849-I - Application procedures.

§  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.