N.Y. CPL Law § 10.10

§ 10.10 The criminal courts; enumeration and definitions.\n 1. The "criminal courts" of this state are comprised of the superior\ncourts and the local criminal courts.\n 2. "Superior court" means:\n (a) The supreme court; or\n (b) A county court.\n 3. "Local criminal court" means:\n (a) A district court; or\n (b) The New York City criminal court; or\n (c) A city court; or\n (d) A town court; or\n (e) A village court; or\n (f) A supreme court justice sitting as a local criminal court; or\n (g) A county judge sitting as a local criminal court.\n 4. "City court" means any court for a city, other than New York City,\nhaving trial jurisdiction of offenses of less than felony grade only\ncommitted within such city, whether such court is entitled a city court,\na municipal court, a police court, a recorder's court or is known by any\nother name or title.\n 5. "Town court." A "town court" is comprised of all the town justices\nof a town.\n 6. "Village court." A "village court" is comprised of the justice of a\nvillage, or all the justices thereof if there be more than one, or, at a\ntime when he or they are absent, an associate justice of a village who\nis authorized to perform the functions of a village justice during his\nabsence.\n 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a court\nspecified herein which possesses civil as well as criminal jurisdiction\ndoes not act as a criminal court when acting solely in the exercise of\nits civil jurisdiction, and an order or determination made by such a\ncourt in its civil capacity is not an order or determination of a\ncriminal court even though it may terminate or otherwise control or\naffect a criminal action or proceeding.\n