N.Y. Judiciary Law § 2-b: General powers of courts of record

§ 2-b. General powers of courts of record. A court of record has power

1. to issue a subpoena requiring the attendance of a person found in

the state to testify in a cause pending in that court, subject, however,

to the limitations prescribed by law with respect to the portion of the

state in which the process of the local court of record may be served;

2. to administer an oath to a witness in the exercise of the powers

and duties of the court and;

3. to devise and make new process and forms of proceedings, necessary

to carry into effect the powers and jurisdiction possessed by it.