STATE OF NEW YORK
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7460
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, WEINSTEIN -- (at request of the Office
of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to reporting an attor-
ney's conviction of a crime to the appellate division
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 90 of the judiciary
2 law, as added by chapter 674 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 c. Whenever an attorney shall be convicted of a crime in a court [of
5 record] of the United States or of any state, territory or district,
6 including this state, whether by a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or
7 from a verdict after trial or otherwise, the attorney shall file, within
8 thirty days thereafter, with the appellate division of the supreme
9 court, the record of such conviction.
10 The failure of the attorney to so file shall be deemed professional
11 misconduct provided, however, that the appellate division may upon
12 application of the attorney, grant an extension upon good cause shown.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, it
14 shall apply only as to convictions that occur on or after such effective
15 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10004-01-3
