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N.Y. Exec. Law § 296

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N.Y. Exec. Law § 296
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New York (state)
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(b) For any employer, licensing agency or employment agency to print
or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement,
advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for
employment or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective
employment, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation,
specification or discrimination on account of age respecting individuals
eighteen years of age or older, or any intent to make any such
limitation, specification, or discrimination.

(c) For any employer, licensing agency or employment agency to
discharge or otherwise discriminate against any person because he or she
has opposed any practices forbidden under this article or because he or
she has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under
this article.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no employee shall be
subject to termination or retirement from employment on the basis of
age, except where age is a bona fide occupational qualification
reasonably necessary to the normal operation of a particular business,
where the differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age,
or as otherwise specified in paragraphs (e) and (f) of this subdivision
or in article fourteen-A of the retirement and social security law.