Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules authorizing an electronic filing program for commencement of civil actions and proceedings and filing and service of papers in town and village courts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2717
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to author-
izing a program for electronic filing for commencement of civil
actions and proceedings and service of papers in town and village
courts
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 2111 of the civil practice law
2 and rules, as added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief administra-
5 tor of the courts, with the approval of the administrative board of the
6 courts, may promulgate rules authorizing a program in the use of facsim-
7 ile transmission only in the court of claims and electronic means in
8 town courts, village courts, the supreme court, the civil court of the
9 city of New York, surrogate's courts and the court of claims for: (i)
10 the commencement of civil actions and proceedings, and (ii) the filing
11 and service of papers in pending actions and proceedings. Provided,
12 however, the chief administrator shall consult with the county clerk of
13 a county outside the city of New York before the use of electronic means
14 is to be authorized in the supreme court of such county, afford him or
15 her the opportunity to submit comments with respect thereto, consider
16 any such comments and obtain the agreement thereto of such county clerk.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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