New York Laws
Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City
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.

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