N.Y. Judiciary Law § 814: Care and management of court law libraries

§ 814. Care and management of court law libraries. 1. Each court law

library shall be under the care and management of the chief

administrator of the courts. Each shall have a board of trustees, which

shall consist of four members, all of whom shall be residents of the

county in which the library is located, and who shall be appointed by

the chief administrator in accordance with this section. The chair of

the board shall be a justice of the supreme court or, if no justice

resides in the county, a judge of the county court, family court or of

the surrogate's court of the county. Of the remaining members of the

board, one shall be an attorney who has been admitted to the practice of

law in this state; one shall be a member of the board of supervisors or

other legislative body of the county in which the library is located, or

in the case of a county wholly contained within a city, of the

legislative body of such city, and one member shall be appointed upon

the recommendation of the president of the county bar association. In

addition to the four members of each board of trustees provided for

hereinabove, the chief administrator of the courts may, in his

discretion, appoint such other members as he deems appropriate. The

members of the board shall serve without pay for a term of two years and

shall be eligible to be reappointed to successive terms of office.

Membership on a board of trustees shall terminate whenever a member

ceases to be a resident of the county, or ceases to hold public office

if the holding of such public office was required at the time of such

member's appointment to the board. A vacancy shall be filled for the

unexpired term in the same manner as an original appointment.

2. Each board of trustees shall provide the chief administrator with

such assistance as he or she shall require in maintaining and operating

the court law library.

3. In the event of any change in the designation of a court law

library for the purpose of receiving materials transmitted pursuant to

paragraph c of subdivision four of section one hundred two of the

executive law, the chief administrator shall cause the previously

designated library within such judicial district to transfer all such

materials in its possession to the newly designated library.

4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the supreme court

library in borough of Brooklyn nor to the supreme court library at

Buffalo until April first, nineteen hundred ninety-four. Such libraries

are continued as court law libraries under the provisions of this

article effective April first, nineteen hundred ninety-four.