STATE OF NEW YORK
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1599
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, GOTTFRIED, KAVANAGH, ABINANTI -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the
venue for certain special proceedings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 506 of the civil
2 practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 1992, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. a proceeding against the regents of the university of the state of
5 New York, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of taxation
6 and finance, the tax appeals tribunal, except as provided in section two
7 thousand sixteen of the tax law, the public service commission, the
8 commissioner or the department of transportation relating to [articles]
9 article three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten of the trans-
10 portation law or to the railroad law, the water resources board, the
11 comptroller, or the department of agriculture and markets[, shall] may
12 be commenced in the supreme court, Albany county or in the judicial
13 district in which the petitioner resides or has its principal place of
14 business; provided, however, that a proceeding against the public
15 service commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court, Albany
16 county.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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