2006 New York Code - Disqualification Of Judge By Reason Of Interest Or Consanguinity.

 
    §   14.   Disqualification   of   judge   by  reason  of  interest  or
  consanguinity.  A judge shall not sit as such in, or take  any  part  in
  the decision of, an action, claim, matter, motion or proceeding to which
  he  is a party, or in which he has been attorney or counsel, or in which
  he is interested, or if he is related by consanguinity  or  affinity  to
  any  party  to the controversy within the sixth degree. The degree shall
  be ascertained by ascending from  the  judge  to  the  common  ancestor,
  descending  to  the  party,  counting  a  degree for each person in both
  lines, including the judge and party, and excluding the common ancestor.
  But no judge of a court of record shall be disqualified in  any  action,
  claim,  matter,  motion or proceeding in which an insurance company is a
  party or is interested by reason of his being a policy  holder  therein.
  No  judge  shall be deemed disqualified from passing upon any litigation
  before him because  of  his  ownership  of  shares  of  stock  or  other
  securities  of a corporate litigant, provided that the parties, by their
  attorneys, in writing, or in open court upon the record, waive any claim
  as to disqualification of the judge.