N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 230.21

§ 230.21 Removal of action to certain courts in an adjoining county.\n 1. In any county outside a city having a population of one million or\nmore, the court may, upon motion of the defendant and with consent of\nthe district attorney and the district attorney of the adjoining county\nthat has a superior court designated a human trafficking court or\nveterans treatment court by the chief administrator of the courts, order\nthat the indictment and action be removed from the court in which the\nmatter is pending to such human trafficking court or veterans treatment\ncourt, whereupon such court may then conduct such action to judgment or\nother final disposition; provided, however, that no court may order\nremoval to a veterans treatment court of a family offense charge\ndescribed in subdivision one of section 530.11 of this chapter pursuant\nto this section where the accused and the person alleged to be the\nvictim of such offense charged are members of the same family or\nhousehold as defined in such subdivision one of section 530.11; and\nprovided further that an order of removal issued under this subdivision\nshall not take effect until five days after the date the order is issued\nunless, prior to such effective date, the human trafficking court or\nveterans treatment court notifies the court that issued the order that:\n (a) it will not accept the action, in which event the order shall not\ntake effect, or\n (b) it will accept the action on a date prior to such effective date,\nin which event the order shall take effect upon such prior date.\n 2. Upon providing notification pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of\nsubdivision one of this section, the human trafficking court or veterans\ntreatment court shall promptly give notice to the defendant, his or her\ncounsel and the district attorney of both counties.\n