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N.Y. General Municipal Law § 70: Payment of judgments against municipal corporation

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  1. General Municipal Law
  2. Article 5. Powers, Limitations and Liabilities

§ 70. Payment of judgments against municipal corporation. When a final

judgment for a sum of money shall be recovered against a municipal

corporation, and the execution thereof shall not be stayed pursuant to

law, or the time for such stay shall have expired, the treasurer or

other financial officer of such corporation having sufficient moneys in

his or her hands belonging to the corporation not otherwise specifically

appropriated, shall pay such judgment upon the production of a certified

copy of the docket thereof. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other

law to the contrary, in any case where payment for any reason is to be

made to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of imprisonment

with the state department of corrections and community supervision or to

a prisoner confined at a local correctional facility, the treasurer or

other financial officer shall give written notice, if required pursuant

to subdivision two of section six hundred thirty-two-a of the executive

law, to the office of victim services that such payment shall be made

thirty days after the date of such notice.

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