Bill Text: NY S01951 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - SIGNED CHAP.223 [S01951 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01951-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1951 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to requiring the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents provided to parties in their native language The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 110 of the New York city civil court act is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision (q) to read as follows: 3 (q) (1) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a 4 Spanish version of the Notice of Petition that shall include a desig- 5 nated telephone number which will provide information to the respondent 6 in Spanish on the court process for eviction, and the Notice of Petition 7 shall be required to be served together with an English version in all 8 proceedings commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real 9 property actions and proceedings law. 10 (2) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a 11 notice to be annexed to all Notices of Petitions subject to proceedings 12 commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real property 13 actions and proceedings law, which shall state, in the six most common 14 languages in the city of New York, after Spanish, that the respondent 15 may obtain a copy of the Notice of Petition form in those six most 16 common languages on the internet website of the office of court adminis- 17 tration which shall be provided on this notice for this purpose, and may 18 call a designated telephone number, listed on the notice, which will 19 provide information on the court process for eviction in those six 20 languages. 21 (3) The office of court administration shall by rule revise the text 22 of the postcard currently required to be filed by petitioners in 23 proceedings subject to article seven of the real property actions and 24 proceedings law to include notice in the seven most common languages in EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00171-01-9S. 1951 2 1 the city of New York, that the respondent may call a designated tele- 2 phone number, listed on the postcard, for more information on the court 3 process for eviction. 4 (4) The office of court administration shall promulgate notices in the 5 seven most common languages in the city of New York to be distributed to 6 litigants in the housing part of the civil court advising them of the 7 right to have all court proceedings and any agreements settling the case 8 interpreted to them orally in their native language. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law.
