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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules » Article 72 - Recovery of Penalty or Forfeiture » 7205 – Defense of Good Faith Reliance on Judicial Decision.

§ 7205. Defense of good faith reliance on judicial decision. No action for a penalty or forfeiture may be brought for an act done in good faith and pursuant to a construction given to a statute by a decision of an appellate court and adjudged lawful thereby, where such act was done prior to a reversal or the overruling of such decision.