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 shall 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.
    (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.