2006 New York Code - Judge Other Than Of Court Of Appeals Or Appellate Division Not To Decide Question Argued During His Absence.

 
    §  21.  Judge other than of court of appeals or appellate division not
  to decide question argued during his absence. A judge other than a judge
  of the court of appeals, or of the appellate  division  of  the  supreme
  court,  shall  not  decide  or  take part in the decision of a question,
  which was argued orally in the  court,  when  he  was  not  present  and
  sitting therein as a judge.