S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                           1997-1998 Regular Sessions
                                I N  S E N A T E
                                 March 10, 1997
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    Introduced  by  Sens. MEIER, DeFRANCISCO, LEVY, VOLKER -- read twice and
      ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  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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