Bill Text: NY A02145 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of court administration to promulgate certain housing court documents in the seven most common languages in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - SIGNED CHAP.223 [A02145 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02145-Introduced.html

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                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.