Miscellaneous Forms for Regulations listed below:
Local Law Filing Form (pdf)
Games of Chance (pdf)
Trademark (pdf)
Service Mark (pdf)
Title 19, Chapter III, Administration
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Part 130. FILING LOCAL LAWS
(Statutory authority: Executive Law, §91)
§ 130.1 Filing location.
A copy of each local law shall be mailed or delivered to the Department of
State, Bureau of State
Records and Law, at its Albany office.
§ 130.2 Filing procedure.
Each local law shall be filed on a form provided by the department. If additional
pages are
required, they must be of the same size as the form. For convenience, printed,
mimeographed or
typewritten copies of the text may be affixed to the form, but these shall
not be of a size larger
than the form. To ensure reproduction by the department's record retention
equipment, only true
and legible copies will be accepted.
§ 130.3 Title and number of local
laws.
The filing form shall contain entries for the title and number of each local
law. Numbering shall
be consecutive, beginning with the number one for the first local law
filed in each calendar year.
The next number in sequence shall be applied to each local law when it
is filed, regardless of its
date of introduction or adoption. Such form shall also contain entries
for other information as may
be required by law.
§ 130.4 Filing date.
The date of filing of a local law shall be the date on which the local law
is placed on file by the
department.
§ 130.5 Corrections.
Corrections of filed local laws will be accepted by the department, only where
the corrections are
of clerical errors occurring after adoption of the local law. Corrections
must be in the form of
whole pages submitted as either replacement pages or additional pages.
Corrections must be
accompanied by a letter signed by the municipal clerk, clerk to the legislative
body, or other dulydesignated
officer, explaining the nature of the correction. The letter must also
attest to the
officer's belief that the correction will conform the filed local law with
the local law as adopted. No other changes of any kind will be made to filed
local laws by the department.
Part 132. USE OF GAMES OF CHANCE IN SELLING COMMODITIES
(Statutory authority: Executive Law, § 91; General Business Law, § 369-e)
§ 132.1 Definitions.
Game includes a series of the same or substantially similar games.
§ 132.2 Registration statement.
In addition to the information required by General Business Law, section 369-e(1),
the statement
filed in the Department of State shall set forth the prizes offered
and the retail value of each prize.
§ 132.3 Value of prizes.
The actual retail cost shall be used in determining the value of prizes offered
in any game of
chance.
§ 132.4 Trust accounts and surety bonds.
Where prizewinning objects are distributed to retail establishments in a substantially
uniform ratio
to the number of participating objects or entries, the total
value of prizes offered may be
calculated as:
A = (N/T) (V) + P
where A is the amount of the bond to be posted or trust account to be maintained;
N is the total number of objects distributed in New York or the projected
number of entries from
New York;
T is the total number of objects distributed or the projected number
of entries in the game;
V is the total retail value of all prizes offered; and
P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5 are respectively the retail values of the first,
second, third, fourth and fifth
largest prizes.
§ 132.5 Winners list.
The rules of the contest shall set forth the address where persons may obtain
a copy of the
winners list from the promoter in accordance with General
Business Law, section 369-e(5).
Part 133. REGISTRATION OF NAMES OR MARKS IN RELATION
TO THE USE OF CARTS, CASES, TRAYS, BASKETS, BOXES
AND OTHER CONTAINERS
(Statutory authority: General Business Law, §399-q; Executive Law, §91)
§ 133.1 Definitions.
As used in this article:
(a) Name or mark means any word, name, symbol, picture, design or any combination
thereof,
produced upon and used by a person to indicate ownership
of carts, cases, trays, baskets, boxes
and other containers.
(b) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association,
union or other
organization.
(c) Permanently affixed means branded, stamped, stenciled, engraved,
etched, blown, embossed,
impressed, or otherwise permanently placed upon any cart, case, tray, basket,
box or other
container.
§ 133.2 Filing of statement.
A person who uses a name or mark to indicate ownership of carts, cases, trays,
baskets, boxes and
other containers may file in the Office of the Secretary
of State, on a form to be furnished by the
Secretary, the following information:
(a) the name and business address of the person filing the statement; and,
if a corporation, the
state of incorporation;
(b) the nature of the business of the person filing; and
(c) the type of container with which the name, mark or device is used.
The statement shall include or be accompanied by a copy, specimen, facsimile
or counterpart of
such name or mark, together with the filing fee prescribed by section 96
of the Executive Law.
§ 133.3 Assignment.
The registration of the filing of any name or mark under this Part and the
benefits obtained
thereunder shall be assignable. Assignments shall be
made upon forms supplied by the Secretary
of State and shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed by section 96
of the Executive Law.
§ 133.4 Cancellation.
The Secretary of State shall cancel from the register:
(a) any certificate concerning which the Secretary of State shall receive
a voluntary request for
cancellation thereof from the person filing or from the
assignee; and
(b) any certificate in respect of which a court of competent jurisdiction
shall order cancellation on
any legal or equitable ground.
Part 140. TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS
(Statutory authority: Executive Law, §91; General Business Law, §§360-1,
360-q)
§ 140.1 Forms and clarity of documents.
Every application for registration or renewal must be on a current form supplied
by the
Department of State, completed in the English language,
plainly written or typed, and of sufficient
clarity to permit recording and reproduction by the department in its current
record retention
medium. If the mark or any part thereof is not in the English
language, it must be accompanied by
a sworn translation.
§ 140.2 Registration date.
After an application has been examined and found acceptable, the registration
date is the date of
initial receipt of the application by the department.
§ 140.3 Description of mark.
A description of the mark, other than merely a word mark, must be set forth
in the application
including a written description of any designs
sought to be registered. All extraneous matter
should be omitted.
§ 140.4 Proof of distinctiveness.
When registration is sought of a mark which would be unregistrable by reason
of section 360-a(e)
of the General Business Law but which is
said by the applicant to have become distinctive
in
commerce of the goods or services set forth in the application, the applicant
may, in support of
registrability, submit with the application, or in response
to a request for evidence or a refusal to
register, affidavits, depositions or other appropriate evidence showing
duration, extent and nature
of use and advertising expenditures in connection therewith
(identifying types of media and
attaching typical advertisements), and affidavits, letters, or statements
from the trade or public, or
both, or other appropriate evidence tending to show that the
mark distinguishes such goods or
services.
§ 140.5 Rejection and resubmission
of applications.
If an application is found not entitled to registration, the department will
advise the applicant and
give the reasons for the rejection. The
applicant has six months following the
rejection within
which to reply or amend the application, which will then be re-examined.
This procedure may be
(a) the department finally refuses registration; or
(b) the applicant allows the six-month response period to
lapse without filing a reply,
amendment, or appeal.
If the applicant fails to file a proper response within six months, the
application is deemed
abandoned. An abandoned application may be revived as a
pending application if it is shown to
the satisfaction of the department that the delay was unavoidable.
§ 140.6 Classification of goods and
services.
The following classification of goods and services is established for convenience
of
administration, as required by General
Business Law, section 360-i.
GOODS
1. Chemical products used in industry, science, photography,
agriculture, horticulture, forestry;
artificial and synthetic resins; plastics in the form of powders,
liquids or pastes, for industrial use;
manures (natural and artificial); fire extinguishing compositions;
tempering substances and
chemical preparations for soldering; chemical substances for preserving
foodstuffs; tanning
substances; adhesive substances used in industry.
2. Paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives against
rust and against deterioration of wood;
coloring matters, dyestuff; Mordants; natural resins; metals in foil and
powder form for painters
and decorators.
3. Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry
use, cleaning, polishing, scouring, and
abrasive preparations; soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, hair
lotions; dentifrices.
4. Industrial oils and greases (other than edible oils and fats and
essential oils); lubricants; dust
laying and absorbing compositions; fuels (including motor spirit) and illuminants;
candles, tapers,
night lights and wicks.
5. Pharmaceutical, veterinary, and sanitary substances; infants' and
invalid's foods; plasters,
material for bandaging; material for stopping teeth, dental wax; disinfectants;
preparations for
killing weeds and destroying vermin.
6. Unwrought and partly wrought common metals and their alloys; anchors,
anvils, bells, rolled
and cast building materials; rails and other metallic materials for railway
tracks; chains (except
driving chains for vehicles); cables and wires (nonelectric); locksmiths'
work; metallic pipes and
tubes; safes and cash boxes; steel balls; horseshoes; nails and screws;
other goods in nonprecious
metal not included in other classes; ores.
7. Machines and machine tools;
motors (except for land vehicles); machine couplings and belting
(except for land vehicles); large size agricultural implements; incubators.
8. Hand tools and instruments; cutlery, forks, and spoons; side arms.
9. Scientific, nautical, surveying and electrical apparatus and instruments
(including wireless),
photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling,
checking (supervision),
life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; coin or counter-freed
apparatus; talking
machines; cash registers; calculating machines; fire extinguishing apparatus.
10. Surgical, medical, dental, and veterinary instruments and apparatus
(including artificial limbs,
eyes, and teeth).
11. Installations for lighting, heating, steam generating, cooking, refrigerating,
drying, ventilating,
water supply and sanitary purposes.
12. Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air, or water.
13. Firearms; ammunition and projectiles; explosive substances; fireworks.
14. Precious metals and their alloys and goods in previous metals or coated
therewith (except
cutlery, forks, and spoons); jewelry, precious stones, horological, and
other chronometric
instruments.
15. Musical instruments (other than talking machines and wireless apparatus).
16. Paper and paper articles, cardboard and cardboard articles; printed
matter, newspaper and
periodicals, books; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery, adhesive
materials (stationery);
artists' materials; paint brushes; typewriters and office requisites (other
than furniture); instructional
and teaching material (other than apparatus); playing cards; printers'
type and cliches (sterotype).
17. Gutta percha, indiarubber, balata, and substitutes, articles made from
these substances and not
included in other classes; plastics in the form of sheets, blocks, and
rods, being for use in
manufacture; materials for packing, stopping, or insulating; asbestos,
mica and their products; hose
pipes (nonmetallic).
18. Leather and imitations of leather, and articles made from these materials
and not included in
other classes; skins, hides; trunks and traveling bags; umbrellas, parasols,
and walking sticks;
whips, harness, and saddlery.
19. Building materials, natural and artificial stone, cement, lime, mortar,
plaster, and gravel; pipes
of earthenware or cement; road-making materials; asphalt, pitch, and bitumen;
portable buildings;
stone monuments; chimney pots.
20. Furniture, mirrors, picture frames; articles (not included in other
classes) of wood, cork, reeds,
cane, wicker, horn bone, ivory, whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl,
meerschaum, celluloid,
substitutes for all these materials, or of plastics.
21. Small domestic utensils and containers (not of precious metals, or
coated therewith); combs
and sponges; brushes (other than paint brushes); brushmaking materials;
instruments and material
for cleaning purposes, steel wool; unworked or semiworked glass (excluding
glass used in
building); glassware, porcelain, and earthenware, not included in other
classes.
22. Ropes, string, nets, tents, awning, tarpaulins, sails, sacks; padding
and stuffing materials (hair,
kapok, feathers, seaweed, etc.); raw fibrous textile materials.
23. Yarns, threads.
24. Tissues (pieces goods); bed and table covers; textiles articles not
included in other classes.
25. Clothing, including boots, shoes, and slippers.
26. Lace and embroidery, ribands and braid; buttons, press buttons, hooks
and eyes, pins and
needles; artificial flowers.
27. Carpets, rugs, mats and matting; linoleums and other materials for
covering existing floors;
wall hangings (nontextile).
28. Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing);
ornaments and
decorations for Christmas trees.
29. Meat, fish, poultry, and game; meat extracts; preserved, dried and
cooked fruits and
vegetables; jellies, jams, eggs, milk and other dairy products; edible
oils and fats; preserves,
pickles.
30. Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca, sago, coffee substitutes;
flour, and preparations made
from cereals; bread, biscuits, cakes, pastry and confectionery, ices; honey,
treacle; yeast, baking
powder; salt, mustard, pepper, vinegar, sauces, spices; ice.
31. Agricultural, horticultural, and forestry products and grains not included
in other classes; living
animals; fresh fruits and vegetables; seeds; live plants and flowers; foodstuffs
for animals, malt.
32. Beer, ales, and porter; mineral and aerated waters and other nonalcoholic
drinks; syrups and
other preparations for making beverages.
33. Wines, spirits, and liqueurs.
34. Tobacco, raw or manufactured; smokers' articles; matches.
SERVICES
35. Advertising and business.
36. Insurance and financial.
37. Construction and repair.
38. Communication.
39. Transportation and storage.
40. Material treatment.
41. Education and entertainment.
42. Miscellaneous.
§ 140.7 Withdrawal of application.
Prior to actual registration of a mark, the applicant by written request may
withdraw the
application.