Bill Text: NY S06662 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the territorial definition of a commercial claim.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-16 - referred to judiciary [S06662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S06662-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6662
I N S E N A T E
March 8, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin-
istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the uniform district court act, in relation to the
territorial definition of a commercial claim
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 1801-A of the uniform district
2 court act, as amended by chapter 41 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) The term "commercial claim" or "commercial claims" as used in this
5 act shall mean and include any cause of action for money only not in
6 excess of the maximum amount permitted for a small claim in the small
7 claims part of the court, exclusive of interest and costs, provided that
8 subject to the limitations contained in section eighteen hundred nine-A
9 of this article, the claimant is a corporation, partnership or associ-
10 ation, which has its principal office in the state of New York and
11 provided that the defendant either resides, or has an office for the
12 transaction of business or a regular employment, within [the] A district
13 in the county where the court is located.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14131-01-2
