Section 30. Judges are magistrates  


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  • The judges of the court are magistrates
      and  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  jurisdiction  and powers, not
      inconsistent with this act, which are conferred by law upon  magistrates
      and  police  justices  under  the  provisions  of  the  code of criminal
      procedure and which were conferred by law upon city magistrates  of  the
      city  of  New  York  on  the  first  day of April, nineteen hundred ten.
      Notwithstanding any provision of law, when sitting as magistrates,  each
      of  the judges of the court shall have jurisdiction throughout the city,
      and may perform any and all of the duties and functions of a  magistrate
      in and for any one of the counties in the city.