When must a served note of issue be filed with the county clerk?

Confirm readiness and valid service of the note of issue and certificate on every party.

Use the completed service event. A draft, intended mailing or certificate prepared before service does not establish that event.

Responsible actor. The party placing the ready case on the trial calendar. The ordinary Rule 202.21(a) filing step after valid service on all parties in a ready Supreme or County Court case.

1. Confirm readiness and valid service of the note of issue and certificate on every party.
2. Use the completed service event. A draft, intended mailing or certificate prepared before service does not establish that event.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. File the required original, copies and proof with the county clerk, pay the required fee or establish its waiver, and provide the trial clerk’s required duplicate original.

GCL 20 excludes the established event day. These five-, ten-, fifteen-, twenty-, twenty-one-, thirty-, sixty- and ninety-day periods count intermediate calendar days. GCL 30 uses the corresponding calendar-month day, or the final day of a shorter month. GCL 58 defines a year as twelve months. GCL 25-a permits the next succeeding business day when the statutory final day is closed and expressly includes periods before which an act is required. The actual hearing or entry time and any different court direction remain separate checks. The independent calendar follows GCL 24 and Election Law 8-100. It includes Lincoln’s Birthday, the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, Juneteenth and general election day. GCL 24 adds the following day for a listed Sunday holiday except Flag Day. It does not generally move a Saturday holiday to Friday. Dates after 2027 are projections of the reviewed standing statute through 2033, not proof of future court openings. Check amendments, additional appointed holidays and actual closures separately.

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

Fictitious example

The ordinary Rule 202.21(a) filing step after valid service on all parties in a ready Supreme or County Court case. Fictitious established facts. The ordinary Rule 202.21(a) filing step after valid service on all parties in a ready Supreme or County Court case.

Fictitious established facts. The date does not prove classification, valid service, jurisdiction, completed filing, a granted motion or an extension. Any earlier competing boundary, actual hour and future-calendar qualification still applies.

Readiness

Identify any incomplete pretrial proceeding and actual court permission under Rule 202.21(d).

Approval applications

Settlement-approval applications for an infant, incompetent or conservatee are excluded from the ordinary requirement.

Jury choice

Check the filed note’s jury demand or waiver and the separate CPLR 4102 procedure.

Edition and projected calendar

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

• The ordinary Rule 202.21(a) filing step after valid service on all parties in a ready Supreme or County Court case.
• Use only the disclosed statutory component. Establish every omitted branch separately.

• Confirm readiness and valid service of the note of issue and certificate on every party.
• Use the completed service event. A draft, intended mailing or certificate prepared before service does not establish that event.
• File the required original, copies and proof with the county clerk, pay the required fee or establish its waiver, and provide the trial clerk’s required duplicate original.
• Identify any incomplete pretrial proceeding and actual court permission under Rule 202.21(d).
• Settlement-approval applications for an infant, incompetent or conservatee are excluded from the ordinary requirement.
• Check the filed note’s jury demand or waiver and the separate CPLR 4102 procedure.
• In the applicable Supreme Court NYSCEF program, preserve recorded transmission and the required fee event under rule 202.5-b(d). Participating-party service has its own notification event under (f). Initiating filing does not itself serve the respondent. The clerk’s entry notification is not party service of notice of entry under (h)(2). Check actual paper receipt, exemptions, emergency procedure and qualifying technical-failure directions separately.