Bill Text: NY A10227 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the jurisdictional limits for county courts and district courts to fifty thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - enacting clause stricken [A10227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10227

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 15, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing  an  amendment  to the constitution, in relation to increasing
          the jurisdictional limits for county courts from twenty-five  thousand
          dollars to fifty thousand dollars

     1    Section  1.  Resolved  (if  the  Senate concur), That subdivision a of
     2  section 11 of article 6 of  the  constitution  be  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    a. The county court shall have jurisdiction over the following classes
     5  of  actions  and  proceedings  which  shall be originated in such county
     6  court in the manner provided by law, except that actions and proceedings
     7  within the jurisdiction of the district court or a town, village or city
     8  court outside the city of New York may, as provided by  law,  be  origi-
     9  nated  therein:  actions  and  proceedings  for  the  recovery of money,
    10  actions and proceedings for the recovery of  chattels  and  actions  and
    11  proceedings for the foreclosure of mechanics liens and liens on personal
    12  property  where  the  amount  sought to be recovered or the value of the
    13  property does not exceed [twenty-five] fifty thousand dollars  exclusive
    14  of interest and costs; over all crimes and other violations of law; over
    15  summary proceedings to recover possession of real property and to remove
    16  tenants  therefrom;  and  over  such  other actions and proceedings, not
    17  within the exclusive jurisdiction  of  the  supreme  court,  as  may  be
    18  provided by law.
    19    § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivision d of section 16
    20  of article 6 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
    21    d.  The district court shall have such jurisdiction as may be provided
    22  by law, but not in any respect greater  than  the  jurisdiction  of  the
    23  courts  for  the city of New York as provided in section fifteen of this
    24  article, provided, however, that in  actions  and  proceedings  for  the
    25  recovery  of money, actions and proceedings for the recovery of chattels
    26  and actions and proceedings for the foreclosure of mechanics  liens  and
    27  liens  on  personal  property,  the amount sought to be recovered or the
    28  value of the property shall not exceed [fifteen] fifty thousand  dollars
    29  exclusive of interest and costs.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  the foregoing amendment be
     2  referred to the first regular legislative session  convening  after  the
     3  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
     4  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
     5  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.