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                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 23, 2022
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 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to mone-
   tary jurisdictional limits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  201  of  the  New  York city civil court act, as
 amended by chapter 11 of the  laws  of  1984,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  201. Jurisdiction; in general. The court shall have jurisdiction as
 set forth in this article and as elsewhere provided by law.  The  phrase
 ["$25,000"]  "$50,000",  whenever  it  appears herein, shall be taken to
 mean ["$25,000] "$50,000 exclusive of interest and costs".
   § 2. Section 202 of the New York city civil court act, as  amended  by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   §  202.  Money actions and actions involving chattels. The court shall
 have jurisdiction of actions and proceedings for the recovery of  money,
 actions  and  proceedings  for  the recovery of chattels and actions and
 proceedings for the foreclosure of liens on personal property where  the
 amount  sought  to  be  recovered  or the value of the property does not
 exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   § 3. Section 203 of the New York city civil court act, as  amended  by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   § 203. Actions involving real property. The court shall have jurisdic-
 tion  of  the following actions provided that the real property involved
 or part of it is situate within the county in the city of  New  York  in
 which the action is brought:
   (a)  An  action  for the partition of real property where the assessed
 valuation of the property at the time the action is commenced  does  not
 exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   (b)  An  action  for  the foreclosure, redemption or satisfaction of a
 mortgage on real property where the amount of the mortgage lien  at  the
 time the action is commenced does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (c)  An action for the foreclosure of a lien arising out of a contract
 for the sale of real property where the amount of the lien sought to  be
 foreclosed  does  not,  at  the  time  the  action  is commenced, exceed
 [$25,000] $50,000.
   (d)  An action for the specific performance of a contract for the sale
 of real property where the contract  price  of  the  property  does  not
 exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   (e)  An  action for the establishment, enforcement or foreclosure of a
 mechanic's lien on real property where the lien asserted  does  not,  at
 the time the action is commenced, exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   (f)  An  action to reform or rescind a deed to real property where the
 assessed valuation of the property does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000  at
 the time the action is commenced.
   (g)  An  action  to  reform or rescind a contract for the sale of real
 property where the agreed  price  of  the  property  as  stated  in  the
 contract does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000; or, if the controversy shall
 be  with  regard to the price of the property, where the agreed price as
 claimed by plaintiff does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   (h) An action to reform or rescind a mortgage on real  property  where
 the  unpaid  balance of the debt secured by the mortgage does not exceed
 [$25,000] $50,000 at the time the action is commenced.
   (i) An action to compel the determination of a claim to real  property
 under  article  fifteen of the real property actions and proceedings law
 where the assessed valuation of the property does not  exceed  [$25,000]
 $50,000 at the time the action is commenced.
   (j)  An  action  of ejectment where the assessed valuation of the real
 property does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000 at the  time  the  action  is
 commenced.
   (k)  An  action  brought  to  impose and collect a civil penalty for a
 violation of state or local laws for the establishment  and  maintenance
 of housing standards, including, but not limited to, the multiple dwell-
 ing  law and the housing maintenance code, building code and health code
 of the administrative code of the city of New York.
   (l) An action to recover costs, expenses and disbursements incurred by
 the city of New York in the elimination or correction of a  nuisance  or
 other violation of any law described in subdivision (k) of this section,
 or  in the removal or demolition of any building pursuant to such law or
 laws.
   (m) An action or proceeding to establish, enforce or foreclose a  lien
 upon  real property and the rents therefrom, for civil penalties, or for
 costs, expenses and disbursements incurred by the city of  New  York  in
 the elimination of a nuisance or other violation of any law described in
 subdivision  (k) of this section, or in the removal or demolition of any
 building pursuant to such law or laws.
   (n) Actions and proceedings for  the  removal  of  housing  violations
 recorded  pursuant  to  any  law  described  in  subdivision (k) of this
 section, or for the imposition of such violation or for the stay of  any
 penalty thereunder.
   (o)  An  action  or  proceeding  for  the  issuance  of an injunction,
 restraining orders or other orders for the enforcement of housing stand-
 ards under any law described in subdivision (k) of this section.
   (p) Special proceedings to vest title in the city of New York to aban-
 doned multiple dwellings.
   § 4. Section 205 of the New York city civil court act, as  amended  by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
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   § 205. Interpleader. The court shall have jurisdiction of an action of
 interpleader  and  defensive interpleader as defined and governed by the
 CPLR, provided that the amount in controversy or the value of the  prop-
 erty involved does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   §  5.  Section 208 of the New York city civil court act, as amended by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   § 208. Counterclaims. The court shall have  jurisdiction  of  counter-
 claims as follows:
   (a)  Of  any  counterclaim the subject matter of which would be within
 the jurisdiction of the court if sued upon separately.
   (b) Of any counterclaim for money only, without regard to amount.
   (c) Of any counterclaim for:
   1. the rescission or reformation of the  transaction  upon  which  the
 plaintiff's  cause of action is founded, if the amount in controversy on
 such counterclaim does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000; or
   2. an accounting between partners after the dissolution of  the  part-
 nership,  where the book value of the partnership assets does not exceed
 [$25,000] $50,000 and the plaintiff's cause of action arises out of  the
 partnership.
   (d)  In an action commenced in the housing part by the city department
 charged with enforcing the multiple dwelling  law,  housing  maintenance
 code,  or  other  state  or  local laws applicable to the enforcement of
 proper housing standards, no counterclaim may  be  interposed  or  main-
 tained  except  if  it  relates  to an action or proceeding specified in
 subdivision (a) of § 110 of this act.
   § 6. Section 211 of the New York city civil court act, as  amended  by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   §  211.  Joinder of causes of action in complaint; effect on jurisdic-
 tion. Where several causes of action are asserted in the  complaint  and
 each  of them would be within the jurisdiction of the court if sued upon
 separately, the court shall have jurisdiction of  the  action.  In  such
 case  judgment  may  be  rendered  by  the  court in excess of [$25,000]
 $50,000 if such excess result solely because of  such  joinder.  Nothing
 herein shall be construed to prevent the court from granting judgment in
 an unlimited amount on a counterclaim.
   §  7.   Section 212-a of the New York city civil court act, as amended
 by chapter 65 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   § 212-a. Declaratory judgments involving obligations of  insurers  and
 de novo review under part 137 of the rules of the chief administrator of
 the  courts  (22  NYCRR Part 137). The court shall have the jurisdiction
 defined in section 3001 of the CPLR to make a declaratory judgment  with
 respect to:
   (a)  any  controversy involving the obligation of an insurer to indem-
 nify or defend a defendant in an action in which the amount sought to be
 recovered does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000; and
   (b) actions commenced by a party aggrieved  by  an  arbitration  award
 rendered pursuant to part 137 of the rules of the chief administrator in
 which the amount in dispute does not exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   §  8.  Section 213 of the New York city civil court act, as amended by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   § 213. Jurisdiction for rescission or reformation  of  certain  trans-
 actions.  The court shall have jurisdiction of actions for rescission or
 reformation of a transaction if  the  amount  in  controversy  does  not
 exceed [$25,000] $50,000.
   §  9.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2022.