S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7854 1997-1998 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 8, 1997 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Weprin) -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to elimi- nating the need for a court order sending an infant's personal injury claim to arbitration The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- ______________________________________________________________________ bly, do enact as follows: _________________________ 1 Section 1. Section 1209 of the civil practice law and rules, as 2 amended by chapter 115 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4  1209. Arbitration of controversy involving infant, judicially 5 declared incompetent or conservatee. A controversy involving an infant, 6 person judicially declared to be incompetent or conservatee shall not be 7 submitted to arbitration except pursuant to a court order made upon 8 application of the representative of such infant, incompetent or conser- 9 vatee; provided, however, that a claim brought on behalf of an infant ___________________________________________________________________ 10 pursuant to paragraph one or two of subdivision (f) of section three ________________________________________________________________________ 11 thousand four hundred twenty of the insurance law may be submitted to ________________________________________________________________________ 12 arbitration without a court order. _________________________________ 13  2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets _______ [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10317-01-7