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SECTION 2005
Further powers of judges; process and mandates
Uniform Justice Court Act (UJC) CHAPTER 898, ARTICLE 20
§ 2005. Further powers of judges; process and mandates.

The court shall have the power and jurisdiction to send processes and
other mandates in any matter of which it has jurisdiction into any part
of the county or any adjoining county, for service or execution, as
provided by the criminal procedure law; and particularly to compel the
attendance of witnesses, to order the conditional examination of
witnesses within or without the state, to inquire into the sanity of a
defendant and to dismiss the prosecution of an action conformably to the
provisions of the criminal procedure law, and to punish for criminal
contempt a person guilty thereof in the manner and subject to the
limitations prescribed for courts of record by the judiciary law.