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                           1997-1998 Regular Sessions
                              I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                  June 2, 1997
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    Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Norman) --
      (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 service
      and  the  extension of time for service and to repeal section 306-b of
      such law relating thereto
      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.  Section  306-b  of  the  civil  practice law and rules is
 2  REPEALED and a new section 306-b is added to read as follows:
 3     306-b. Service of the summons and complaint, summons with notice, or
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 4  of the third-party summons and complaint.   Service of the  summons  and
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 5  complaint,  summons  with  notice,  or  of  the  third-party summons and
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 6  complaint shall be made within  one  hundred  twenty  days  after  their
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 7  filing,  provided  that  in an action or proceeding where the applicable
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 8  statute of limitations is four months or less, service shall be made not
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 9  later than fifteen days after the date on which the  applicable  statute
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10  of  limitations  expires. If service is not made upon a defendant within
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11  the time provided in this section, the court, upon motion, shall dismiss
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12  the action without prejudice as to that defendant, or  upon  good  cause
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13  shown or in the interest of justice, extend the time for service.
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14      2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the first day of January next
15  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply
16  to all actions commenced on or after that date.
     EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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                          [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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