New York Second Class Cities Law Article 12 - JUDICIARY

• 180 - Jurisdiction of Police Court.
  If, under the general or local laws, there now exists or shall hereafter be established in the city a court of criminal jurisdiction known as...
• 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...
• 182 - Vacancy, How Filled.
  When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, in the office of police justice, the same shall be filled, for the balance...
• 183 - Jurisdiction and Powers.
  The police court shall have, in the first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all charges of misdemeanor, committed within the city and shall...
• 184 - Further Jurisdiction.
  The police justice shall also possess all the powers and jurisdiction of a magistrate, which are or may be conferred by law upon justices of...
• 186 - Office Hours.
  It shall be the duty of the police justice to be present at the police court rooms at such times and during such hours as...
• 187 - Clerk.
  The police justice shall have a clerk of the court, who shall be the confidential appointee of said justice, and who shall have the power...
• 188 - Trial by Jury.
  In the police court, at the time of interposing any plea which forms an issue of fact, the defendant may demand a trial by jury,...
• 189 - Jurors and Juries.
  Jurors for the trial of an action in which a jury has been demanded shall be drawn and summoned and a trial jury shall be...
• 191 - Pay of Jurors.
  Jurors in the police court shall receive the same compensation as jurors in justice's court held by justices of the peace except that in the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019