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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3221
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 22, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS, CLARK, NOLAN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to certain
          fees payable to the county clerk
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 8020 of the civil practice law
     2  and rules, as amended by section 25 of part J of chapter 62 of the  laws
     3  of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Placing  cause on calendar. For placing a cause on a calendar for
     5  trial or inquest, one hundred twenty-five dollars in the  supreme  court
     6  and  county court; except that where rules of the chief administrator of
     7  the courts require that a request for judicial intervention be  made  in
     8  an  action  pending  in  supreme court or county court, the county clerk
     9  shall be entitled to a fee of  ninety-five  dollars,  payable  before  a
    10  judge  may  be  assigned  pursuant  to such request, and thereafter, for
    11  placing such a cause on a calendar for  trial  or  inquest,  the  county
    12  clerk  shall  be entitled to an additional fee of thirty dollars, and no
    13  other fee may be charged thereafter pursuant to this subdivision; except
    14  that the county clerk shall be entitled to a fee of  forty-five  dollars
    15  upon  the filing of each motion or cross motion in such action. However,
    16  no fee shall be imposed;
    17    1. for a motion which seeks leave to proceed as a poor person pursuant
    18  to subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred one of this chapter; or
    19    2. for a motion filed by the fiduciary, court evaluator,  guardian  ad
    20  litem,  court-appointed attorney or by the court examiner in any guardi-
    21  anship matter under article eighty-one of the mental hygiene law.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06586-01-5