Section 814. Care and management of court law libraries

1. Each court law
  library  shall  be  under  the  care  and  management   of   the   chief
  administrator  of the courts. Each shall have a board of trustees, which
  shall consist of four members, all of whom shall  be  residents  of  the
  county  in  which  the library is located, and who shall be appointed by
  the chief administrator in accordance with this section.  The  chair  of
  the  board  shall  be  a  justice of the supreme court or, if no justice
  resides in the county, a judge of the county court, family court  or  of
  the  surrogate's  court  of  the county. Of the remaining members of the
  board, one shall be an attorney who has been admitted to the practice of
  law in this state; one shall be a member of the board of supervisors  or
  other legislative body of the county in which the library is located, or
  in  the  case  of  a  county  wholly  contained  within  a  city, of the
  legislative body of such city, and one member shall  be  appointed  upon
  the  recommendation  of  the president of the county bar association. In
  addition to the four members of each  board  of  trustees  provided  for
  hereinabove,   the  chief  administrator  of  the  courts  may,  in  his
  discretion, appoint such other members  as  he  deems  appropriate.  The
  members of the board shall serve without pay for a term of two years and
  shall  be  eligible  to  be  reappointed  to successive terms of office.
  Membership on a board of trustees  shall  terminate  whenever  a  member
  ceases  to  be a resident of the county, or ceases to hold public office
  if the holding of such public office was required at the  time  of  such
  member's  appointment  to  the  board. A vacancy shall be filled for the
  unexpired term in the same manner as an original appointment.
    2. Each board of trustees shall provide the chief  administrator  with
  such  assistance as he or she shall require in maintaining and operating
  the court law library.
    3. In the event of any change  in  the  designation  of  a  court  law
  library  for  the purpose of receiving materials transmitted pursuant to
  paragraph c of subdivision four  of  section  one  hundred  two  of  the
  executive  law,  the  chief  administrator  shall  cause  the previously
  designated library within such judicial district to  transfer  all  such
  materials in its possession to the newly designated library.
    4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the supreme court
  library  in  borough  of  Brooklyn  nor  to the supreme court library at
  Buffalo until April first, nineteen hundred ninety-four. Such  libraries
  are  continued  as  court  law  libraries  under  the provisions of this
  article effective April first, nineteen hundred ninety-four.