251-A - Confidential clerks to justices of supreme court not to be appointed referees, receivers or commissioners.

§  251-a.  Confidential  clerks to justices of supreme court not to be  appointed referees, receivers or commissioners. No  person  holding  the  office  of  confidential  clerk  or  law  secretary  to a justice of the  supreme court shall hereafter be appointed by any court or judge in  any  action  or  proceeding  instituted  in  the  supreme  court,  a referee,  receiver  or  commissioner,  except  that  in  uncontested   matrimonial  actions,  a  confidential  clerk  or law secretary who is an attorney in  good standing admitted to practice in the state may be appointed  by  an  administrative  judge  to serve without fee as a referee for the purpose  of hearing and reporting to the court.