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CHAPTER 565 AN ACT to provide a uniform jurisdiction, practice and procedure for district courts in the state of New York and to implement the integration of the district courts into the unified court system for the state as contemplated by sections one and sixteen of article six of the constitution of the state of New…
ARTICLE 1 ORGANIZATION Section 101. Short title. 102. Application of UDCA; court of record; seal. 103. Judges. 105. Powers and duties of non-judicial personnel. 106. Non-judicial personnel; compensation; oath; bond.
Section 101. Short title. This act shall be known as the uniform district court act, and may be cited as "UDCA".
§ 102. Application of UDCA; court of record; seal. The jurisdiction of and practice and procedure in each district court governed by the UDCA shall be as prescribed herein, and such court shall be a court of record and a part of the unified court system for the state. Such court in each county shall have an official se…
§ 103. Judges. (a) In each judicial district there shall be elected such number of judges as may be provided by law. (b) The judges of the court shall be elected for a term of six years from and including the first day of January following such election. (c) No person, other than one who holds such office when this act…
§ 105. Powers and duties of non-judicial personnel. (a) Clerks. The chief clerk and such other non-judicial personnel as shall be authorized by rule or order shall each have the power to administer oaths, take acknowledgments and sign the process or mandate of the court. (b) Enforcement officers; police officers. The e…
§ 106. Non-judicial personnel; compensation; oath; bond. The compensation of non-judicial employees shall be fixed within the amounts provided by law. The court's enforcement officer shall account for and pay over to the county treasurer any fees which he receives upon or in connection with the court's process or manda…
ARTICLE 2 JURISDICTION Section 201. Jurisdiction; in general. 202. Money actions and actions involving chattels. 203. Actions involving real property. 204. Summary proceedings. 205. Interpleader. 206. Arbitration. 207. Small claims. 208. Counterclaims. 209. Provisional remedies. 210. Contempt. 211. Joinder of causes of…
§ 201. Jurisdiction; in general. The court shall have jurisdiction as set forth in this article and as elsewhere provided by law. The phrase "$15,000", whenever it appears herein, shall be taken to mean "$15,000 exclusive of interest and costs".
§ 202. Money actions and actions involving chattels. The court shall have jurisdiction of actions and proceedings for the recovery of money, actions and proceedings for the recovery of chattels and actions and proceedings for the foreclosure of liens on personal property where the amount sought to be recovered or the v…
§ 203. Actions involving real property. (a) The court shall have jurisdiction of the following actions provided that the real property involved is located in whole or in part within a district of the court in the county: (1) An action for the establishment of a mechanic's lien on real property to recover a personal jud…
§ 204. Summary proceedings. The court shall have jurisdiction of summary proceedings to recover possession of real property located in whole or in part within a district of the court in the county, to remove tenants therefrom, and to render judgment for rent due without regard to amount. Except as otherwise prohibited…
§ 205. Interpleader. The court shall have jurisdiction of an action of interpleader and defensive interpleader as defined and governed by the CPLR, provided that the amount in controversy or the value of the property involved does not exceed $15,000.
§ 206. Arbitration. (a) Threshold questions under CPLR article 75. If an action of which the court has jurisdiction has been duly commenced therein, and there arises in such action any questions relating to the arbitrability of the controversy, the court shall have jurisdiction completely to dispose of such questions a…
§ 207. Small claims. The court shall have jurisdiction of small claims as defined in article 18 of this act.
§ 208. Counterclaims. The court shall have jurisdiction of counterclaims as follows: (a) Of any counterclaim the subject matter of which would be within the jurisdiction of the court if sued upon separately. (b) Of any counterclaim for money only, without regard to amount. (c) Of any counterclaim for the rescission or…
§ 209. Provisional remedies. (a) Attachment, arrest, seizure of chattel. An order of attachment or of arrest, a warrant to seize a chattel as provided in § 207 of the lien law, and an order of seizure of a chattel may issue out of this court if such remedy might issue out of supreme court in a like case. (b) Injunction…
§ 210. Contempt. All of the provisions of law governing civil and criminal contempts in like instances in supreme court shall apply in this court, except that this court shall have no power to punish for contempt a judge or justice of any court.
§ 211. Joinder of causes of action in complaint; effect on jurisdiction. Where several causes of action are asserted in the complaint, and each of them would be within the jurisdiction of the court if sued upon separately, the court shall have jurisdiction of the action. In such case judgment may be rendered by the cou…
§ 212. Additional jurisdiction and powers. In the exercise of its jurisdiction the court shall have all of the powers that the supreme court would have in like actions and proceedings.
§ 212-a. Declaratory judgments involving de novo review under part 137 of the rules of the chief administrator of the courts (22 NYCRR Part 137). The court shall have the jurisdiction defined in section 3001 of the CPLR to make a declaratory judgment with respect to actions commenced by a party aggrieved by an arbitrat…
§ 213. Jurisdiction of justices of the peace. The court shall have: (a) concurrently, the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace of such towns of the county as comprise the district court, and (b) in any such town wherein there is no justice of the peace, the jurisdiction such justice would have if there were such o…
ARTICLE 3 VENUE Section 300. Venue; when venue provisions applicable. 301. Transitory actions; venue. 302. Mechanic's lien; venue. 303. Summary proceedings; venue. 304. Actions by or against county; venue. 305. Assignees; corporations and associations. 306. Change of venue; procedure. 307. Venue; rules.
§ 300. Venue; when venue provisions applicable. The provisions of this article shall apply only in a county having two or more districts comprising its district court, and it shall not be necessary that such districts within such county be contiguous.
§ 301. Transitory actions; venue. An action, other than an action to establish a mechanic's lien on real property, shall be brought: (a) in the district in which one of the parties resides at the commencement thereof; or (b) if no party then resides in such district, in the district in which one of the parties has regu…