Return of property; directions to clerk and sheriff · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 6225. Return of property; directions to clerk and sheriff. Upon motion of any interested person, on notice to the sheriff and each party, the court may direct the clerk of any county to cancel a notice of attachment and may direct the sheriff to dispose of, account for, assign, return or release any property or debt, or the proceeds thereof, or any undertaking, or to file additional inventories or returns, subject to the payment of the sheriff's fees and expenses. The court shall direct that notice of the motion be given to the plaintiffs in other orders of attachment, if any, and to the judgment creditors of executions, if any, affecting any property or debt, or the proceeds thereof, sought to be returned or released.
On an interested person’s motion, the court may direct how attached property, debts, proceeds or undertakings are handled. The movant must notify the sheriff and every party. The court may direct the clerk of any county to cancel a notice of attachment and direct the sheriff to dispose of, account for, assign, return or release assets or an undertaking, or file more inventories or returns, subject to payment of the sheriff’s fees and expenses. The court must also direct notice to other attachment plaintiffs and execution judgment creditors whose interests affect property or debt to be returned or released. ★
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 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Clerk: Civil Practice Law and Rules; Volume 1 — Your Career: Civil Practice in Plain English.