Which New York filing regime applies to qualifying sexual-offense injury?

Match the alleged conduct to the exact current or former Penal Law provisions listed in section 213-c. Not every sexual offense has this same statutory classification.

The provision permits claims against parties whose intentional or negligent acts or omissions are alleged to have resulted in the specified conduct. It does not require a criminal charge or conviction.

The statute expressly excepts section 208(b), which addresses qualifying conduct committed when the person was under eighteen and its age-fifty-five commencement rule.

A current twenty-year text does not itself revive every historically barred claim. Finley’s March 4, 2026 Second Department decision addresses the separate Child Victims Act revival window, not an indefinite new filing period.

1. Match the alleged conduct to the exact current or former Penal Law provisions listed in section 213-c. Not every sexual offense has this same statutory classification.
2. The provision permits claims against parties whose intentional or negligent acts or omissions are alleged to have resulted in the specified conduct. It does not require a criminal charge or conviction.
3. The statute expressly excepts section 208(b), which addresses qualifying conduct committed when the person was under eighteen and its age-fifty-five commencement rule.
4. A current twenty-year text does not itself revive every historically barred claim. Finley’s March 4, 2026 Second Department decision addresses the separate Child Victims Act revival window, not an indefinite new filing period.
5. This guide supplies no fixed date. Establish the applicable statutory branches and their actual events before applying any calendar-month, calendar-year or final-day provision.
6. Preserve the conduct dates, applicable current or former offense definitions, age and defendant allegations. Review historical applicability and any separate revival provision.

A calendar anniversary cannot decide the statutory classification or supply missing facts. No computed or paid date is published.

Fictitious comparison. Two people allege qualifying conduct but one was under eighteen when it occurred. The same conduct date does not establish the same governing twenty-year or age-based regime.

The single accrual preset cannot classify the specified offense, childhood age-based regime and historical or revival law. No final date is calculated or sold.

Exact offense definitions

The current paragraph includes expressly named current and former Penal Law subdivisions. Check the edition applicable to the conduct.

Childhood conduct

Section 208(b) has its own conduct, age and defendant scope.

Revival remains distinct

Finley v Diocese of Brooklyn addresses the separate CPLR 214-g revival window and COVID-era toll, not automatic revival under section 213-c.

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.
• The single accrual preset cannot classify the specified offense, childhood age-based regime and historical or revival law. No final date is calculated or sold.

• Match the alleged conduct to the exact current or former Penal Law provisions listed in section 213-c. Not every sexual offense has this same statutory classification.
• The provision permits claims against parties whose intentional or negligent acts or omissions are alleged to have resulted in the specified conduct. It does not require a criminal charge or conviction.
• The statute expressly excepts section 208(b), which addresses qualifying conduct committed when the person was under eighteen and its age-fifty-five commencement rule.
• A current twenty-year text does not itself revive every historically barred claim. Finley’s March 4, 2026 Second Department decision addresses the separate Child Victims Act revival window, not an indefinite new filing period.
• The current paragraph includes expressly named current and former Penal Law subdivisions. Check the edition applicable to the conduct.
• Section 208(b) has its own conduct, age and defendant scope.
• Finley v Diocese of Brooklyn addresses the separate CPLR 214-g revival window and COVID-era toll, not automatic revival under section 213-c.
• Preserve the conduct dates, applicable current or former offense definitions, age and defendant allegations. Review historical applicability and any separate revival provision. 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).