CPLR 8201 · Article 82. Amount of Costs
Amount of costs in an action
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Law content up to date as of July 3, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 8201. Amount of costs in an action. Costs awarded in an action shall be in the amount of:
1. two hundred dollars for all proceedings before a note of issue is filed; plus
2. two hundred dollars for all proceedings after a note of issue is filed and before trial; plus
3. three hundred dollars for each trial, inquest or assessment of damages.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of July 3, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/CVP8201
- Text hash
- sha256 555f49cfde57ee609b61d8fe338b7530e9a85513ed196876eb43ce8a28ca257c
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.