N.Y. Uniform Justice Court Act Law § 2005

§ 2005. Further powers of judges; process and mandates.\n The court shall have the power and jurisdiction to send processes and\nother mandates in any matter of which it has jurisdiction into any part\nof the county or any adjoining county, for service or execution, as\nprovided by the criminal procedure law; and particularly to compel the\nattendance of witnesses, to order the conditional examination of\nwitnesses within or without the state, to inquire into the sanity of a\ndefendant and to dismiss the prosecution of an action conformably to the\nprovisions of the criminal procedure law, and to punish for criminal\ncontempt a person guilty thereof in the manner and subject to the\nlimitations prescribed for courts of record by the judiciary law.\n