2013 New York Consolidated Laws
MIL - Military
Article 13 - (300 - 328) NEW YORK STATE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' CIVIL RELIEF ACT
318 - Policy of the state.

 
    §  318. Policy of the state. 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy
  of the state that citizens and residents of  the  state  should  not  be
  discriminated against because they are subject to military duty pursuant
  to  this  chapter  or  the  laws  of the United States or both; and that
  persons doing business in the state should not  refuse  to  employ  such
  persons because they are so subject to military duty.
    2.  (a)  No person shall solicit, require, demand or otherwise request
  that a person waive any of his or her rights under this article, whether
  existing at that time or thereafter to accrue.
    (b) Any person who shall  knowingly  violate  paragraph  (a)  of  this
  subdivision  shall  be  guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by
  imprisonment not to exceed one year,  or  by  fine  not  to  exceed  one
  thousand  dollars,  or  both  such  imprisonment  and fine, and shall be
  further subject to a civil penalty in  an  amount  not  to  exceed  five
  thousand  dollars  for each occurrence. Such penalty may be recovered in
  an action brought by the attorney general  in  any  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction.
    (c) Any waiver entered into in violation of this subdivision shall not
  be  deemed  to be binding on any person in military service who executed
  such waiver.