2006 New York Code - Regulation of jurisdiction, practice and procedure of the courts.

 
    §  30. The legislature shall have the same power to alter and regulate
  the jurisdiction and proceedings in  law  and  in  equity  that  it  has
  heretofore  exercised.  The  legislature  may, on such terms as it shall
  provide and subject to subsequent modification, delegate, in whole or in
  part, to a court, including the appellate division of the supreme court,
  or to the chief administrator of the courts, any power possessed by  the
  legislature  to regulate practice and procedure in the courts. The chief
  administrator of the courts shall exercise any such power  delegated  to
  him  or  her  with the advice and consent of the administrative board of
  the courts. Nothing herein  contained  shall  prevent  the  adoption  of
  regulations  by  individual  courts consistent with the general practice
  and procedure as provided by statute or general rules.