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    SECTION 30

    Judges are magistrates

    New York City Criminal Court Act (CRC) CHAPTER 697, ARTICLE 3

    § 30. Judges are magistrates. 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.