New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 22 - JUDICIARY
Subtitle B - Courts
Chapter IV - Supreme Court
Subchapter A - First Judicial Department
Article 1 - Appellate Division
Subarticle A - Rules of Practice
Part 612 - Rules To Implement A Criminal Courts Panel Plan
Section 612.0 - Introduction

The justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in and for the First Judicial Department, by virtue of the authority vested in them by law and pursuant to article 18-B of the County Law as implemented by Executive Order No. 178 of the Mayor of the City of New York effective December 1, 1965, and by the Assigned Counsel Plan, approved by the Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference of the State of New York on April 28, 1966, do hereby, effective July 1, 1980, adopt this Part to establish rules governing the Criminal Courts Panel Plan of the Assigned Counsel Plan for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, and to set forth rules and standards regulating the selection, designation, performance and professional conduct of individual panel plan attorneys appointed to furnish representation for indigent defendants in criminal proceedings.