Section 10.10. The criminal courts; enumeration and definitions

1.  The  "criminal courts" of this state are comprised of the superior
  courts and the local criminal courts.
    2. "Superior court" means:
    (a) The supreme court; or
    (b) A county court.
    3. "Local criminal court" means:
    (a) A district court; or
    (b) The New York City criminal court; or
    (c) A city court; or
    (d) A town court; or
    (e) A village court; or
    (f) A supreme court justice sitting as a local criminal court; or
    (g) A county judge sitting as a local criminal court.
    4. "City court" means any court for a city, other than New York  City,
  having  trial  jurisdiction  of  offenses of less than felony grade only
  committed within such city, whether such court is entitled a city court,
  a municipal court, a police court, a recorder's court or is known by any
  other name or title.
    5. "Town court." A "town court" is comprised of all the town  justices
  of a town.
    6. "Village court." A "village court" is comprised of the justice of a
  village, or all the justices thereof if there be more than one, or, at a
  time  when  he or they are absent, an acting justice of a village who is
  authorized to perform the functions of  a  village  justice  during  his
  absence.
    7.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this  section, a court
  specified herein which possesses civil as well as criminal  jurisdiction
  does  not  act as a criminal court when acting solely in the exercise of
  its civil jurisdiction, and an order or determination  made  by  such  a
  court  in  its  civil  capacity  is  not  an order or determination of a
  criminal court even though it may  terminate  or  otherwise  control  or
  affect a criminal action or proceeding.