2017 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 3 - Insolvent's Discharge From Debts
85 - Effect of Discharge as to Debts to the United States and the State.

Universal Citation: NY Debt & Cred L § 85 (2017)

85. Effect of discharge as to debts to the United States and the state. Such a discharge does not affect:

1. A debt or duty to the United States; or

2. A debt or duty to the state, for taxes or for money received or collected by any person as a public officer, or in a fiduciary capacity, or a cause of action specified in section sixty-three-c of the executive law or a judgment recovered upon such a cause of action.

Except as prescribed in this section, the discharge exonerates the petitioner from a debt or other liability to the state, in like manner and to the same extent, as from a debt or liability to an individual.


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