2006 New York Code - Limitations Of Time

 
                                  ARTICLE 2
                             LIMITATIONS OF TIME
 
          201.   Application of article.
          202.   Cause of action accruing without the state.
          203.   Method of computing periods of limitation generally.
                   (a) Accrual  of  cause  of  action and interposition of
                         claim.
                   (b) Claim  in  complaint  where  action  commenced   by
                         service.
                   (c) Claim   in  complaint  where  action  commenced  by
                         filing.
                   (d) Defense or counterclaim.
                   (e) Effect upon defense or counterclaim of  termination
                         of  action  because  of  death or by dismissal or
                         voluntary discontinuance.
                   (f) Claim in amended pleading.
                   (g) Time computed from actual or imputed  discovery  of
                         facts.
          204.   Stay of commencement of action; demand for arbitration.
                   (a) Stay.
                   (b) Arbitration.
          205.   Termination of action.
                   (a) New action by plaintiff.
                   (b) Defense or counterclaim.
                   (c) Application.
          206.   Computing periods of limitation in particular actions.
                   (a) Where demand necessary.
                   (b) Based on misconduct of agent.
                   (c) Based  on  breach  of covenant of seizin or against
                         incumbrances.
                   (d) Based on account.
          207.   Defendant's absence from state or residence  under  false
                   name.
          208.   Infancy, insanity.
          209.   War.
                   (a) Cause of action accruing in foreign country.
                   (b) Right of alien.
                   (c) Non-enemy   in   enemy  country  or  enemy-occupied
                         territory.
          210.   Death of claimant  or  person  liable;  cause  of  action
                   accruing after death and before grant of letters.
                   (a) Death of claimant.
                   (b) Death of person liable.
                   (c) Cause  of  action  accruing  after death and before
                         grant of letters.
          211.   Actions to be commenced within twenty years.
                   (a) On a bond.
                   (b) On a money judgment.
                   (c) By state for real property.
                   (d) By grantee of state for real property.
                   (e) For support, alimony or maintenance.
          212.   Actions to be commenced within ten years.
                   (a) Possession necessary to recover real property.
                   (b) Annulment of letters patent.
                   (c) To redeem from a mortgage.
                   (d) To recover under an  affidavit  of  support  of  an
                         alien.
          213.   Actions  to  be  commenced  within  six  years: where not
                   otherwise  provided  for;  on   contract;   on   sealed
                   instrument;  on  bond  or  note, and mortgage upon real
                   property; by state based on misappropriation of  public
                   property;  based  on  mistake;  by  corporation against
                   director, officer or stockholder; based on fraud.
          213-a. Actions to be commenced within  four  years;  residential
                   rent overcharge.
          213-b. Action by a victim of a criminal offense.
          214.   Actions  to  be  commenced  within  three years: for non-
                   payment of money collected on  execution;  for  penalty
                   created  by  statute; to recover chattel; for injury to
                   property; for personal injury;  for  malpractice  other
                   than medical, dental or podiatric malpractice; to annul
                   a marriage on the ground of fraud.
          214-a. Action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice to be
                   commenced within two years and six months; exceptions.
          214-b. Action  to  recover damages for personal injury caused by
                   contact with or exposure to phenoxy herbicides.
          214-c. Certain actions to be commenced  within  three  years  of
                   discovery.
          214-d. Limitations on certain actions against licensed engineers
                   and architects.
          214-e. Action  to  recover damages for personal injury caused by
                   the infusion of such blood products which result in the
                   contraction of the human immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV)
                   and/or AIDS.
          215.   Actions to be commenced within one year: against sheriff,
                   coroner  or  constable;  for  escape  of  prisoner; for
                   assault,   battery,   false   imprisonment,   malicious
                   prosecution,  libel  or slander; for violation of right
                   of  privacy;  for  penalty  given   to   informer;   on
                   arbitration award.
          216.   Abbreviation of period to one year after notice.
                   (a) Action to recover money.
                   (b) Action to recover property.
          217.   Proceeding  against  body or officer; actions complaining
                   about conduct that would constitute a union's breach of
                   its duty of fair representation; four months.
          218.   Transitional provisions.
                   (a) Actions barred at effective date.
                   (b) Cause of action accrued and not barred at effective
                         date.