N.Y. New York City Civil Court Act § 1101: Disclosure

§ 1101. Disclosure. (a) CPLR applicable. The procedures set forth in

the CPLR relative to disclosure, bill of particulars and the procuring

of a copy of the items of an account, shall govern in this court,

subject to subdivision (b). In an action to impose or collect a civil

penalty for violation of the multiple dwelling law or the housing

maintenance code of the New York city administrative code, leave of

court, obtained by motion to the housing part thereof, shall be required

for disclosure or for a bill of particulars except for a notice under

CPLR 3123, which leave shall be granted only upon a showing that such

disclosure or bill of particulars is necessary to the prosecution or

defense of the action. If it is so noted on the summons, any motion for

disclosure or a bill of particulars must be made in writing and on

notice and must be filed with the clerk with proof of service not later

than thirty days after joinder of issue.

(b) Parties and non-parties. All notices, orders, subpoenas and other

papers relating to disclosure:

1. by a party, may be served by such means and at such place,

regardless of city or state lines, as would be permissible in the

supreme court in a like instance;

2. by a person not a party, may be served and executed only within the

city, unless the court shall find that the interests of justice require

that service not be so limited, in which case the court may permit

service as in paragraph one. Such permission may be granted only after

motion on notice to all adverse parties.

(c) Protective order. The protective order provided for in CPLR § 3103

shall be available in this court with regard to all of the foregoing,

and shall not be limited to the disclosure devices provided in article

31 of the CPLR.