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                           1997-1998 Regular Sessions
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                                 January 8, 1997
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    Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
      tee on Codes
    AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules,  in  relation  to  the
      commencement of a special proceeding
      The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
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    bly, do enact as follows:
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 1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 506 of the  civil
 2  practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 1992, is
 3  amended to read as follows:
 4    2.  a proceeding against the regents of the university of the state of
 5  New York, the commissioner of education, the  commissioner  of  taxation
 6  and  finance, the tax appeals tribunal except as provided in section two
 7  thousand sixteen of the tax law,  the  public  service  commission,  the
 8  commissioner  or the department of transportation relating to [articles]
 9  article three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten of the  trans-
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10  portation  law  or  to  the railroad law, the water resources board, the
11  comptroller or the department of agriculture and markets, [shall] may be
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12  commenced in the  supreme  court,  Albany  county  or  in  the  judicial
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13  district  in  which the petitioner resides or has its principal place of
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14  business; provided,  however,  that  a  proceeding  against  the  public
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15  service  commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court, Albany
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16  county.
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17     2. This act shall take effect immediately.
     EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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                          [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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