N.Y. New York City Criminal Court Act § 50: Complaints; not to be prepared in courtroom

§ 50. Complaints; not to be prepared in courtroom. Provision shall be

made at all times in each part of the court in which a judge is sitting

as a magistrate whereby the clerk, the clerk's assistants or other

employees whose duty it is to prepare complaints shall have proper

accommodations and the necessary room or rooms separate from but

convenient to the room in which the court is held, and therein shall be

at all times conspicuously posted a notice legibly printed in English,

Spanish, Italian and Yiddish, respectively, and such other language as a

rule or order of court shall prescribe, to the effect that any person to

whom permission is refused to make and verify a complaint and who is

thereby aggrieved will be heard upon application to the judge in person

before the closing of the pending session of the court. It shall be the

duty of each such judge before opening and again before closing a

session to cause to be intelligibly announced to all persons in and

about his courtroom that the court will then and there hear all

complaints which have not been taken by the complaint clerk.