New York Civil Practice Law & Rules Article 2 - LIMITATIONS OF TIME

• 201 - Application of Article.
  An action, including one brought in the name or for the benefit of the state, must be commenced within the time specified in this article...
• 202 - Cause of Action Accruing Without the State.
  An action based upon a cause of action accruing without the state cannot be commenced after the expiration of the time limited by the laws...
• 203 - Method of Computing Periods of Limitation Generally.
  (a) Accrual of cause of action and interposition of claim. The time within which an action must be commenced, except as otherwise expressly prescribed, shall...
• 204 - Stay of Commencement of Action; Demand for Arbitration.
  (a) Stay. Where the commencement of an action has been stayed by a court or by statutory prohibition, the duration of the stay is not...
• 205 - Termination of Action.
  (a) New action by plaintiff. If an action is timely commenced and is terminated in any other manner than by a voluntary discontinuance, a failure...
• 206 - Computing Periods of Limitation in Particular Actions.
  (a) Where demand necessary. Except as provided in article 3 of the uniform commercial code, where a demand is necessary to entitle a person to...
• 207 - Defendant's Absence From State or Residence Under False Name.
  If, when a cause of action accrues against a person, he is without the state, the time within which the action must be commenced shall...
• 208 - Infancy, Insanity.
  If a person entitled to commence an action is under a disability because of infancy or insanity at the time the cause of action accrues,...
• 209 - War.
  (a) Cause of action accruing in foreign country. Where a cause of action, whether originally accrued in favor of a resident or non-resident of the...
• 210 - Death of Claimant or Person Liable; Cause of Action Accruing After Death and Before Grant of Letters.
  (a) Death of claimant. Where a person entitled to commence an action dies before the expiration of the time within which the action must be...
• 211 - Actions to Be Commenced Within Twenty Years.
  (a) On a bond. An action to recover principal or interest upon a written instrument evidencing an indebtedness of the state of New York or...
• 212 - Actions to Be Commenced Within Ten Years.
  (a) Possession necessary to recover real property. An action to recover real property or its possession cannot be commenced unless the plaintiff, or his predecessor...
• 213 - Actions to Be Commenced Within Six Years: Where Not Otherwise Provided For; on Contract; on Sealed Instrument; on Bond or Note, and Mortgage Upon Real
  property; by state based on misappropriation of public property; based on mistake; by corporation against director, officer or stockholder; based on fraud. The following actions...
• 213-a - Actions to Be Commenced Within Four Years; Residential Rent Overcharge.
  An action on a residential rent overcharge shall be commenced within four years of the first overcharge alleged and no determination of an overcharge and...
• 213-b - Action by a Victim of a Criminal Offense.
  Notwithstanding any other limitation set forth in this article or in article five of the estates, powers and trusts law, an action by a crime...
• 213-c - Action by Victim of Conduct Constituting Certain Sexual Offenses.
  Notwithstanding any other limitation set forth in this article, a civil claim or cause of action to recover from a defendant as hereinafter defined, for...
• 214 - Actions to Be Commenced Within Three Years: for Non-Payment of Money Collected on Execution; for Penalty Created by Statute; to Recover Chattel; for I
  214. Actions to be commenced within three years: for non-payment of money collected on execution; for penalty created by statute; to recover chattel; for injury...
• 214-a - Action for Medical, Dental or Podiatric Malpractice to Be Commenced Within Two Years and Six Months; Exceptions.
  An action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice must be commenced within two years and six months of the act, omission or failure complained of...
• 214-b - Action to Recover Damages for Personal Injury Caused by Contact With or Exposure to Phenoxy Herbicides.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an action to recover damages for personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to phenoxy herbicides...
• 214-c - Certain Actions to Be Commenced Within Three Years of Discovery.
  1. In this section: "exposure" means direct or indirect exposure by absorption, contact, ingestion, inhalation, implantation or injection. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 214,...
• 214-d - Limitations on Certain Actions Against Licensed Engineers and Architects.
  1. Any person asserting a claim for personal injury, wrongful death or property damage, or a cross or third-party claim for contribution or indemnification arising...
• 214-e - Action to Recover Damages for Personal Injury Caused by the Infusion of Such Blood Products Which Result in the Contraction of the Human Immunodeficie
  214-e. Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by the infusion of such blood products which result in the contraction of the human immunodeficiency...
• 214-f - Action to Recover Damages for Personal Injury Caused by Contact With or Exposure to Any Substance or Combination of Substances Found Within an Area Designated As a Superfund Site.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an action to recover personal damages for injury caused by contact with or exposure to any substance...
• 215 - Actions to Be Commenced Within One Year: Against Sheriff, Coroner or Constable; for Escape of Prisoner; for Assault, Battery, False Imprisonment, Mali
  215. Actions to be commenced within one year: against sheriff, coroner or constable; for escape of prisoner; for assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel...
• 216 - Abbreviation of Period to One Year After Notice.
  (a) Action to recover money. 1. No action for the recovery of any sum of money due and payable under or on account of a...
• 217 - Proceeding Against Body or Officer; Actions Complaining About Conduct that Would Constitute a Union's Breach of Its Duty of Fair Representation; Four
  months. 1. Unless a shorter time is provided in the law authorizing the proceeding, a proceeding against a body or officer must be commenced within...
• 217-a - Actions to Be Commenced Within One Year and Ninety Days.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and irrespective of whether the relevant statute is expressly amended by the uniform notice of claim...
• 218 - Transitional Provisions.
  (a) Actions barred at effective date. Nothing in this article shall authorize any action to be commenced which is barred when this article becomes effective,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019