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Actions to be commenced within three years: for non-payment of money collected on execution; for penalty created by statute; to recover c...

ยง 214. Actions to be commenced within three years: for non-payment of
money collected on execution; for penalty created by statute; to recover
chattel; for injury to property; for personal injury; for malpractice
other than medical, dental or podiatric malpractice; to annul a
marriage on the ground of fraud. The following actions must be
commenced within three years:

1. an action against a sheriff, constable or other officer for the
non-payment of money collected upon an execution;

2. an action to recover upon a liability, penalty or forfeiture
created or imposed by statute except as provided in sections 213 and
215;

3. an action to recover a chattel or damages for the taking or
detaining of a chattel;

4. an action to recover damages for an injury to property except as
provided in section 214-c;

5. an action to recover damages for a personal injury except as
provided in sections 214-b, 214-c, 214-i and 215;

6. an action to recover damages for malpractice, other than medical,
dental or podiatric malpractice, regardless of whether the underlying
theory is based in contract or tort; and

7. an action to annul a marriage on the ground of fraud; the time
within which the action must be commenced shall be computed from the
time the plaintiff discovered the facts constituting the fraud, but if
the plaintiff is a person other than the spouse whose consent was
obtained by fraud, the time within which the action must be commenced
shall be computed from the time, if earlier, that that spouse discovered
the facts constituting the fraud.

CVP 214 2022-02-25

Sections:

Article 2: LIMITATIONS OF TIME
Section 201 Application of article
Section 202 Cause of action accruing without the state
Section 203 Method of computing periods of limitation generally
Section 204 Stay of commencement of action; demand for arbitration
Section 205 Termination of action
Section 206 Computing periods of limitation in particular actions
Section 207 Defendant's absence from state or residence under false name
Section 208 Infancy, insanity
Section 209 War
Section 210 Death of claimant or person liable; cause of action accruing after death and before grant of letters
Section 211 Actions to be commenced within twenty years
Section 212 Actions to be commenced within ten years
Section 213 Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided for; on contract; on sealed instrument;...
Section 213-A Actions to be commenced within four years; residential rent overcharge
Section 213-B Action by a victim of a criminal offense
Section 213-C Action by victim of conduct constituting certain sexual offenses
Section 214 Actions to be commenced within three years: for non-payment of money collected on execution; for penalty created by statute;...
Section 214-A Action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice to be commenced within two years and six months; exceptions
Section 214-B Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to phenoxy herbicides
Section 214-C Certain actions to be commenced within three years of discovery
Section 214-D Limitations on certain actions against licensed engineers and architects
Section 214-E Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by the infusion of such blood products which result in the contraction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or AIDS
Section 215 Actions to be commenced within one year: against sheriff, coroner or constable; for escape of prisoner; for assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel or slander;..
Section 216 Abbreviation of period to one year after notice
Section 217 Proceeding against body or officer; actions complaining about conduct that would constitute a union's breach of its duty of fair representation; four months
Section 217-A Actions to be commenced within one year and ninety days
Section 218 Transitional provisions

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