New York Civil Rights Law

Every section of the New York Civil Rights Law, in order — 138 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 1 — Short title
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 1-a — Definitions
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 2 — Supreme sovereignty in the people
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 3 — Levying taxes and charges
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 4 — Right to keep and bear arms
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 5 — Military service by citizens
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 6 — Exemption from military service
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 7 — Quartering soldiers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 8 — Right of search and seizure
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 9 — Freedom of elections
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 10 — Justice to be administered without favor and speedily
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 11 — Fines must be reasonable and imposed only for cause
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 12 — Rights of persons accused of crime
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 13 — Right to serve on juries
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 14 — Jurors not to be questioned for verdicts
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 15 — Right of appeal not to be denied
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 18-a — Findings and declarations of policy
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 18-b — Definitions
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 18-c — Discrimination prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 18-d — Restraint of discrimination; damages for violations
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 18-e — Applicability
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 19-a — Prohibition against unreasonable withholding of consent
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 19-b — Restraint of discrimination; damages for violations
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 20 — No imprisonment for non-payment of costs in certain cases
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 21 — No imprisonment for non-payment of money pursuant to judgment or order requiring payment of money due upon contract
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 22 — Privilege of officers and prisoner from arrest while passing through another county
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 23 — No person to be arrested in civil proceedings without a statutory provision
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 24 — Privilege from arrest of officers of courts of record
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 25 — Witness exempt from arrest
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 26 — Action against officer making arrest of exempt person
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 27 — Discharge of exempt witness
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 28 — Medical attention for persons under arrest
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 28 — Civil arrest; certain locations
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 29 — Sensitive locations
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40 — Equal rights in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-a — Inquiry concerning religion or religious affiliations of person seeking employment or official position in public schools prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-b — Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-c — Discrimination
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-d — Penalty for violation
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-e — Innkeepers and carriers refusing to receive guests and passengers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-f — Discrimination against person or class in price for admission
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 40-g — Discrimination against United States uniform
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 41 — Penalty for violation
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 42 — Discrimination by utility companies
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 43 — Discrimination by labor organizations prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 44 — Discrimination by industries involved in defense contracts
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 44-a — Protecting civil and public rights
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 45 — Powers of administration vested in industrial commissioner
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 47 — Use of public facilities by persons with a disability
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 47-a — Employment of persons with a disability
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 47-b — Miscellaneous provisions
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 47-c — Penalties
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 48 — Definitions
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 48-a — Employment of persons with certain genetic disorders
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 48-b — Penalties
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50 — Right of privacy
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-b — Right of privacy; victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-c — Private right of action
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-d — Personnel records of court officers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-e — Personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-f — Right of publicity
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 50-g — Disclosure of convictions sealed pursuant to section 160
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 51 — Action for injunction and for damages
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52 — Televising, broadcasting or taking motion pictures of certain proceedings prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52-a — Private right of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential premises
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52-b — Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52-c — Employers engaged in electronic monitoring; prior notice required
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52-c — Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of a sexually explicit depiction of an individual
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 52-d — Private right of action for unlawful dissemination or publication of a personal image
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 53 — Copies of documents and statements to be filed
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 54 — Resolutions concerning political matters
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 55 — Anonymous communications prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 56 — Offenses; penalties
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 57 — Additional penalties
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 60 — Petition for change of name
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 61 — Contents
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 62 — Notice
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 63 — Order
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 64 — Effect
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 64-a — Sealing name change papers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 65 — Optional change of name upon marriage, divorce or annulment
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 67 — Petition for change of sex designation
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 67-a — Order
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 67-b — Sealing change of sex designation papers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 70 — Vexatious suits
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 70-a — Actions involving public petition and participation; recovery of damages
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 70-b — Unlawful interference with protected rights
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 71 — Damages in action for suing in name of another
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 72 — Term of imprisonment of civil prisoner
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 73 — Code of fair procedure for investigating agencies
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 74 — Privileges in action for libel
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 75 — Defamation by radio or television
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 76 — Action for libel: evidence, separate verdicts
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 76-a — Actions involving public petition and participation; when actual malice to be proven
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 77 — Special damages in action for slander of a woman
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 78 — Mitigating circumstances in action for libel or slander
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79 — Forfeiture of office and suspension of civil rights
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-a — Consequence of sentence to imprisonment for life
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-b — Forfeiture of property on conviction abolished
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-c — Convict protected by law
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-d — Creditor of convict
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-e — Right to breast feed
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-f — Liability for acts of persons assisting police officers
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-g — Filing of certificates of honorable discharge with county clerks
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-h — Special provisions relating to persons employed by, or connected with, news media
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-i — Discrimination against person who refuses to perform certain act prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-j — Confidentiality of records in multi-state information system
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-k — Civil immunity for certain persons assisting in emergency situations
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-l — Confidentiality of records of genetic tests
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-m — Criminal interference with health care services, religious worship, funeral, burial or memorial service; injunction
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-n — Funeral or bereavement leave
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-n — Bias-related violence or intimidation; civil remedy
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-o — Closed captioning in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-p — Gender neutral single-occupancy bathroom facilities
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-p — Recording certain activities
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 79-q — Collection of gender or sex designation information by state agencies
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 80-a — Causes of action for alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction and breach of contract to marry abolished
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 80-b — Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to bar a right of action for the recovery of a chattel, the return of money or secur...
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 81 — Commencement or threat of action unlawful
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 82 — Causing payment, satisfaction, settlement or compromise unlawful; instruments void
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 83 — Penalties
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 84 — Construction; inconsistent laws
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 85 — Action for deprivation of constitutional rights by government officials acting under color of law
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 86 — Severability
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 90 — Legislative findings
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 91 — Right to call for police and emergency assistance; victim protections
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 92 — Protections not applicable to breaches of lease, illicit activities or other violations of law
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 93 — Right of property owners to be free of penalty for respecting the rights of an occupant to request police or emergency assistance
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 94 — Limitation on right to request police or emergency assistance prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 95 — Defenses
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 96 — Removal of the perpetrator of violence while assuring continued occupancy by victim
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 97 — Remedies
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 98 — Availability of remedies
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 100 — Definitions
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 101 — Face coverings prohibited
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 102 — Identification required
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 150 — Laws repealed
• N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 151 — When to take effect