N.Y. Uniform City Court Act § 2005: Further powers of judges; process and mandates

§ 2005. Further powers of judges; process and mandates.

The judges of the court shall have the power and jurisdiction to send

processes and other mandates in any matter of which they have

jurisdiction into any part of the county or any adjoining county, for

service or execution, as provided by the criminal procedure law; and

particularly to compel the attendance of witnesses, to order the

conditional examination of witnesses, to issue commissions for the

examination of witnesses within or without the state, to inquire into

the sanity of a defendant and to dismiss the prosecution of an action

conformably to the provisions of the criminal procedure law, and to

punish for criminal contempt a person guilty thereof in the manner and

subject to the limitations prescribed for courts of record by the

judiciary law.