2023 New York Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions and Proceedings
Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life
1101 - Petition for Production of Tenant for Life.

§  1101. Petition for production of tenant for life. A person entitled
  to claim real property after the death of another who has a prior estate
  therein may, not oftener than once  in  each  calendar  year,  apply  by
  petition  to  the  supreme court, at a special term thereof, held within
  the judicial  district  wherein  the  property  or  a  part  thereof  is
  situated,  for an order directing the production of the tenant for life,
  as prescribed in this article, by  a  person,  named  in  the  petition,
  against  whom an action of ejectment to recover the real property can be
  maintained, if the tenant for life is dead or, where there  is  no  such
  person,  by the guardian, husband, trustee, or other person, who has, or
  is entitled to, the custody of the person of the tenant for life, or the
  care of his estate.