N.Y. Jud. Law § 521

§ 521. Fees and travel expenses of jurors. (a) Except as provided in\nsubdivision (b) of this section, trial and grand jurors in each court of\nthe unified court system shall be entitled to an allowance equal to the\nsum of forty dollars per day for each and every day of physical\nattendance wherein the court convenes, except that no person who is\nemployed shall be entitled to receive such allowance if, pursuant to\nsection five hundred nineteen of this article, his or her employer is\nprohibited from withholding the first forty dollars of wages of such\nperson during such period and such person's daily wages equal or exceed\nforty dollars. If such person's daily wages are less than forty dollars,\nhe or she shall be entitled to receive an allowance hereunder equal to\nthe difference between forty dollars and the amount of his or her daily\nwages. Such fees and those expenses actually and necessarily incurred in\nproviding food and lodging for jurors shall be a state charge payable\nout of funds appropriated to the office of court administration for that\npurpose.\n (b) No employee shall be entitled to receive the per diem allowance\nauthorized by subdivision (a) of this section for any regularly\nscheduled workday on which jury service is rendered if, on such day, his\nor her wages are not withheld on account of such service.\n (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a trial or\ngrand juror may waive entitlement to the allowance authorized by\nsubdivision (a) of this section. In such event the amount of such\nallowance shall be available to the chief administrator of the courts\nsolely for the purposes specified in paragraph (m) of subdivision two of\nsection two hundred twelve of this chapter, except that any such amounts\nnot expended in such fashion as of the close of the fiscal year in which\nthey became available shall be transferred by the comptroller to the\nsupplemental jury facilities fund established pursuant to section\nninety-four-c of the state finance law.\n