FCA § 120

Expenses of the court

§ 120. Expenses of the court. (a) All salaries of the judicial and non-judicial personnel of the court and all other expenses of the court whatsoever, except as provided in subdivision (b), shall within the city of New York, be a city charge and in the counties outside the city of New York, a county charge; provided however, that the final determination of the itemized estimates of the annual financial needs of the court shall be made by the appropriate governing bodies of such counties and the city of New York in the manner provided in article seven-a of the judiciary law, and section twenty-nine of article six of the constitution.

(b) Salaries of support magistrates appointed in proceedings to compel support pursuant to section four hundred thirty-nine of this act shall be a state charge payable out of funds appropriated to the office of court administration for that purpose.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/FCT/120

In plain English

Salaries and expenses are a city charge in NYC and a county charge elsewhere (budget estimates set by the governing bodies via Judiciary Law Art. 7-A). Exception: support magistrates' salaries are a state charge (§ 439). ★

# PART 2 — Judges Within the City of New York (§§ 121–126)

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.