N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 336 – Duty of courts to report judgments
§ 336. Duty of courts to report judgments. The clerk of the court, or the court where it has no clerk, shall, upon written request of the judgment creditor or his attorney, forward to the commissioner a certified copy of transcript of any judgment for damages, the rendering and non-payment of which judgment requires the commissioner to suspend the operator's or chauffeur's license and/or the registrations in the name of the judgment debtor hereunder, such copy or transcript to be forwarded to the commissioner immediately upon the expiration of fifteen days after such judgment has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which appeal might have been perfected or by final affirmance on appeal, and has not been otherwise stayed, or satisfied.
Terms Used In N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 336
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.