Bill Text: NY S02717 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules authorizing an electronic filing program for commencement of civil actions and proceedings and filing and service of papers in town and village courts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S02717 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02717-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2717

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to author-
          izing a program  for  electronic  filing  for  commencement  of  civil
          actions  and  proceedings  and  service  of papers in town and village
          courts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 2111 of the civil practice law
     2  and rules, as added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2015,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief administra-
     5  tor of the courts, with the approval of the administrative board of  the
     6  courts, may promulgate rules authorizing a program in the use of facsim-
     7  ile  transmission  only  in  the court of claims and electronic means in
     8  town courts, village courts, the supreme court, the civil court  of  the
     9  city  of  New  York, surrogate's courts and the court of claims for: (i)
    10  the commencement of civil actions and proceedings, and (ii)  the  filing
    11  and  service  of  papers  in  pending actions and proceedings. Provided,
    12  however, the chief administrator shall consult with the county clerk  of
    13  a county outside the city of New York before the use of electronic means
    14  is  to  be authorized in the supreme court of such county, afford him or
    15  her the opportunity to submit comments with  respect  thereto,  consider
    16  any such comments and obtain the agreement thereto of such county clerk.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00476-01-3