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CHAPTER 898 AN ACT to provide a uniform jurisdiction, practice and procedure for town and village courts in the state of New York and to implement the integration of the town and village courts into the unified court system for the state as contemplated by sections one and seventeen of article six of the constitution o…
ARTICLE 1 ORGANIZATION Section 101. Short title. 102. Application of UJCA. 103. Titles of justices; incidental powers. 104. Bond and oath of justice. 105. Training and education of justices; expenses thereof; requirements; restriction. 106. Holding of court; place of holding; assignment of justices. 106-a. Reducing num…
Section 101. Short title. This act shall be known as the uniform justice court act, and may be cited as "UJCA".
§ 102. Application of UJCA. The jurisdiction of and practice and procedure in each court governed by the UJCA shall be as prescribed herein, and each such court shall be a part of the unified court system for the state. Such court in each municipality shall have an official seal to be furnished by the municipality upon…
§ 103. Titles of justices; incidental powers. The title of each justice of: a. a town court shall be "Town Justice"; b. a village court shall be "Village Justice"; and c. a court established in and for a city and governed by this act shall be "City Justice". In addition to such judicial powers as are conferred by law i…
§ 104. Bond and oath of justice. Upon assuming office, each justice shall file with the county clerk his oath of office and a bond in an amount fixed by the municipal board and conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. Additional copies of the oath shall be filed with the administrative board and with the…
§ 105. Training and education of justices; expenses thereof; requirements; restriction. (a) Training. No town or village justice selected for a term of office commencing on or after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, except one who has been admitted to practice law in this state, shall assume the functions…
§ 106. Holding of court; place of holding; assignment of justices. Each court shall exercise its jurisdiction, civil or criminal, whenever it is invoked. 1. A justice may hold court anywhere in the municipality including in the case of a town justice anywhere within a village wholly or partly contained within the town…
§ 106-a. Reducing number of justices in adjacent towns. 1. The town boards of two or more towns that form a contiguous geographic area within the same county are hereby authorized to establish a single town court to be comprised of town justices to be elected from each of such towns in the same manner and for the same…
§ 106-b. Election of one or more town justices for two or more towns. 1. Two or more towns within the same county, acting by and through their town boards, are authorized to jointly undertake a study relating to the election of one or more town justices who shall preside in the town courts of each such town. Such study…
§ 107. Records and dockets of court. Each justice shall keep or cause to be kept legible and suitable books, papers, records and dockets of all civil actions and proceedings and all criminal actions and proceedings. The rules may prescribe their form, care, custody and disposition, provided, however, that in any county…
§ 109. Non-judicial personnel; their powers and duties. Each court shall have such non-judicial personnel as may be provided by the municipal board. Their powers and duties in addition to those provided by this act, shall be as provided in the rules. All non-judicial personnel of the court shall have the power to admin…
§ 110. Enforcement officers. Unless the rules shall otherwise provide, and subject to such variations as they may provide, the enforcement officers of the court shall be, and shall have such powers and duties as are provided in this section and § 701 of this act. Each of such officers shall keep a record of official ac…
§ 111. Non-judicial personnel; accounting; oath; bond. (a) Accounting. The accounting for and payment over of fees, including those received by an enforcement officer in connection with the service or execution of a process or mandate of the court, shall be as provided by law applicable in the municipality or to the pa…
ARTICLE 2 JURISDICTION Section 201. Jurisdiction; in general. 202. Money actions and actions to recover chattels. 204. Summary proceedings. 206. Arbitration. 208. Counterclaims. 209. Provisional remedies. 210. Contempt. 211. Joinder of causes of action in complaint; effect on jurisdiction. 212. Additional jurisdiction…
§ 201. Jurisdiction; in general. a. The court shall have jurisdiction as set forth in this article and as elsewhere provided by law, subject, in the case of a city court governed by this act, to the limitations stated in §2300 (b) (2) (i) of this act. The phrase "$3000", whenever it appears herein, shall be taken to me…
§ 202. Money actions and actions to recover chattels. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall have jurisdiction of actions and proceedings for the recovery of money or chattels where the amount sought to be recovered or the value of the property does not exceed $3000.
§ 204. Summary proceedings. The court shall have jurisdiction of summary proceedings to recover possession of real property located in whole or in part within the city, to remove tenants therefrom, and to render judgment for rent due without regard to amount. Except as otherwise prohibited pursuant to subdivision three…
§ 206. Arbitration. (a) No matter required to be decided by the court shall be referred to any arbitrator, referee, advisory jury, or any other person or entity, except as provided by the rules pursuant to subdivision (c). (b) CPLR article 75, relating to arbitrability and arbitration, shall not be applicable in the co…
§ 208. Counterclaims. The Court shall have jurisdiction of any counterclaim whose subject matter would be within its jurisdiction if sued upon separately. If a counterclaim for money only in excess of $3000 is interposed, the court may entertain it to the extent of $3000 but it shall be deemed waived as to the excess a…
§ 209. Provisional remedies. A requisition to seize a chattel may issue out of the court if such requisition might issue out of the supreme court in a like case. No other provisional remedy shall issue by or out of the court.
§ 210. Contempt. All of the provisions of law governing civil and criminal contempts in like instances in the 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. Except as otherwise provided by law, 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.
§ 213. Residence or business within municipality. (a) In an action described in § 202, either a plaintiff or a defendant must: 1. be a resident of the municipality; or 2. have a regular employment within the municipality; or 3. have a place for the regular transaction of business within the municipality. (b) A corporat…