Title CVR, Civil Rights

Section. 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Civil Rights Law."

§ 1-a. Definitions. The term "minor" or "infant", as used in this chapter, shall mean a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.

§ 10. Justice to be administered without favor and speedily. Neither justice nor right should be sold to any person, nor denied, nor deferred; and writs and process ought to be granted freely and without delay, to all persons requiring the same, on payment of the fees establishe…

§ 100. Definitions. For purposes of this article: 1. The term "face covering" means any item that is used to conceal, disguise, or obscure the facial identity, including any opaque mask, garment, helmet, headgear, balaclava, ski mask, neck gaiter, or tactical mask. The term "fac…

§ 101. Face coverings prohibited. 1. A law enforcement officer shall not wear any face covering that conceals, disguises, or obscures their facial identity while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties, except as authorized by this article. 2. Any person w…

§ 102. Identification required. 1. Any uniformed law enforcement officer while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties shall visibly display: (a) the name of the agency or department employing such officer; and (b) at least one form of identification of th…

§ 11. Fines must be reasonable and imposed only for cause. No citizen of this state ought to be fined or amerced without reasonable cause, and such fine or amercement should always be proportioned to the nature of the offense.

§ 12. Rights of persons accused of crime. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused has a right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury, and is entitled to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him or her; a…

§ 13. Right to serve on juries. No citizen of the state possessing all other qualifications which are or may be required or prescribed by law, shall be disqualified to serve as a grand or petit juror in any court of this state on account of race, creed, color, national origin or…

§ 14. Jurors not to be questioned for verdicts. A juror shall not be questioned, and is not subject to an action, or other liability civil or criminal, for a verdict rendered by him, in an action in a court of record, or not of record, or in a special proceeding before an office…

§ 15. Right of appeal not to be denied. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a citizen shall not be deprived of the right to appeal to the legislature, or to any public officer, board, commission or other public body, for the redress of g…

§ 150. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.

§ 151. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.

§ 18-a. Findings and declarations of policy. 1. This article shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the welfare, health and peace of the people of this state and the fulfillment and enforcement of the provisions of the constitution of …

§ 18-b. Definitions. When used in this article: 1. The term "person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy and receivers or other fiduciaries. 2. The term "housing accommodation" includ…

§ 18-c. Discrimination prohibited. It shall be unlawful: 1. For the owner of any publicly assisted housing accommodation to refuse to rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodation because of the race, color, reli…

§ 18-d. Restraint of discrimination; damages for violations. 1. Any person aggrieved by a violation of section eighteen-c of this chapter and any person whose assessment shall amount to more than one thousand dollars and who shall be liable to pay taxes on such assessment in any…

§ 18-e. Applicability. The provisions of this section shall not apply to privately owned housing accommodations which are not publicly assisted within the meaning of section eighteen-b (3) of this chapter.

§ 19-a. Prohibition against unreasonable withholding of consent. 1. No corporation formed for the purpose of the cooperative ownership of real estate within the state shall withhold its consent to the sale or proposed sale of certificates of stock or other evidence of ownership …

§ 19-b. Restraint of discrimination; damages for violations. Any person aggrieved by a violation of section nineteen-a, including but not be limited to, any person who has made a loan, authorized by law, for the purpose of financing the purchase of certificates of stock or other…

§ 2. Supreme sovereignty in the people. No authority can, on any pretence whatsoever, be exercised over the citizens of this state, but such as is or shall be derived from and granted by the people of this state.

§ 20. No imprisonment for non-payment of costs in certain cases. A person shall not be arrested or imprisoned, for the non-payment of costs, awarded otherwise than by a final judgment, or a final order, made in a special proceeding instituted by state writ, except where an attor…

§ 21. No imprisonment for non-payment of money pursuant to judgment or order requiring payment of money due upon contract. Except in a case where it is otherwise specially prescribed by law, a person shall not be arrested or imprisoned for disobedience to a judgment or order, re…

§ 22. Privilege of officers and prisoner from arrest while passing through another county. A prisoner conveyed to jail through another county by a sheriff or other officer pursuant to law, or the officer having him in custody, is not liable to arrest in any civil action or speci…

§ 23. No person to be arrested in civil proceedings without a statutory provision. A person shall not be arrested in a civil action or special proceeding, except as prescribed by statute. The writ of ne exeat is abolished.

§ 24. Privilege from arrest of officers of courts of record. An officer of a court of record, appointed or elected pursuant to law, is privileged from arrest, during the actual sitting, which he is required to attend, of a term of the court of which he is an officer, and no long…

§ 25. Witness exempt from arrest. A person duly and in good faith subpoenaed or ordered to attend, for the purpose of being examined, in a case where his attendance may lawfully be enforced by attachment or by commitment, is privileged from arrest in a civil action or special pr…

§ 26. Action against officer making arrest of exempt person. An action may be maintained, by the person arrested, against the officer or other person making an arrest contrary to the provisions of the last section, in which the plaintiff is entitled to recover treble damages. A …

§ 27. Discharge of exempt witness. Where a person has been arrested in violation of section twenty-five, a justice of the supreme court, a county judge or the court, if any, from which the subpoena was issued or which ordered the witness to attend, or a judge thereof, shall orde…

* § 28. Medical attention for persons under arrest. When a person is under arrest or otherwise in the custody of a police officer, peace officer or other law enforcement representative or entity, such officer, representative or entity shall have a duty to provide attention to th…

* § 28. Civil arrest; certain locations. 1. A person duly and in good faith attending a court proceeding in which such person is a party or potential witness, or a family or household member is a party or potential witness, is privileged from civil arrest while going to, remaini…

§ 29. Sensitive locations. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Sensitive location" means a privately owned or operated: (i) location of any program licensed, regulated, certified, funded, or approved by the of…

§ 3. Levying taxes and charges. No tax, duty, aid or imposition whatsoever, except such as may be laid by a law of the United States, can be taken or levied within this state, without the grant and assent of the people of this state, by their representatives in senate and assemb…

§ 4. Right to keep and bear arms. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed.

§ 40. Equal rights in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement. All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any places of public accommodations, resort or amusement,…

§ 40-a. Inquiry concerning religion or religious affiliations of person seeking employment or official position in public schools prohibited. No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions for teachers, princi…

§ 40-b. Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement. No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public entertainment an…

§ 40-c. Discrimination. 1. All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. 2. No person shall, because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientatio…

§ 40-d. Penalty for violation. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing section, or subdivision three of section 240.30 or section 240.31 of the penal law, or who shall aid or incite the violation of any of said provisions shall for each and every viol…

§ 40-e. Innkeepers and carriers refusing to receive guests and passengers. A person, who, either on his own account or as agent or officer of a corporation, carries on business as innkeeper, or as common carrier of passengers, and refuses, without just cause or excuse, to receiv…

§ 40-f. Discrimination against person or class in price for admission. If a person who owns, occupies, manages or controls a building, park, inclosure or other place, opens the same to the public generally at stated periods or otherwise, he shall not discriminate against any per…

§ 40-g. Discrimination against United States uniform. A person who excludes from the equal enjoyment of any accommodation, facility or privilege furnished by innkeepers or common carriers, amusement or resort, any person lawfully wearing the uniform of the army, navy, marine cor…

§ 41. Penalty for violation. Any person who or any agency, bureau, corporation or association which shall violate any of the provisions of sections forty, forty-a, forty-b or forty-two or who or which shall aid or incite the violation of any of said provisions and any officer or…

§ 42. Discrimination by utility companies. It shall be unlawful for any public utility company, as defined in the public service law, to refuse to employ any person in any capacity in the operation or maintenance of a public service on account of the race, creed, color or nation…

§ 43. Discrimination by labor organizations prohibited. As used in this section, the term "labor organization" means any organization which exists and is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, or of dealing with employers concerning grievance…

§ 44. Discrimination by industries involved in defense contracts. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation engaged to any extent whatsoever in the production, manufacture or distribution of military or naval material, equipment or supplies for the state of New Yo…

§ 44-a. Protecting civil and public rights. A person who: 1. Excludes a citizen of this state, by reason of race, color, creed, national origin or previous condition of servitude, from any public employment or employment in any capacity in industries engaged in defense contracts…

§ 45. Powers of administration vested in industrial commissioner. The industrial commissioner may enforce the provisions of sections forty-two, forty-three and forty-four of this chapter. For this purpose he may use the powers of administration, investigation, inquiry, subpoena,…

§ 47. Use of public facilities by persons with a disability. 1. No person shall be denied admittance to and/or the equal use of and enjoyment of any public facility solely because said person is a person with a disability and is accompanied by a guide dog, hearing dog or service…

§ 47-a. Employment of persons with a disability. Unless it can be clearly shown that a person's disability would prevent such person from performing the particular job no person who is otherwise qualified shall be denied equal opportunities to obtain and/or maintain employment a…