SCPA 101 · Article 1. General
Short title; how cited
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Text — Law content up to date as of September 18, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 101. Short title; how cited
This act shall be known as the surrogate's court procedure act and may be cited as "SCPA". A provision of this act may be cited by its number without being preceded either by the word "section" or the symbol "§". Reference to an article or section without reference to another law shall be deemed to refer to an article or section of this act.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of September 18, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/SCP101
- Text hash
- sha256 1c6ceb28a3074e8b89609fc3762702c0f50770f020f137a290660b93a2469a42
- 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
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