N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 1306 – Filing with superintendent
§ 1306. Filing with superintendent. 1. Each lender, assignee or mortgage loan servicer shall file with the superintendent of financial services (superintendent) within three business days of the mailing of the notice required by subdivision one of section thirteen hundred four of this article or subsection (f) of section 9-611 of the uniform commercial code the information required by subdivision two of this section. Notwithstanding any other provision of the laws of this state, this filing shall be made electronically as provided for in subdivision three of this section. Any complaint served in a proceeding initiated pursuant to this article shall contain, as a condition precedent to such proceeding, an affirmative allegation that at the time the proceeding is commenced, the plaintiff has complied with the provisions of this section.
Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 1306
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
2. Each filing delivered to the superintendent shall be on such form as the superintendent shall prescribe, and shall include at a minimum, the name, address, last known telephone number of the borrower, and the amount claimed as due and owing on the mortgage, and such other information as will enable the superintendent to ascertain the type of loan at issue. The superintendent may subsequently request such readily available information as may be reasonably necessary to facilitate a review of whether the borrower might benefit from counseling or other foreclosure prevention services.
3. Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section, or such later time as the superintendent may determine, the superintendent shall develop with the assistance of the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal, an electronic database that shall be capable of receiving all filings required by this section.
4. The information provided to the superintendent pursuant to this § of the public officers law or paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of subdivision one or subdivision six of § 94 of the public officers law. All such information shall be used by the superintendent exclusively for the purposes of monitoring on a statewide basis the extent of foreclosure filings within this state, to perform an analysis of loan types which were the subject of a pre-foreclosure notice and directing as appropriate available public and private foreclosure prevention and counseling services to borrowers at risk of foreclosure. The superintendent may share information contained in the database with housing counseling agencies designated by the division of housing and community renewal as well as with other state agencies with jurisdiction over housing, for the purpose of coordinating or securing help for borrowers at risk of foreclosure.
5. The superintendent is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the purposes of this section.