N.Y. Judiciary Law § 177-d: Special narcotics parts; procedure

§ 177-d. Special narcotics parts; procedure. Notwithstanding any other

provision of law,

(i) a narcotics indictment returned in any county within such cities

may be prosecuted in the special narcotics part to which it is assigned

pursuant to section one hundred seventy-seven-b irrespective of the

county in which the part is held and in which the crime charged was

committed;

(ii) any assistant district attorney appointed pursuant to the plan

authorized by section one hundred seventy-seven-c may prosecute all

offenses cognizable by any special narcotics part irrespective of the

county in which the part is held and in which the crime charged was

committed; and

(iii) upon the application of the assistant district attorney in

charge of the special narcotics parts appointed pursuant to the plan

authorized by section one hundred seventy-seven-c, one or more grand

juries may be drawn and impaneled for a special narcotics part upon the

order of the justice assigned to such part, which grand jury may

exercise all the powers of a grand jury in the county in which it is

impaneled and may in addition exercise its powers with respect to the

alleged commission of an offense in any county wholly contained in a

city having a population of one million or more involving the sale or

possession of a narcotic drug and any other offense that could be

properly joined therewith in an indictment.