The County Clerk s office serves as an official passport application acceptance center that maintains and processes notary public licenses. The office keeps legal documents and public records related to business, property ownership, and civil and criminal cases. It accepts applications for lost and stolen passports, as well as certificates of people conducting businesses under an assumed business name for filing. The County Clerk s office also provides wildlife, hunting, trapping and fishing regulation maps and guides. The office manages a civil action department that maintains cases related to summons, judgments, complaints and foreclosures. In addition, it operates a miscellaneous record department. The County Clerk s office is managed by Onondaga County in New York.