2013 New York Consolidated Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law & Rules
Article 76 - (7601) PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE AGREEMENT FOR DETERMINATION OF ISSUE
7601 - Special proceeding to enforce agreement that issue or controversy be determined by a person named or to be selected.

 
    §  7601.  Special  proceeding  to  enforce  agreement  that  issue  or
  controversy be determined by a person named or to be selected. A special
  proceeding may be commenced to specifically enforce an agreement that  a
  question  of  valuation,  appraisal  or  other  issue  or controversy be
  determined by a person named or to be selected. The  court  may  enforce
  such  an agreement as if it were an arbitration agreement, in which case
  the  proceeding  shall  be  conducted  as  if  brought   under   article
  seventy-five  of  this  chapter.  Where  there  is a defense which would
  require dismissal  of  an  action  for  breach  of  the  agreement,  the
  proceeding  shall  be  dismissed.  Provided,  however, that this section
  shall not  apply  to  any  agreement  contained  in  the  standard  fire
  insurance policy of the state with the exception of an action to enforce
  the  appraisal  clause  pursuant  to section three thousand four hundred
  eight of the insurance law which shall not be enforced as an arbitration
  agreement.