2006 New York Code - Duty To Pay Judgments.



 
  § 1813. Duty to pay judgments.
    (a)  Any  person,  partnership, firm or corporation which is sued in a
  small claims court for any cause of action arising out of  its  business
  activities,  shall pay any judgment rendered against it in its true name
  or in any name in which it conducts business. "True name"  includes  the
  legal  name  of a natural person and the name under which a partnership,
  firm or corporation is licensed, registered, incorporated  or  otherwise
  authorized  to  do  business.    "Conducting  business"  as used in this
  section shall include, but not  be  limited  to,  maintaining  signs  at
  business  premises  or  on business vehicles; advertising; entering into
  contracts; and printing  or  using  sales  slips,  checks,  invoices  or
  receipts.    Whenever  a  judgment  has  been rendered against a person,
  partnership, firm or corporation in other than its  true  name  and  the
  judgment  has  remained unpaid for thirty-five days after receipt by the
  judgment debtor of notice of its entry, the aggrieved judgment  creditor
  shall  be  entitled  to commence an action in small claims court against
  such judgment debtor, notwithstanding the jurisdictional  limit  of  the
  court,   for  the  sum  of  the  original  judgment,  costs,  reasonable
  attorney's fees, and one hundred dollars.
    (b) Whenever a judgment  which  relates  to  activities  for  which  a
  license  is  required  has  been  rendered  against  a business which is
  licensed by a state or  local  licensing  authority  and  which  remains
  unpaid  for  thirty-five  days  after  receipt by the judgment debtor of
  notice of its entry and the judgment has not been  stayed  or  appealed,
  the  state  or  local licensing authority shall consider such failure to
  pay, if deliberate or part of a pattern of  similar  conduct  indicating
  recklessness, as a basis for the revocation, suspension, conditioning or
  refusal  to  grant  or  renew  such  license.  Nothing  herein  shall be
  construed to preempt an  authority's  existing  policy  if  it  is  more
  restrictive.
    (c)  The  clerk shall attach to the notice of suit required under this
  article a notice of the duty imposed by this section.

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