Bill Text: NY A02890 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-19 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [A02890 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02890-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2890--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, SIMON, COOK, PERRY, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, SEPULVEDA, NIOU, DE LA ROSA, RICHARDSON, BICHOTTE, CRESPO, HARRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to requiring the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents provided to parties in their native language The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 110 of the New York city civil court act is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision (q) to read as follows: 3 (q) (1) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a 4 Spanish version of the Notice of Petition that shall include a desig- 5 nated telephone number which will provide information to the respondent 6 in Spanish on the court process for eviction, and the Notice of Petition 7 shall be required to be served together with an English version in all 8 proceedings commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real 9 property actions and proceedings law. 10 (2) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a 11 notice to be annexed to all Notices of Petitions subject to proceedings 12 commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real property 13 actions and proceedings law, which shall state, in the six most common 14 languages in the city of New York, after Spanish, that the respondent 15 may obtain a copy of the Notice of Petition form in those six most 16 common languages on the internet website of the office of court adminis- 17 tration which shall be provided on this notice for this purpose, and may 18 call a designated telephone number, listed on the notice, which will 19 provide information on the court process for eviction in those six 20 languages. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06708-04-7A. 2890--A 2 1 (3) The office of court administration shall by rule revise the text 2 of the postcard currently required to be filed by petitioners in 3 proceedings subject to article seven of the real property actions and 4 proceedings law to include notice in the seven most common languages in 5 the city of New York, that the respondent may call a designated tele- 6 phone number, listed on the postcard, for more information on the court 7 process for eviction. 8 (4) The office of court administration shall promulgate notices in the 9 seven most common languages in the city of New York to be distributed to 10 litigants in the housing part of the civil court advising them of the 11 right to have all court proceedings and any agreements settling the case 12 interpreted to them orally in their native language. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 14 it shall have become a law.
