NYC Slip & Fall Statute Of Limitations = 3 Years.

SECTION 214

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

Civil Practice Law & Rules (CVP) CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE 2

§ 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.