§ 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.