N.Y. Judiciary Law § 149: Governor may appoint extraordinary terms and name justices to hold them

§ 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.