N.Y. Arts and Cultural Affairs Law § 20.35: Actions by and against a trust

§ 20.35. Actions by and against a trust. 1. The supreme court shall

have exclusive jurisdiction of any action, suit or special proceeding

brought by or against or involving a trust. The venue of any action,

suit or special proceeding brought against a trust shall be laid in the

city and county in which its principal office is located.

2. Any action or proceeding to which a trust or the people of the

state, a county or a municipality may be parties, in which any question

arises as to the validity of this article or the special law creating

the trust, shall be preferred over all other civil causes except

election causes in all courts of the state and shall be heard and

determined in preference to all other civil business pending therein

except election causes, irrespective of position on the calendar. The

same preference shall be granted upon application of counsel to a trust

in any action or proceeding in which the trust is a party or in which

such counsel may be allowed to intervene.

3. Except as otherwise expressly provided by a lease, sublease, or

other agreement to which it is a party, a participating cultural

institution or not-for-profit cultural organization shall not be liable

to any person for any claim, loss, cost or damage arising from or in

connection with the development of a combined-use facility, a facility

for a not-for-profit cultural organization or a public television

facility with respect to which a trust entered an agreement prior to

January first, nineteen hundred ninety, or any part or portion thereof.