STATE OF NEW YORK
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8538
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BASKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to extend-
ing the statute of limitations for coroners, coroners' physicians or
medical examiners for article 78 proceedings
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 217 of the civil practice law and
2 rules, as amended by chapter 467 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Unless a shorter time is provided in the law authorizing the
5 proceeding, a proceeding against a body or officer must be commenced
6 within four months after the determination to be reviewed becomes final
7 and binding upon the petitioner or the person whom [he] such petitioner
8 represents in law or in fact, or after the respondent's refusal, upon
9 the demand of the petitioner or the person whom [he] such petitioner
10 represents, to perform its duty; or with leave of the court where the
11 petitioner or the person whom [he] such petitioner represents, at the
12 time such determination became final and binding upon [him] such peti-
13 tioner or at the time of such refusal, was under a disability specified
14 in section 208 of this article, within two years after such time, or in
15 the case of a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner a
16 proceeding must be commenced within ten years after such coroner,
17 coroner's physician or medical examiner's report is finalized.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11791-01-5
