Title CVP, Civil Practice Law & Rules

Rule 9401. Committee. The appellate division in each judicial department shall appoint a committee of not less than three practicing lawyers for each judicial district within the department, for the purpose of investigating the character and fitness of every applicant for admiss…

Rule 9402. Application for admission. Every application for admission to practice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision one of section ninety of the judiciary law by a person who has been certified by the state board of law examiners, in accordance with the pr…

Rule 9403. Referral to another judicial district. Notwithstanding rule 9402, any application for admission to practice pending before a committee, may be referred to the committee for another judicial district in the same or another department by order or direction of the presid…

Rule 9404. Certificate of character and fitness. Unless otherwise ordered by the appellate division, no person shall be admitted to practice without a certificate from the proper committee that it has carefully investigated the character and fitness of the applicant and that, in…

Rule 9405. Prior application. In the event that any applicant has made a prior application for admission to practice in this state or in any other jurisdiction, then upon said statement or questionnaire or in an accompanying signed statement, he shall set forth in detail all the…

Rule 9406. Proof. No person shall receive said certificate from any committee and no person shall be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in the courts of this state, unless he shall furnish satisfactory proof to the effect: 1. that he supports the constituti…

Rule 9407. Filing. Every application for admission to practice, together with all the papers submitted thereon, upon its final disposition by the appellate division shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such appellate division.

Rule 9701. Records to be kept by the clerk of appellate division. The clerk of the appellate division in each department shall keep: 1. a book, properly indexed, or an index, in which shall be entered the title of all proceedings in that court, with entries under each, showing t…

Rule 9702. Books to be kept by the clerks of other courts. The clerks of the other courts shall keep: 1. a "judgment-book," in which shall be recorded all judgments entered in their offices; 2. a book, properly indexed, in which shall be entered the title of all civil judicial p…

Rule 9703. Form of records. A clerk shall keep books and records in such form and style as may be prescribed by the chief administrator of the courts.

§ 9801. Actions against the village. 1. No action shall be maintained against the village for a personal injury or injury to property alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence or wrongful act of the village or of any officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a …

§ 9802. Liability of villages in certain actions. Except as provided otherwise in this chapter no action shall be maintained against the village upon or arising out of a contract of the village unless the same shall be commenced within eighteen months after the cause of action t…

§ 9803. Place of trial of actions and proceedings against villages. The place of trial of all actions and proceedings against a village or any of its officers or boards shall be the county in which the village is situated.

§ 9804. Notice of defects in certain actions. No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dan…