Requires notary publics to maintain a journal of notarial acts; clarifies the standards used by notary publics to identify document signers in order to safeguard against forged signatures on documents; provides standard forms for acknowledgements to be used by notary publics. /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the salaries of full-time city court judges in certain cities. /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: JUDICIARY

Prohibits clauses in residential leases requiring the declawing of animals; any person, firm or corporation who violates such provisions is guilty of a violation. /
Sponsor: Glick Committee: JUDICIARY

Permits automatic renewal of contracts for electronic and life safety alarm services. /
Sponsor: Schimminger Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for the submission to the people the question of whether or not to convene a constitutional convention to answer the question "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole and limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process, establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and limiting state debt and expenditures?" /
Sponsor: Schroeder Committee: JUDICIARY

Prohibits payments from the Judicial Supplemental Support Fund to certain judges for expenses for services and goods to support such judges in the performance of their judicial responsibilities. /
Sponsor: Calhoun Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the city of Yonkers to have 7 city court judges. /
Sponsor: Spano Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for the licensing of individuals and companies engaged in the business of residential realty management; imposes a one hundred fifty dollar annual registration fee; further imposes on every residential real property owner a fiduciary responsibility for all funds received or collected on behalf of the owner and tenants of multiple dwellings; grants secretary of state authority to revoke or suspend a license of a residential real property manager; provides for judicial review under an article 78 proceeding for denial, revocation or suspension of such license; directs attorney general to prosecute any criminal actions for violations; sets forth license requirements, fees, penalties for violations and related matters. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a public policy that no antenuptial agreement shall become binding for 30 days during which period either party thereto may unilaterally withdraw therefrom upon written notice served personally upon the other person; also requires that such agreements be in writing, subscribed by the parties, and acknowledged or proven in the manner required to entitle a deed to be recorded, and contain the addresses of the parties at which notice of withdrawal may be served. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires the clerk of court to accept a notice of pendency in equitable distribution matrimonial actions. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Designates certain nonjudicial employees of the unified court system employed as training academy officers as sergeants to correct an inadvertent omission occasioned by a chapter of the laws of 1988. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Grants people the right to temporarily or seasonally display symbols of religion or heritage on their property; declares void as against public policy any promise, covenant or restriction in a contract, mortgage, lease, deed, conveyance or other agreement affecting real property, which limits, restrains or prohibits the temporary or seasonal display of symbols with religious significance by the owner, lessee or occupant of the real property. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that damages in wrongful death actions shall include recovery for emotional loss and mental anguish, compensation for expected pecuniary loss and services, care and affection, expenses for medical treatment and reasonable funeral expenses; further provides that court or jury shall specify the amount and for whose benefit damages are awarded. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Specifically includes income executions in equitable distribution actions. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the amount of damages sought in a negligence cause of action shall not be stated in the complaint, cross claim, interpleader complaint and third-party complaint; provides that the party against whom such action is brought may, at any time, request a supplemental demand which states the total damages sought by the pleader. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Enacts the independent home valuation act which prohibits against false or misleading appraisals, prohibits improperly influencing an appraisal, prohibits an improper appraisal; further requires mandatory reporting and sets forth sanctions. /
Sponsor: Towns Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to providing recourse for manufactured homeowners in manufactured home parks confronted with unjustifiable rent increases; creates a local option in counties in New York state to provide such protection. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the judgment of sale in a mortgage foreclosure action shall direct that payment by the purchaser be made by means of a bank or credit union officer's check or certified check. /
Sponsor: Lancman Committee: JUDICIARY

Creates a private right of action for improper debt collection procedures; allows plaintiffs to recover punitive damages and reasonable attorneys' fees. /
Sponsor: Jeffries Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the imposition of monetary sanctions in any civil action or proceeding upon a written finding of the court that a party or attorney has brought a claim or employed procedures entirely without merit and in bad faith; authorizes an additional interest at 150% of the legal rate in cases where frivolous delaying tactics had been interposed to avoid entry of a money judgment; requires notice be given of the courts view that sanctions may be called for prior to imposition of sanctions; provides for appellate review of order granting sanctions; provides that an action shall not be deemed frivolous solely because a novel or unusual argument or principle of law was advanced. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY