2006 New York Code - 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 county of the state, 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 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. Notwithstanding the provisions of
  subdivision two of section 130.40  of  the  criminal  procedure  law,  a
  summons  returnable  in  a  district  court  alleging a violation of any
  state, municipal or local law, regulation, ordinance or  rule  governing
  the ownership or conditions of real property or any building, structure,
  improvement,  or  conditions  thereon located within the jurisdiction of
  the court may be served anywhere in the state.