Title GBS, General Business

§ 594. Penalties. Any person violating any provision of this article shall be guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of two hundred fifty dollars or imprisonment for one year or both, and each day upon which any sale is conducted in violation of this article …

§ 595. Application of article. This article shall apply only to any city, town or village having a population of less than one million.

§ 596. Saving clause. If any section or provision of this article shall at any time be declared to be unconstitutional, it is the expressed legislative intent that no other section or provision hereof be thereby affected.

§ 597. Receipts for personal property being repaired, rebuilt or reconditioned. An owner, employee or person in charge of a personal service business including but not limited to laundries, dry cleaners, shoemakers, radio and television repair shops, electrical appliance repair …

§ 598. Penalty for violation. A wilfull refusal to issue such receipt when requested by said customer, shall constitute an offense punishable by a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars.

§ 599. Definitions. Traffic control devices mean all signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent with the vehicle and traffic law placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic. …

§ 599-a. Prohibition on sale. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, lease, or offer for sale or hire for use in this state any traffic control device unless it conforms to the current manual and specifications for a uniform system of traf…

§ 599-b. Certificate of approval. Any person, firm, association or corporation desiring a certificate of approval of any traffic control device not conforming to the current manual and specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices shall submit to the department …

§ 599-c. Penalties. A violation of the provisions of section five hundred ninety-nine-a of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not to exceed one thousand dollars.

§ 599-d. Application of article. This article shall not apply to the sale, lease or offer for sale or hire to a city having a population in excess of one million.

§ 599-e. Rules and regulations. The commissioner of transportation shall have the power to establish such rules and regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this article as he may deem necessary, and to modify or amend such rules and regulations from time to time.

§ 6. Persons observing another day as a Sabbath. It is a sufficient defense to a prosecution for work or labor on the first day of the week that the defendant uniformly keeps another day of the week as holy time, and does not labor on that day, and that the labor complained of w…

§ 60. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Junk metal" means any product made of steel, copper, copper alloy, brass, aluminum, or aluminum alloy that is readily used or useable by a public utility, railroad, county, city or state highway department, public or private school…

§ 60-a. Licenses. It shall be unlawful for any person, association, partnership or corporation to engage in the business of buying or selling old metal, which business is herein designated junk business, and which person, association, partnership or corporation is herein designa…

§ 600. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Consumer claim" means any obligation of a natural person for the payment of money or its equivalent which is or is alleged to be in default and which arises out of a transac…

§ 601. Prohibited practices. No principal creditor, as defined by this article, or his agent shall: 1. Simulate in any manner a law enforcement officer, or a representative of any governmental agency of the state of New York or any of its political subdivisions; or 2. Knowingly …

§ 601-a. Disclosure by principal creditors and/or debt collection agencies. No principal creditors and/or debt collection agencies shall make any representation that a person is required to pay the debt of a family member in a way that contravenes with the Fair Debt Collection P…

§ 601-b. Large print notices. 1. Each and every principal creditor or debt collector shall, in each initial communication, clearly and conspicuously disclose to the debtor that each communication can be provided in an alternative, reasonably accommodatable, format. Such disclosu…

§ 602. Violations and penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, any person who violates the terms of section six hundred one of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, and each such violation shall be deemed a separate offense. A violation by any person of section six …

§ 603. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid the invalidity thereof shall not affect other provisions or applications of the article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or appl…

§ 604. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Consumer claim" means any obligation of a natural person for the payment of money or its equivalent which is or is alleged to be in default and which arises out of a transacti…

§ 604-a. Prohibited practices. 1. Upon receipt from a debtor of the following, a principal creditor shall cease collection activities until completion of the review provided in subdivision five of this section: (a) a copy of a valid police report filed by the debtor alleging tha…

§ 604-aa. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Action" means any civil judicial proceeding as defined in section one hundred five of the civil practice law and rules. 2. "Adequate documentation of coerced debt" means do…

§ 604-b. Penalties. (a) Whenever there shall be a violation of this article, an application may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction by a special proceeding to issue an injunction, and upon n…

§ 604-bb. Notice of coerced debt. 1. Within ten business days of\nreceipt of the following, a creditor shall cease collection activities\nuntil completion of the review under subdivision three of this section:\n (a) adequate documentation of coerced debt; and\n (b) the debtor's …

§ 604-cc. Coerced debt cause of action and affirmative defense. 1. A debtor shall have a cause of action against a creditor in any court having jurisdiction to issue a declaratory judgment establishing that a debt or portion of a debt asserted to be owed to such creditor is a co…

§ 604-dd. Application to secured debt. 1. Except with respect to section six hundred four-ee of this article, this article shall not apply to debts secured by real property. 2. Section six hundred four-bb of this article and the cause of action authorized by subdivision one of s…

§ 604-ee. Right of action against person who causes another to incur coerced debt. A person shall not cause another person to incur a coerced debt. 1. A person who causes another person to incur a coerced debt in violation of this section shall be civilly liable to the creditor …

§ 604-ff. Attorney general enforcement. Whenever there shall be a violation of this article, an application may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction to issue an injunction, and upon notice to…

§ 604-gg. Scope. 1. The provisions of this article shall apply only to a creditor to whom a debt is owed, due, or asserted to be due or owed, where such debt is asserted to be coerced debt. 2. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to impose any duty or liability …

§ 605. Short title. This article should be known and may be cited as the "truth-in-storage" act.

§ 606. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: (a) Warehouseman means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. (b) Storage of household goods means goods stored by a consumer bailor which are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or househo…

§ 607. Required disclosures. 1. No warehouseman shall accept household goods for storage from a consumer bailor unless prior to accepting the goods, the consumer bailor is furnished with a written storage agreement which shall be dated and signed by the consumer bailor and the w…

§ 607-a. Storage of furs. In addition to any other provision of this article, a fur storage operator shall be subject to the following: 1. If there is any statement of limitation in damages in an agreement for the storage of furs, such agreement shall contain on its face immedia…

§ 608. Unlawful detention of goods. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-209 of the uniform commercial code, no warehouseman shall have a lien on any household goods stored by him in a particular case where the charges demanded for storage are in excess of the charges …

§ 609. Private right of action. 1. Any consumer bailor damaged by an unlawful detention of his goods or any other violation of this article may bring an action for recovery of damages and the return of his goods. Judgment may be entered in an amount not to exceed three times the…

§ 61. Persons not entitled to license. No person, association, partnership or corporation shall be entitled to or receive such license who or which, and in case of a partnership or association any member of which, has been since January first, nineteen hundred and three, or who …

§ 610. Violation and penalties. Whenever there shall be a violation of this article, an application may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction by a special proceeding to issue an injunction, an…

§ 611. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Film" means any videotape, video cassette or other reproduction of a motion picture, concert, musical production or other video event. 1-a. "Video game" means electronic or computerized game software that users manipulate through …

§ 612. Sale and rental of video games and films. 1. No person, partnership or corporation shall sell or rent at retail or attempt to sell or rent at retail a video game or film unless a video game rating or the rating of the motion picture from which the film was copied is clear…

§ 616. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity. 2. "Motor vehicle" mean…

§ 617. Express written warranty required; contents. 1. (a) An initial seller shall provide the consumer with an express written warranty which complies with the following requirements: the parts are warranted to be fit for the ordinary purposes for which such parts are used duri…

§ 618. Additional remedies of consumers. Nothing in this article shall in any way contravene or limit the rights, remedies or privileges which are otherwise available to a consumer under any other law.

§ 619. Prohibition against waiver of rights. Waiver of any rights by the consumer under this article shall be deemed contrary to public policy and shall be unenforceable and void.

§ 62. Statement required from persons selling certain property. On purchasing any pig or pigs of metal, bronze or brass castings or parts thereof, sprues or gates or parts thereof, copper wire or brass car journals, or metal beer kegs, such junk dealer shall cause to be subscrib…

§ 620. Legislative intent. 1. The legislature finds that there exists in connection with a number of contracts for health club services, sales practices and business and financing methods which may have resulted in deception and financial hardship upon the people of this state, …

§ 621. Definitions. 1. "Contract for services." As used in this article, a contract for services means a contract for consumer services for instruction, training or assistance in bodybuilding, exercising, weight reducing, figure development, the martial arts to include, judo, ka…

§ 622. Escrow required. All moneys received by a seller pursuant to a contract for services for use by a buyer of a health club prior to the full operation of such health club shall be placed in escrow. 1. Such funds shall be kept and maintained in an account separate and apart …

§ 622-a. Bond, letter of credit or certificate of deposit required. 1. Every health club, except as provided in subdivision ten of this section, before it enters into any contract for services for use by a buyer of a health club, shall file and at all times maintain with the sec…

§ 623. Contract restrictions. 1. No contract for services shall require payment by the person receiving service or the use of the facilities of a total amount in excess of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, provided, however, that this subdivision shall not apply to c…