New York Laws
Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City
921 - Current Minute Books and Indices in Office of County Clerk of New York County.

§ 921. Current minute books and indices in office of county clerk of
New York county. 1. The county clerk of New York county must keep books
to be known as current minute books. Each half page of space in each
book, or one-third page of space in each book if it is deemed more
practicable to subdivide each page in thirds, shall be consecutively
numbered for each year and shall be devoted to one action or proceeding.
On a half page or one-third page so numbered the clerk shall enter the
title of the action or proceeding having the same number for that year,
with the names of the first plaintiff or party and the first defendant
or party and the names of the 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 preliminary,
interlocutory and provisional proceedings, and proceedings supplementary
to judgment or execution, shall be entered on the same half page or
one-third page of the minute book as the action out of which they arise,
or to which they relate, except in actions where the entries are so
voluminous as to require one or more additional half pages or one-third
pages of space, in which case the entries shall be continued under the
same number upon other pages of that or a subsequent minute book,
reference thereto being entered at the end of the first and all
additional half pages or one-third pages.

2. There shall be kept an alphabetical index of all the actions or
proceedings entered in such current minute 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 or volumes 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 a suitable marginal page index, 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 all such actions or
proceedings shall be indexed in such index volumes according to all the
names of the plaintiffs of each title, as contained in the first paper
filed therein, in the same manner as it is provided in section nine
hundred twenty-two of this chapter that judgment debtors shall be
docketed in the judgment docket books, and in every case the index
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 actions are
delivered shall bind them and file them together and shall enter in the
current minute book in which he makes entries an entry of the filing
thereof, and shall continue to make subsequent entries therein in the
same manner as if the papers had originally been filed with him.

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