2021 New York Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules
Article 45 - Evidence
R4511 - Judicial Notice of Law.

Rule  4511.  Judicial notice of law. (a) When judicial notice shall be
taken without request. Every court shall take  judicial  notice  without
request  of  the  common  law,  constitutions and public statutes of the
United States and of every state,  territory  and  jurisdiction  of  the
United  States  and  of  the  official  compilation  of codes, rules and
regulations of  the  state  except  those  that  relate  solely  to  the
organization or internal management of an agency of the state and of all
local laws and county acts.
  (b)  When  judicial notice may be taken without request; when it shall
be taken on request.  Every  court  may  take  judicial  notice  without
request  of  private  acts and resolutions of the congress of the United
States and of the legislature of the state; ordinances  and  regulations
of  officers,  agencies  or governmental subdivisions of the state or of
the United States; and the laws of foreign countries or their  political
subdivisions.  Judicial  notice  shall  be taken of matters specified in
this subdivision if a party requests it, furnishes the court  sufficient
information  to enable it to comply with the request, and has given each
adverse party notice of his intention to request  it.  Notice  shall  be
given  in  the pleadings or prior to the presentation of any evidence at
the trial, but a court may require or permit other notice.
  (c) Determination by court; review as matter of law. Whether a  matter
is  judicially noticed or proof is taken, every matter specified in this
section shall be determined by the judge or referee, and included in his
or her findings or charged to the jury. Such findings or charge shall be
subject to review on appeal as a finding or charge on a matter of law.
  (d) Evidence to be received on matter to  be  judicially  noticed.  In
considering  whether a matter of law should be judicially noticed and in
determining the matter of law to be judicially noticed,  the  court  may
consider  any  testimony,  document,  information  or  argument  on  the
subject, whether offered by  a  party  or  discovered  through  its  own
research.  Whether  or not judicial notice is taken, a printed copy of a
statute or other  written  law  or  a  proclamation,  edict,  decree  or
ordinance by an executive contained in a book or publication, purporting
to  have been published by a government or commonly admitted as evidence
of the existing law in the judicial tribunals of the jurisdiction  where
it is in force, is prima facie evidence of such law and the unwritten or
common  law  of  a  jurisdiction  may  be proved by witnesses or printed
reports of cases of the courts of the jurisdiction.