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. Where this act empowers the court's process
  or mandate to be served or executed without the county, it 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 in that district out of
  which  the process or mandate issued, or the clerk of this court in such
  district, 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.