New York Prosecutors Training Institute
NYPTI Law - NYS Statutes
ยง 5207. Enforcement involving the state. None of the procedures for
the enforcement of money judgments are applicable to a judgment against
the state. All procedures for the enforcement of money judgments against
other judgment debtors are applicable to the state, its officers,
agencies and subdivisions, as a garnishee, except where otherwise
prescribed by law, and except that an order in such a procedure shall
only provide for the payment of moneys not claimed by the state, and no
judgment shall be entered against the state, or any officer, department,
board or commission thereof, in such a procedure. This section shall not
be deemed to grant any court jurisdiction to hear and determine claims
or actions against the state not otherwise given by law to such court.
