New York legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 2,596,908+ New York laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from New York legislative, judicial and regulatory institutions across 12 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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New York legal records
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official New York source portals
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Under which New York statute does the Attorney General set broker-dealer registration requirements?
New York General Business Law § 359-e — the Martin Act. The New York State Attorney General publishes the amendment-submission and broker-dealer registration requirements issued under it.
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: 2026-08-05 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official New York sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects New York legal materials from official 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 consolidated laws · administrative rules and codes · courts and the judiciary · the official case-law reporter · regulators and enforcement bodies
- New York State Senate (nysenate.gov)
- New York — Westlaw (govt.westlaw.com)
- New York Department of State (dos.ny.gov)
- New York State Unified Court System (nycourts.gov)
- New York Court of Appeals (nycourts.gov)
- New York State Law Reporting Bureau (nycourts.gov)
- New York State Attorney General (ag.ny.gov)
- New York Office of Information Technology Services (its.ny.gov)
- New York State Gaming Commission (gaming.ny.gov)
- Court Listener — New York (courtlistener.com)
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (nyed.uscourts.gov)
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
New York Consolidated Laws — statutes such as the General Business Law and Penal Law — session laws, and rules in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR), taken from Westlaw New York (govt.westlaw.com) and the New York Department of State's Division of Administrative Rules.
Legislative History
Bills, Senate and Assembly legislation, sponsor memos, and amendment records from the New York State Senate (nysenate.gov) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Rules, guidance, licensing materials, and enforcement documents from New York agencies such as the Department of State, the Office of Information Technology Services, the Gaming Commission, and the Attorney General's Investor Protection Bureau.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official New York sources, including the New York Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division published as New York Slip Opinions by the New York State Law Reporting Bureau (nycourts.gov), with additional coverage via Court Listener, 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 Legislature's bill and statute databases, Westlaw's consolidated laws, the Department of State's administrative rules, the courts' opinion archive, the official Law Reporting Bureau, and agency enforcement pages. 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 U.S. state within a common-law, federal system. Primary legislation is the New York Consolidated Laws — statutes such as the General Business Law and Penal Law — enacted by the New York State Legislature and available via the New York State Senate (nysenate.gov) and Westlaw New York, with agency rules codified in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) and published through the Department of State. Case law comes from the New York Court of Appeals — the state's highest court — and the Appellate Division, published by the New York State Law Reporting Bureau with New York Slip Opinion citations on nycourts.gov, with additional coverage via Court Listener. Regulatory and enforcement materials come from bodies such as the Department of State, the Office of Information Technology Services, the Gaming Commission, and the Attorney General. Records are published in English.
New York law changes constantly: the Legislature passes and amends statutes each session, agencies revise the NYCRR, and the courts issue a steady stream of Slip Opinions. Because state law also interacts with federal law — including matters heard in the U.S. District Courts sitting in New York — point-in-time data straight from the official 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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