Bill Text: NY S00438 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments of $5,000 or more with court clerk from $100 to $500.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S00438 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00438-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 438 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to increasing penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judg- ments with the court clerk THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 5020 of the civil practice law 2 and rules, as amended by chapter 575 of the laws of 1975, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (c) When the judgment is fully satisfied, if the person required to 5 execute and file with the proper clerk pursuant to subdivisions (a) and 6 (d) [hereof] OF THIS SECTION fails or refuses to do so within twenty 7 days after receiving full satisfaction, then the judgment creditor shall 8 be subject to a penalty of one [hundred] THOUSAND dollars recoverable by 9 the judgment debtor pursuant to [Section 7202 of the civil practice law 10 and rules] SECTION SEVENTY-TWO HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER or article 11 eighteen of either the New York City civil court act, uniform district 12 court act or uniform city court act; provided, however, that such penal- 13 ty shall not be recoverable when a city with a population greater than 14 one million persons is the judgment creditor, unless such judgment cred- 15 itor shall fail to execute and file a satisfaction-piece with the proper 16 clerk pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) [hereof] OF THIS SECTION 17 within twenty days after having been served by the judgment debtor with 18 a written demand therefor by certified mail, return receipt requested. 19 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 20 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01836-01-1