N.Y. CRC Law § 50

§ 50. Complaints; not to be prepared in courtroom. Provision shall be\nmade at all times in each part of the court in which a judge is sitting\nas a magistrate whereby the clerk, the clerk's assistants or other\nemployees whose duty it is to prepare complaints shall have proper\naccommodations and the necessary room or rooms separate from but\nconvenient to the room in which the court is held, and therein shall be\nat all times conspicuously posted a notice legibly printed in English,\nSpanish, Italian and Yiddish, respectively, and such other language as a\nrule or order of court shall prescribe, to the effect that any person to\nwhom permission is refused to make and verify a complaint and who is\nthereby aggrieved will be heard upon application to the judge in person\nbefore the closing of the pending session of the court. It shall be the\nduty of each such judge before opening and again before closing a\nsession to cause to be intelligibly announced to all persons in and\nabout his courtroom that the court will then and there hear all\ncomplaints which have not been taken by the complaint clerk.\n