New York Laws
Article 13 - Action to Foreclose a Mortgage
1313 - Permissible Defendants.

§ 1313. Permissible defendants. Any person who is liable to the
plaintiff for payment of the debt secured by the mortgage may be made a
defendant in the action. The state may be made a party defendant to an
action for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real property, where it has
an interest in or a lien on the property subsequent to the lien of the
mortgage sought to be foreclosed in said action, in the same manner as a
private person.

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