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NY CPLR § 8303 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 83 - Disbursements and Additional Allowances 8303 - Additional Allowance in the Discretion of the Court.

§  8303.  Additional  allowance  in  the  discretion of the court. (a) Discretionary allowance in  action.  Whether  or  not  costs  have  been awarded,  the  court  before  which  the  trial was had, or in which the judgment was entered, on motion, may award:   1. to any party to  an  action  to  foreclose  a  mortgage  upon  real property, a sum not exceeding two and one-half percent of the sum due or claimed to be due upon such mortgage, and not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars; or   2.  to any party to a difficult or extraordinary case, where a defense has been interposed, a sum not  exceeding  five  per  cent  of  the  sum recovered  or  claimed,  or of the value of the subject matter involved, and not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars; or   3. to any party to an action for the partition of real property, a sum not exceeding five per cent of the value of the subject matter  involved and not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars; or   4.  to  the  fiduciary or to any party to an action which involves the construction of a will or an intervivos trust instrument, such  sums  as it  deems  reasonable  for  counsel  fees and other expenses necessarily incurred with respect to such construction in the action; and the  court may direct that the whole or any part of such allowance shall be paid to the  attorney rendering the services in the action, and may provide that the determination of the amount of any allowance in connection therewith be reserved for a supplemental order to be entered  after  the  time  to appeal  has  expired,  or  if  an  appeal  be  taken,  then  after final determination of the appeal; and a court on appeal may make a like award and direction on appeal; or   5. to the attorney for the petitioner in a proceeding to dispose of an infant's property, such sum as to the court may seem just and proper; or   6. to the plaintiffs  in  an  action  or  proceeding  brought  by  the attorney-general under articles twenty-two, twenty-two-A, twenty-three-A or  thirty-three  or  section three hundred ninety-one-b or five hundred twenty-a of the general business law, or  under  subdivision  twelve  of section  sixty-three of the executive law, or under article twenty-three of the arts and cultural affairs law, or  in  an  action  or  proceeding brought  by the attorney-general under applicable statutes to dissolve a corporation or for usurpation of public office, or unlawful exercise  of franchise  or  of  corporate  right,  a  sum  not exceeding two thousand dollars against each defendant.  (b) Discretionary allowance on enforcement motion.  The  court,  on  a motion  relating  to  the  enforcement  of  a judgment, may award to the judgment creditor a sum not exceeding five per cent of the  judgment  or fifty dollars, whichever is more.
NY CPLR § 8303-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 83 - Disbursements and Additional Allowances 8303-A - Costs Upon Frivolous Claims and Counterclaims in Actions to Recover Damages for Personal Injury, Injury to Property or Wrongful Death.

§  8303-a. Costs upon frivolous claims and counterclaims in actions to recover damages for personal injury,  injury  to  property  or  wrongful death.  (a)  If in an action to recover damages for personal injury, injury to property or wrongful death, or an action brought by the  individual  who committed  a  crime  against the victim of the crime, and such action or claim is commenced or  continued  by  a  plaintiff  or  a  counterclaim, defense  or  cross claim is commenced or continued by a defendant and is found, at any time during  the  proceedings  or  upon  judgment,  to  be frivolous  by  the  court, the court shall award to the successful party costs and reasonable attorney's fees not exceeding ten thousand dollars.  (b) The costs and fees awarded under subdivision (a) of  this  section shall  be  assessed either against the party bringing the action, claim, cross claim, defense or counterclaim or against the  attorney  for  such party,  or  against  both, as may be determined by the court, based upon the circumstances of the case. Such costs and fees shall be in  addition to any other judgment awarded to the successful party.  (c) In order to find the action, claim, counterclaim, defense or cross claim  to  be frivolous under subdivision (a) of this section, the court must find one or more of the following:  (i) the action,  claim,  counterclaim,  defense  or  cross  claim  was commenced,  used  or  continued in bad faith, solely to delay or prolong the resolution of the litigation or  to  harass  or  maliciously  injure another;  (ii)  the  action,  claim,  counterclaim,  defense  or cross claim was commenced or continued in bad faith without any reasonable basis in  law or  fact  and  could  not  be  supported by a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of  existing  law.  If  the  action, claim,  counterclaim,  defense  or cross claim was promptly discontinued when the party or the attorney learned or should have learned  that  the action,  claim,  counterclaim,  defense  or  cross  claim  lacked such a reasonable basis, the court may find that the party or the attorney  did not act in bad faith.
NY CPLR § 8401 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 84 - Taxation of Costs 8401 - Computation by Clerk.

§  8401.  Computation  by  clerk.  Costs, disbursements and additional   allowances shall be taxed by the clerk upon the application of the party   entitled thereto. A  valuation  of  property  necessary  for  fixing  an   additional  allowance  shall  be ascertained by the court, unless it has   been fixed by the decision of the court, verdict of the jury, or  report   of the referee or commissioners, upon which the judgment is entered. The   clerk,  whether  or  not  objection  is  made,  shall  examine the bills   presented to him for taxation; shall satisfy himself that all the  items   allowed by him are correct and allowable; and shall strike out all items   of  disbursements,  other than the prospective charges expressly allowed   by  law,  not  supported  by  affidavit  showing  that  they  have  been   necessarily  incurred  and  are  reasonable  in  amount. The clerk shall   insert in  the  judgment  the  total  of  the  amount  taxed  as  costs,   disbursements and additional allowances.
NY CPLR § 8402 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 84 - Taxation of Costs 8402 - Taxation With Notice.

§  8402.  Taxation  with notice. Costs may be taxed upon at least five   days' notice to each adverse party interested  in  reducing  the  amount   thereof  except  one  against  whom  judgment  was entered on default in   appearance. A copy of the bill of costs, specifying the items in detail,   and a copy of any supporting affidavits shall be served with the notice.
NY CPLR § 8403 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 84 - Taxation of Costs 8403 - Taxation Without Notice.

§  8403.  Taxation  without  notice.  Costs  may also be taxed without   notice.  A party who has taxed costs without  notice  shall  immediately   serve  a  copy  of  the bill of costs upon each party who is entitled to   notice under section 8402.   Within five days after  such  service,  any   such  party  may  serve  notice  of  retaxation of costs upon five days'   notice to the party who has taxed the costs, specifying the item  as  to   which retaxation is sought.
NY CPLR § 8404 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 84 - Taxation of Costs 8404 - Judicial Review of Taxation or Retaxation.

§  8404. Judicial review of taxation or retaxation. Upon motion of any   interested party, on notice, the court may allow or  disallow  any  item   objected  to  before  the clerk; or it may order a retaxation before the   clerk and it may specify the grounds or the proof upon which an item may   be allowed or disallowed.
NY CPLR § 8501 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 85 - Security for Costs 8501 - Security for Costs.

§  8501.  Security  for  costs.  (a)  As  of  right.  Except where the plaintiff has been granted permission to proceed as a poor person or  is the  petitioner  in  a  habeas  corpus  proceeding,  upon  motion by the defendant without notice, the court  or  a  judge  thereof  shall  order security for costs to be given by the plaintiffs where none of them is a domestic  corporation,  a foreign corporation licensed to do business in the state or a resident of the state when the motion is made.  (b) In court's discretion. Upon motion by the defendant  with  notice, or  upon  its  own initiative, the court may order the plaintiff to give security for costs in an action by or against an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee, a receiver or debtor in  possession in  bankruptcy,  an official trustee or committee of a person imprisoned in this state, an executor or administrator, the committee of  a  person judicially declared to be incompetent, the conservator of a conservatee, a guardian ad litem, or a receiver.
NY CPLR § 8502 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 85 - Security for Costs 8502 - Stay and Dismissal on Failure to Give Security.

§ 8502. Stay and dismissal on failure to give security. Until security   for  costs  is given pursuant to the order of the court, all proceedings   other than to review or vacate  such  order  shall  be  stayed.  If  the   plaintiff  shall  not have given security for costs at the expiration of   thirty days from the date of  the  order,  the  court  may  dismiss  the   complaint upon motion by the defendant, and award costs in his favor.
NY CPLR § 8503 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 85 - Security for Costs 8503 - Undertaking.

§  8503.  Undertaking.  Security  for  costs  shall  be  given  by  an   undertaking in an amount of five hundred dollars in counties within  the   city  of  New York, and two hundred fifty dollars in all other counties,   or such greater amount as shall be fixed by the court that the plaintiff   shall pay all legal costs awarded to the defendant.
NY CPLR § 8600 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8600 - Intent and Short Title.

§  8600.  Intent  and  short  title. It is the intent of this article,   which may hereafter be known and cited as  the  "New  York  State  Equal   Access  to  Justice Act", to create a mechanism authorizing the recovery   of counsel fees and other reasonable expenses in certain actions against   the state of  New  York,  similar  to  the  provisions  of  federal  law   contained  in  28  U.S.C. § 2412(d) and the significant body of case law   that has evolved thereunder.
NY CPLR § 8601 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8601 - Fees and Other Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State.

§  8601. Fees and other expenses in certain actions against the state. (a) When awarded. In addition to  costs,  disbursements  and  additional allowances  awarded  pursuant to sections eight thousand two hundred one through eight thousand two hundred four and eight thousand three hundred one through eight thousand three hundred  three  of  this  chapter,  and except  as  otherwise  specifically  provided  by statute, a court shall award to a prevailing party,  other  than  the  state,  fees  and  other expenses  incurred by such party in any civil action brought against the state, unless the court  finds  that  the  position  of  the  state  was substantially  justified  or  that  special  circumstances make an award unjust. Whether the position of the state  was  substantially  justified shall  be determined solely on the basis of the record before the agency or official whose act, acts, or failure to act gave rise  to  the  civil action. Fees shall be determined pursuant to prevailing market rates for the  kind  and  quality  of the services furnished, except that fees and expenses may not be awarded to a party for any portion of the litigation in which the party has unreasonably protracted the proceedings.  (b) Application for fees. A party seeking an award of fees  and  other expenses  shall,  within  thirty  days  of final judgment in the action, submit to the court an  application  which  sets  forth  (1)  the  facts supporting  the  claim  that  the  party  is  a  prevailing party and is eligible to receive an award under this section, (2) the amount  sought, and  (3) an itemized statement from every attorney or expert witness for whom fees or expenses are sought stating the actual  time  expended  and the rate at which such fees and other expenses are claimed.
NY CPLR § 8602 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8602 - Definitions.

§ 8602. Definitions. For the purpose of this article:  (a)  "Action"  means  any  civil  action or proceeding brought to seek judicial review of an action of the state as defined in subdivision  (g) of this section, including an appellate proceeding, but does not include an action brought in the court of claims.  (b)  "Fees and other expenses" means the reasonable expenses of expert witnesses, the reasonable cost of any study, analysis, consultation with experts, and like expenses, and reasonable attorney fees, including fees for work performed by law students or paralegals under  the  supervision of  an attorney incurred in connection with an administrative proceeding and judicial action.  (c)  "Final  judgment"  means  a  judgment  that  is  final  and   not appealable, and settlement.  (d) "Party" means (i) an individual whose net worth, not including the value of a homestead used and occupied as a principal residence, did not exceed  fifty  thousand  dollars at the time the civil action was filed; (ii) any  owner  of  an  unincorporated  business  or  any  partnership, corporation,  association,  real  estate developer or organization which had no more than one hundred employees at the time the civil action  was filed,  (iii)  any  organization  described  in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3)) exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code regardless of the number of employees.  (e) "Position of the state" means the act, acts or failure to act from which judicial review is sought.  (f) "Prevailing party" means a plaintiff or petitioner  in  the  civil action  against  the  state who prevails in whole or in substantial part where such party and the state prevail upon separate issues.  (g) "State" means the state or any of  its  agencies  or  any  of  its officials acting in his or her official capacity.
NY CPLR § 8603 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8603 - Interest.

§  8603. Interest. If the state appeals an award made pursuant to this   section and the award is affirmed in whole or in part, interest shall be   paid on the amount of the award. Such interest shall run from  the  date   of the award through the day before the date of the affirmance.
NY CPLR § 8604 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8604 - Annual Report.

§  8604.  Annual  report.  The  department  of law shall file with the   governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the   senate an annual report describing the number, nature and amount of each   award in the previous fiscal year including the agency involved in  each   action,  and  other relevant information which might aid the legislature   and the governor in evaluating the scope and impact of such awards.
NY CPLR § 8605 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 86 - Counsel Fees and Expenses in Certain Actions Against the State 8605 - Applicability.

§  8605. Applicability. (a) Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to alter or modify the other provisions of this chapter  where applicable to actions other than actions against the state.  (b) Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to authorize the institution  of  a  civil  action for the sole purpose of obtaining fees incurred by a party to an administrative proceeding.  (c) Nothing contained in this article shall  affect  or  preclude  the right  of  any  party  to  recover  fees or other expenses authorized by common law or by any other statute, law or rule.
NY CPLR § 9001 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 90 - Failure or Adjournment of Term of Court R9001 - No Abatement by Failure, Adjournment, or Change of Time or Place of Term of Court.

Rule  9001. No abatement by failure, adjournment, or change of time or   place of term of court. When a term of a court fails or is adjourned  or   the  time  or  place  of holding it is changed, all persons are bound to   appear and all proceedings shall continue at the time and place to which   the term is adjourned or changed, or, if it  has  failed,  at  the  next   term,  with  like  effect  as  if  the  term had been held as originally   appointed.
NY CPLR § 9002 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 90 - Failure or Adjournment of Term of Court R9002 - Death, Disability or Incapacity of Judge Following Verdict, Report, Decision, or Determination of Motion or Special Proceeding.

Rule 9002. Death, disability or incapacity of judge following verdict,   report, decision, or determination of motion or special proceeding.The death, sickness, resignation, removal from or expiration of office   or  other  disability  or  legal  incapacity  of  a  judge following his   verdict, report, decision  or  determination  of  a  motion  or  special   proceeding in any matter in a civil judicial proceeding shall not affect   its   validity.   Unless   otherwise  provided  by  rule  of  the  chief   administrator of the courts, any other judge of the same court  may,  on   the  application  of  a  party,  give  effect  to  such verdict, report,   decision or determination and make and  sign  an  appropriate  order  or   judgment  based  thereon,  which shall have the same effect as if it had   been  made  by  the  judge  upon  whose  verdict,  report,  decision  or   determination it is based.
NY CPLR § 9003 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 90 - Failure or Adjournment of Term of Court R9003 - Running of Time When County Judge Disqualified From Acting in a Case.

Rule  9003. Running of time when county judge disqualified from acting   in a case.  If a county judge is disqualified from acting  in  any  case   pending  in  his court and files a certificate pursuant to judiciary law   section one hundred ninety-two, the time within which any proceeding may   be taken, as fixed by statute or rule, does not begin to run  until  the   certificate is filed.
NY CPLR § 9401 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 94 - Admission to Practice R9401 - Committee.

Rule  9401.  Committee.    The  appellate  division  in  each judicial   department shall appoint a committee of not less than  three  practicing   lawyers  for  each  judicial  district  within  the  department, for the   purpose of investigating the character and fitness  of  every  applicant   for  admission  to  practice  as an attorney and counselor at law in the   courts of this state. Each member of such committee  shall  serve  until   his death, resignation or the appointment of his successor. A lawyer who   has  been  or  who  shall be appointed a member of the committee for one   district may be appointed a member of the committee for another district   within the same department.
NY CPLR § 9402 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 94 - Admission to Practice R9402 - Application for Admission.

Rule 9402. Application for admission.  Every application for admission   to practice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision one   of  section  ninety  of  the  judiciary  law  by  a  person who has been   certified by the state board of law examiners, in  accordance  with  the   provisions  of  section  four  hundred  sixty-four of said law, shall be   referred by the appellate division to the committee for  a  district  in   its  judicial  department.  Every  application for admission to practice   which is made on motion without  the  taking  of  the  bar  examination,   pursuant  to  rules  of  the  court  of  appeals  and  the provisions of   paragraph b of subdivision one of section ninety of the  judiciary  law,   by  a person already admitted to practice in another jurisdiction, shall   be referred by the appellate division to the committee for a district in   its judicial department.
NY CPLR § 9403 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 94 - Admission to Practice R9403 - Referral to Another Judicial District.

Rule  9403.  Referral  to another judicial district.   Notwithstanding   rule 9402, any application for admission to practice  pending  before  a   committee,  may  be  referred  to  the  committee  for  another judicial   district in the same or another department by order or direction of  the   presiding  justice of the appellate division of the department embracing   the district  in  which  the  application  is  pending.  Such  order  or   direction  may  be made only upon the written request of the chairman or   acting chairman of the committee before which the application is pending   and only upon his written certification either:1. that the applicant, since he applied to take the bar examination or   to dispense with such examination or since he applied on  motion  to  be   admitted  to  practice,  has  changed his actual residence to such other   judicial district in the same or other department, or, if not a resident   of the state, has acquired full-time employment in or changed his  place   of  full-time  employment to such other judicial district in the same or   other department; or2. that the  majority  of  the  members  of  such  committee  are  not   qualified  to  vote  on  the application or have disqualified themselves   from voting or have refrained from voting thereon; or3. that the members of such committee are  equally  divided  in  their   opinion as the application; or4.  that strict compliance with rule 9402 will cause undue hardship to   the applicant.
NY CPLR § 9404 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 94 - Admission to Practice R9404 - Certificate of Character and Fitness.

Rule  9404.  Certificate  of character and fitness.   Unless otherwise   ordered by the appellate  division,  no  person  shall  be  admitted  to   practice  without  a  certificate  from the proper committee that it has   carefully investigated the character and fitness of  the  applicant  and   that,  in  such  respects,  he  is  entitled to admission. To enable the   committee to make such investigation,  the  justices  of  the  appellate   division  are  authorized  to prescribe and from time to time to amend a   form of statement or questionnaire to be  submitted  by  the  applicant,   including  specifically  his  present  and  such  past  places of actual   residence as may be required therein, listing the street and number,  if   any, and the period of time he resided at each place.