Scope of interrogatories · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 3131. Scope of interrogatories. Interrogatories may relate to any matters embraced in the disclosure requirement of section 3101 and the answers may be used to the same extent as the depositions of a party. Interrogatories may require copies of such papers, documents or photographs as are relevant to the answers required, unless opportunity for this examination and copying be afforded.
Interrogatories may ask about anything within § 3101’s disclosure scope, and the answers may be used like a party’s deposition. ★ They may also require relevant copies of papers, documents or photographs unless the responding party provides an opportunity to inspect and copy them.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Clerk: Civil Practice Law and Rules; Volume 1 — Your Career: Civil Practice in Plain English.