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JUDICIARY LAW Laws 1909, Chap. 35. AN ACT in relation to the administration of justice, constituting chapter thirty of the consolidated laws. Became a law February 17, 1909, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do…
ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE Section 1. Short title. 1-a. Definition.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Judiciary Law."
§ 1-a. Definition. As used in this chapter, the word "minor" or "infant" shall mean any person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
ARTICLE 2 GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO COURTS AND JUDGES Section 2. Courts of record. 2-a. Jurisdiction and powers of courts continued. 2-b. General powers of courts of record. 3. Use of term "court" prohibited. 4. Sittings of courts to be public. 4-a. Certain powers of the courts regarding civil arrests. 5. Courts n…
§ 2. Courts of record. Each of the following courts of the state is a court of record: 1. The court for the trial of impeachments. 2. A court on the judiciary. 3. The court of appeals. 4. The appellate division of the supreme court in each department. 5. The supreme court. 6. The court of claims. 7. A county court in e…
§ 2-a. Jurisdiction and powers of courts continued. Each court of the state shall continue to exercise the jurisdiction and powers now vested in it by law, according to the course and practice of the court, except as otherwise prescribed by statute or rules adopted in conformance thereto.
§ 2-b. General powers of courts of record. A court of record has power 1. to issue a subpoena requiring the attendance of a person found in the state to testify in a cause pending in that court, subject, however, to the limitations prescribed by law with respect to the portion of the state in which the process of the l…
§ 3. Use of term "court" prohibited. No person, firm, association or corporation shall hereafter use or employ the term "court" as part of or in connection with the name of any body, board, bureau, association, organization or corporation, or in referring to any body, board, bureau, association, organization or corpora…
§ 4. Sittings of courts to be public. The sittings of every court within this state shall be public, and every citizen may freely attend the same, except that in all proceedings and trials in cases for divorce, seduction, rape, assault with intent to commit rape, bastardy, filiation, or a crime formerly defined in sect…
§ 4-a. Certain powers of the courts regarding civil arrests. In order to maintain access to the court and open judicial proceedings for all persons in their individual capacity and to prevent interference with the needs of judicial administration, a court has the power to issue appropriate judicial orders to protect th…
§ 5. Courts not to sit on Sunday except in special cases nor on Saturday in certain cases. A court shall not be opened, or transact any business on Sunday, nor shall a court transact any business on a Saturday in any case where such day is kept as a holy day by any party to the case, except to receive a verdict or disc…
§ 6. Adjournment of term of court of record to future day. Any term of a court of record may be adjourned from day to day, or to a specified future day, by an entry in the minutes. Any judge of the court may so adjourn a term thereof, in the absence of a sufficient number of judges to hold the term.
§ 7. Adjournment of term on non-appearance of judge. If a judge, authorized to hold a term of a court, does not come to the place where the term is appointed to be held, or to which it shall have been adjourned by the judge, before four o'clock in the afternoon of the day so appointed or of such adjourned day, the sher…
§ 7-a. Vacancies or changes in judges; power of judge out of office. A civil or criminal action or special proceeding in a court of record is not discontinued by a vacancy or change in the judges of the court or by the re-election or re-appointment of a judge, but it must be continued, heard and determined by the court…
§ 7-b. Continuance of out of court proceedings before judges of same court. At any stage of a special proceeding instituted before a judge of a court of record out of court, or a proceeding commenced before a judge out of court in an action or special proceeding pending in a court of record, such proceeding or special…
§ 7-c. Continuance of special proceeding before another officer. In case of the death, sickness, resignation, removal from office, absence from the county, or other disability of an officer before whom or in whose court a special proceeding has been instituted, where no express provision is made by law for the continua…
§ 8. Emergency relocations of court terms. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if an emergency or other exigent circumstance or the imminent threat thereof prevents the safe and practicable holding of a term of any court at the location designated by law therefor, then: a. the governor, after consultation wi…
§ 9. Recusal; reason. Any judge who recuses himself or herself from sitting in or taking any part in the decision of an action, claim, matter, motion or proceeding shall provide the reason for such recusal in writing or on the record; provided, however, that no judge shall be required to provide a reason for such recus…
§ 10. Courtroom designated the "Judge James F. Reitz Memorial Courtroom". Room three hundred one of the Putnam supreme and county court shall be designated and known as the "Judge James F. Reitz Memorial Courtroom".
§ 13. Court or judge may direct the filing of original stenographic minutes with clerk. The court or a judge thereof may, in its or his discretion, upon or without an application for that purpose make an order directing the stenographer to file with the clerk, forthwith or within a specified time, the original stenogra…
§ 13-a. Power to remove certain officers and to appoint successors. A referee, receiver, commissioner or appraiser appointed by a court or judge may be removed by the same court or judge. In case of the death, resignation, removal, or neglect or refusal to serve of any such officer, another person may be appointed in h…
§ 13-b. Oath of referee, receiver, commissioner or appraiser. A referee, receiver, commissioner or appraiser appointed by a court or judge, before entering upon his duties, shall be sworn faithfully and fairly to discharge the trust committed to him. The oath may be waived upon consent of all parties.
§ 14. Disqualification of judge by reason of interest or consanguinity. A judge shall not sit as such in, or take any part in the decision of, an action, claim, matter, motion or proceeding to which he is a party, or in which he has been attorney or counsel, or in which he is interested, or if he is related by consangu…
§ 15. Judge of court of record not disqualified because a resident or a taxpayer. A judge of a court of record is not disqualified from hearing or deciding an action, claim, matter, motion or proceeding, by reason of his being a resident or taxpayer of a town, village, city, or county, interested therein.