Division of state into judicial districts

§ 140. Division of state into judicial districts. The state is hereby
divided into thirteen judicial districts, pursuant to the provisions of
the first section of the sixth article of the constitution, which
districts shall be arranged as follows:

The first judicial district shall consist of the county of New York;

The second judicial district shall consist of the county of Kings;

The third judicial district shall consist of the counties of Columbia,
Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer;

The fourth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Warren,
Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, Saint Lawrence, Clinton,
Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton and Schenectady;

The fifth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Onondaga,
Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis;

The sixth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Otsego,
Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland
and Schuyler;

The seventh judicial district shall consist of the counties of
Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, Steuben, Monroe and Cayuga;

The eighth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Erie,
Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and
Wyoming;

The ninth judicial district shall consist of the counties of
Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland;

The tenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of Nassau
and Suffolk.

The eleventh judicial district shall consist of the county of Queens.
The creation of such eleventh district shall not affect or impair the
rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the
supreme court in office on the first day of September, nineteen hundred
and sixty-two in the tenth judicial district as theretofore constituted;
each such officer or employee employed in the county of Queens on such
date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the eleventh
judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the
counties of Nassau and Suffolk on such date shall thereafter be an
officer or employee for the tenth judicial district.

The twelfth judicial district shall consist of the county of Bronx.
The creation of such twelfth district shall not affect or impair the
rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee of the
supreme court in office on the first day of January, nineteen hundred
eighty-three in the first judicial district as theretofore constituted;
each such officer or employee employed in the county of Bronx on such
date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the twelfth judicial
district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of New
York on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the
first judicial district.

The thirteenth judicial district shall consist of the county of
Richmond. The creation of such thirteenth district shall not affect or
impair the rights, privileges or compensation of any officer or employee
of the supreme court in office on the first day of January, two thousand
eight in the second judicial district as theretofore constituted; each
such officer or employee employed in the county of Richmond on such date
shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the thirteenth judicial
district and each such officer or employee employed in the county of
Kings on such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the
second judicial district.