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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1547
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, GOTTFRIED, KAVANAGH -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules,  in  relation  to  the
          venue for certain special proceedings
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 506 of the  civil
     2  practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 1992, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  a proceeding against the regents of the university of the state of
     5  New York, the commissioner of education, the  commissioner  of  taxation
     6  and finance, the tax appeals tribunal, except as provided in section two
     7  thousand  sixteen  of  the  tax  law, the public service commission, the
     8  commissioner or the department of transportation relating to  [articles]
     9  article three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten of the trans-
    10  portation  law  or  to  the railroad law, the water resources board, the
    11  comptroller, or the department of agriculture and markets[,  shall]  may
    12  be  commenced  in  the  supreme  court, Albany county or in the judicial
    13  district in which the petitioner resides or has its principal  place  of
    14  business;  provided,  however,  that  a  proceeding  against  the public
    15  service commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court,  Albany
    16  county.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00986-01-5