N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law Section 947
Judgment affecting state tax claim

A judgment affecting adversely the title, interest or claim of the state based upon a tax deed, shall provide in effect as follows:

1.

That the state shall have a lien upon such real property or part thereof described in such tax deed, prior and superior to all other liens, (a) for the amount of the unpaid taxes not adjudged illegal in such action for which such real property was sold or liable to be sold in the first instance and for which such tax deed was issued, together with fees, charges and interest;

(b)

for the amount of the unpaid taxes not adjudged illegal in such action for which such real property was subsequently sold or liable to be sold, together with fees, charges and interest;

(c)

for the amount of all taxes, fees and charges admitted or paid by the state upon such real property to the date of the entry of such judgment, together with interest thereon from the date of such admission or payment. In the determination of the amount of such lien, establishment of payments of taxes on said land by the adjudged or admitted owner of the property during any of the same years in which payments were also made by the state shall reduce the lien of the state by the larger of the two tax payments for each of the years affected by duplicate payments, and in the event that wholly identical areas are not affected by the duplicate payments the court shall have power to apportion and adjust the amount of the lien as equity may require.

2.

That the state may foreclose such lien as a mortgage on real property is foreclosed, provided such lien remains unpaid after the expiration of one year from the entry of such judgment. The remedy provided by this section for recovery of tax payments shall be in addition to any other remedy now or hereafter available in law or in equity.

Source: Section 947 — Judgment affecting state tax claim, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/RPA/947 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 21, 2025).

901
By whom maintainable 903
Necessary defendants 904
Permissible defendants 905
Complaint 907
Trial of title or interest 911
Ascertainment of rights of parties before interlocutory judgment on default or admission or where party is an infant, absentee or unknown... 913
Inquiry as to creditors 915
Interlocutory judgment 916
Interlocutory judgment directing partial partition 917
Interlocutory judgment directing partition in common 918
Interlocutory judgment directing sale or exception of lien or dower interest 919
Interlocutory judgment directing credit on sale 921
Actual partition 922
Meeting of commissioners 923
Security for credit on sale 925
Report of sale 927
Contents of judgment after actual partition 928
Effect of judgment after actual partition 929
Lien of creditor upon share partitioned 931
Contents of judgment after sale 933
Effect of judgment after sale 941
Judgment as to parties having interest in entire property 943
Judgment directing compensation to equalize partition 945
Judgment adjusting rents and profits 947
Judgment affecting state tax claim 951
Recording of judgment 961
Disposition of proceeds of sale 962
Payment of proceeds into court where there are liens 963
Payment of proceeds out of court where there are liens 964
Payment of proceeds into court in cases involving decedent’s property 965
Payment of proceeds out of court in cases involving decedent’s property 966
Payment of proceeds directly to parties in cases involving decedent’s property 967
Payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future estate 968
Manner of payment of proceeds to owner of particular or future estate 969
Shares of infant, incompetent or conservatee 970
Shares of unknown or absent owner 971
Security for refund 973
Report of disposition of proceeds 981
Costs and expenses 991
Proceeding for share of unknown heirs 992
Judgment in proceeding for share of unknown heirs 993
Uniform partition of heirs property act
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Verified:
Jun. 21, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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