§ 40-a. Recycled products. All products purchased by the courts shall be recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless the product is only available without recycled content, and provided that the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of ten percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not […]
§ 41. State commission on judicial conduct; organization. 1. A state commission on judicial conduct is hereby established. The commission shall consist of eleven members, of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, one by the temporary president of the senate, one by the minority leader of the senate, one by the speaker of […]
§ 42. Functions; powers and duties. The commission shall have the following functions, powers and duties: 1. To conduct hearings and investigations, administer oaths or affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, examine them under oath or affirmation and require the production of any books, records, documents or other evidence that it may deem relevant or […]
§ 43. Panels; referees. 1. The commission may delegate any of its functions, powers and duties to a panel of three of its members, one of whom shall be a member of the bar, except that no panel shall confer immunity in accordance with section 50.20 of the criminal procedure law. No panel shall be […]
§ 44. Complaint; investigation; hearing and disposition. 1. The commission shall receive, initiate, investigate and hear complaints with respect to the conduct, qualifications, fitness to perform, or performance of official duties of any judge, and, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision d of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, may determine that […]
§ 45. Confidentiality of records. 1. Except as hereinafter provided, all complaints, correspondence, commission proceedings and transcripts thereof, other papers and data and records of the commission shall be confidential and shall not be made available to any person except pursuant to section forty-four of this article. The commission and its designated staff personnel shall […]
§ 46. Breach of confidentiality of commission information. 1. Any staff member, employee or agent of the state commission on judicial conduct who violates any of the provisions of section forty-five of this article shall be subject to a reprimand, a fine, suspension or removal by the commission. 2. Within ten days after the commission […]
§ 47. Resignation not to divest commission or court of appeals of jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the court of appeals and the commission pursuant to this article shall continue notwithstanding that a judge resigns from office after a determination of the commission that the judge be removed from office has been transmitted to the chief […]
§ 48. Courts on the judiciary; former commission on judicial conduct; jurisdiction and powers. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary: 1. If a court on the judiciary shall have been convened before the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and the proceeding therein shall not have been concluded by that date, the court […]
