CPLR § 8015

County clerk where sheriff is a party or otherwise disqualified · as in force on May 31, 2026

§ 8015. County clerk where sheriff is a party or otherwise disqualified. A county clerk is entitled for the services specified to the following fees:

1. for performing any duty of a sheriff in an action in which the sheriff, for any cause, is disqualified, the same compensation to which a sheriff is entitled for the same services; and

2. for confining a sheriff in a house by virtue of a mandate, and maintaining him while there, two dollars for each day, to be paid by the sheriff, before he is entitled to be discharged.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CVP/8015

In plain English

A county clerk may charge these fees when acting because a sheriff is disqualified:

(1) For performing the sheriff’s duty, the clerk receives the same compensation the sheriff would receive. ★
(2) For confining and maintaining a sheriff under a mandate, the clerk receives $2 per day, which the sheriff must pay before discharge. ★

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.

In print

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.