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2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 30-E - Seal of Livingston County and of the County Clerk and the Supreme Court.

§  30-e.  Seal  of  Livingston  county and of the county clerk and the
supreme court. 1. The county of Livingston, the  county  clerk  of  said
county  and  the supreme court therein, shall have and use the following
seal:
Description of Seal
The Seal shall be approximately 2 1/4 inches  in  diameter  and  shall
consist of two concentric circles. The space between the outer and inner
circles  shall  have  a white or plain background; the upper part of the
space between such circles shall be inscribed with the words in  capital
block  letters  "LIVINGSTON  COUNTY"  and  in  the  lower  part shall be
inscribed with the words in capital block letters "NEW YORK STATE."  The
interior circle shall have a dark background. Upon such background shall
be  superimposed a relief map of Livingston county. The map shall have a
white or plain background and shall bear a depiction of  the  cupola  of
the  Livingston  county courthouse with the numbers "1821" located below
the cupola.
The following is an enlarged pictograph of said seal:
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3          COPY OF Seal of Livingston county                 |
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5          NYS LEGISLATIVE BILL DRAFTING COMMISSION          |
6          CONTACT: LEGISLATIVE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM'S HELPLINE  |
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2. The county clerk of Livingston county shall  cause  the  design  of
said  seal  (in black and white) to be engraved upon metal. From time to
time he shall obtain and make available, and  keep  in  good  order  and
repair  as many of such engraved metal seals as may be necessary for the
proper performance of the duties of his office and of the duties of  the
clerks  and  officers  in the supreme court authorized to use said seal.
All the expense incurred by the county clerk incident to said seal shall
be a county charge against the county of Livingston.
3. Such seal shall be used and affixed only:
(a) by the county clerk of Livingston county or by any deputy or clerk
duly authorized by him; and
(b) by any justice of the supreme court resident in Livingston county,
or by any clerk or officer duly authorized by said justice.
4. The use of said seal or of any replica or  simulation  thereof,  in
form  or  substance,  by  any  unauthorized  person  or for any wrongful
purpose, is prohibited. Any  violation  of  this  prohibition  shall  be
deemed to be a misdemeanor and punishable as such.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 30-F - Seal of Cortland County and of the County Clerk,the Supreme Court and the County Court in Said County.

§  30-f.  Seal of Cortland county and of the county clerk, the supreme
court and the county court in said county. 1. The  county  of  Cortland,
the  county  clerk  of  said county and the supreme court and the county
court therein shall have and use the following seal:
Description of Seal
The seal shall be approximately 2 1/4 inches in  diameter.  The  outer
border  shall  consist  of inverted scallops with an inner smooth circle
border. Along the upper outside of the circle shall be  the  inscription
in  capital  block  lettering  "SEAL OF CORTLAND COUNTY, N.Y." Along the
lower outside of the circle shall be the inscription  in  capital  block
lettering "A.D. 1808." The center shall consist of a shield topped by an
eagle  and  wreath  of  laurels.  The shield shall feature 13 stars in a
field of blue, above a red and white striped base. The left side of  the
seal shall consist of a man with a sheaf of wheat. The right side of the
seal  shall  consist  of  a  man with a hammer and wheel, with a factory
behind. Both men shall have hands resting  on  the  center  shield.  The
foreground  of  the  seal,  at the base of the shield shall consist of a
mound of Cortland apples.
2. The county clerk of Cortland county shall cause the design of  said
seal  (in  black and white) to be engraved upon metal. From time to time
the county clerk shall obtain and make available, and keep in good order
and repair as many of such engraved metal seals as may be necessary  for
the  proper performance of the duties of the office and of the duties of
the clerks and officers in the supreme and county courts  authorized  to
use  said seal. All the expense incurred by the county clerk incident to
said seal shall be a county charge against the county of Cortland.
3. Such seal shall be used and affixed only:
(a) by the county clerk of Cortland county or by any deputy  or  clerk
duly authorized by them;
(b)  by  any judicial clerk of the supreme or county court resident in
Cortland county, duly authorized by said county clerk; and
(c) any county officer or other person authorized by  law  to  execute
official documents on behalf of the county.
4.  The  use  of said seal or of any replica or simulation thereof, in
form or substance, by  any  unauthorized  person  or  for  any  wrongful
purpose,  is  prohibited.  Any  violation  of  this prohibition shall be
deemed to be a misdemeanor and punishable as such.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 31 - Seals and Records of Former Superior City Courts.

§  31.  Seals  and  records of former superior city courts. The seals,
  books, files, records, papers and documents of the superior court of the
  city of New York, the court of common pleas for the city and  county  of
  New York, the superior court of Buffalo, and the city court of Brooklyn,
  shall  be deposited in the offices of the clerks of the several counties
  in which said courts have heretofore existed,  and  shall  be  kept  and
  preserved  by  said  clerks,  separate  and  apart from the other books,
  records, papers and documents in their respective offices, and shall  be
  kept in charge of special deputy-clerks, to be designated by said county
  clerks,  so as to be readily accessible for inspection; and the justices
  of the supreme court, and the said clerks of the said several  counties,
  respectively, shall have the same powers with respect to the said books,
  files,  records,  papers  and documents as the judges and clerks of said
  superior court of the city of New York, and the court  of  common  pleas
  for  the  city and county of New York, the superior court of Buffalo and
  the city court of Brooklyn, respectively, had and possessed in reference
  thereto.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 33 - Expense of Certain Criminal Prosecutions to Be Borne by the State.

§  33.  Expense  of  certain  criminal prosecutions to be borne by the
  state. The expenses of an investigation or prosecution in any county  of
  a  matter  or  charge  connected  with,  growing out of or relating to a
  contract or contracts between  the  state,  or  any  department,  board,
  commission  or officer thereof, and any individual, firm or corporation,
  if such prosecution or investigation shall have been ordered,  directed,
  or  recommended  by  the governor, the legislature, a joint committee of
  both houses of the legislature or a committee of either house, shall  be
  borne by the state. Such expenses shall be paid in the first instance by
  the  county,  as  the  expenses  of  other  criminal  investigations  or
  prosecutions therein, but the county shall be reimbursed therefor out of
  moneys appropriated for such purpose. Payments by the state  under  this
  section  shall be made from the treasury on the audit and warrant of the
  comptroller to the order of the treasurer of the proper county, upon his
  certified statement of the items of  expenses  paid  by  the  county  on
  account  of  such  investigations  or  prosecutions,  accompanied by the
  written approval of the attorney-general thereon. Such payments  may  be
  made  at  any  time  during  the  pendency  of any such investigation or
  prosecution, for expenses accrued and paid by the county to the date  of
  the account, but not oftener than once in three months.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 34 - Apportionment of Expenses Related to Salaries or Compensation Paid by the State in the First Instance.

§  34.  Apportionment  of expenses related to salaries or compensation
  paid by the state in  the  first  instance.  Whenever  in  this  chapter
  provision  is  made  for the apportionment among counties of salaries or
  compensation paid by the state in the first instance, such apportionment
  shall  also  include  expenses  attributable   to   such   salaries   or
  compensation,  including  but  not limited to:  contributions to the New
  York state employees' retirement system, including a proportionate  part
  of  the  administrative  expense  thereof;  the  employer's share of the
  premium for the coverage of the officers  or  employees  receiving  such
  salaries  or  compensation  under  the  health insurance plan created by
  article eleven of the civil service law, and a  proportionate  share  of
  the  expenses  of  the administration of such plan; and contributions to
  the social security contribution fund; provided, however,  that  in  the
  case  of  any such expenses attributable to the salaries or compensation
  of justices and official referees of the supreme court, there  shall  be
  apportioned  among  the  counties  of  any judicial district or judicial
  department only a portion of such expenses bearing the same relation  to
  the  total  thereof  as  the  amount  of  such  salaries or compensation
  apportioned among such counties bears to the total of  the  salaries  or
  compensation  payable  to  such  justices  and  official referees of the
  supreme court.
The  amounts  of  salaries,  compensation  and  such  expenses  to  be
  apportioned  among  the  counties  of  any judicial district or judicial
  department shall be certified to the department of taxation and  finance
  by the comptroller not later than the first day of July in each year.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 36 - Personal Assistants to Judges and Justices.

§  36. Personal assistants to judges and justices. 1.  Notwithstanding
  any other provisions of law, each  justice  of  the  supreme  court  may
  appoint  and at pleasure remove one law clerk and one secretary, subject
  to standards and administrative policies promulgated pursuant to section
  twenty-eight of article six of the constitution.
2. Should a judge or justice of the unified court system cease to hold
  office for any reason other than expiration of his  term,  his  personal
  assistants  shall  continue  in office until a successor is appointed or
  elected to fill such vacancy.  Until such vacancy is filled,  the  chief
  administrator  of  the  courts  shall  determine  the  functions  to  be
  performed by such personal assistants.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 40 - Definitions.

§  40.  Definitions.  For  the  purposes of this article the following
  terms have the following meanings:
1. "Commission" means the state commission on judicial conduct.
2. "Judge" means a judge or justice of any court of the unified  court
  system.
3.  "Hearing"  means  a  proceeding  under subdivision four of section
  forty-four of this article.
4. "Member of the bar" means a person admitted to the practice of  law
  in this state for at least five years.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 40-A - Recycled Products.

§  40-a. Recycled products. All products purchased by the courts shall
  be recycled products, which meet  contract  specifications,  unless  the
  product  is  only  available without recycled content, and provided that
  the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium  of  ten
  percent  above  the  cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled
  product or, if  at  least  fifty  percent  of  the  secondary  materials
  utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste
  stream  in  New  York  state,  the cost of the recycled product does not
  exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a  comparable
  product  that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section
  and until July first, nineteen hundred  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"
  shall  mean  any  product  which  has  been  manufactured from secondary
  materials,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of  section  two  hundred
  sixty-one  of the economic development law, and meets secondary material
  content requirements adopted by the office  of  general  services  under
  subdivision  one  of  section  one  hundred  seventy-seven  of the state
  finance law for products available to the courts  under  state  contract
  or, if no such contract for such product is available, any product which
  meets  the secondary material content requirements adopted by the courts
  with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the  court.  On  and
  after  July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall
  mean, for the purposes of this  section,  any  product  which  has  been
  manufactured  from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of
  section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which
  meets the requirements of subdivision two  of  section  27-0717  of  the
  environmental  conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated pursuant
  thereto. Whenever purchasing or causing  the  purchase  of  printing  on
  recycled  paper  pursuant  to this section, the courts shall require the
  printed  material  to  contain  the  official  state  recycling   emblem
  established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section  27-0717 of the
  environmental conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated  pursuant
  thereto   if   such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the  department  of
  environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such
  statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so approved,
  require the printed  material  to  include  a  printed  statement  which
  indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled
  material content of such paper.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 42 - Functions; Powers and Duties.

§  42.  Functions;  powers  and  duties. The commission shall have the
  following functions, powers and duties:
1.  To  conduct  hearings  and  investigations,  administer  oaths  or
  affirmations,  subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, examine them
  under oath or affirmation and  require  the  production  of  any  books,
  records,  documents  or  other  evidence  that  it  may deem relevant or
  material to an investigation; and the commission may  designate  any  of
  its  members  or  any  member  of its staff to exercise any such powers,
  provided, however, that except  as  is  otherwise  provided  in  section
  forty-three  of  this  article,  only  a member of the commission or the
  administrator shall exercise the power to subpoena witnesses or  require
  the production of books, records, documents or other evidence.
2.  To  confer  immunity  when  the  commission deems it necessary and
  proper in accordance with section 50.20 of the criminal  procedure  law;
  provided,  however, that at least forty-eight hours prior written notice
  of the commission's intention to  confer  such  immunity  is  given  the
  attorney general and the appropriate district attorney.
3. To request and receive from any court, department, division, board,
  bureau,   commission,   or  other  agency  of  the  state  or  political
  subdivision thereof or any public authority such assistance, information
  and data as will enable it properly to carry out its  functions,  powers
  and duties.
4.  To  report  annually,  on or before the first day of March in each
  year and at such other times as the commission shall deem necessary,  to
  the  governor,  the  legislature  and  the  chief  judge of the court of
  appeals, with respect to proceedings which have been finally  determined
  by   the   commission.   Such   reports   may  include  legislative  and
  administrative recommendations.  The contents of the annual  report  and
  any  other  report  shall  conform  to  the  provisions  of this article
  relating to confidentiality.
5. To adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind rules and  procedures,  not
  otherwise  inconsistent  with law, necessary to carry out the provisions
  and purposes of this article. All such rules  and  procedures  shall  be
  filed  in  the  offices of the chief administrator of the courts and the
  secretary of state.
6. To do all other things necessary and convenient to  carry  out  its
  functions, powers and duties expressly set forth in this article.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 43 - Panels; Referees.

§  43.  Panels;  referees.  1.  The commission may delegate any of its
  functions, powers and duties to a panel of three of its members, one  of
  whom  shall  be  a  member of the bar, except that no panel shall confer
  immunity in accordance with section 50.20 of the criminal procedure law.
  No panel shall be authorized to take any action pursuant to subdivisions
  four through eight of section forty-four of this article or  subdivision
  two of this section.
2. The commission may designate a member of the bar who is not a judge
  or  a  member  of  the  commission or its staff as a referee to hear and
  report to the commission in accordance with the  provisions  of  section
  forty-four  of this article.  Such referee shall be empowered to conduct
  hearings, administer oaths or affirmations, subpoena  witnesses,  compel
  their attendance, examine them under oath or affirmation and require the
  production  of  any books, records, documents or other evidence that the
  referee may deem relevant or material to the subject of the hearing.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 45 - Confidentiality of Records.

§  45.  Confidentiality of records. 1. Except as hereinafter provided,
all complaints, correspondence, commission proceedings  and  transcripts
thereof,  other  papers  and data and records of the commission shall be
confidential and shall not  be  made  available  to  any  person  except
pursuant  to  section forty-four of this article. The commission and its
designated staff personnel shall have access to confidential material in
the performance of their powers and duties. If  the  judge  who  is  the
subject  of a complaint so requests in writing, copies of the complaint,
the transcripts of hearings by the commission thereon, if any,  and  the
dispositive action of the commission with respect to the complaint, such
copies  with  any  reference  to  the identity of any person who did not
participate at any such hearing suitably deleted therefrom,  except  the
subject judge or complainant, shall be made available for inspection and
copying  to  the  public, or to any person, agency or body designated by
such judge.
2. Notwithstanding any provision in this section, the commission, with
the consent of the applicant, shall provide the record of any proceeding
pursuant to a formal written complaint against an applicant for judicial
appointment in which the applicant's  misconduct  was  established,  any
pending  complaint  against  an applicant, and the record to date of any
pending proceeding pursuant to a formal  written  complaint  against  an
applicant for judicial appointment:
(a)  to  the  commission on judicial nomination established by article
three-A of this chapter, with respect to applicants for  appointment  to
the court of appeals;
(b)  to  the governor with respect to all applicants whom the governor
indicates are under consideration for any judicial appointment; and
(c) to the temporary president of the senate and the chairman  of  the
senate  judiciary  committee  with  respect to all nominees for judicial
appointments which are subject to the advice and consent of the  senate.
The  commission  shall  respond within fifteen days of a request for the
information provided for in this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2-A - State Commission on Judicial Conduct › 47 - Resignation Not to Divest Commission or Court of Appeals of Jurisdiction.

§  47.  Resignation  not  to  divest commission or court of appeals of
  jurisdiction.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  court  of  appeals  and   the
  commission  pursuant to this article shall continue notwithstanding that
  a judge resigns from office after a determination of the commission that
  the judge be removed from office has been transmitted to the chief judge
  of the court of appeals, or  in  any  case  in  which  the  commission's
  determination  that  a  judge  should  be  removed  from office shall be
  transmitted to the chief judge of  the  court  of  apppeals  within  one
  hundred  twenty  days  after  receipt  by the chief administrator of the
  courts of the resignation of such judge. Any determination by the  court
  of  appeals  that a judge who has resigned should be removed from office
  shall render such judge ineligible to hold any  other  judicial  office.
  The  chief  administrator of the courts shall give written notice to the
  commission of the resignation of any judge who  is  the  subject  of  an
  investigation within five days after his receipt thereof.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 51 - Court of Appeals May Make Rules of Practice for Its Court.

§  51. Court of appeals may make rules of practice for its court.  The
  court of appeals may from time to time adopt, amend, or  rescind  rules,
  not  inconsistent  with  the  constitution  or  statutes  of  the state,
  regulating the practice and proceedings in the court.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 54 - Terms of Court of Appeals.

§  54.  Terms  of  court of appeals. The terms of the court of appeals
  must be appointed to be held at such  times  and  places  as  the  court
  thinks proper, and continued as long as the public interest requires.
A  term  of  the court may be appointed to be held in a building other
  than that designated by law for holding courts.
A term may be adjourned from the place where it  is  appointed  to  be
  held, to another place in the same city.
One or more of the judges may adjourn a term, without day, or to a day
  certain.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 55 - Chambers for Judges of Court of Appeals.

§  55. Chambers for judges of court of appeals. In case of the refusal
  or neglect of the board of supervisors of a county to  provide  chambers
  for  a  resident  judge  of the court of appeals pursuant to section two
  hundred eighteen of the county law, the  judge  may  rent  and  maintain
  chambers  in  such  county  offices suitable for his or her use, and the
  necessary expense thereof shall be a charge upon the  county  and,  when
  paid,  subject  to reimbursement by the state in accordance with section
  fifty-four-j of the state finance law as if the county  had  leased  the
  facilities for such chambers.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 56 - Court of Appeals to Appoint State Board of Law Examiners.

§  56.  Court of appeals to appoint state board of law examiners.  The
  court of appeals shall, from time to time, appoint five members  of  the
  bar  to constitute the state board of law examiners. Each member of such
  board shall hold office for  a  term  of  three  years,  and  until  the
  appointment of his successor.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 57 - Appointment of Clerks, Messenger and Attendants.

§  57.  Appointment  of clerks, messenger and attendants. The court of
  appeals may, from time to time, by an  order  entered  in  its  minutes,
  appoint  and  remove  its  clerk,  a  law  clerk,  a messenger, and such
  attendants or other clerks as it deems necessary.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 58 - Appointment of Clerks to Judges of Court of Appeals.

§  58. Appointment of clerks to judges of court of appeals. Each judge
  of the court of appeals may appoint and at pleasure remove a clerk.  The
  chief   judge,   in   addition  thereto,  is  authorized  to  appoint  a
  confidential clerk.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 59 - Duty of Court of Appeals to Direct Action on Forfeiture of Bond Given by Clerk of Court.

§  59. Duty of court of appeals to direct action on forfeiture of bond
  given by clerk of court. If the bond given by the clerk of the court  of
  appeals,  before  entering  upon  his  duties,  as prescribed by law, is
  forfeited by a breach of its condition, the court of  appeals  must,  by
  order,  direct an action to be brought thereon. The money recovered must
  be applied, under the direction of the court of  appeals,  to  indemnify
  the  persons  aggrieved by the breach, in proportion to their respective
  losses, and to make good any other loss, occasioned by the breach.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3 - Court of Appeals › 60 - Court of Appeals Building.

§  60.  Court  of  appeals  building.  The chief judge of the court of
  appeals shall have supervision and  control  of  the  court  of  appeals
  building  in  the city of Albany, with the grounds and premises adjacent
  or appurtenant thereto or connected therewith belonging to the state  so
  far as such grounds and premises now and hereafter shall be laid out and
  completed.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3-A - Commission on Judicial Nomination › 61 - Definitions.

§  61.  Definitions.  For  the  purpose of this article, the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Commission" means the commission on judicial nomination.
2. "Candidate" means a person who is constitutionally eligible to hold
  the office of chief judge or associate judge of the court of appeals and
  (a) who has requested the commission to consider his  qualifications  to
  hold  such  office; or (b) who has been recommended for consideration by
  the commission by another person, including a community or  professional
  organization;  or  (c) who has agreed to be considered by the commission
  at the commission's request.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3-A - Commission on Judicial Nomination › 64 - Additional Functions of the Commission.

§  64.  Additional  functions  of the commission. The commission shall
  have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. Establish procedures  to  assure  that  persons  who  may  be  well
  qualified  for appointment to the court of appeals, other than those who
  have  requested  consideration  or  who  have   been   recommended   for
  consideration by others, are encouraged to agree to be considered by the
  commission.
2.  Conduct investigations, administer oaths or affirmations, subpoena
  witnesses and compel  their  attendance,  examine  them  under  oath  or
  affirmation  and require the production of any books, records, documents
  or other  evidence  that  it  may  deem  relevant  or  material  to  its
  evaluation of candidates.
3.  Require  from  any  court,  department,  division,  board, bureau,
  commission, or other  agency  of  the  state  or  political  subdivision
  thereof  or  any public authority such assistance, information and data,
  as will enable it properly to evaluate the qualifications of candidates,
  subject to any absolute  judicial  or  executive  privilege,  where  one
  exists.
Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, the commission, with the
  consent of  the  applicant,  shall  be  entitled  to  require  from  the
  commission  on judicial conduct the record of any proceeding pursuant to
  a formal written complaint against an applicant for judicial appointment
  to the court  of  appeals,  in  which  the  applicant's  misconduct  was
  established,  any pending complaint against an applicant, and the record
  to date of any pending proceeding pursuant to a formal written complaint
  against such applicant for appointment to  the  court  of  appeals.  The
  commission  on  judicial conduct shall have fifteen days within which to
  respond to a request made pursuant to this subdivision.
4. Require the appearance of any candidate before it and interview any
  person concerning the qualifications of any candidate.
5. Communicate with the governor concerning the qualifications of  any
  person whom it has recommended to the governor, and communicate with the
  senate  concerning  the  qualifications  of  the person appointed by the
  governor.
6. The commission may appoint, and at pleasure remove, a  counsel  and
  such  other  staff  as  it  may require from time to time, and prescribe
  their powers and duties. The commission shall fix  the  compensation  of
  its  staff  and  provide  for reimbursement of their expenses within the
  amounts appropriated by law.
7. Do all other things necessary  and  convenient  to  carry  out  its
  functions pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3-A - Commission on Judicial Nomination › 65 - Rules of the Commission.

§  65. Rules of the commission. 1. The commission shall adopt, and may
  amend, written rules of procedure not inconsistent with law.
2. Rules of the commission shall be filed with the secretary of  state
  and  the  clerk  of  the  court of appeals and shall be published in the
  official compilation of codes, rules and regulations of the state.  Upon
  request  of  any  person, the secretary of state shall furnish a copy of
  the commission's rules without charge.
3. Rules of the commission may prescribe forms and  questionnaires  to
  be completed and, if required by the commission, verified by candidates.
4.  Rules  of the commission shall provide that upon the completion by
  the commission of its consideration and evaluation of the qualifications
  of a candidate, there shall be no reconsideration of such candidate  for
  the  vacancy for which he was considered, except with the concurrence of
  nine members of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 3-A - Commission on Judicial Nomination › 66 - Confidentiality of Proceedings and Records.

§   66.   Confidentiality   of   proceedings   and   records.  1.  All
  communications  to  the  commission,  and  its  proceedings,   and   all
  applications,  correspondence,  interviews, transcripts, reports and all
  other papers, files and records of the commission shall be  confidential
  and  privileged  and, except for the purposes of article two hundred ten
  of the penal law, shall not be made available to any  person  except  as
  otherwise provided in this article.
2.  The  governor  shall  have  access  to  all papers and information
  relating to persons recommended to him by the commission.    The  senate
  shall  have  access to all papers and information relating to the person
  appointed by the governor to fill a vacancy.   All information  that  is
  not publicly disclosed in accordance with subdivisions three and four of
  section sixty-three of this article, or disclosed in connection with the
  senate's  confirmation of the appointment, shall remain confidential and
  privileged, except for the purposes of article two hundred  ten  of  the
  penal law.
3.  Neither the members of the commission nor its staff shall publicly
  divulge the names of,  or  any  information  concerning,  any  candidate
  except as otherwise provided in this article.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 70 - Judicial Departments.

§  70.  Judicial  departments.  The  state is hereby divided into four
  judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties
  embraced within the first and twelfth  judicial  districts;  the  second
  department  shall  consist  of  the counties embraced within the second,
  ninth, tenth, eleventh and  thirteenth  judicial  districts;  the  third
  department  shall  consist  of  the  counties embraced within the third,
  fourth and sixth judicial districts; the fourth department shall consist
  of the counties embraced within the fifth, seventh and  eighth  judicial
  districts.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 71 - Designations by Governor of Justices of Appellate Division.

§ 71. Designations by governor of justices of appellate division. From
  all  the  justices  elected  to  the  supreme  court  the governor shall
  designate those who shall constitute  the  appellate  division  in  each
  department,  and  he  shall designate the presiding justice thereof, who
  shall act as such during his term of office, and shall be a resident  of
  the department. The other justices shall be designated for terms of five
  years, or the unexpired portions of their respective terms of office, if
  less  than  five  years.  From  time  to  time,  as  the  terms  of such
  designations expire, or vacancies occur, the  governor  shall  make  new
  designations.  He  may  also, on request of any appellate division, make
  temporary designations in case of the absence or inability to act of any
  justice in such appellate division, for service during such  absence  or
  inability  to  act.  In case any appellate division shall certify to the
  governor that one or more additional justices are needed for the  speedy
  disposition  of  the  business  before it, the governor may designate an
  additional justice or justices; but when the need  for  such  additional
  justice  or justices shall no longer exist, the appellate division shall
  so certify to the governor and thereupon service under such  designation
  or  designations  shall  cease. A majority of the justices designated to
  sit in any appellate division shall at all times  be  residents  of  the
  department.  A designation of a justice of the appellate division of the
  supreme court must be in writing, and  filed  in  the  office  of  court
  administration.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 72 - Revocation of Designation of Justice of Appellate Division.

§  72.  Revocation  of  designation  of justice of appellate division.
  Upon the written request of  a  justice  designated  for  the  appellate
  division,  the  governor  may  revoke  his designation by an order to be
  filed in the office of court administration. Where such  designation  is
  revoked,  the  governor may prescribe the duties to be performed by such
  justice in holding court in any part of the state, from the time of such
  revocation until the taking effect of the next appointment of terms,  as
  prescribed  in  this  chapter, for the judicial department in which such
  justice resides.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 75 - Location of Appellate Court in Each Department.

§  75.  Location  of appellate court in each department. The appellate
  court shall be located, respectively, in the first  department,  in  the
  county  of  New  York;  in  the  second  department,  in  the borough of
  Brooklyn; in the third department, in the city of  Albany;  and  in  the
  fourth  department,  in city of Rochester; but terms thereof may be held
  elsewhere in  such  departments,  whenever  in  the  discretion  of  the
  justices thereof, respectively, public interests may require.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 76 - Appellate Division May Compel Sheriff to Attend to Room in Which Court Is Held.

§ 76. Appellate division may compel sheriff to attend to room in which
  court  is  held. The appellate division of the supreme court may enforce
  the performance of the duty by the sheriff of causing the room in  which
  a  term  of  the  appellate  division  is  held,  to be properly heated,
  ventilated, lighted, and kept comfortably clean and in order.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 77 - Courthouse of Appellate Division in First Department.

§  77.  Courthouse  of  appellate  division  in  first department. The
  building erected under chapter one hundred ninety-six  of  the  laws  of
  eighteen  hundred  ninety-seven  is hereby constituted the courthouse of
  the appellate division of the supreme court in the first department, and
  shall be under the control and  supervision  of  the  justices  thereof.
  Such  justices  are  hereby  authorized  to  appoint a custodian of such
  building, who shall be janitor thereof, and such engineers, cleaners and
  other  persons  as  in  their  opinion  shall  be  necessary   for   the
  preservation,  safety  and  care thereof. The custodian of such building
  shall, under the direction of such justices have general charge  thereof
  and of the records, books and papers therein, so far as may be necessary
  to  preserve  and protect the same, and shall be responsible to them for
  the preservation thereof, and shall, with the  approval  in  writing  of
  such justices or a majority of them, purchase the supplies necessary for
  the  maintenance  of the building, and for lighting, heating and keeping
  such building and furniture therein in repair and with the  approval  of
  such justices make necessary contracts therefor. The engineers, cleaners
  and other persons who shall be appointed pursuant to this section, other
  than  the custodian of such building, shall be selected by such justices
  in pursuance of such rules as may from time to  time  be  prescribed  in
  regard  thereto  by the state civil service commission. The compensation
  to be paid to  the  custodian,  engineer,  cleaners  and  other  persons
  appointed pursuant to this section shall be fixed by the justices of the
  appellate  division  of  the  supreme court in the first department, and
  shall, together with the amount to be paid for  the  supplies  furnished
  for  the  maintenance  of  such  building  and for lighting, heating and
  keeping such building and the furniture therein in repair, be  a  county
  charge,  and  shall  be  paid by the comptroller of the city of New York
  upon the certificate of the presiding justice thereof or a  majority  of
  the justices assigned to such appellate division.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 78 - Justices of Appellate Division in First Department May Make Rules for Management of Law Libraries and Court-Houses of Appellate Division and Supreme C

§  78.  Justices  of  appellate  division in first department may make
  rules for management of law  libraries  and  court-houses  of  appellate
  division  and  supreme  court. The justices of the appellate division in
  the first department shall from time to time make such rules as they may
  deem necessary for the management and protection of  the  law  libraries
  and   for   the  protection  and  management  of  the  court-houses  and
  court-rooms of the appellate division and of the supreme court.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 79 - Appointment of Terms of Appellate Division in Each Department.

§  79.  Appointment of terms of appellate division in each department.
  The terms of the appellate divisions of the  supreme  court  are  to  be
  appointed  by  the  appellate division in each department, and are to be
  held at such times  and  places  and  shall  continue  as  long  as  the
  appellate division deems proper.
An  appointment  of  a  term or terms of an appellate division must be
  made and filed in the office of court  administration  at  least  thirty
  days  before  the  commencement of such term or terms. The governor may,
  when in his opinion the public interest so requires, appoint one or more
  extraordinary terms of the appellate division of the  supreme  court  in
  any department. He must designate the time and place of holding the same
  and  he  must  give  notice of the appointment in such manner as, in his
  judgment, the public interest requires.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 80 - Time for Appointment of Terms of Appellate Division in the First Department.

§ 80. Time for appointment of terms of appellate division in the first
  department.  The  justices  of  the  appellate  division  in  the  first
  department shall fix a time and place  for  holding  the  terms  of  the
  appellate division in the first department on or before the first day of
  December in each year.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 81 - Associate Justice of Appellate Division to Preside in Absence of Presiding Justice.

§ 81. Associate justice of appellate division to preside in absence of
  presiding  justice.  If  the  presiding  justice  is  not present at the
  sitting of the appellate division, the associate  justice  presiding  in
  the  department  having  served the longest time as such, or, if two are
  present who have served the same length of time, the elder of them  must
  act as presiding justice until a presiding justice attends.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 82 - Quorum and Number Necessary to a Sitting and Decision of Appellate Division.

§  82.  Quorum  and  number  necessary  to  a  sitting and decision of
  appellate division. No more than five justices of the appellate division
  in any department shall sit in any case. In each department four of  the
  justices  shall  constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of three shall
  be necessary to a decision.  If  three  justices  do  not  concur  in  a
  decision, a reargument must be ordered.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 85 - Power of Appellate Division as to Calendars and Administration of Justice.

§  85.  Power of appellate division as to calendars and administration
  of justice. The appellate division of each  department  may  provide  by
  rule  for  the  manner  of  making  up calendars in each county embraced
  within the department; for  the  classification,  for  the  purposes  of
  trial,  of  actions  placed upon such calendars and for the making up of
  two or more calendars within such classification; for the continuance on
  such calendars, from term to term, of actions for which notes  of  issue
  have been once served and filed, without a second or further serving and
  filing  thereof;  and also from time to time may provide rules as it may
  deem  necessary  generally  to  promote  the  efficient  transaction  of
  business and the orderly administration of justice therein.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 86 - Designation by Appellate Division of Special and Trial Terms of the Supreme Court.

§  86. Designation by appellate division of special and trial terms of
  the supreme court. The  justices  of  the  appellate  division  in  each
  department  shall  have  power  to  fix the times and places for holding
  special and trial terms of the supreme court held therein, and to assign
  the justices in the departments  to  hold  such  terms;  or  make  rules
  therefor;  and  may  from  time to time make additional appointments and
  designations, or change or alter those already made.
The justices of the appellate division in the first  department  shall
  from time to time as they may deem necessary fix a time and place in the
  first  judicial  district  for  holding  special  terms for condemnation
  proceedings affecting property in the city of New  York  located  within
  the  counties  of New York and Bronx and assign the justices to hold the
  same. The justices of the appellate division in  the  second  department
  shall  from time to time as they may deem necessary fix a time and place
  in  the  second  judicial  district  for  holding  special   terms   for
  condemnation  proceedings  affecting  property  in  the city of New York
  located within such district; and in the eleventh judicial district  for
  such  proceeding  affecting  property  in  such  city located within the
  county of Queens,  and  assign  the  justices  to  hold  the  same.  The
  assignment  of  any  justice  to  hold  a  special term for condemnation
  proceedings shall not have the effect of  revoking  his  assignments  to
  other  parts or terms of the supreme court and when not actually engaged
  in holding such special term he shall hold such other parts or terms  of
  the  court  to  which he has been or may be assigned. Any designation or
  assignment  to  service  in  the  said  special  term  for  condemnation
  proceedings  may  at  any  time  be revoked by the appellate division so
  designating.
2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 4 - Appellate Division › 88 - Designation by Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of Justice to Hold Term of Supreme Court.

§  88.  Designation  by  presiding  justice  of  appellate division of
  justice to hold term of supreme court. If it appear to the  satisfaction
  of  the  presiding  justice  of the appellate division in any department
  that a special or trial term of the supreme court duly appointed therein
  is in danger of failing, he may designate a justice who resides in  that
  department  to  hold  such  term  in the absence of the justice assigned
  thereto. If  in  the  opinion  of  such  presiding  justice  it  is  not
  practicable  to  make  a  designation  from  his department, he shall so
  inform the governor who may thereupon designate for such term a  justice
  from any department.