Bill Text: NY A03939 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to process server records; provides for oversight of process server records by third party contractors.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-30 - reported referred to codes [A03939 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03939-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3939 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to process server records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 89-cc of the general business law, 2 as added by chapter 340 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Each process server shall maintain a legible record of all service 5 made by him as prescribed in this section. [Such records shall be kept6in chronological order in a bound, paginated volume. Corrections in7records shall be made only by drawing a straight line through the inac-8curate entry and clearly printing the accurate information directly9above the inaccurate entry. All other methods of correction, including10but not limited to erasing, opaquing, obliterating or redacting, are11prohibited.] The process server shall preserve such record by submitting 12 recorded entries to a third party contractor within three days of 13 service or attempted service, provided, however that permissions 14 pertaining to such data will be secured so that the data cannot be 15 deleted upon submission. Records shall be reported in chronological 16 order. It shall be unlawful for any process server to tamper with data 17 or properties of any electronic record kept pursuant to this section 18 after an image file is made by modifying, amending, deleting, rearrang- 19 ing or in any other way altering any such data or properties including, 20 but not limited to, using a meta data scrubber or similar device or 21 program. If a typographical error has occurred or if data contained in 22 the process server's record was accidentally omitted from the electronic 23 data entry, the third party contractor may make an amendment in which 24 the original record shall be identified by entering it in italics. All 25 third party contractors must maintain a daily backup of all submitted EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06000-01-7A. 3939 2 1 data, and all data must be available for review upon request of any and 2 all interested parties. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.