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Vehicle and Traffic Law § 336 · Article 7. Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act

Duty of courts to report judgments

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§ 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.

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