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UDCA 405 · Article 4. Summons

Summons; service without the county permissible but not giving personal jurisdiction in certain actions

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§ 405. Summons; service without the county permissible but not giving personal jurisdiction in certain actions.

Service may be made without the county or the state by any person authorized to make service in a like instance in supreme court and in the same manner as service in such court may be made:

(a) in an action involving real property as defined in § 203 of this act; or

(b) in an action to foreclose a lien on, or to recover, a chattel seized within a district of the court in the county; or

(c) where a levy upon property of the person to be served has been made within a district of the court in the county pursuant to an order of attachment; or

(d) where the case is within CPLR § 1006(g) and a sum of money has been paid or deposited as provided for therein.

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