N.Y. Uniform District Court Act § 1813: Duty to pay judgments

§ 1813. Duty to pay judgments.

(a) Any person, partnership, firm or corporation which is sued in a

small claims court for any cause of action arising out of its business

activities, shall pay any judgment rendered against it in its true name

or in any name in which it conducts business. "True name" includes the

legal name of a natural person and the name under which a partnership,

firm or corporation is licensed, registered, incorporated or otherwise

authorized to do business. "Conducting business" as used in this

section shall include, but not be limited to, maintaining signs at

business premises or on business vehicles; advertising; entering into

contracts; and printing or using sales slips, checks, invoices or

receipts. Whenever a judgment has been rendered against a person,

partnership, firm or corporation in other than its true name and the

judgment has remained unpaid for thirty-five days after receipt by the

judgment debtor of notice of its entry, the aggrieved judgment creditor

shall be entitled to commence an action in small claims court against

such judgment debtor, notwithstanding the jurisdictional limit of the

court, for the sum of the original judgment, costs, reasonable

attorney's fees, and one hundred dollars.

(b) Whenever a judgment which relates to activities for which a

license is required has been rendered against a business which is

licensed by a state or local licensing authority and which remains

unpaid for thirty-five days after receipt by the judgment debtor of

notice of its entry and the judgment has not been stayed or appealed,

the state or local licensing authority shall consider such failure to

pay, if deliberate or part of a pattern of similar conduct indicating

recklessness, as a basis for the revocation, suspension, conditioning or

refusal to grant or renew such license. Nothing herein shall be

construed to preempt an authority's existing policy if it is more

restrictive.

(c) The clerk shall attach to the notice of suit required under this

article a notice of the duty imposed by this section.