§ 218 — Courthouses and judicial expenditures

§ 218. Courthouses and judicial expenditures. 1. Except as otherwise\nprovided by law, each board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms\nfor courts of record within the county including rooms for holding\ncourt, grand and trial jurors, witnesses and attorneys during such terms\nof court. Chambers shall be provided for any resident judge of the court\nof appeals or justice of the supreme court and may be provided for the\ncounty judge, surrogate, and family court judge. The board of\nsupervisors shall provide necessary and suitable furnishings together\nwith light, heat, telephone, law books, periodicals and such other\nfurniture, supplies or equipment as may be necessary for such courts to\nproperly function. If such board after a written request by any resident\njudge of the court of appeals or justice of the supreme court presiding\ntherein fails after a reasonable time to furnish such provisions, such\njudge or justice may require the sheriff to furnish the same and the\nexpense shall be a county charge. When such rooms are not being used for\ncourt purposes, the same may be used for any other public purposes; and\nadditional rooms may be provided for hearings, examinations, clinics and\nother lawful public purposes. When so ordered by the court, the sheriff\nshall provide food and lodging for jurors kept together pending a trial\nand their deliberation thereon, and for grand jurors kept together\npending an indictment or presentment and their deliberation thereon, and\nthe cost shall be paid by the county treasurer upon order of the\npresiding judge or justice. The board shall provide for the expense of\nprinting and publishing proclamations, notices of terms and court\ncalendars as required by law. The compensation and lawful expenses of\ncourt attendants, court criers, jurors, grand jurors, witnesses,\ninterpreters and stenographers, except as otherwise provided by law,\nshall be a county charge and paid in the manner prescribed by law.\n 2. The board of supervisors shall audit and pay the fees allowable for\nservices rendered by justices of the peace, police justices, city\njudges, police officers and peace officers of the cities, towns and\nvillages within the county in criminal proceedings, for or on account of\nan offense which a court of special sessions has not jurisdiction to\ntry. A county shall pay any amount due to a town or village for the\nservices of a justice of the peace or police justice which is a county\ncharge upon presentation to it of a claim by the state comptroller for\nsuch charges each quarter.\n