Assembly Bill A7521

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to written demands for payment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A7521 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
General Obligations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-104, Gen Ob L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5461
2013-2014: A5757
2015-2016: A4097
2017-2018: A3432

2011-A7521 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to written demands for payment; provides that written demands for the payment of dishonored checks may be in either English or Spanish, whichever is the spoken language of the drawer.

2011-A7521 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7521

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 10, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Judiciary

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general obligations law, in relation to written
  demands for payment

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 8 of section 11-104 of the general obligations
law, as added by chapter 921 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read  as
follows:
  8.  The  written  demands for payment required by subdivision seven of
this section, shall be in the following form and shall be printed in  at
least  ten  point  type  in  [both]  EITHER the English [and] OR Spanish
[languages] LANGUAGE, WHICHEVER IS DETERMINED, UPON AFFIDAVIT, TO BE THE
PRIMARY LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY THE DRAWER:
                 DEMAND FOR PAYMENT OF DISHONORED CHECK
DATE:                                            1ST NOTICE
                                                 2ND AND FINAL NOTICE
TO:        _______________________                WARNING: YOU MAY BE
                    NAME OF DRAWER                 SUED 30 DAYS AFTER
                 _____________________             THE DATE OF THIS
                 _____________________             NOTICE IF YOU DO
                 _____________________             NOT MAKE PAYMENT
             LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE ADDRESS
               OR PLACE OF BUSINESS
YOUR CHECK IN THE AMOUNT OF $___________DATED___________________
PAYABLE TO THE ORDER OF___________________HAS BEEN DISHONORED BY
THE BANK UPON WHICH IT WAS DRAWN, BECAUSE:
     _______YOU HAD NO ACCOUNT WITH THAT BANK.
     _______YOU HAD INSUFFICIENT FUNDS ON DEPOSIT WITH THAT BANK.
  IF YOU DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT, YOU MAY BE SUED UNDER  SECTION  11-104  OF
THE  GENERAL  OBLIGATIONS  LAW  TO  RECOVER  PAYMENT.  IF  A JUDGMENT IS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11055-01-1
              

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