99-A - Appointment of employees of appellate divisions in the third and fourth departments.

§  99-a.  Appointment of employees of appellate divisions in the third  and fourth departments. The justices of the appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court  in  the  third  and fourth departments, or a majority of  them, are authorized to appoint and at pleasure remove not more than two  additional employees, than are employed  at  the  time  this  act  takes  effect,  to prescribe the duties and fix the salaries thereof. Except as  provided in the state finance law, such salaries shall be  certified  by  the appropriate presiding justice of each such appellate division to the  state  comptroller  who  shall  audit  the same. The state department of  taxation and finance shall  pay  such  salaries  in  equal  semi-monthly  instalments,  and  shall  apportion  the  total amount thereof among the  counties comprising the appropriate judicial department.  Such  counties  shall reimburse the state for such salaries. The time and method of such  apportionment  and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as  specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.