N.Y. County Law § 923: Current docket books and filing for Bronx county

§ 923. Current docket books and filing for Bronx county. 1. The

county clerk of Bronx county must keep books to be known as current

docket books. Each half page of space in each book shall be

consecutively numbered in a series of consecutive numbers for each year

and shall be devoted to one action. On a half page so numbered the clerk

shall enter the title of the action having the same consecutive number

for that year, with the names of the plaintiffs and defendants and

attorneys in full, and in chronological order a brief description of

each paper as it is filed, together with the date of filing thereof,

also the verdict, report or decision, if any, rendered in the action as

of the date of the rendering thereof, also all orders and judgments in

the action. All interlocutory and provisional proceedings, and

proceedings supplementary to execution, shall be entered on the same

half page of the docket as the action out of which they arise, except in

actions where the entries are so voluminous as to require one or more

additional half pages of space, in which case the entries shall be

continued under the same number upon other pages of that or a subsequent

docket book, reference thereto being entered at the end of the first and

all additional half pages, and the clerk upon entering the description

of a paper filed in an action shall enter upon its front page and

opposite the title caption the number of the action and the filing date

and number of entry of the paper.

2. There shall be kept an alphabetical index of all the actions

entered in such current docket books during any year, which index shall

consist of two sets of separate volumes, one set to be designated and

used for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or plaintiffs are

individuals, including all individual members of a copartnership or of a

firm doing business under a firm name or style as stated in the title of

the action, and the other set to be designated and used for indexing

actions wherein the plaintiff or plaintiffs are corporations, a joint

stock company, a copartnership or a firm name or style under which a

person or persons are doing business. Each of such sets of index books

shall have a separate volume for each letter of the alphabet, except

that the county clerk may, in his discretion, include more than one

letter in a volume when convenience will be served, and the volumes

designated and used for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or

plaintiffs are individuals shall have a marginal page index showing each

letter of the alphabet in order, and shall have the designation of its

set of books, its letter and the year or years of its entries plainly

marked on its back and cover and on every page. And all of such actions

shall be indexed in such index volumes according to all the plaintiffs

of each title, in the same manner as it is provided in section nine

hundred twenty-three of this chapter that judgment debtors shall be

docketed in the judgment docket books, and in every case the serial

number of the action shall be entered opposite the name indexed.

3. Whenever an action is transferred to another court, or the place of

trial changed, the clerk to whom the papers in such action are delivered

shall enter in the current docket book in which he makes entries, copies

of all entries theretofore made in said action, and shall continue to

make subsequent entries therein in the same manner as if the process had

originally been filed with him. All papers numbered and docketed as

herein directed shall be filed together; and on the entry of final

judgment in any action all the papers in that action shall be arranged

in the order of the dates on which they were filed and shall be fastened

or bound together flat with the judgment-roll and so filed.