219 - Capital plans for court facilities.

§ 219. Capital plans for court facilities. The chief executive officer  of each political subdivision of the state specified in paragraph (a) of  subdivision  two of section thirty-nine of this chapter shall, not later  than twenty-four months  after  the  effective  date  of  this  section,  prepare  and  submit  to  the  chief  administrator an assessment of the  suitability and sufficiency for  the  transaction  of  business  of  the  facilities  it  furnishes  the  courts,  together  with  a  plan for the  acquisition,  design,  construction,   reconstruction,   rehabilitation,  improvement  and  financing  of  such  facilities  and  such  additional  facilities as may be needed by the unified court  system  as  reasonably  determined  by the chief administrator after consultation with the chief  executive  officer.   In   making   such   determinations,   the   chief  administrator  may  establish  priorities  among  the  facilities' needs  within each political subdivision if he or she  determines  that  it  is  practicable  and in the best interests of the unified court system to do  so. Each such assessment and plan shall be in the form prescribed by the  chief administrator and prepared in compliance with such  standards  and  administrative  policies  as  may  be  promulgated  pursuant  to section  twenty-eight of article six of the constitution and shall be subject  to  the  approval  of  the  court facilities capital review board. Following  such approval, they shall constitute the capital plan for the  political  subdivision by which they were prepared.