Requires pro se clerks appointed to the housing part of the New York city civil court to be assigned to each borough on a full-time basis, to be properly versed in substantive and procedural matters and to wear conspicuous badge and name tag identification.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3542
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to the
pro se clerks of the housing part of the New York city civil court
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (o) of section 110 of the New York city civil
2 court act, as added by chapter 849 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (o) There shall be a sufficient number of pro se clerks of the housing
5 part assigned to the court in each borough of the city to assist persons
6 without counsel. Such assistance shall include, but need not be limited
7 to providing information concerning court procedure, helping to file
8 court papers, and, where appropriate, advising persons to seek adminis-
9 trative relief. Such clerks shall be employed on a full-time basis and
10 shall receive pre-employment training in substantive and procedural
11 matters which they may regularly encounter in such positions. Such
12 clerks shall wear a conspicuous badge and name tag which identifies them
13 as a pro se clerk.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06652-01-1
