N.Y. County Law § 218: Courthouses and judicial expenditures

§ 218. Courthouses and judicial expenditures. 1. Except as otherwise

provided by law, each board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms

for courts of record within the county including rooms for holding

court, grand and trial jurors, witnesses and attorneys during such terms

of court. Chambers shall be provided for any resident judge of the court

of appeals or justice of the supreme court and may be provided for the

county judge, surrogate, and family court judge. The board of

supervisors shall provide necessary and suitable furnishings together

with light, heat, telephone, law books, periodicals and such other

furniture, supplies or equipment as may be necessary for such courts to

properly function. If such board after a written request by any resident

judge of the court of appeals or justice of the supreme court presiding

therein fails after a reasonable time to furnish such provisions, such

judge or justice may require the sheriff to furnish the same and the

expense shall be a county charge. When such rooms are not being used for

court purposes, the same may be used for any other public purposes; and

additional rooms may be provided for hearings, examinations, clinics and

other lawful public purposes. When so ordered by the court, the sheriff

shall provide food and lodging for jurors kept together pending a trial

and their deliberation thereon, and for grand jurors kept together

pending an indictment or presentment and their deliberation thereon, and

the cost shall be paid by the county treasurer upon order of the

presiding judge or justice. The board shall provide for the expense of

printing and publishing proclamations, notices of terms and court

calendars as required by law. The compensation and lawful expenses of

court attendants, court criers, jurors, grand jurors, witnesses,

interpreters and stenographers, except as otherwise provided by law,

shall be a county charge and paid in the manner prescribed by law.

2. The board of supervisors shall audit and pay the fees allowable for

services rendered by justices of the peace, police justices, city

judges, police officers and peace officers of the cities, towns and

villages within the county in criminal proceedings, for or on account of

an offense which a court of special sessions has not jurisdiction to

try. A county shall pay any amount due to a town or village for the

services of a justice of the peace or police justice which is a county

charge upon presentation to it of a claim by the state comptroller for

such charges each quarter.