N.Y. General Business Law § 10: Prosecutions for conducting business on Sunday by certain persons

§ 10. Prosecutions for conducting business on Sunday by certain

persons.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be a sufficient

defense to a prosecution pursuant to this article, for conducting any

trade or business or public selling or offering for sale of any property

on Sunday, that the defendant

(1) as the proprietor of such business, uniformly keeps another day of

the week as holy time and keeps his place of business closed on the

seventh day of the week,

(2) does not himself labor, employ others to labor in, by or with

another conduct a trade or publicly sell or offer for sale any property

on the day he keeps as holy time,

(3) conducts such labor, trade or business in its normal course on

Sunday by himself and members of his immediate family, and

(4) so conducts such trade, public selling or offer to sell any

property on Sunday in such manner as not to disturb the religious

observances of the community.

The term "day of the week" as used in this section shall mean and

include the period of time of not less than twenty-four consecutive

hours commencing at or before sundown on one day and terminating at or

after sundown on the following day.