2021 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.