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2019 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor and Creditor
Article 5 - Judgment Debtor's Discharge From Imprisonment
137 - Effect of Failure So to Apply.
Universal Citation: NY Debt & Cred L § 137 (2019)
§ 137. Effect of failure so to apply. If the prisoner does not, within thirty days after personal service of such a notice, either present a petition to the proper court, as prescribed in article third of this chapter, or serve, upon the creditor giving the notice, a copy of a petition and schedule, with a notice of his intention to apply for his discharge, as prescribed in this article; or if, after such a presentation or service, he does not diligently proceed thereupon to a decision, he shall be forever barred from obtaining his discharge under the provisions of this article, or of article third of this chapter.
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