New York Consolidated Laws, Uniform Justice Court Act - UJC § 107. Records and dockets of court

Each justice shall keep or cause to be kept legible and suitable books, papers, records and dockets of all civil actions and proceedings and all criminal actions and proceedings.  The rules may prescribe their form, care, custody and disposition, provided, however, that in any county or part of a county where the district court system has been duly adopted, all the dockets of the town justices then on file or required to be filed, in the office of the town clerk, shall be transferred to the office of the clerk of the district court and there kept and maintained in the same manner as other official records of the district court and responsibility for such records on the part of the town shall cease.