N.Y. Uniform Justice Court Act § 2019-a: Justices' criminal records and docket

§ 2019-a. Justices' criminal records and docket.

The records and dockets of the court except as otherwise provided by

law shall be at reasonable times open for inspection to the public and

shall be and remain the property of the village or town of the residence

of such justice, and at the expiration of the term of office of such

justice shall be forthwith filed by him in the office of the clerk of

such village or town, provided, however, that if such records and

dockets are transferred pursuant to section twenty hundred twenty-one of

the uniform district court act, the responsibility for such records and

dockets by the city, village or town shall cease and they shall be the

property of the district court to which they are transferred. The record

of every criminal action shall state the names of the witnesses sworn

and their places of residence, and if in a city, the street and house

number; and every proceeding had before him. It shall be the duty of

every such justice, at least once a year and upon the last audit day of

such village or town, to present his records and docket to the auditing

board of said village or town, which board shall examine the said

records and docket, or cause same to be examined and a report thereon

submitted to the board by a certified public accountant, or a public

accountant and enter in the minutes of its proceedings the fact that

they have been duly examined, and that the fines therein collected have

been turned over to the proper officials of the village or town as

required by law. Any such justice who shall willfully fail to make and

enter in such records and docket forthwith, the entries by this section

required to be made or to exhibit such records and docket when

reasonably required, or present his records and docket to the auditing

board as herein required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall,

upon conviction, in addition to the punishment provided by law for a

misdemeanor, forfeit his office.