NY Legis L § 6 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LEG - Legislative Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature 6 - Officers and Employees of the Senate.

§ 6. Officers  and employees of the senate. 1. The senate may choose a   secretary,  a  sergeant-at-arms,  and  an  official  stenographer.   The   secretary  of the senate shall be elected for the term of the senate. If   the senate shall be unable to choose any such officer at the time of the   organization of the senate, the temporary president of  the  senate  may   appoint  a  person  to  fill the vacancy thus created, and the person so   appointed shall serve as such  officer  until  his  successor  has  been   chosen by the senate and thus qualified.2.  The president of the senate, the temporary president of the senate   and the minority leader of the senate may each appoint such employees to   assist him in the performance of his duties as  may  be  authorized  and   provided  for  in  the  legislative appropriation bill. Employees of the   president of the senate who are paid from appropriations  made  for  the   legislature  shall be considered as employees of the legislature for all   purposes.   The   secretary   of    the    senate    may    appoint    a   stenographer-secretary and a stenographer.3.  A  general  clerk,  or  stenographer,  or  other employee shall be   designated by and appointed for and  assigned  to  each  member  of  the   senate  for  whom  no provision is made for employees in the legislative   appropriation bill.4. The temporary president of the senate may from time to time appoint   such additional employees as may be necessary for the work of the senate   and  fix  their   compensation,   respectively,   within   the   amounts   appropriated and available therefor.5. In case of the death or resignation of the secretary of the senate,   or  his  inability to exercise the powers or discharge the duties of his   office, and notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the   temporary  president  of the senate shall appoint an acting secretary to   serve until a secretary is chosen by the senate to fill the vacancy. The   acting secretary shall have and  exercise  all  of  the  powers  of  the   secretary  of  the  senate  until  a  secretary  has been chosen and has   qualified.6. When an appropriation has been made for the services, temporary  or   otherwise,  of  employees  of  the  senate, and their appointment is not   otherwise authorized or provided for by law, the temporary president  of   the  senate  may  appoint  such  employees  and  fix their compensation,   respectively, within the amounts appropriated and available therefor.7. Whenever the temporary president of the  senate  is  authorized  or   required,  singly or jointly, to certify or approve warrants or vouchers   for the compensation of any person, it shall be sufficient if he execute   the first such warrant or  voucher,  and  thereafter  the  same  may  be   certified  or approved by his designee or designees, so long as the rate   of such compensation is not increased, and upon proof  by  affidavit  or   otherwise that the same is due. Such designation shall be in writing and   filed  in the office of the temporary president and in the office of the   comptroller, and shall remain in effect during the term of office of the   temporary president unless sooner revoked by him.8. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the temporary president of   the senate or his or her designee may authorize expenditures to be  made   from  appropriations  or  reappropriations  made  to  the senate finance   committee,  or  the   allocable   portion   of   an   appropriation   or   reappropriation  so  made  to  a legislative council, commission or task   force the expenditures from which are for senate purposes in whole or in   allocable part; and may also suballocate or transfer such appropriations   or reappropriations, or any portion thereof, to any department or agency   deemed necessary for the purpose of implementing such expenditures.  The   temporary  president  of  the  senate  may  effect such authorization by    filing his  or  her  approval  of  such  authorization  with  the  state   comptroller.