2006 New York Code - Simplified Procedure For Court Determination Of Disputes--action Without Pleadings.

 
    §    3031.   Simplified   procedure   for   court   determination   of
  disputes--action without pleadings. An action may be  commenced  without
  the  service  of  a  summons, or may be continued after the service of a
  summons, without pleadings, by the filing of  a  statement,  signed  and
  acknowledged by all the parties or signed by their attorneys, specifying
  plainly  and  concisely  the claims and defenses between the parties and
  the relief requested. Signing constitutes a certificate that the  issues
  are genuine, and such filing, together with a note of issue, to be filed
  at  the same time, shall constitute the joinder of issues in the action.
  The  procedure  in  any  action  commenced  under  this  section   shall
  constitute "the New York Simplified Procedure for Court Determination of
  Disputes" and it shall be sufficient so to identify the procedure in any
  contract  or  other  document  referring  to  it.    A  submission  of a
  controversy under this  procedure  shall  constitute  a  waiver  by  the
  parties of the right to trial by jury.