Section 849-I. Application procedures

1. Each town and village having a
  justice court may make an individual  application  for  funds  available
  pursuant  to  this  article,  or  two or more such towns or villages, or
  towns and villages, may make a joint application  for  such  funds.  All
  applications shall be submitted to the chief administrator of the courts
  for his or her approval.
    2.  The  chief administrator shall require that applications submitted
  for funding provide such information  as  he  or  she  deems  necessary,
  including at least the following:
    (a) The amount of funding sought.
    (b)  A  detailed  description  of the purpose or purposes to which the
  funding will be applied.
    (c)  A  detailed  description  of  the  court  or  courts  making  the
  application,  including information as to staffing, caseload, budget and
  facilities as  well  as  general  information  about  the  community  or
  communities served, where such general information would be pertinent to
  the purpose to which the funding will be applied.
    3.  In  determining  whether  to  approve  an  application,  the chief
  administrator shall consider:
    (a) Whether the applicant has complied with all rules and  regulations
  governing the program and all pertinent provisions of this article;
    (b)  The likely impact of approving such application upon the court or
  courts to be affected thereby, upon the communities served, and upon the
  judiciary generally;
    (c) The availability of other sources of funding to pay some or all of
  the costs for which the application seeks funding under the program;
    (d) The number and content of all other applications for funding  then
  available under the program;
    (e)  The  extent  of funding already received under the program by the
  applicant (or joint applicants) pursuant to past applications; and
    (f) The magnitude of the funding appropriated for the purposes of this
  article.
    4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief administrator
  shall not approve any  application  for  funding  in  excess  of  thirty
  thousand  dollars unless such application is a joint application and the
  aggregate funding sought thereunder does not exceed an  amount  equaling
  the  product  of  the number of joint applicants making such application
  and thirty thousand dollars.