Bill Text: NY A07500 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to judgment by confession; allows a government agency engaged in the enforcement of a civil or criminal law to file an affidavit in any county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - SIGNED CHAP.214 [A07500 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7500
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. DINOWITZ, NIOU, DenDEKKER -- (at request of the
          Office of Court Administration) --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Judiciary
        AN  ACT  to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to judg-
          ment by confession
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of  subdivision  (a) and subdivision (b) of
     2  section 3218 of the civil practice law and rules, paragraph 1 of  subdi-
     3  vision (a) as amended by chapter 311 of the laws of 1963, are amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    1.  stating the sum for which judgment may be entered, authorizing the
     6  entry of judgment, and stating the county where  the  defendant  resides
     7  [or if he is a non-resident, the county in which entry is authorized];
     8    (b)  Entry of judgment. At any time within three years after the affi-
     9  davit is executed, it may be filed, but only with the clerk of the coun-
    10  ty where the [defendant] defendant's affidavit stated [in his  affidavit
    11  that  he]  that  the  defendant resided when it was executed or[, if the
    12  defendant was then a non-resident, with the clerk of the  county  desig-
    13  nated  in  the  affidavit]  where  the  defendant resided at the time of
    14  filing. [Thereupon the] The clerk shall then enter  a  judgment  in  the
    15  supreme court for the sum confessed. [He] The clerk shall tax costs [to]
    16  in  the  amount  of fifteen dollars, besides disbursements taxable in an
    17  action.  The judgment may be docketed and enforced in  the  same  manner
    18  and  with  the  same  effect  as  a judgment in an action in the supreme
    19  court. No judgment by confession may be entered  after  the  defendant's
    20  death.    For  purposes of this section, a non-natural person resides in
    21  any county where it has a place of business.
    22    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a  govern-
    23  ment  agency engaged in the enforcement of civil or criminal law against
    24  a person or a non-natural person may file an affidavit in any county.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and apply to judgments  by
    26  confession  entered  upon  affidavits  filed  on or after such effective
    27  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11359-01-9