Bill Text: NY S02852 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the defense and indemnification of certain nonjudicial employees certified by the office of court administration and paid by the city of New York to serve as a guardian ad litem in an action or proceeding pending in the housing part of the civil court of the city of New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-09-17 - SIGNED CHAP.510 [S02852 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S02852-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2852 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 4, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin- istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the definition of "employee" for the purposes of defense and indemnifica- tion of certain nonjudicial employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 17 of the public officers law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows: 3 (W) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "EMPLOYEE" SHALL INCLUDE A 4 PERSON CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION AND PAID BY THE 5 CITY OF NEW YORK TO SERVE AS A GUARDIAN AD LITEM IN AN ACTION OR 6 PROCEEDING PENDING IN THE HOUSING PART OF THE CIVIL COURT OF THE CITY OF 7 NEW YORK. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09219-01-9