N.Y. Judiciary Law § 7-c: Continuance of special proceeding before another officer

§ 7-c. Continuance of special proceeding before another officer. In

case of the death, sickness, resignation, removal from office, absence

from the county, or other disability of an officer before whom or in

whose court a special proceeding has been instituted, where no express

provision is made by law for the continuance thereof, it may be

continued before or in the court of

1. the officer's successor, or

2. if there is no successor capable of acting, any other officer

residing in the same county before whom it might have been originally

instituted, or

3. if there is neither a successor nor an officer specified in

paragraph two capable of acting, an officer in an adjoining county who

would originally have had jurisdiction of the subject matter had it

occurred or existed in the latter county. An officer substituted, as

prescribed by law, to continue a special proceeding instituted before

another, may exercise all powers in the special proceeding, as if it had

been originally instituted before him.