N.Y. County Law Section 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 § 922 (Judgment docket in office of county clerk of New York county)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.

Source: Section 921 — Current minute books and indices in office of county clerk of New York county, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CNT/921 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

900
Devolution of powers and duties on the county of Bronx
901
Office of the sheriff
902
Certain office hours
903
Official seals and signatures
904
Court and trust fund register and liability of officers
905
Liability of commissioner of finance and surety for loss of court and trust funds
906
Liability of city of New York for loss of court and trust funds
907
Certain publications in county of Bronx
908
Appointment and salary of county clerks
909
Additional general duties of county clerks
910
Official undertakings of county clerks
911
Appointment and salaries of counsel to the county clerks
912
Subordinate employees in offices of county clerks
913
Official undertakings of subordinates in offices of county clerks
914
Duties of deputy county clerks
915
Fees of county clerks
916
Accounts of money to be kept in offices of county clerks
917
Transcripts of accounts in offices of county clerks
918
General provisions pertaining to records in offices of county clerks
919
Block indices in offices of county clerks
919‑A
Block indices in the office of the county clerk in the county of Richmond
920
Alphabetical indices in offices of county clerks
921
Current minute books and indices in office of county clerk of New York county
922
Judgment docket in office of county clerk of New York county
923
Current docket books and filing for Bronx county
924
Photo recording
925
Certificate of searching records and copies
926
Election of district attorneys
927
General duties of district attorneys
928
Salary of district attorneys
929
Official undertaking of district attorneys
930
Assistant district attorneys
931
Employees of the district attorneys in counties contained within the city of New York
932
Exemption of district attorneys from payment of certain fees
933
Appropriations for extraordinary criminal actions
934
Cost of removed criminal trials
935
Disposition of property by district attorney of New York county
937
County detectives in counties within city of New York
938
County detective in counties of Bronx and Kings, County detectives are hereby empowered, under the direction of the district attorney by ...
939
Medical assistants in counties of New York and Kings
940
Commissioner of finance as trustee of cemetery lots
940‑A
Food and lodging for certain jurors
941
Liability for torts
942
Duty to furnish facilities for courts of record
943
Representation of indigent persons accused of crime

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 921’s source at nysenate​.gov

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