The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York State Unified Court System (statewide, including the New York City courts) · New York
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- N.Y. Judiciary Law § 212; 22 NYCRR § 80.1; Governor's Executive Order 202.8 (suspension of statutes of limitation) (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-03-22 Mar. 22, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-22 ('effective immediately and until further order') (read as 2020-03-22)
- End
- Modified by AO/85/20 (Apr. 13, 2020) and lifted in phases by AO/87/20 and AO/114/20 (May-June 2020) (successors not read this session) (read as 2020-04-13)
- In force
- Mar. 22, 2020 to Apr. 13, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- every county clerk and court in New York State
- all litigants and counsel
- Functions reached
- CT courts and agencies (the New York courts closed to all nonessential filings statewide)
- SV servicing and collections
- CL closings (county clerks' filing offices closed to nonessential papers)
- PM property management (no eviction filings)
- DM titles and records (county clerks)
- Collection
- State courts AGY-ST-COURTS
Operative words
Pursuant to the authority vested in me, in light of the emergency circumstances caused by the continuing COVID-19 outbreak in New York State and the nation, and consistent with the Governor of New York's recent executive order suspending statutes of limitation in legal matters, I direct that, effective immediately and until further order, no papers shall be accepted for filing by a county clerk or a court in any matter of a type not included on the list of essential matters attached as Exh. A. This directive applies to both paper and electronic filings.
Enforcement
Judiciary Law § 212 administrative order binding on county clerks and courts
Notes
Saved here as the archive copy of the signed order with Exhibit A (essential matters list).
Retrieval noteDuplicate of NY-060; cite either.