Section 701. Direction and execution of mandates

(a)  In  an  action  or  proceeding  brought  in  the court, all civil
  processes and mandates, except as otherwise provided in this act, may be
  served or executed only within the county. They shall be executed by the
  court's  enforcement  officer  within  such  area  as  is   within   his
  territorial  jurisdiction  as  elsewhere provided by law. Where this act
  empowers the court's process or mandate to be served or executed without
  the county, or where it is to be served or executed  within  the  county
  but  at  such place therein as is beyond the territorial jurisdiction of
  the court's enforcement officer, the process or mandate may be served or
  executed by such officer as  could  serve  or  execute  the  process  or
  mandate of the supreme court of the county in a like instance.
    (b)  The  provisions  of  law  applicable  in  supreme court practice,
  relating to the execution of mandates by a sheriff  and  the  power  and
  control of the court over the sheriff executing the same, shall apply to
  this court's enforcement officers.
    (c)  In  any  instance  where  a  return by the enforcement officer is
  required by law to be made to the  court  or  the  clerk  thereof,  such
  provision  shall  be deemed to refer to this court, or the clerk of this
  court, as the case may be; except that where this court has  issued  its
  transcript  the sheriff shall return executions to the county clerk with
  whom such transcript is filed.
    (d) Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the service
  of a summons, petition, notice of petition, subpoena or other  paper  by
  any  person  who  might serve the same in a like instance in the supreme
  court.