N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 181: Police justice

§ 181. Police justice. There shall be one justice of the court to be

known as the police justice. Said office shall be filled by election by

the electors of the city at the city election. The term of the police

justice shall be six years and he shall receive an annual salary, to be

fixed by the board of estimate and apportionment, provided, however,

that if the city does not have or is not authorized by law to have more

than one officer possessing the jurisdiction of a court of special

sessions, such salary shall be fixed at not less than thirty-five

hundred dollars per annum. If a police justice in any city shall have

served as such for more than twelve consecutive years, the board of

estimate and apportionment may, notwithstanding the provisions of

section seventy-four of this chapter, increase the salary of such

justice, from time to time, during his term of office, to take effect at

the time of any such increase or from the first day of January of the

current calendar year, as the board may determine. No person shall be

eligible for election to the office of police justice unless he be an

elector and has been an attorney of the supreme court of the state for

five years. In case of the absence or disability of the police justice

or of a vacancy in the office, any city judge or judge of the municipal

court shall perform the duties of the office until the police justice

returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. In the city of

Albany, in the case of the absence, disability or unavailability of the

police justice or of a vacancy in the office, the recorder of the city

or any justice of the city court of Albany shall perform the duties of

the office of police justice until such justice returns, his disability

ceases or the vacancy is filled.