N.Y. UJC Law § 2019-A

§ 2019-a. Justices' criminal records and docket.\n The records and dockets of the court except as otherwise provided by\nlaw shall be at reasonable times open for inspection to the public and\nshall be and remain the property of the village or town of the residence\nof such justice, and at the expiration of the term of office of such\njustice shall be forthwith filed by him in the office of the clerk of\nsuch village or town, provided, however, that if such records and\ndockets are transferred pursuant to section twenty hundred twenty-one of\nthe uniform district court act, the responsibility for such records and\ndockets by the city, village or town shall cease and they shall be the\nproperty of the district court to which they are transferred. The record\nof every criminal action shall state the names of the witnesses sworn\nand their places of residence, and if in a city, the street and house\nnumber; and every proceeding had before him. It shall be the duty of\nevery such justice, at least once a year and upon the last audit day of\nsuch village or town, to present his records and docket to the auditing\nboard of said village or town, which board shall examine the said\nrecords and docket, or cause same to be examined and a report thereon\nsubmitted to the board by a certified public accountant, or a public\naccountant and enter in the minutes of its proceedings the fact that\nthey have been duly examined, and that the fines therein collected have\nbeen turned over to the proper officials of the village or town as\nrequired by law. Any such justice who shall willfully fail to make and\nenter in such records and docket forthwith, the entries by this section\nrequired to be made or to exhibit such records and docket when\nreasonably required, or present his records and docket to the auditing\nboard as herein required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall,\nupon conviction, in addition to the punishment provided by law for a\nmisdemeanor, forfeit his office.\n