Substitution of indemnitors for executing or attaching officer
§ 1020. Substitution of indemnitors for executing or attaching officer. Where an action is brought against an officer to recover a chattel levied upon by virtue of an execution or order of attachment, or to recover damages for the detention or sale of such a chattel, and an undertaking indemnifying the officer against such acts has been given, the court may order that the indemnitor be substituted for the officer.
Where an officer is sued over a chattel levied under an execution/attachment and an indemnifying undertaking was given, the court may substitute the indemnitor for the officer.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 2 — The JG-22 CPLR and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.