New York Labor Law Section 581-A - Rates of contributions to fund in emergency.

   581-a.   Rates   of   contributions   to  fund  in  emergency.  1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section  five  hundred  eighty-one  of
  this  chapter  to  the  contrary, all employers whose employees received
  payments due to a layoff caused  by  flood  conditions  shall  not  have
  included  in  their experience rating charges the amounts so paid to the
  employees from the fund  for  the  period  of  from  June  twenty-third,
  nineteen hundred seventy-two through June twenty-third, nineteen hundred
  seventy-three.    Application  for  permission  to exclude such payments
  shall be made to the commissioner on or before the first day of October,
  nineteen hundred seventy-three, and the provisions of subdivision six of
  section five hundred eighty-one of this chapter shall not apply hereto.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section five  hundred  eighty-one
  of  this chapter to the contrary, all employers whose employees received
  payments due to the  waiver  of  the  waiting  period  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  subdivision  nine of section five hundred ninety of this
  chapter shall not have included in their experience rating  charges  the
  amounts  so  paid to the employees from the fund for such waived waiting
  period during the snow and energy emergency  of  January  and  February,
  nineteen  hundred  seventy-seven. Application for permisssion to exclude
  such payments shall be made to the commisssioner on or before the  first
  day  of  October,  nineteen hundred seventy-seven, and the provisions of
  subdivision six of section five hundred eighty-one of this chapter shall
  not apply hereto.
3. The provisions of this section shall apply to  an  employer  liable
  for  payments in lieu of contributions, but if the secretary of labor of
  the United States finds that their application to such employer does not
  meet  the  requirements  of  the  Federal  Unemployment  Tax  Act,  such
  provisions  shall  be  inoperative with respect to such employer, unless
  and until such finding has been set aside pursuant to a  final  decision
  issued  in  accordance  with  such judicial review proceedings as may be
  instituted and completed under the provisions  of  section  thirty-three
  hundred ten of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.

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