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Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law (RPAPL)

AN ACT to reconsolidate laws relating to actions, rights of action and proceedings concerning real property, constituting chapter eighty-one of the consolidated laws Became a law March 13, 1962, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a majority vote, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

REAL PROPERTY ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS LAW

Article 1. Short title; definitions; jurisdiction of certain
actions; construction of act. (Secs. 101-131.)

2. General provisions governing real property actions.
(Secs. 201-241.)

3. Provisions relating to evidence. (Secs. 301-351.)

4. Valuing interests in real property. (Secs. 401-406.)

5. Adverse possession. (Secs. 501-551.)

6. Action to recover real property. (Secs. 601-661.)

7. Summary proceeding to recover possession of real
property. (Secs. 701-767.)

7-A. Special proceedings by tenants of dwellings in the city
of New York and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk,
Rockland and Westchester for judgment directing deposit
of rents and the use thereof for the purpose of
remedying conditions dangerous to life, health or
safety. (Secs. 769-783.)

8. Waste and other actions and rights of action for injury
to real property. (Secs. 801-881.)

9. Action for partition. (Secs. 901-992.)

10. Action for dower. (Secs. 1001-1093.)

11. Proceeding to discover the death of a tenant for life.
(Secs. 1101-1143.)

12. Other actions and proceedings between co-owners or owners
of successive interests. (Secs. 1201-1221.)

13. Action to foreclose a mortgage. (Secs. 1301-1391.)

14. Foreclosure of mortgage by advertisement. (Secs.
1401-1421.)

15. Action to compel the determination of a claim to real
property. (Secs. 1501-1551.)

16. Judicial authorization of sale, lease, mortgage,
acquisition, exchange or voluntary partition. (Secs.
1601-1651.)

17. Special proceeding for disposition of real property of
infant, incompetent or conservatee. (Secs. 1701-1766.)

18. Special proceeding for release of claim against state of
infant or incompetent for appropriation of real
property. (Secs. 1801-1808.)

19. Discharge or extinguishment of encumbrances, claims and
interests. (Secs. 1901-1955.)


19-A. Special proceeding to convey title to abandoned dwelling
to city, town or village. (Secs. 1970-1974.)

20. Enforcement of covenants and easements; recovery of
damages for breach of covenant or injury to easement.
(Sec. 2001.)

21. Effective date; laws repealed. (Secs. 2101, 2111.)

 

 

 

 

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