STATE OF NEW YORK
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2145
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, GOTTFRIED, SIMON, COOK, PERRY, ORTIZ,
BICHOTTE, BARRON, D'URSO, JAFFEE, COLTON -- read once and referred 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 proceedings law to include notice in the seven most common languages in
2 the city of New York, that the respondent may call a designated tele-
3 phone number, listed on the postcard, for more information on the court
4 process for eviction.
5 (4) The office of court administration shall promulgate notices in the
6 seven most common languages in the city of New York to be distributed to
7 litigants in the housing part of the civil court advising them of the
8 right to have all court proceedings and any agreements settling the case
9 interpreted to them orally in their native language.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
