§ 147-a. Powers of justice of supreme court. Any justice of the
supreme court has power to hold a special or trial term of the supreme
court in any county for the whole or any portion of the term, and to act
upon any business which regularly comes before the term in which he is
sitting, except where he is personally disqualified from sitting, in a
particular action or special proceeding. Each justice, at all
reasonable times, when not engaged in holding court, must transact such
judicial business as may be done out of court.