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

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

The court shall have the power and jurisdiction to send processes and

other mandates in any matter of which it has 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 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.