When must a New York municipality pay a settled damages claim?

Verify the settling defendant’s identity and indemnification classification.

Preserve qualifying tender of the release and plaintiff-executed discontinuance stipulation, plus the approval order if required.

Responsible actor. The qualifying municipality, subdivision or non-State-indemnified public corporation. Subdivision (b)’s municipality or non-State-indemnified public-corporation branch, excluding its insurer and the State-indemnified branch.

1. Verify the settling defendant’s identity and indemnification classification.
2. Preserve qualifying tender of the release and plaintiff-executed discontinuance stipulation, plus the approval order if required.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. The qualifying public defendant must pay all sums due within ninety days. Retain tender and payment evidence separately.

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

Subdivision (b)’s municipality or non-State-indemnified public-corporation branch, excluding its insurer and the State-indemnified branch. Fictitious established facts. Subdivision (b)’s municipality or non-State-indemnified public-corporation branch, excluding its insurer and the State-indemnified branch.

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.

Insurer exception

The public defendant’s insurance carrier receives the subdivision (a) twenty-one-day period.

State indemnification

The State and specified State-indemnified defendants use subdivision (c)’s comptroller determination, not this tender clock.

Method and exclusions

Subdivision (g) defines tender; subdivision (d) addresses approval orders; subdivision (f) excludes article 74 and future structured installments.

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.

• Subdivision (b)’s municipality or non-State-indemnified public-corporation branch, excluding its insurer and the State-indemnified branch.
• Use only the disclosed statutory component. Establish every omitted branch separately.

• Verify the settling defendant’s identity and indemnification classification.
• Preserve qualifying tender of the release and plaintiff-executed discontinuance stipulation, plus the approval order if required.
• The qualifying public defendant must pay all sums due within ninety days. Retain tender and payment evidence separately.
• The public defendant’s insurance carrier receives the subdivision (a) twenty-one-day period.
• The State and specified State-indemnified defendants use subdivision (c)’s comptroller determination, not this tender clock.
• Subdivision (g) defines tender; subdivision (d) addresses approval orders; subdivision (f) excludes article 74 and future structured installments.
• CPLR 5003-a(g) defines qualifying tender as personal delivery or registered/certified return-receipt mailing. Preserve complete executed papers, the approval order if required and actual statutory tender. Ordinary email or a signed settlement agreement alone is not assumed to complete that event. Preserve payment independently.