The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state's approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee consists of 27 current and retired judges, and is co-chaired by the Honorable Margaret Walsh, a justice of the supreme court in Albany County, and the Honorable Lillian Wan, an associate justice of the appellate division, second department.

This responds to your inquiry (21-121) asking if you, a full-time judge, may write to members of the county legislature to "emphasize the urgency of completing the needed repairs" to your courthouse and to "encourage them to proceed promptly, perhaps by using some of the [monies that your] county has received from the Federal American Rescue Plan (COVID-19 aid)" in order to do so.  You would also like to "encourage" certain other judges in your county to "express support for completion of the repairs."