N.Y. JUD Law § 521

§ 521. Fees and travel expenses of jurors. (a) Except as provided in\nsubdivision (b) of this section, trial and grand jurors in each court of\nthe unified court system shall be entitled to an allowance equal to the\nsum of seventy-two dollars per day for each and every day of physical\nattendance wherein the court convenes, except that no person who is\nemployed shall be entitled to receive such allowance if, pursuant to\nsection five hundred nineteen of this article, their employer is\nprohibited from withholding the first seventy-two dollars of wages of\nsuch person during such period and such person's daily wages equal or\nexceed seventy-two dollars. If such person's daily wages are less than\nseventy-two dollars, such person shall be entitled to receive an\nallowance hereunder equal to the difference between seventy-two dollars\nand the amount of their daily wages. Such fees and those expenses\nactually and necessarily incurred in providing food and lodging for\njurors shall be a state charge payable out of funds appropriated to the\noffice of court administration for that purpose.\n (b) No employee shall be entitled to receive the per diem allowance\nauthorized by subdivision (a) of this section for any regularly\nscheduled workday on which jury service is rendered if, on such day, his\nor her wages are not withheld on account of such service.\n (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a trial or\ngrand juror may waive entitlement to the allowance authorized by\nsubdivision (a) of this section. In such event the amount of such\nallowance shall be available to the chief administrator of the courts\nsolely for the purposes specified in paragraph (m) of subdivision two of\nsection two hundred twelve of this chapter, except that any such amounts\nnot expended in such fashion as of the close of the fiscal year in which\nthey became available shall be transferred by the comptroller to the\nsupplemental jury facilities fund established pursuant to section\nninety-four-c of the state finance law.\n