2006 New York Code - Adjournment Of Term On Non-appearance Of Judge.

 
    §  7.  Adjournment  of  term  on  non-appearance of judge. If a judge,
  authorized to hold a term of a court, does not come to the  place  where
  the  term  is  appointed  to  be  held,  or  to which it shall have been
  adjourned by the judge, before four o'clock in the afternoon of the  day
  so  appointed  or  of such adjourned day, the sheriff or clerk must then
  open the term, and forthwith adjourn it, or again  adjourn  it,  as  the
  case  may  be,  to  nine  o'clock in the morning of the next day. If the
  judge attends by four o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of  the
  term  as appointed or as adjourned by such judge, he must open the term;
  otherwise the sheriff or the clerk must  adjourn  it  without  day.  If,
  before  four  o'clock  of  the second day of the term as appointed or as
  adjourned by the judge, the sheriff or the clerk receives from a  judge,
  authorized  to hold the term, a written direction to adjourn the term to
  a future day  certain,  he  must  adjourn  it  accordingly,  instead  of
  adjourning  it as above prescribed. The direction must be entered in the
  minutes as an order.