2023 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, 2025
* (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, 2025
* (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, 2025
* (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, 2025
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.