N.Y. CNT Law § 923 — New York Code / Act CNT / Article 24 / Section 923
Current docket books and filing for Bronx county
Status: in_force

§ 923. Current docket books and filing for Bronx county. 1.  The\ncounty clerk of Bronx county must keep books to be known as current\ndocket books. Each half page of space in each book shall be\nconsecutively numbered in a series of consecutive numbers for each year\nand shall be devoted to one action. On a half page so numbered the clerk\nshall enter the title of the action having the same consecutive number\nfor that year, with the names of the plaintiffs and defendants and\nattorneys in full, and in chronological order a brief description of\neach paper as it is filed, together with the date of filing thereof,\nalso the verdict, report or decision, if any, rendered in the action as\nof the date of the rendering thereof, also all orders and judgments in\nthe action. All interlocutory and provisional proceedings, and\nproceedings supplementary to execution, shall be entered on the same\nhalf page of the docket as the action out of which they arise, except in\nactions where the entries are so voluminous as to require one or more\nadditional half pages of space, in which case the entries shall be\ncontinued under the same number upon other pages of that or a subsequent\ndocket book, reference thereto being entered at the end of the first and\nall additional half pages, and the clerk upon entering the description\nof a paper filed in an action shall enter upon its front page and\nopposite the title caption the number of the action and the filing date\nand number of entry of the paper.\n  2. There shall be kept an alphabetical index of all the actions\nentered in such current docket books during any year, which index shall\nconsist of two sets of separate volumes, one set to be designated and\nused for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or plaintiffs are\nindividuals, including all individual members of a copartnership or of a\nfirm doing business under a firm name or style as stated in the title of\nthe action, and the other set to be designated and used for indexing\nactions wherein the plaintiff or plaintiffs are corporations, a joint\nstock company, a copartnership or a firm name or style under which a\nperson or persons are doing business.  Each of such sets of index books\nshall have a separate volume for each letter of the alphabet, except\nthat the county clerk may, in his discretion, include more than one\nletter in a volume when convenience will be served, and the volumes\ndesignated and used for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or\nplaintiffs are individuals shall have a marginal page index showing each\nletter of the alphabet in order, and shall have the designation of its\nset of books, its letter and the year or years of its entries plainly\nmarked on its back and cover and on every page. And all of such actions\nshall be indexed in such index volumes according to all the plaintiffs\nof each title, in the same manner as it is provided in section nine\nhundred twenty-three of this chapter that judgment debtors shall be\ndocketed in the judgment docket books, and in every case the serial\nnumber of the action shall be entered opposite the name indexed.\n  3. Whenever an action is transferred to another court, or the place of\ntrial changed, the clerk to whom the papers in such action are delivered\nshall enter in the current docket book in which he makes entries, copies\nof all entries theretofore made in said action, and shall continue to\nmake subsequent entries therein in the same manner as if the process had\noriginally been filed with him. All papers numbered and docketed as\nherein directed shall be filed together; and on the entry of final\njudgment in any action all the papers in that action shall be arranged\nin the order of the dates on which they were filed and shall be fastened\nor bound together flat with the judgment-roll and so filed.\n