2017 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 26 - Miscellaneous
399-J - Safety Standards; Movable Soccer Goals.

 399-j. Safety standards; moveable soccer goals. 1. The department of
  state, in consultation with the office of parks, recreation and historic
  preservation, shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing safety
  standards  for  anchoring,  securing  and  counter-weighting  a moveable
  soccer goal.  Such  regulations  shall  substantially  comply  with  the
  guidelines for moveable soccer goal safety produced by the United States
  consumer  product  safety  commission  or  any  successor  commission or
  agency. For the purposes of this  section,  the  term  "moveable  soccer
  goal"  shall  mean  a  freestanding structure consisting of at least two
  upright posts, a crossbar, and support bars that is designed:
(a) to be used by adults or children for  the  purposes  of  a  soccer
  goal;
(b)  to  be  used without any other form of support or restraint other
  than pegs, stakes, or other forms of temporary anchoring device; and
(c) to be able to be moved to different locations.
2. No person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity which erects  a
  moveable soccer goal shall erect in this state such moveable soccer goal
  unless  such goal shall be erected in the manner required by those rules
  and regulations promulgated pursuant to this section; provided  however,
  that  moveable  soccer  goals  erected  upon  one,  two and three-family
  residential real property shall be exempt from the requirements of  this
  section.
3.   Whenever   the  attorney  general  shall  believe  from  evidence
  satisfactory to him  or  her  that  any  person,  firm,  corporation  or
  association  or  agent or employee thereof has violated any provision of
  this section, he or she may bring an action in the supreme court of  the
  state  of  New  York  for  a  judgment enjoining the continuance of such
  violation and for a civil penalty of not more than five hundred  dollars
  for  each violation. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court
  or justice that the defendant has knowingly violated  any  provision  of
  this  section,  no  proof  shall  be  required  that any person has been
  injured thereby  nor  that  the  defendant  knowingly  or  intentionally
  violated  such  provision.  In  such  action  preliminary  relief may be
  granted under article sixty-three of the civil practice law  and  rules.
  Before  any  violation  of  this  section  is sought to be enjoined, the
  attorney general shall be required to give the person against whom  such
  proceeding  is  contemplated notice by certified mail and an opportunity
  to show in writing within five business days after receipt of notice why
  proceedings should not be instituted against  such  person,  unless  the
  attorney  general  shall  find,  in  any  case  in which he or she seeks
  preliminary relief, that to give such notice and opportunity is  not  in
  the public interest.