N.Y. Uniform District Court Act Law § 2021

§ 2021. Transfer of justices' criminal dockets to district court.\n In any county or part of a county when the district court system has\nbeen duly adopted, all criminal dockets of the town justices then on\nfile or required to be filed in the office of the town clerk shall be\ntransferred to the office of the clerk of the district court and there\nkept and maintained in the same manner as other official records of the\ndistrict court.\n