N.Y. Jud. Law § 7

§ 7. Adjournment of term on non-appearance of judge. If a judge,\nauthorized to hold a term of a court, does not come to the place where\nthe term is appointed to be held, or to which it shall have been\nadjourned by the judge, before four o'clock in the afternoon of the day\nso appointed or of such adjourned day, the sheriff or clerk must then\nopen the term, and forthwith adjourn it, or again adjourn it, as the\ncase may be, to nine o'clock in the morning of the next day. If the\njudge attends by four o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the\nterm as appointed or as adjourned by such judge, he must open the term;\notherwise the sheriff or the clerk must adjourn it without day. If,\nbefore four o'clock of the second day of the term as appointed or as\nadjourned by the judge, the sheriff or the clerk receives from a judge,\nauthorized to hold the term, a written direction to adjourn the term to\na future day certain, he must adjourn it accordingly, instead of\nadjourning it as above prescribed. The direction must be entered in the\nminutes as an order.\n