N.Y. Police Certain Municipalities 360/11 § 4: No title

§ 4. Any commissioner of police, superintendent of police, chief of

police, or other officer or officers, having the management, control or

direction of the police force of any city of the first or second class

in this state, (excepting such cities which on December thirty-first,

nineteen hundred and ten, had in force and operation a three platoon

system) who shall fail to divide such force into three platoons within

the time prescribed in section one of this act shall be deemed to have

forfeited his office and, upon the written petition of any citizen of

the city in which such violation took place, must be removed therefrom

by the supreme court of the judicial district within which such city is

contained. A copy of such petition must be served upon the officer

accused and he shall have the right to appear and to give evidence and

to be heard in his defense.