When must an ordinary Article 78 answer be served?

Retain the actual notice of petition, accepted hearing date and hour.

Prepare the verified answer and pertinent supporting proof, distinguishing any actual motion to dismiss.

Responsible actor. The adverse respondent answering the Article 78 petition. The ordinary Article 78 answer before the noticed hearing, without a different order to show cause or post-dismissal-motion schedule.

1. Retain the actual notice of petition, accepted hearing date and hour.
2. Prepare the verified answer and pertinent supporting proof, distinguishing any actual motion to dismiss.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. Serve the verified answer and supporting affidavits within the interval. File the required answer and certified administrative record and preserve service and submission proof.

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 Article 78 answer before the noticed hearing, without a different order to show cause or post-dismissal-motion schedule. Fictitious established facts. The ordinary Article 78 answer before the noticed hearing, without a different order to show cause or post-dismissal-motion schedule.

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.

Verified pleading

Subdivision (d) requires the answer’s pertinent and material facts.

Administrative record

Subdivision (e) requires the body or officer’s certified transcript with the answer unless already filed.

Denied dismissal motion

Subdivision (f) gives a separate order-service-and-entry-notice answer period.

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 Article 78 answer before the noticed hearing, without a different order to show cause or post-dismissal-motion schedule.
• Use only the disclosed statutory component. Establish every omitted branch separately.

• Retain the actual notice of petition, accepted hearing date and hour.
• Prepare the verified answer and pertinent supporting proof, distinguishing any actual motion to dismiss.
• Serve the verified answer and supporting affidavits within the interval. File the required answer and certified administrative record and preserve service and submission proof.
• Subdivision (d) requires the answer’s pertinent and material facts.
• Subdivision (e) requires the body or officer’s certified transcript with the answer unless already filed.
• Subdivision (f) gives a separate order-service-and-entry-notice answer period.
• 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.