Title GOB, General Obligations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 18-401. Effect of LIBOR discontinuance on agreements. 1. On the\nLIBOR replacement date, the recommended benchmark replacement shall, by\noperation of law, be the benchmark replacement for any contract,\nsecurity or instrument that uses LIBOR as a benchmark and:\n a. contains …

§ 18-402. Continuity of contract and safe harbor. 1. The selection or\nuse of a recommended benchmark replacement as a benchmark replacement\nunder or in respect of a contract, security or instrument by operation\nof section 18-401 of this article shall constitute:\n a. a commer…

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

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

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

§ 3-101. When contracts may not be disaffirmed on ground of infancy.\n1. A contract made on or after September first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-four by a person after he has attained the age of eighteen years\nmay not be disaffirmed by him on the ground of infancy.\n 2. A contra…

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

§ 3-103. Contracts pursuant to the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of\n1944" as amended; when they may not be disaffirmed. 1. A veteran,\neligible for the benefits provided for in Section 1801 and following of\nTitle 38 of the United States Code, and the spouse of such veteran,\n…

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

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

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

§ 3-112. Liability of parents and legal guardians having custody of an\ninfant for certain damages caused by such infant. 1. The parent or\nlegal guardian, other than the state, a local social services department\nor a foster parent, of an infant over ten and less than eighteen …

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

§ 3-303. Contracts in contemplation of marriage. A contract made\nbetween persons in contemplation of marriage, remains in full force\nafter the marriage takes place.\n

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

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

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

§ 3-311. Marriage relationship not to affect construction of\ninstruments and transactions involving personal property. 1. Where an\ninstrument or transaction creating or transferring an interest in\npersonal property would create a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common in\nperso…

§ 3-313. Right of action by or against married woman, and by husband\nor wife against the other, for torts. 1. A married woman has a right of\naction for an injury to her person, property or character or for an\ninjury arising out of the marital relation, as if unmarried. She is…

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

§ 3-501. Effect of death upon power of attorney given by persons\nengaged in certain occupations. 1. No agency created by a power of\nattorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of\nexecution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes,\neither\n a. …

§ 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\nin sections 5-331, 5-703 and 5-1115, the term "conveyance" includes\nevery instrument, in writing, except a will, by which any estate or\ninterest in real property is created, transferred, assigned or\nsurren…

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

§ 5-1103. Written agreement for modification or discharge. An\nagreement, promise or undertaking to change or modify, or to discharge\nin whole or in part, any contract, obligation, or lease, or any mortgage\nor other security interest in personal or real property, shall not be\…

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

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

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

§ 5-1111. Execution by agent in real property transactions; written\nauthorization required. If executed by an agent, any agreement,\npromise, undertaking, assignment or offer required by section 5-1103,\n5-1105, 5-1107 or 5-1109 to be in writing, which affects or relates to\nre…

§ 5-1113. Written or published promise or reward. A promise to pay a\nreward for return of lost or mislaid property is not unenforceable\nbecause of absence of consideration if the promise was made in writing\nor the promisor caused it to be published.\n

§ 5-1115. Promises and warranties in conveyances made without\nconsideration. A promise or warranty by the grantor in a deed or\nconveyance of an estate or interest in real property and acknowledged or\nproved in the manner prescribed by law to entitle it to be recorded\nshall n…

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

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

§ 5-1401. Choice of law. 1. The parties to any contract, agreement or\nundertaking, contingent or otherwise, in consideration of, or relating\nto any obligation arising out of a transaction covering in the aggregate\nnot less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars, including a\…

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

§ 5-1501. Application and definitions. 1. This title shall apply to\nall powers of attorney except powers of attorney excluded from this\ntitle by section 5-1501C of this title.\n 2. As used in this title the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Agent" mean…

§ 5-1501A. Power of attorney not affected by incapacity. 1. A power of\nattorney is durable unless it expressly provides that it is terminated\nby the incapacity of the principal.\n 2. The subsequent incapacity of a principal shall not revoke or\nterminate the authority of an ag…

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

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