Section 1802-A. Parts for the determination of commercial claims established  


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  • The chief administrator shall assign the times and places for holding,
      and  the  judges  who shall hold, one or more parts of the court for the
      hearing of commercial claims  as  herein  defined,  and  the  rules  may
      regulate  the  practice  and  procedure controlling the determination of
      such claims and prescribe and furnish  the  forms  for  instituting  the
      same.  There  shall  be  at least one evening session of each part every
      month for the hearing of commercial claims, provided however,  that  the
      chief  administrator  may  provide  for  exemption from this requirement
      where there exists no demonstrated need for evening sessions. The  chief
      administrator  shall  not  combine  commercial  claims part actions with
      small  claims  part  actions  for  purposes  of  convenience  unless   a
      preference is given to small claims and to commercial claims arising out
      of  consumer  transactions.  Such  practice,  procedure  and forms shall
      differ from the practice, procedure and forms  used  in  the  court  for
      other  than  small  claims  and  commercial  claims, notwithstanding any
      provision of law to  the  contrary.  They  shall  constitute  a  simple,
      informal  and  inexpensive  procedure  for  the  prompt determination of
      commercial claims  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  principles  of
      substantive  law.  The  procedure  established  pursuant to this article
      shall not be exclusive of but shall be alternative to the procedure  now
      or  hereafter established with respect to actions commenced in the court
      by the service of a summons. No rule to  be  enacted  pursuant  to  this
      article shall dispense with or interfere with the taking of stenographic
      minutes  of  any hearing of any business claim hereunder, except that in
      cities with a population of fifty  thousand  or  less  hearings  may  be
      recorded mechanically.