NY Jud L § 211 (2021)
2021 New York Laws JUD - Judiciary Article 7-A - Judicial Administration 211 - Administrative Functions of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

§  211.  Administrative  functions  of the chief judge of the court of appeals. 1. The chief judge, after consultation with the  administrative board, shall establish standards and administrative policies for general application  to the unified court system throughout the state, including but not limited to standards and administrative policies relating to:  (a)  The  dispatch  of   judicial   business,   the   designation   of administrative  judges,  hours of court, assignment of terms and judges, transfer of judges and causes among the  courts  of  the  unified  court system,  the  assignment  and  reassignment  of administrative functions performed by judicial and nonjudicial personnel, the need for additional judicial or nonjudicial  personnel,  and  the  publication  of  judicial opinions.  (b) The adoption, amendment, recission and implementation of rules and orders  regulating  practice and procedure in the courts, subject to the reserved power of the legislature provided  for  in  section  thirty  of article six of the constitution.  (c)  The  form and preparation of the itemized estimates of the annual financial needs of the unified court system.  (d) Personnel practices  affecting  nonjudicial  personnel  including: title   structure,   job   definition,  classification,  qualifications, appointments, promotions, transfers, leaves of absence, resignations and reinstatements, performance ratings, removal, sick leaves, vacations and time allowances. Statewide standards and policies  concerning  personnel practices relating to nonjudicial personnel shall be consistent with the civil  service  law,  and shall be promulgated after a public hearing at which affected nonjudicial employees or their representatives shall have the  opportunity  to  submit  criticisms,  objections  and   suggestions relating to the proposed standards and policies.  (e) Administrative methods and systems of the unified court system.  (f) The form, content, maintenance and disposition of court records.  (g) Fiscal, accounting and auditing practices, the collection of fines and fees, and the custody and disposition of court funds.  (g-1)  A  system  of  internal  control  for the unified court system, pursuant to article seven-D of this chapter.  (h)  The  purchase,  distribution  and  allocation  of  equipment  and supplies.  (i)  The  maintenance  and  management  of law libraries, provision of rooms and accommodations for the courts of the unified court system, the judges, justices and the clerical and administrative personnel thereof.   * (j) The continuing development and  implementation  of  methods  and techniques   designed  to  reduce  significantly  the  trauma  to  child witnesses likely to be caused by testifying in court proceedings.   * NB Effective until September 1, 2023   * (j) The examination of the operation of the courts and the state  of their dockets and the investigation of criticisms and recommendations.   * NB Effective September 1, 2023   * (k)   The   appropriate   education   and  training  of  judges  and non-judicial courtroom personnel concerning the social and psychological stages of child development to ensure that they adopt or  modify,  where appropriate,   courtroom   procedures,  including  the  questioning  and treatment of a child witness by the parties, to protect the  child  from emotional or psychological harm.   * NB Repealed September 1, 2023   * (l)  The examination of the operation of the courts and the state of their dockets and the investigation of criticisms and recommendations.   * NB Repealed September 1, 2023   2. The chief judge shall  submit  such  standards  and  administrative policies  to the court of appeals, together with the recommendations, if  any, of the administrative  board.  Such  standards  and  administrative policies  shall  be promulgated by the chief judge after approval by the court of appeals.   3.  Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of chief judge or if the chief judge shall be unable to exercise the duties, functions or  powers of  his office, during the period of such vacancy or inability the court of appeals shall designate an associate judge of that court  to  act  in his stead.   4. By September first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the chief judge, after  consultation  with the administrative board, shall approve a form of annual statement of financial disclosure which form  shall  apply  to all  judges, justices, officers and employees of the courts of record of the unified court system, who receive annual compensation  at  or  above the  filing  rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law or are determined to  hold  a policy-making position pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this subdivision. Such form of annual statement of financial disclosure  shall  be  substantially  similar  to  the form set forth in subdivision three of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law. Within one year after approval of such form, the chief judge shall cause the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules or regulations which require every judge, justice, officer and employee of  the  courts of  record of the unified court system, who receives annual compensation at or above the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision  one of  section  seventy-three-a of the public officers law or is determined to hold a policy-making position, to report the information required  by the  approved  form effective first with respect to a filing which shall be required in nineteen  hundred  ninety-one  (generally  applicable  to information  for  the preceding calendar year) and thereafter, effective for future annual filings. Such rules and regulations shall also provide for the determination, by the appointing authority, of policy-makers who shall be required to file the annual statement of  financial  disclosure required by this subdivision. Any judge, justice, officer or employee of the  courts  of record of the unified court system who, pursuant to such rules or regulations, is required to file a completed  annual  statement of financial disclosure and who makes such filing in accordance with the requirements  contained in such rules or regulations, shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of any other law mandating the filing of a completed annual statement of financial disclosure for the  applicable calendar  year  which  might  otherwise  apply to such judges, justices, officers or employees, and no duplicate  filing  shall  be  required  on account  of  any  other such law, notwithstanding the provisions of such other law.   5. Consistent with the provisions of section eight  of  this  chapter, the  chief  judge  may relocate a term of court if an emergency or other exigent circumstance or the imminent threat thereof  prevents  the  safe and  practicable  holding of such term at the location designated by law therefor.