N.Y. Judiciary Law § 521: Fees and travel expenses of jurors

§ 521. Fees and travel expenses of jurors. (a) Except as provided in

subdivision (b) of this section, trial and grand jurors in each court of

the unified court system shall be entitled to an allowance equal to the

sum of seventy-two dollars per day for each and every day of physical

attendance wherein the court convenes, except that no person who is

employed shall be entitled to receive such allowance if, pursuant to

section five hundred nineteen of this article, their employer is

prohibited from withholding the first seventy-two dollars of wages of

such person during such period and such person's daily wages equal or

exceed seventy-two dollars. If such person's daily wages are less than

seventy-two dollars, such person shall be entitled to receive an

allowance hereunder equal to the difference between seventy-two dollars

and the amount of their daily wages. Such fees and those expenses

actually and necessarily incurred in providing food and lodging for

jurors shall be a state charge payable out of funds appropriated to the

office of court administration for that purpose.

(b) No employee shall be entitled to receive the per diem allowance

authorized by subdivision (a) of this section for any regularly

scheduled workday on which jury service is rendered if, on such day, his

or her wages are not withheld on account of such service.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a trial or

grand juror may waive entitlement to the allowance authorized by

subdivision (a) of this section. In such event the amount of such

allowance shall be available to the chief administrator of the courts

solely for the purposes specified in paragraph (m) of subdivision two of

section two hundred twelve of this chapter, except that any such amounts

not expended in such fashion as of the close of the fiscal year in which

they became available shall be transferred by the comptroller to the

supplemental jury facilities fund established pursuant to section

ninety-four-c of the state finance law.