New York State - Judiciary - JUD - Article 5
ARTICLE 5 SUPREME COURT
Section 140. Division of state into judicial districts.
140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each judicial district.
140-b. General jurisdiction of supreme court.
141. Designation of supreme court justices to hold court in another county.
147. Holding special and trial terms.
147-a. Powers of justice of supreme court.
148. Trial term may be held in parts.
149. Governor may appoint extraordinary terms and name justices to hold them.
150. Printing calendars in certain counties.
151. Publishing calendars in Monroe county.
152. Publishing calendars in Erie county.
153. Records kept by special deputy clerks shall be part of records of supreme court.
154. Duty of supreme court justices in first judicial district to enforce rules made by appellate division of first department.
155. Supreme court seal.
156. Appointment of special deputy clerks for the supreme court in Queens county.
158. Appointment of calendar clerk for Westchester county in the ninth judicial district.
158-a. Appointment of calendar clerk for Dutchess county in the ninth judicial district.
158-b. Appointment of calendar clerk for Schenectady county in the fourth judicial district.
158-c. Appointment of calendar clerk for Putnam county and other necessary assistants.
160. Appointment of temporary stenographer where official stenographer fails to attend term.
161. Amount spent for services of temporary stenographer to be deducted from salary of official stenographer.
162. Justice of supreme court to certify amount of expenses of stenographer attending term.
163. Justices of supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts to certify to the department of taxation and finance amount of salaries and expenses of stenographers.
164. Emergency stenographers in criminal cases.
165. Power of supreme court justices in Nassau county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-a. Power of supreme court justices in Dutchess county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-b. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-c. Power of supreme court justices in Putnam county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-d. Power of supreme court justices in Orange county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-e. Power of supreme court justices in Westchester county to appoint secretarial assistants.
166. Power of supreme court justices in first judicial district to appoint attendants for supreme court.
167. Powers of supreme court justices in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties to appoint confidential court attendants.
168. Power of supreme court justices in Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Suffolk counties to appoint court officers.
168*2. Classification of certain attendants.
169. Continuation in office of certain attendants and clerks.
170. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint court officer or attendant.
171. Powers of supreme court justices residing in Erie county to appoint court officers to attend terms.
172. Power of supreme court justices residing in Kings and Queens counties to appoint interpreters.
173. Power of supreme court justices residing in Erie county together with county judge of Erie county to appoint criers.
173-a. Power of supreme court justices in Erie county to appoint a secretary and junior secretaries to such justices.
173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices.
173-c. Power of supreme court trial justices of eighth judicial district to appoint stenographers.
174. Maintenance of supreme court house building in Kings county.
§ 140. Division of state into judicial districts. The state is hereby divided into thirteen judicial districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth article of the constitution, which districts shall be arranged as follows:
The first judicial district shall consist of the county of New York;
The second judicial district shall consist of the county of Kings;
The third judicial district shall consist of the counties of Columbia, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer;
The fourth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Warren, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, Saint Lawrence, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton and Schenectady;
The fifth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis;
The sixth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler;
The seventh judicial district shall consist of the counties of Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, Steuben, Monroe and Cayuga;
The eighth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming;
The ninth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland;
The tenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.
The eleventh judicial district shall consist of the county of Queens. The creation of such eleventh district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-two in the tenth judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Queens on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the eleventh judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the tenth judicial district.
The twelfth judicial district shall consist of the county of Bronx. The creation of such twelfth district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of January, nineteen hundred eighty-three in the first judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Bronx on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the twelfth judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of New York on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the first judicial district.
The thirteenth judicial district shall consist of the county of Richmond. The creation of such thirteenth district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of January, two thousand eight in the second judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Richmond on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the thirteenth judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of Kings on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the second judicial district.
§ 140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each judicial district. The number of justices of the supreme court in each judicial district shall be as follows:
1. First district, thirty-eight;
2. Second district, fifty-two;
3. Third district, seventeen;
4. Fourth district, fourteen;
5. Fifth district, nineteen;
6. Sixth district, eleven;
7. Seventh district, twenty;
8. Eighth district, twenty-eight;
9. Ninth district, thirty-three;
10. Tenth district, fifty-one;
11. Eleventh district, forty-three;
12. Twelfth district, twenty-nine;
13. Thirteenth district, nine.
No person may serve in the office of justice of the supreme court unless he or she has been admitted to practice law in the state of New York for at least ten years as of the date he or she commences the duties of office.
§ 140-b. General jurisdiction of supreme court. The general jurisdiction in law and equity which the supreme court possesses under the provisions of the constitution includes all the jurisdiction which was possessed and exercised by the supreme court of the colony of New York at any time, and by the court of chancery in England on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred seventy-six, with the exceptions, additions and limitations created and imposed by the constitution and laws of the state. Subject to those exceptions and limitations the supreme court of the state has all the powers and authority of each of those courts and may exercise them in like manner.
§ 141. Designation of supreme court justices to hold court in another county. At the request of the presiding justice of any judicial department, the presiding justice of any of the other departments of the state may consent to the assignment from among the trial justices of any judicial district in his department, of such justices as in his opinion may be spared from said district, without prejudice to the work or interests of such district, to hold trial or special terms in the department from whence the request may come.
No consent shall be given hereunder to the assignment of a justice or justices from any district that will not leave at all times at least two trial justices in such district; and no allowance given by any statute for services, or expenses, rendered, or incurred by any trial justice for sitting in the first or second departments shall be paid, unless assigned with such consent as hereinbefore provided.
§ 147. Holding special and trial terms. A special term or a trial term must be held by one judge, except that when private property located within the city of New York shall be taken for public use by the city of New York, the compensation to be made therefor shall be ascertained by a special term for condemnation proceedings of the supreme court. At least one special term and two trial terms must be appointed to be held in each year in each county separately organized. Two or more trial terms may be appointed to be held and may be held at the same time in any county. Fulton and Hamilton counties shall be deemed one county for the purposes of this section. A special term of the supreme court may be adjourned to a future day, and to any place within the judicial district, by an entry in the minutes. After the discharge of the jury, a trial and special term may be adjourned in like manner, for the trial of issues by the court. Any such adjourned term may be further adjourned from time to time, as the justice holding the same directs. Special terms may be held at the chambers of the justice or elsewhere in the judicial district, but an action triable by the court without a jury, which was upon the calendar of a term before it was adjourned to the chambers of a justice under this section, may be tried at the term so adjourned to chambers only by consent of both parties.
§ 147-a. Powers of justice of supreme court. Any justice of the supreme court has power to hold a special or trial term of the supreme court in any county for the whole or any portion of the term, and to act upon any business which regularly comes before the term in which he is sitting, except where he is personally disqualified from sitting, in a particular action or special proceeding. Each justice, at all reasonable times, when not engaged in holding court, must transact such judicial business as may be done out of court.
§ 148. Trial term may be held in parts. A trial term of the supreme court in any county may be held in two or more parts, and a jury panel may be summoned to serve in each part, or jurors may be drawn from one panel, and the panel may be divided according to the number of parts by drawing from the panel a sufficient number for each part and returning to the panel the jurors not drawn for service.
§ 149. Governor may appoint extraordinary terms and name justices to hold them. 1. The governor may, when, in his opinion the public interest requires, appoint one or more extraordinary special or trial terms of the supreme court. He must designate the time and place of holding the same, and name the justice who shall hold or preside at such term, and he must give notice of the appointment in such manner as, in his judgment, the public interest requires. The governor may terminate the assignment of the justice named by him to hold a term appointed pursuant to this section, and may name another justice in his place to hold the same term. In such event, the grand jury drawn to attend such term shall continue to serve thereat until discharged in the manner prescribed by law. A justice named to preside at an extraordinary term appointed under this section shall have power to order the drawing of a grand jury or grand juries in place of or in addition to the grand jury originally drawn for such term. Such other grand jury or grand juries shall be summoned in the manner prescribed for grand juries in general and shall be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to a grand jury summoned pursuant to sections five hundred thirty-one, six hundred nine and six hundred eighty-four of this chapter.
2. A motion involving a matter pending before such extraordinary special or trial term shall be made returnable at such term, except that, in the exercise of discretion, a justice of the appellate division of the supreme court in the department in which such extraordinary special or trial term is being held may grant permission for such motion to be heard at a term of such appellate division.
§ 150. Printing calendars in certain counties. The supreme court may, from time to time, by order, require the clerk to cause to be printed for the use of the members and officers thereof, the necessary copies of the calendar of causes, prepared for a term of the court. But this section does not apply to the county of New York or to the county of Monroe.
§ 151. Publishing calendars in Monroe county. The justices of the supreme court elected in the seventh judicial district, or a majority of them, shall designate a daily paper published in the city of Rochester, in which shall be printed day calendars of the courts of record held in and for the county of Monroe and the city of Rochester as may be specified by the clerks of such courts respectively, under the orders of such courts.
§ 152. Publishing calendars in Erie county. The board of supervisors of the county of Erie may exercise from time to time the power to designate as hereafter provided a daily newspaper published in the city of Buffalo in which shall be printed day calendars of the courts of record held in and for the county of Erie as may be specified by the clerks of such courts respectively under the orders of such courts. Said board of supervisors is hereby further authorized to contract with the lowest responsible bidder among the daily newspapers published within the city of Buffalo from year to year for the publication of said day calendars by such duly designated newspaper as hereinbefore provided.
§ 153. Records kept by special deputy clerks shall be part of records of supreme court. The minutes of the part or term of the supreme court to which any of the special deputy clerks appointed as provided in section one hundred and two of this chapter, is assigned by the justices of the appellate division of the supreme court in the first department, or by the presiding justice thereof, kept by him and the records kept by the supreme court jury clerk in the first judicial district, shall be a part of the records of the supreme court.
The minutes and records kept by the special deputy clerks to the clerk of the county containing a city having a population of not less than three hundred thousand and not more than one million wholly within the county shall be part of the records of the supreme court.
§ 154. Duty of supreme court justices in first judicial district to enforce rules made by appellate division of first department. It shall be the duty of every justice of the supreme court in the first judicial district to enforce the rules made by the appellate division in the first department pursuant to section seventy-eight of this chapter and to require the commissioner of public works to do all acts necessary to give full force and effect to such of said rules as relate to the management and protection of the court-houses and court-rooms of the supreme court.
§ 155. Supreme court seal. The seal kept by the county clerk of each county shall continue to be the seal of the supreme court, in that county.
The provisions of this section shall not be applicable in those cases where special provisions are otherwise made by law.
§ 156. Appointment of special deputy clerks for the supreme court in Queens county. The justices of the supreme court residing in the county of Queens, or a majority of them, shall appoint and at pleasure remove a special deputy to the county clerk of the county of Queens for each part or term of the supreme court, and may appoint as many assistants to such clerk as may be necessary for the transaction of the business of such court.
§ 158. Appointment of calendar clerk for Westchester county in the ninth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Westchester. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Westchester. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The board of supervisors of Westchester county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-a. Appointment of calendar clerk for Dutchess county in the ninth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Dutchess. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Dutchess. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The board of supervisors of Dutchess county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-b. Appointment of calendar clerk for Schenectady county in the fourth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the fourth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Schenectady. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Schenectady. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The county board of representatives of Schenectady county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-c. Appointment of calendar clerk for Putnam county and other necessary assistants. Subject to the provisions of article 7-A of this law, upon the nomination of the administrative judge of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, the justices of the appellate division or a majority of them may appoint and at pleasure remove a calendar clerk, and other necessary assistants, in and for the County of Putnam and their compensation shall be fixed by said justices of the appellate division within the amount appropriated for such purposes by the board of supervisors of said county. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Putnam.
§ 160. Appointment of temporary stenographer where official stenographer fails to attend term. If an official stenographer shall not be in attendance at a trial term of the supreme court, or a special term of the supreme court where issues of fact are triable, the justice presiding at the term may, in his discretion, employ a stenographer who shall be paid such compensation as the justice shall by his certificate fix, not to exceed thirty dollars for each day's attendance, and ten cents for each mile for travel to and from his residence to the place where the term is held, together with a reasonable sum for his necessary expenses and stationery. The sum so fixed shall be a charge upon the county in which the term shall be held, and shall be paid by the county treasurer upon such certificate from the court fund or the fund from which jurors are paid.
§ 161. Amount spent for services of temporary stenographer to be deducted from salary of official stenographer. If the official stenographer of the judicial district in which such term shall be held shall have been duly assigned to attend such term, and it does not appear to the satisfaction of the justice that the failure to attend was excusable, the justice may cause an order of the court to be entered at such term, that the portion of the sum so paid by the county treasurer, which was allowed for the per diem compensation for the services of the stenographer employed at such term, shall be deducted from the salary of the official stenographer who shall have been so assigned to attend such term, and the clerk of such county shall transmit to the department of taxation and finance a certified copy of such order, and such department shall deduct such amount from the salary of such official stenographer and pay the same to the treasurer of said county.
§ 162. Justice of supreme court to certify amount of expenses of stenographer attending term. The amount to which the stenographers of the supreme court are entitled for expenses, as prescribed in section three hundred thirteen of this chapter, must be certified by the judge holding or presiding at the term.
§ 163. Justices of supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts to certify to the department of taxation and finance amount of salaries and expenses of stenographers. Each of the justices of the supreme court assigned to hold special terms in the third and fourth judicial districts appointing a stenographer pursuant to subdivision five of section one hundred and fifty-nine of this chapter shall annually on the first day of October fix and transmit to the department of taxation and finance the amount allowed to such stenographer for salary and expenses as provided by section three hundred sixteen of this chapter.
§ 164. Emergency stenographers in criminal cases. Where the prompt disposition of charges against a person accused of the commission of a crime is deemed necessary, or the ends of justice require, the justice presiding at a term of the supreme court where issues of fact are triable, in his discretion, may employ one or more stenographers in addition to the regularly assigned stenographer, to assist in the taking and transcribing of the minutes of such trial. Such stenographer or stenographers shall be paid for his services such reasonable compensation as the justice shall by his certificate fix, together with a reasonable sum for his necessary traveling expenses, if any, and stationery. The sum so fixed shall be a charge upon the county in which the term shall be held and shall be paid by the county treasurer upon such certificate from the court fund or the fund from which jurors are paid.
§ 165. Power of supreme court justices in Nassau county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Nassau county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of twenty law stenographers and typists, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them.
§ 165-a. Power of supreme court justices in Dutchess county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Dutchess county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of any such justice or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the Dutchess county judge or Dutchess county surrogate.
§ 165-b. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Rockland county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them.
§ 165-c. Power of supreme court justices in Putnam county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Putnam county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them, or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the county judge of such county.
§ 165-d. Power of supreme court justices in Orange county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Orange county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them, or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the county judge of such county.
§ 165-e. Power of supreme court justices in Westchester county to appoint secretarial assistants. The justices of the supreme court residing in Westchester county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of six secretarial assistants, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the commissioner of finance thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justices, or a majority of them.
§ 166. Power of supreme court justices in first judicial district to appoint attendants for supreme court. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the first judicial district shall appoint and at pleasure remove four attendants upon the court. Each of said attendants may also be removed by the appellate division, but not until he has been informed of the cause of the proposed removal and has been allowed an opportunity to make an explanation.
§ 167. Powers of supreme court justices in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties to appoint confidential court attendants. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties may appoint and at pleasure remove a confidential court attendant, who shall perform such duties at chambers and in court as such justices, respectively, shall prescribe.
* § 168. Power of supreme court justices in Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Suffolk counties to appoint court officers. The justices of the supreme court for the second judicial district residing in Kings county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Richmond county, or a majority of them; the justices of the supreme court for the eleventh judicial district residing in Queens county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Nassau county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Suffolk county, or a majority of them, may appoint, and at pleasure remove all clerks, attendants, messengers, and court officers in the supreme court in said counties, and fix their compensation except where such compensation is fixed by law. In the event of there being no resident justice in the county of Richmond, the power vested in and exercised by the resident justice or justices of Richmond county shall then be vested in the justices or a majority of them residing in Kings county during such period.
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* § 168. Classification of certain attendants. A confidential attendant to a justice of supreme court who has held such position for not less than ten years shall, upon the death or retirement of such justice, be classified as a court attendant under the provisions of the civil service law, and shall retain such classification after the death or retirement of such justice; but a justice who shall succeed such a retiring justice shall have the same right and power to appoint a confidential attendant outside of the civil service list as has existed heretofore.
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§ 169. Continuation in office of certain attendants and clerks. A confidential attendant or clerk to a justice of the supreme court shall, upon the death or retirement of such justice, continue in office until an appointment of a confidential attendant or clerk shall be made by the justice elected or appointed to fill such vacancy.
§ 170. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint court officer or attendant. The justice or justices of the supreme court, residing in Rockland county, may appoint, and at pleasure remove, a court officer or attendant, to attend at the judge's chambers in such county, and the special terms of the supreme court, held at such chambers; such court officer or attendant to receive a salary to be fixed by such resident justice, or justices, not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum, to be paid monthly by the county treasurer of such county, upon the certificate of such justice or justices.
§ 171. Powers of supreme court justices residing in Erie county to appoint court officers to attend terms. In addition to the constables, or deputy sheriffs, notified by the sheriff to attend a term of court pursuant to section four hundred and three of this chapter, the justices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district residing in the county of Erie, or a majority of them, shall, in their discretion, appoint and at their pleasure may remove one or more court officers to attend at the justices' chambers and at special terms of the supreme court held in the county of Erie.
§ 172. Power of supreme court justices residing in Kings and Queens counties to appoint interpreters. A majority of the justices of the supreme court for the second judicial district, residing in the county of Kings and a majority of the justices of the supreme court for the eleventh judicial district, residing in the county of Queens, may respectively appoint an interpreter or interpreters to attend the terms of the supreme court in each of the counties of Kings and Queens. The appointing justices shall fix the salaries of such interpreters who shall hold office during good behavior.
§ 173. Power of supreme court justices residing in Erie county together with county judge of Erie county to appoint criers. The justices of the supreme court residing in Erie county together with the county judge of Erie county, or a majority of them, shall appoint, and may at pleasure remove one or more criers for all the courts of record held in the said county of Erie.
§ 173-a. Power of supreme court justices in Erie county to appoint a secretary and junior secretaries to such justices. The justices of the supreme court residing in Erie county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a secretary and two junior secretaries to said justices who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in semi-monthly installments.
§ 173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices. The justices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law assistant to such justices. Such confidential law assistant shall be an attorney and counsellor at law and shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by such justices, or a majority of them. Such salary shall be audited by the state comptroller and paid by the state department of taxation and finance in equal semi-monthly installments when certified to such comptroller by a justice of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district. Such department shall apportion the amount of such salary among the counties of the eighth judicial district. Such counties shall reimburse the state therefor. The time and method of such apportionment and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.
§ 173-c. Power of supreme court trial justices of eighth judicial district to appoint stenographers. Each of the resident trial justices of the supreme court in the eighth judicial district, except those residing in Erie county, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a stenographer. Each stenographer shall receive an annual salary as established by the board of supervisors of the county of the appointing judge's residence. Such salary shall be a charge against the county of the appointing justice's residence and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in semi-monthly installments.
§ 174. Maintenance of supreme court house building in Kings county. The supreme court house building in Kings county shall be maintained under the supervision of the justices of the supreme court residing in the county of Kings and their successors in office, who shall appoint and may at pleasure remove a custodian, an engineer and such other employees as may be necessary therefor. The expense of such maintenance shall be borne by the city of New York and shall be provided for as in the case of other public buildings in such city.
Section 140. Division of state into judicial districts.
140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each judicial district.
140-b. General jurisdiction of supreme court.
141. Designation of supreme court justices to hold court in another county.
147. Holding special and trial terms.
147-a. Powers of justice of supreme court.
148. Trial term may be held in parts.
149. Governor may appoint extraordinary terms and name justices to hold them.
150. Printing calendars in certain counties.
151. Publishing calendars in Monroe county.
152. Publishing calendars in Erie county.
153. Records kept by special deputy clerks shall be part of records of supreme court.
154. Duty of supreme court justices in first judicial district to enforce rules made by appellate division of first department.
155. Supreme court seal.
156. Appointment of special deputy clerks for the supreme court in Queens county.
158. Appointment of calendar clerk for Westchester county in the ninth judicial district.
158-a. Appointment of calendar clerk for Dutchess county in the ninth judicial district.
158-b. Appointment of calendar clerk for Schenectady county in the fourth judicial district.
158-c. Appointment of calendar clerk for Putnam county and other necessary assistants.
160. Appointment of temporary stenographer where official stenographer fails to attend term.
161. Amount spent for services of temporary stenographer to be deducted from salary of official stenographer.
162. Justice of supreme court to certify amount of expenses of stenographer attending term.
163. Justices of supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts to certify to the department of taxation and finance amount of salaries and expenses of stenographers.
164. Emergency stenographers in criminal cases.
165. Power of supreme court justices in Nassau county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-a. Power of supreme court justices in Dutchess county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-b. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-c. Power of supreme court justices in Putnam county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-d. Power of supreme court justices in Orange county to appoint law stenographers and typists.
165-e. Power of supreme court justices in Westchester county to appoint secretarial assistants.
166. Power of supreme court justices in first judicial district to appoint attendants for supreme court.
167. Powers of supreme court justices in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties to appoint confidential court attendants.
168. Power of supreme court justices in Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Suffolk counties to appoint court officers.
168*2. Classification of certain attendants.
169. Continuation in office of certain attendants and clerks.
170. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint court officer or attendant.
171. Powers of supreme court justices residing in Erie county to appoint court officers to attend terms.
172. Power of supreme court justices residing in Kings and Queens counties to appoint interpreters.
173. Power of supreme court justices residing in Erie county together with county judge of Erie county to appoint criers.
173-a. Power of supreme court justices in Erie county to appoint a secretary and junior secretaries to such justices.
173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices.
173-c. Power of supreme court trial justices of eighth judicial district to appoint stenographers.
174. Maintenance of supreme court house building in Kings county.
§ 140. Division of state into judicial districts. The state is hereby divided into thirteen judicial districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth article of the constitution, which districts shall be arranged as follows:
The first judicial district shall consist of the county of New York;
The second judicial district shall consist of the county of Kings;
The third judicial district shall consist of the counties of Columbia, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer;
The fourth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Warren, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, Saint Lawrence, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton and Schenectady;
The fifth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis;
The sixth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler;
The seventh judicial district shall consist of the counties of Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, Steuben, Monroe and Cayuga;
The eighth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming;
The ninth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland;
The tenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.
The eleventh judicial district shall consist of the county of Queens. The creation of such eleventh district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-two in the tenth judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Queens on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the eleventh judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the tenth judicial district.
The twelfth judicial district shall consist of the county of Bronx. The creation of such twelfth district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of January, nineteen hundred eighty-three in the first judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Bronx on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the twelfth judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of New York on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the first judicial district.
The thirteenth judicial district shall consist of the county of Richmond. The creation of such thirteenth district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the first day of January, two thousand eight in the second judicial district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee employed in the county of Richmond on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the thirteenth judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of Kings on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the second judicial district.
§ 140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each judicial district. The number of justices of the supreme court in each judicial district shall be as follows:
1. First district, thirty-eight;
2. Second district, fifty-two;
3. Third district, seventeen;
4. Fourth district, fourteen;
5. Fifth district, nineteen;
6. Sixth district, eleven;
7. Seventh district, twenty;
8. Eighth district, twenty-eight;
9. Ninth district, thirty-three;
10. Tenth district, fifty-one;
11. Eleventh district, forty-three;
12. Twelfth district, twenty-nine;
13. Thirteenth district, nine.
No person may serve in the office of justice of the supreme court unless he or she has been admitted to practice law in the state of New York for at least ten years as of the date he or she commences the duties of office.
§ 140-b. General jurisdiction of supreme court. The general jurisdiction in law and equity which the supreme court possesses under the provisions of the constitution includes all the jurisdiction which was possessed and exercised by the supreme court of the colony of New York at any time, and by the court of chancery in England on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred seventy-six, with the exceptions, additions and limitations created and imposed by the constitution and laws of the state. Subject to those exceptions and limitations the supreme court of the state has all the powers and authority of each of those courts and may exercise them in like manner.
§ 141. Designation of supreme court justices to hold court in another county. At the request of the presiding justice of any judicial department, the presiding justice of any of the other departments of the state may consent to the assignment from among the trial justices of any judicial district in his department, of such justices as in his opinion may be spared from said district, without prejudice to the work or interests of such district, to hold trial or special terms in the department from whence the request may come.
No consent shall be given hereunder to the assignment of a justice or justices from any district that will not leave at all times at least two trial justices in such district; and no allowance given by any statute for services, or expenses, rendered, or incurred by any trial justice for sitting in the first or second departments shall be paid, unless assigned with such consent as hereinbefore provided.
§ 147. Holding special and trial terms. A special term or a trial term must be held by one judge, except that when private property located within the city of New York shall be taken for public use by the city of New York, the compensation to be made therefor shall be ascertained by a special term for condemnation proceedings of the supreme court. At least one special term and two trial terms must be appointed to be held in each year in each county separately organized. Two or more trial terms may be appointed to be held and may be held at the same time in any county. Fulton and Hamilton counties shall be deemed one county for the purposes of this section. A special term of the supreme court may be adjourned to a future day, and to any place within the judicial district, by an entry in the minutes. After the discharge of the jury, a trial and special term may be adjourned in like manner, for the trial of issues by the court. Any such adjourned term may be further adjourned from time to time, as the justice holding the same directs. Special terms may be held at the chambers of the justice or elsewhere in the judicial district, but an action triable by the court without a jury, which was upon the calendar of a term before it was adjourned to the chambers of a justice under this section, may be tried at the term so adjourned to chambers only by consent of both parties.
§ 147-a. Powers of justice of supreme court. Any justice of the supreme court has power to hold a special or trial term of the supreme court in any county for the whole or any portion of the term, and to act upon any business which regularly comes before the term in which he is sitting, except where he is personally disqualified from sitting, in a particular action or special proceeding. Each justice, at all reasonable times, when not engaged in holding court, must transact such judicial business as may be done out of court.
§ 148. Trial term may be held in parts. A trial term of the supreme court in any county may be held in two or more parts, and a jury panel may be summoned to serve in each part, or jurors may be drawn from one panel, and the panel may be divided according to the number of parts by drawing from the panel a sufficient number for each part and returning to the panel the jurors not drawn for service.
§ 149. Governor may appoint extraordinary terms and name justices to hold them. 1. The governor may, when, in his opinion the public interest requires, appoint one or more extraordinary special or trial terms of the supreme court. He must designate the time and place of holding the same, and name the justice who shall hold or preside at such term, and he must give notice of the appointment in such manner as, in his judgment, the public interest requires. The governor may terminate the assignment of the justice named by him to hold a term appointed pursuant to this section, and may name another justice in his place to hold the same term. In such event, the grand jury drawn to attend such term shall continue to serve thereat until discharged in the manner prescribed by law. A justice named to preside at an extraordinary term appointed under this section shall have power to order the drawing of a grand jury or grand juries in place of or in addition to the grand jury originally drawn for such term. Such other grand jury or grand juries shall be summoned in the manner prescribed for grand juries in general and shall be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to a grand jury summoned pursuant to sections five hundred thirty-one, six hundred nine and six hundred eighty-four of this chapter.
2. A motion involving a matter pending before such extraordinary special or trial term shall be made returnable at such term, except that, in the exercise of discretion, a justice of the appellate division of the supreme court in the department in which such extraordinary special or trial term is being held may grant permission for such motion to be heard at a term of such appellate division.
§ 150. Printing calendars in certain counties. The supreme court may, from time to time, by order, require the clerk to cause to be printed for the use of the members and officers thereof, the necessary copies of the calendar of causes, prepared for a term of the court. But this section does not apply to the county of New York or to the county of Monroe.
§ 151. Publishing calendars in Monroe county. The justices of the supreme court elected in the seventh judicial district, or a majority of them, shall designate a daily paper published in the city of Rochester, in which shall be printed day calendars of the courts of record held in and for the county of Monroe and the city of Rochester as may be specified by the clerks of such courts respectively, under the orders of such courts.
§ 152. Publishing calendars in Erie county. The board of supervisors of the county of Erie may exercise from time to time the power to designate as hereafter provided a daily newspaper published in the city of Buffalo in which shall be printed day calendars of the courts of record held in and for the county of Erie as may be specified by the clerks of such courts respectively under the orders of such courts. Said board of supervisors is hereby further authorized to contract with the lowest responsible bidder among the daily newspapers published within the city of Buffalo from year to year for the publication of said day calendars by such duly designated newspaper as hereinbefore provided.
§ 153. Records kept by special deputy clerks shall be part of records of supreme court. The minutes of the part or term of the supreme court to which any of the special deputy clerks appointed as provided in section one hundred and two of this chapter, is assigned by the justices of the appellate division of the supreme court in the first department, or by the presiding justice thereof, kept by him and the records kept by the supreme court jury clerk in the first judicial district, shall be a part of the records of the supreme court.
The minutes and records kept by the special deputy clerks to the clerk of the county containing a city having a population of not less than three hundred thousand and not more than one million wholly within the county shall be part of the records of the supreme court.
§ 154. Duty of supreme court justices in first judicial district to enforce rules made by appellate division of first department. It shall be the duty of every justice of the supreme court in the first judicial district to enforce the rules made by the appellate division in the first department pursuant to section seventy-eight of this chapter and to require the commissioner of public works to do all acts necessary to give full force and effect to such of said rules as relate to the management and protection of the court-houses and court-rooms of the supreme court.
§ 155. Supreme court seal. The seal kept by the county clerk of each county shall continue to be the seal of the supreme court, in that county.
The provisions of this section shall not be applicable in those cases where special provisions are otherwise made by law.
§ 156. Appointment of special deputy clerks for the supreme court in Queens county. The justices of the supreme court residing in the county of Queens, or a majority of them, shall appoint and at pleasure remove a special deputy to the county clerk of the county of Queens for each part or term of the supreme court, and may appoint as many assistants to such clerk as may be necessary for the transaction of the business of such court.
§ 158. Appointment of calendar clerk for Westchester county in the ninth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Westchester. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Westchester. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The board of supervisors of Westchester county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-a. Appointment of calendar clerk for Dutchess county in the ninth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Dutchess. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Dutchess. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The board of supervisors of Dutchess county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-b. Appointment of calendar clerk for Schenectady county in the fourth judicial district. The justices of the supreme court for the fourth judicial district, or the majority of them, may appoint and may at pleasure remove a calendar clerk in and for the county of Schenectady. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Schenectady. His qualifications and fitness for the office shall be determined and approved by the justices making the appointment. He shall have charge of all the calendars of the supreme court in and for said county and shall be governed by and have such powers as are provided by the rules and/or regulations adopted from time to time in accordance with statute. The county board of representatives of Schenectady county shall fix the salary of such clerk and may authorize him to employ within the appropriations made by said board, such clerical force or other assistants as it shall determine.
§ 158-c. Appointment of calendar clerk for Putnam county and other necessary assistants. Subject to the provisions of article 7-A of this law, upon the nomination of the administrative judge of the supreme court for the ninth judicial district, the justices of the appellate division or a majority of them may appoint and at pleasure remove a calendar clerk, and other necessary assistants, in and for the County of Putnam and their compensation shall be fixed by said justices of the appellate division within the amount appropriated for such purposes by the board of supervisors of said county. No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he shall be a resident elector of the county of Putnam.
§ 160. Appointment of temporary stenographer where official stenographer fails to attend term. If an official stenographer shall not be in attendance at a trial term of the supreme court, or a special term of the supreme court where issues of fact are triable, the justice presiding at the term may, in his discretion, employ a stenographer who shall be paid such compensation as the justice shall by his certificate fix, not to exceed thirty dollars for each day's attendance, and ten cents for each mile for travel to and from his residence to the place where the term is held, together with a reasonable sum for his necessary expenses and stationery. The sum so fixed shall be a charge upon the county in which the term shall be held, and shall be paid by the county treasurer upon such certificate from the court fund or the fund from which jurors are paid.
§ 161. Amount spent for services of temporary stenographer to be deducted from salary of official stenographer. If the official stenographer of the judicial district in which such term shall be held shall have been duly assigned to attend such term, and it does not appear to the satisfaction of the justice that the failure to attend was excusable, the justice may cause an order of the court to be entered at such term, that the portion of the sum so paid by the county treasurer, which was allowed for the per diem compensation for the services of the stenographer employed at such term, shall be deducted from the salary of the official stenographer who shall have been so assigned to attend such term, and the clerk of such county shall transmit to the department of taxation and finance a certified copy of such order, and such department shall deduct such amount from the salary of such official stenographer and pay the same to the treasurer of said county.
§ 162. Justice of supreme court to certify amount of expenses of stenographer attending term. The amount to which the stenographers of the supreme court are entitled for expenses, as prescribed in section three hundred thirteen of this chapter, must be certified by the judge holding or presiding at the term.
§ 163. Justices of supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts to certify to the department of taxation and finance amount of salaries and expenses of stenographers. Each of the justices of the supreme court assigned to hold special terms in the third and fourth judicial districts appointing a stenographer pursuant to subdivision five of section one hundred and fifty-nine of this chapter shall annually on the first day of October fix and transmit to the department of taxation and finance the amount allowed to such stenographer for salary and expenses as provided by section three hundred sixteen of this chapter.
§ 164. Emergency stenographers in criminal cases. Where the prompt disposition of charges against a person accused of the commission of a crime is deemed necessary, or the ends of justice require, the justice presiding at a term of the supreme court where issues of fact are triable, in his discretion, may employ one or more stenographers in addition to the regularly assigned stenographer, to assist in the taking and transcribing of the minutes of such trial. Such stenographer or stenographers shall be paid for his services such reasonable compensation as the justice shall by his certificate fix, together with a reasonable sum for his necessary traveling expenses, if any, and stationery. The sum so fixed shall be a charge upon the county in which the term shall be held and shall be paid by the county treasurer upon such certificate from the court fund or the fund from which jurors are paid.
§ 165. Power of supreme court justices in Nassau county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Nassau county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of twenty law stenographers and typists, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them.
§ 165-a. Power of supreme court justices in Dutchess county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Dutchess county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of any such justice or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the Dutchess county judge or Dutchess county surrogate.
§ 165-b. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Rockland county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them.
§ 165-c. Power of supreme court justices in Putnam county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Putnam county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in monthly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them, or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the county judge of such county.
§ 165-d. Power of supreme court justices in Orange county to appoint law stenographers and typists. The justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Orange county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law stenographer and typist, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justice or justices, or a majority of them, or, if all such justices have died or are disabled, of the county judge of such county.
§ 165-e. Power of supreme court justices in Westchester county to appoint secretarial assistants. The justices of the supreme court residing in Westchester county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of six secretarial assistants, who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the commissioner of finance thereof in bi-weekly installments upon the certificate of such justices, or a majority of them.
§ 166. Power of supreme court justices in first judicial district to appoint attendants for supreme court. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the first judicial district shall appoint and at pleasure remove four attendants upon the court. Each of said attendants may also be removed by the appellate division, but not until he has been informed of the cause of the proposed removal and has been allowed an opportunity to make an explanation.
§ 167. Powers of supreme court justices in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties to appoint confidential court attendants. Each of the justices of the supreme court in the third judicial district residing in Albany and Rensselaer counties may appoint and at pleasure remove a confidential court attendant, who shall perform such duties at chambers and in court as such justices, respectively, shall prescribe.
* § 168. Power of supreme court justices in Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Suffolk counties to appoint court officers. The justices of the supreme court for the second judicial district residing in Kings county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Richmond county, or a majority of them; the justices of the supreme court for the eleventh judicial district residing in Queens county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Nassau county, or a majority of them; the justice or justices of the supreme court residing in Suffolk county, or a majority of them, may appoint, and at pleasure remove all clerks, attendants, messengers, and court officers in the supreme court in said counties, and fix their compensation except where such compensation is fixed by law. In the event of there being no resident justice in the county of Richmond, the power vested in and exercised by the resident justice or justices of Richmond county shall then be vested in the justices or a majority of them residing in Kings county during such period.
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* § 168. Classification of certain attendants. A confidential attendant to a justice of supreme court who has held such position for not less than ten years shall, upon the death or retirement of such justice, be classified as a court attendant under the provisions of the civil service law, and shall retain such classification after the death or retirement of such justice; but a justice who shall succeed such a retiring justice shall have the same right and power to appoint a confidential attendant outside of the civil service list as has existed heretofore.
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§ 169. Continuation in office of certain attendants and clerks. A confidential attendant or clerk to a justice of the supreme court shall, upon the death or retirement of such justice, continue in office until an appointment of a confidential attendant or clerk shall be made by the justice elected or appointed to fill such vacancy.
§ 170. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint court officer or attendant. The justice or justices of the supreme court, residing in Rockland county, may appoint, and at pleasure remove, a court officer or attendant, to attend at the judge's chambers in such county, and the special terms of the supreme court, held at such chambers; such court officer or attendant to receive a salary to be fixed by such resident justice, or justices, not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum, to be paid monthly by the county treasurer of such county, upon the certificate of such justice or justices.
§ 171. Powers of supreme court justices residing in Erie county to appoint court officers to attend terms. In addition to the constables, or deputy sheriffs, notified by the sheriff to attend a term of court pursuant to section four hundred and three of this chapter, the justices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district residing in the county of Erie, or a majority of them, shall, in their discretion, appoint and at their pleasure may remove one or more court officers to attend at the justices' chambers and at special terms of the supreme court held in the county of Erie.
§ 172. Power of supreme court justices residing in Kings and Queens counties to appoint interpreters. A majority of the justices of the supreme court for the second judicial district, residing in the county of Kings and a majority of the justices of the supreme court for the eleventh judicial district, residing in the county of Queens, may respectively appoint an interpreter or interpreters to attend the terms of the supreme court in each of the counties of Kings and Queens. The appointing justices shall fix the salaries of such interpreters who shall hold office during good behavior.
§ 173. Power of supreme court justices residing in Erie county together with county judge of Erie county to appoint criers. The justices of the supreme court residing in Erie county together with the county judge of Erie county, or a majority of them, shall appoint, and may at pleasure remove one or more criers for all the courts of record held in the said county of Erie.
§ 173-a. Power of supreme court justices in Erie county to appoint a secretary and junior secretaries to such justices. The justices of the supreme court residing in Erie county, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a secretary and two junior secretaries to said justices who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of such county. Such compensation shall be a charge against such county and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in semi-monthly installments.
§ 173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices. The justices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district, or a majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a confidential law assistant to such justices. Such confidential law assistant shall be an attorney and counsellor at law and shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by such justices, or a majority of them. Such salary shall be audited by the state comptroller and paid by the state department of taxation and finance in equal semi-monthly installments when certified to such comptroller by a justice of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district. Such department shall apportion the amount of such salary among the counties of the eighth judicial district. Such counties shall reimburse the state therefor. The time and method of such apportionment and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.
§ 173-c. Power of supreme court trial justices of eighth judicial district to appoint stenographers. Each of the resident trial justices of the supreme court in the eighth judicial district, except those residing in Erie county, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the duties of a stenographer. Each stenographer shall receive an annual salary as established by the board of supervisors of the county of the appointing judge's residence. Such salary shall be a charge against the county of the appointing justice's residence and shall be paid by the treasurer thereof in semi-monthly installments.
§ 174. Maintenance of supreme court house building in Kings county. The supreme court house building in Kings county shall be maintained under the supervision of the justices of the supreme court residing in the county of Kings and their successors in office, who shall appoint and may at pleasure remove a custodian, an engineer and such other employees as may be necessary therefor. The expense of such maintenance shall be borne by the city of New York and shall be provided for as in the case of other public buildings in such city.
