New York legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 2,598,873+ New York laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from New York government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 11 official portals. Search New York legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which New York authority sets broker-dealer registration requirements under the General Business Law?
The New York State Attorney General — its guidance on amendment submissions and broker-dealer registration requirements under New York General Business Law § 359-e sets out the registration obligations administered under the Martin Act.
Source: New York State Attorney General — https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/ref-policy-memorandum/amendment_submissions_and_broker-dealer_registration_requirements_pursuant_to_new_york_general_business_law_ss_359-e_12-7-2017_0.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-10-22 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official New York sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects New York legal materials from official government, legislative, court, and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the state legislature and session laws · the administrative code and regulations · courts and the judiciary · the Attorney General and law enforcement · consumer protection and corporate law · sector regulators
- New York State Senate (nysenate.gov)
- New York Department of State (dos.ny.gov)
- New York State Unified Court System (nycourts.gov)
- New York State Law Reporting Bureau (nycourts.gov)
- Court of Appeals
- New York State Attorney General (ag.ny.gov)
- New York Westlaw (govt.westlaw.com)
- New York Gaming Commission (gaming.ny.gov)
- New York Office of Information Technology Services (its.ny.gov)
- Eastern District of New York (nyed.uscourts.gov)
- Court Listener (New York)
New York legal source types covered
New York legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
The Consolidated Laws of New York, session laws, local laws, and rules from the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York (NYCRR), taken directly from the New York State Legislature (nysenate.gov) and the New York Department of State.
Legislative History
Bills, amendments, and related legislative materials from the New York State Senate and Assembly (nysenate.gov) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidance, policy memoranda, settlements, and enforcement materials from New York regulators and enforcement bodies such as the New York State Attorney General, the Department of State, and the Gaming Commission.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official New York sources, including NY Slip Opinions published by the New York State Law Reporting Bureau and the Unified Court System — from the trial courts up through the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals — where available.
One New York legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query New York laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=US_NY&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to New York legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official New York materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current New York legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build New York legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with New York legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across New York legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in New York law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official New York sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal New York legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for New York legal research
New York legal information is spread across the state legislature, the administrative code, the courts, the Attorney General, and a range of sector regulators. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About New York legal coverage
New York is a common-law jurisdiction and a U.S. state. Statutes are organized in the Consolidated Laws of New York and enacted as session laws by the New York State Legislature (the Senate and the Assembly, on nysenate.gov); administrative rules are compiled in the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York (NYCRR). Case law is published as NY Slip Opinions by the New York State Law Reporting Bureau and the Unified Court System, from the trial courts through the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Regulatory and enforcement materials come from bodies such as the New York State Attorney General, the Department of State, and the Gaming Commission, alongside federal courts sitting in New York. Records are published in English.
New York law moves quickly: the Legislature passes new session laws each year, the NYCRR is amended continuously, the Attorney General runs active enforcement under the Martin Act and consumer-protection statutes, and fast-moving areas — from data-security obligations under the General Business Law to financial-services regulation — keep evolving. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a New York legal research answer correct today.
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Monitor New York regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official New York legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to New York legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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