement or undertaking, contingent or otherwise, in consideration of, or relating to any obligation arising out of a transaction covering in the aggregate not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars, including a tra…

§ 5-1402. Choice of forum. 1. Notwithstanding any act which limits or affects the right of a person to maintain an action or proceeding, including, but not limited to, paragraph (b) of section thirteen hundred fourteen of the business corporation law and subdivision two of secti…

§ 5-1501. Application and definitions. 1. This title shall apply to all powers of attorney except powers of attorney excluded from this title by section 5-1501C of this title. 2. As used in this title the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Agent" means a per…

§ 5-1501A. Power of attorney not affected by incapacity. 1. A power of attorney is durable unless it expressly provides that it is terminated by the incapacity of the principal. 2. The subsequent incapacity of a principal shall not revoke or terminate the authority of an agent w…

§ 5-1501B. Creation of a valid power of attorney; when effective. 1. To be valid, except as otherwise provided in section 5-1512 of this title, a statutory short form power of attorney, or a non-statutory power of attorney, executed in this state by a principal, must: (a) Be typ…

§ 5-1501C. Powers of attorney excluded from this title. The provisions of this title shall not apply to the following powers of attorney: 1. a power of attorney given primarily for a business or commercial purpose, including without limitation: (a) a power to the extent it is co…