§ 39-b. Special provisions relating to court facilities. 1. For\npurposes of this section:\n (a) the term "court facilities" shall mean facilities for the\ntransaction of business by the state-paid courts and court-related\nagencies of the unified court system and the judicial and nonjudicial\npersonnel thereof, including rooms and accommodations for the courts and\ncourt-related agencies of the unified court system, the judges, justices\nand the clerical, administrative and other personnel thereof.\n (b) the term "cleaning of court facilities" shall mean those services\nand activities that are necessary to insure that the interior of each\ncourt facility is and remains a clean and healthful environment in which\nto transact the business of the unified court system. These services and\nactivities include, but are not limited to: removal of trash and debris;\nmaintenance of appropriate standards of hygiene; painting; pest control;\nand replacement of consumable items such as light bulbs, soap, toilet\npaper and paper towelling. They also shall include the making of minor\nrepairs in accordance with rules of the chief judge.\n (c) the term "political subdivision" shall include each county of the\nstate outside the city of New York and each city of the state.\n 2. Commencing April first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, the state\nshall be responsible for the cleaning of court facilities and, subject\nto the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision three of this\nsection, shall pay the cost thereof out of funds appropriated from the\ncourt facilities incentive aid fund to the judiciary for that purpose.\n 3. (a) Notwithstanding any provision herein, the state shall enter\ninto a contract with a political subdivision pursuant to which such\npolitical subdivision shall provide for the cleaning of court facilities\nlocated therein except that, where any such political subdivision shall\nfail to comply with the provisions of such contract, the chief\nadministrator may proceed pursuant to an alternative plan for the\ncleaning of court facilities located in such political subdivision\nsubject to the approval of such alternative plan by the court facilities\ncapital review board in the same manner as the approval of the capital\nplan of a political subdivision pursuant to section sixteen hundred\neighty-c of the public authorities law.\n (b) Any contract with a political subdivision entered pursuant to\nparagraph (a) of this subdivision for the cleaning of court facilities\nin that political subdivision during a fiscal year ending prior to April\nfirst, two thousand one shall provide that the political subdivision\nshall pay the cost of such cleaning in the first instance and that the\nstate shall reimburse the political subdivision from funds appropriated\nfrom the court facilities incentive aid fund an amount equaling: (i)\ntwenty-five percent of all expenses the political subdivision actually\nand necessarily incurred in compliance with this paragraph if the fiscal\nyear commenced April first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, (ii) fifty\npercent of all expenses the political subdivision actually and\nnecessarily incurred in compliance with this paragraph if the fiscal\nyear commenced April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and (iii)\nseventy-five percent of all expenses the political subdivision actually\nand necessarily incurred in compliance with this paragraph if the fiscal\nyear commenced April first, two thousand.\n (c) Where a political subdivision shall fail to enter into a contract\npursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision for the cleaning of court\nfacilities in that political subdivision during a fiscal year ending\nprior to April first, two thousand one or to comply with provisions of\nsuch a contract once entered into, and the chief administrator proceeds\npursuant to an alternative plan pursuant to such paragraph, the chief\nadministrator shall certify that fact to the state comptroller, the\ndirect
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