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Vehicle and Traffic Law § 254 · Article 3. Exemption of Non-resident Owners and Operators

Service of summons on residents who depart from state and on residents' executors or administrators who are nonresidents or who depart from state

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§ 254. Service of summons on residents who depart from state and on residents' executors or administrators who are nonresidents or who depart from state. The provisions of section two hundred fifty-three of this chapter shall also apply (a) to a resident who departs from the state subsequent to the accident or collision and remains absent therefrom for thirty days continuously, whether such absence is intended to be temporary or permanent, and to any executor or administrator of such resident, and (b) to an executor or administrator of a resident if such executor or administrator is a nonresident or if, being a resident, he departs from the state and remains absent therefrom for thirty days continuously, whether such absence is intended to be temporary or permanent.

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