What is the ordinary New York contract limitation period?

Identify a contractual obligation within CPLR 213(2), with established accrual and no valid shorter written agreement or applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.

The current paragraph expressly excludes CPLR 213-a, CPLR 214-i, UCC Article 2 and General Business Law Article 36-B. A contract label does not resolve those classifications.

Preserve the obligation and the facts establishing accrual. This calculation does not decide when the particular contractual duty was breached.

A sale-of-goods contract uses the separate UCC period. A professional-malpractice claim has its own three-year rule regardless of a contract theory.

1. Identify a contractual obligation within CPLR 213(2), with established accrual and no valid shorter written agreement or applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.
2. Count the selected calendar-month or calendar-year interval from the independently established event. General Construction Law 20 excludes the event day, sections 30 and 58 govern months and years, and section 25-a permits the next succeeding business day when an authorized statutory act ends on Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.
3. Check the final statutory holiday and weekend independently.
4. Preserve the actual commencement record and complete required service. Filing and service are separate acts.

For an authorized statutory act, General Construction Law 25-a permits the next succeeding business day if the final day is Saturday, Sunday or a statutory public holiday. Section 24 defines those holidays. Sunday Independence Day in 2027 is observed on Monday July 5. Confirm other actual closures separately.

The calculators accept selected events after November 3, 2020. They do not apply the 2020 executive-order toll. Brash distinguishes a toll from a suspension. Historical events require separate review and receive no calculated or paid date here. Do not add 228 days to every historical event without testing its actual applicability.

Fictitious example

Identify a contractual obligation within CPLR 213(2), with established accrual and no valid shorter written agreement or applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll. Fictitious established facts. Identify a contractual obligation within CPLR 213(2), with established accrual and no valid shorter written agreement or applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll. The selected event is August 2, 2021. No applicable toll, shorter agreement, alternative branch or additional closure is assumed.

Fictitious established facts. This example applies only to the stated component. The calculator does not determine accrual, reasonable discovery, qualifying treatment, a toll or whether a claim is timely.

Shorter written agreement

CPLR 201 recognizes a shorter time prescribed by written agreement. This preset uses the unshortened statutory branch.

Consumer credit

CPLR 214-i states a separate three-year period for covered consumer-credit actions against a purchaser, borrower or debtor, subject to its stated exceptions.

Out-of-state accrual

CPLR 202 may require comparison with the law of the place of accrual. Its New York resident exception requires an established fact.

Historical executive-order toll

The calculators accept selected events after November 3, 2020. They do not apply the 2020 executive-order toll. Brash distinguishes a toll from a suspension. Historical events require separate review and receive no calculated or paid date here. Do not add 228 days to every historical event without testing its actual applicability.

• Preserve the applicable edition and establish the actual statutory facts independently.
• This calculation supplies the disclosed component and does not select every alternative period or apply an unmodeled toll.

• Identify a contractual obligation within CPLR 213(2), with established accrual and no valid shorter written agreement or applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.
• The current paragraph expressly excludes CPLR 213-a, CPLR 214-i, UCC Article 2 and General Business Law Article 36-B. A contract label does not resolve those classifications.
• Preserve the obligation and the facts establishing accrual. This calculation does not decide when the particular contractual duty was breached.
• A sale-of-goods contract uses the separate UCC period. A professional-malpractice claim has its own three-year rule regardless of a contract theory.
• CPLR 201 recognizes a shorter time prescribed by written agreement. This preset uses the unshortened statutory branch.
• CPLR 214-i states a separate three-year period for covered consumer-credit actions against a purchaser, borrower or debtor, subject to its stated exceptions.
• CPLR 202 may require comparison with the law of the place of accrual. Its New York resident exception requires an established fact.
• Preserve the actual commencement record and complete required service. Filing and service are separate acts. CPLR 304 governs commencement by the required initiating filing. In the applicable NYSCEF program, 22 NYCRR 202.5-b(d)(3)(i) uses recorded transmission and the required fee information or permitted later actual payment. Transmission is permitted any day or night. Preserve the actual recorded filing and fee event. Check county, action eligibility and any paper filing hours. Electronic filing of initiating papers does not itself serve the defendant under paragraph (f)(1).