2006 New York Code - Police Justice.

 
    § 181. Police  justice.  There shall be one justice of the court to be
  known as the police justice. Said office shall be filled by election  by
  the  electors  of  the city at the city election. The term of the police
  justice shall be six years and he shall receive an annual salary, to  be
  fixed  by  the  board  of estimate and apportionment, provided, however,
  that if the city does not have or is not authorized by law to have  more
  than  one  officer  possessing  the  jurisdiction  of a court of special
  sessions, such salary shall  be  fixed  at  not  less  than  thirty-five
  hundred  dollars  per annum.  If a police justice in any city shall have
  served as such for more than twelve  consecutive  years,  the  board  of
  estimate  and  apportionment  may,  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
  section seventy-four of  this  chapter,  increase  the  salary  of  such
  justice, from time to time, during his term of office, to take effect at
  the  time  of  any such increase or from the first day of January of the
  current calendar year, as the board may determine. No  person  shall  be
  eligible  for  election  to the office of police justice unless he be an
  elector and has been an attorney of the supreme court of the  state  for
  five  years.  In case of the absence or disability of the police justice
  or of a vacancy in the office, any city judge or judge of the  municipal
  court  shall  perform  the duties of the office until the police justice
  returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. In the city  of
  Albany,  in the case of the absence, disability or unavailability of the
  police justice or of a vacancy in the office, the recorder of  the  city
  or  any  justice of the city court of Albany shall perform the duties of
  the office of police justice until such justice returns, his  disability
  ceases or the vacancy is filled.