2019 New York Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules
Article 2 - Limitations of Time
211 - Actions to Be Commenced Within Twenty Years.

§  211. Actions to be commenced within twenty years. (a) On a bond. An
action to recover  principal  or  interest  upon  a  written  instrument
evidencing  an  indebtedness  of the state of New York or of any person,
association or public or private corporation,  originally  sold  by  the
issuer after publication of an advertisement for bids for the issue in a
newspaper  of  general  circulation  and secured only by a pledge of the
faith and credit of the issuer, regardless of whether a sinking fund  is
or  may  be  established  for  its  redemption, must be commenced within
twenty years after the cause of action accrues.  This  subdivision  does
not apply to actions upon written instruments evidencing an indebtedness
of  any corporation, association or person under the jurisdiction of the
public service  commission,  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  the
interstate  commerce  commission, the federal communications commission,
the civil aeronautics board, the federal power commission, or any  other
regulatory  commission or board of a state or of the federal government.
This subdivision applies to all causes of action, including those barred
on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred fifty, by the  provisions  of  the
civil practice act then effective.
  (b)  On  a money judgment. A money judgment is presumed to be paid and
satisfied after the expiration of twenty years from the  time  when  the
party  recovering  it was first entitled to enforce it. This presumption
is conclusive, except as against a person who within  the  twenty  years
acknowledges  an indebtedness, or makes a payment, of all or part of the
amount  recovered  by  the   judgment,   or   his   heir   or   personal
representative,  or  a  person  whom  he  otherwise  represents. Such an
acknowledgment must be in  writing  and  signed  by  the  person  to  be
charged.    Property acquired by an enforcement order or by levy upon an
execution is a payment, unless the person to be charged  shows  that  it
did  not  include  property claimed by him. If such an acknowledgment or
payment is made, the judgment is conclusively presumed to  be  paid  and
satisfied  as  against  any  person after the expiration of twenty years
after the last acknowledgment or payment made by  him.  The  presumption
created  by  this subdivision may be availed of under an allegation that
the action was not commenced within the time limited.
  (c) By state for real property. The state will not sue a person for or
with respect to real property, or  the  rents  or  profits  thereof,  by
reason  of the right or title of the state to the same, unless the cause
of action accrued, or the state, or those  from  whom  it  claims,  have
received  the  rents  and  profits  of the real property or of some part
thereof, within twenty years before the commencement of the action.
  (d) By grantee of state for real property.  An  action  shall  not  be
commenced  for  or with respect to real property by a person claiming by
virtue of letters patent or a grant from the state, unless it might have
been maintained by the state, as prescribed  in  this  section,  if  the
patent or grant had not been issued or made.
  (e)  For  support,  alimony or maintenance. An action or proceeding to
enforce any temporary order, permanent order or judgment of any court of
competent jurisdiction which awards  support,  alimony  or  maintenance,
regardless  of  whether  or  not  arrears  have  been reduced to a money
judgment, must be commenced within twenty  years  from  the  date  of  a
default  in  payment. This section shall only apply to orders which have
been entered subsequent to the date upon which this section shall become
effective.