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Senate Bill S9907

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to compliance by New York city marshals with filing requirement regarding service of a notice of eviction

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2025-S9907 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8567
Law Section:
Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §749-a, RPAP L

2025-S9907 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires New York city marshals to complete an electronic filing within one business day of service of a notice of eviction.

2025-S9907 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9907 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9907
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BOTTCHER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property  actions and proceedings law, in
   relation to compliance by New York city marshals with filing  require-
   ment regarding service of a notice of eviction

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 749-a of the real property actions and  proceedings
 law,  as added by chapter 129 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 749-a. New York city marshals. A marshal of the  city  of  New  York
 shall  provide  notice of [execution of a warrant of] eviction [by phys-
 ical posting of the notice] IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE FOR
 THE SERVICE OF A NOTICE OF PETITION and by an electronic  filing  WITHIN
 ONE  BUSINESS DAY OF SERVICE OF THE NOTICE OF EVICTION.  For purposes of
 this section, "electronic filing" shall mean  an  electronic  filing  as
 described  in  section  twenty-one  hundred three-a of the New York city
 civil court act AND "BUSINESS DAY" SHALL MEAN ANY DAY OTHER THAN  SATUR-
 DAY OR SUNDAY.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to  section  749-a  of  the  real  property  actions  and
 proceedings  law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the
 repeal of such section and shall expire and be  deemed  repealed  there-
 with.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07099-03-5

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