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EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A MOTION TO VACATE A TAX FORECLOSURE JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED, CPLR 2004 DOES NOT APPLY TO TIME LIMITS SPECIFICALLY CALLED FOR IN THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW (RPTL) (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined respondents’ motion to vacate a tax foreclosure judgment should not have been granted. The court noted that an extension of time pursuant to CPLR 2004 should not be granted where the Real Property Tax Law addresses the issue:

We further … with petitioner that the court erred in granting respondents’ implicit request for an extension of time to bring the motion (see CPLR 2004). The Court of Appeals has emphasized that, ” [a]s a general rule, there should be no resort to the provisions of the CPLR in instances where the [RPTL] expressly covers the point in issue’ “… . We conclude that RPTL article 11 comprehensively addresses the situation where a default judgment of foreclosure is properly obtained and the defaulting property owner seeks to reopen the default and, therefore, such property owner “may not reach outside of the RPTL to [reopen] such a proceeding”… . More particularly, RPTL 1131 expressly covers the point in issue here inasmuch as it provides, in unambiguous and prohibitory language, that “[a] motion to reopen any such default may not be brought later than one month after entry of the judgment” … . To countenance resort to CPLR 2004 under these circumstances would undermine the statutory scheme established by the legislature and erode the finality of foreclosure proceedings even after a defaulting property owner has been afforded due process … . Matter of Foreclosure of Tax Liens By Proceeding In Rem Pursuant To Art. 11 of The Real Prop. Tax Law By The County of Wayne Relating To The 2015 Town & County Tax (Schenk), 2019 NY Slip Op 01029, Fourth Dept 2-8-19

 

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