N.Y. Judiciary Law § 140: Division of state into judicial districts

§ 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.