2006 New York Code - Administrative Functions Of The Chief Judge Of The Court Of Appeals.

 
    §  211.  Administrative  functions  of the chief judge of the court of
  appeals. 1. The chief judge, after consultation with the  administrative
  board, shall establish standards and administrative policies for general
  application  to the unified court system throughout the state, including
  but not limited to standards and administrative policies relating to:
    (a)  The  dispatch  of   judicial   business,   the   designation   of
  administrative  judges,  hours of court, assignment of terms and judges,
  transfer of judges and causes among the  courts  of  the  unified  court
  system,  the  assignment  and  reassignment  of administrative functions
  performed by judicial and nonjudicial personnel, the need for additional
  judicial or nonjudicial  personnel,  and  the  publication  of  judicial
  opinions.
    (b) The adoption, amendment, recission and implementation of rules and
  orders  regulating  practice and procedure in the courts, subject to the
  reserved power of the legislature provided  for  in  section  thirty  of
  article six of the constitution.
    (c)  The  form and preparation of the itemized estimates of the annual
  financial needs of the unified court system.
    (d) Personnel practices  affecting  nonjudicial  personnel  including:
  title   structure,   job   definition,  classification,  qualifications,
  appointments, promotions, transfers, leaves of absence, resignations and
  reinstatements, performance ratings, removal, sick leaves, vacations and
  time allowances. Statewide standards and policies  concerning  personnel
  practices relating to nonjudicial personnel shall be consistent with the
  civil  service  law,  and shall be promulgated after a public hearing at
  which affected nonjudicial employees or their representatives shall have
  the  opportunity  to  submit  criticisms,  objections  and   suggestions
  relating to the proposed standards and policies.
    (e) Administrative methods and systems of the unified court system.
    (f) The form, content, maintenance and disposition of court records.
    (g) Fiscal, accounting and auditing practices, the collection of fines
  and fees, and the custody and disposition of court funds.
    (g-1)  A  system  of  internal  control  for the unified court system,
  pursuant to article seven-D of this chapter.
    (h)  The  purchase,  distribution  and  allocation  of  equipment  and
  supplies.
    (i)  The  maintenance  and  management  of law libraries, provision of
  rooms and accommodations for the courts of the unified court system, the
  judges, justices and the clerical and administrative personnel thereof.
    * (j) The continuing development and  implementation  of  methods  and
  techniques   designed  to  reduce  significantly  the  trauma  to  child
  witnesses likely to be caused by testifying in court proceedings.
    * NB Effective until September 1, 2007
    * (j) The examination of the operation of the courts and the state  of
  their dockets and the investigation of criticisms and recommendations.
    * NB Effective September 1, 2007
    * (k)   The   appropriate   education   and  training  of  judges  and
  non-judicial courtroom personnel concerning the social and psychological
  stages of child development to ensure that they adopt or  modify,  where
  appropriate,   courtroom   procedures,  including  the  questioning  and
  treatment of a child witness by the parties, to protect the  child  from
  emotional or psychological harm.
    * NB Repealed September 1, 2007
    * (l)  The examination of the operation of the courts and the state of
  their dockets and the investigation of criticisms and recommendations.
    * NB Repealed September 1, 2007
    2. The chief judge shall  submit  such  standards  and  administrative
  policies  to the court of appeals, together with the recommendations, if
  any, of the administrative  board.  Such  standards  and  administrative
  policies  shall  be promulgated by the chief judge after approval by the
  court of appeals.
    3.  Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of chief judge or if the
  chief judge shall be unable to exercise the duties, functions or  powers
  of  his office, during the period of such vacancy or inability the court
  of appeals shall designate an associate judge of that court  to  act  in
  his stead.
    4. By September first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the chief judge,
  after  consultation  with the administrative board, shall approve a form
  of annual statement of financial disclosure which form  shall  apply  to
  all  judges, justices, officers and employees of the courts of record of
  the unified court system, who receive annual compensation  at  or  above
  the  filing  rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one of section
  seventy-three-a of the public officers law or are determined to  hold  a
  policy-making position pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated
  pursuant to this subdivision. Such form of annual statement of financial
  disclosure  shall  be  substantially  similar  to  the form set forth in
  subdivision three of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.
  Within one year after approval of such form, the chief judge shall cause
  the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules or regulations
  which require every judge, justice, officer and employee of  the  courts
  of  record of the unified court system, who receives annual compensation
  at or above the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision  one
  of  section  seventy-three-a of the public officers law or is determined
  to hold a policy-making position, to report the information required  by
  the  approved  form effective first with respect to a filing which shall
  be required in nineteen  hundred  ninety-one  (generally  applicable  to
  information  for  the preceding calendar year) and thereafter, effective
  for future annual filings. Such rules and regulations shall also provide
  for the determination, by the appointing authority, of policy-makers who
  shall be required to file the annual statement of  financial  disclosure
  required by this subdivision. Any judge, justice, officer or employee of
  the  courts  of record of the unified court system who, pursuant to such
  rules or regulations, is required to file a completed  annual  statement
  of financial disclosure and who makes such filing in accordance with the
  requirements  contained in such rules or regulations, shall be deemed to
  have satisfied the requirements of any other law mandating the filing of
  a completed annual statement of financial disclosure for the  applicable
  calendar  year  which  might  otherwise  apply to such judges, justices,
  officers or employees, and no duplicate  filing  shall  be  required  on
  account  of  any  other such law, notwithstanding the provisions of such
  other law.