2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 652 - Undersheriff and Staff of Sheriff.

§  652.  Undersheriff  and  staff of sheriff. 1. Within ten days after
  entering upon the duties of the office, the  sheriff  shall  appoint  an
  undersheriff  to  serve  during  his  pleasure.  During  the  absence or
  inability of the sheriff to act or when a vacancy  shall  occur  in  the
  office  of  the  sheriff, the undersheriff shall, in all things, execute
  the duties of the office of sheriff until a new sheriff  is  elected  or
  appointed and has qualified.
2.  Within the limits of the appropriation, the sheriff may appoint as
  many regular deputy sheriffs as he may deem proper,  but  not  exceeding
  one  for  every  three  thousand inhabitants of the county. The board of
  supervisors may, however, authorize the appointment of  such  additional
  regular deputy sheriffs as it may determine. A female correction officer
  or  female  deputy  sheriff  who  is  authorized to perform correctional
  duties and has completed training, as mandated by the  state  commission
  of  correction,  shall  be in attendance in a correctional facility when
  females are confined in the correctional facility and shall, when deemed
  necessary by the sheriff or keeper of the jail to maintain the order and
  security of the facility, be in attendance in  any  housing  unit  where
  females  are  confined. A male correction officer or male deputy sheriff
  who is authorized to  perform  correctional  duties  and  has  completed
  training, as mandated by the state commission of correction, shall be in
  attendance  in  a  correctional  facility when males are confined in the
  correctional facility and shall, when deemed necessary by the sheriff or
  keeper of the jail to maintain the order and security of  the  facility,
  be  in  attendance  in  any  housing  unit where males are confined. The
  sheriff may also appoint keepers, guards, clerks and employees as may be
  authorized by the board of supervisors and such appointees  shall  serve
  during  his  pleasure.  Any person may also be deputed by any sheriff or
  undersheriff by written instrument to do particular acts.
3. Each such appointment shall be in a writing filed and  recorded  in
  the office of the county clerk.
4.   Before  the  appointment  by  a  sheriff  of  any  person  as  an
  undersheriff or a deputy, other than a person deputed to  do  particular
  acts,  the  sheriff shall require such person to, and such person shall,
  submit to the sheriff fingerprints of  such  person,  in  the  form  and
  manner  prescribed  by the division of criminal justice services, and it
  shall thereupon be the duty of the sheriff to compare, or  cause  to  be
  compared  such fingerprints with fingerprints filed with the division of
  criminal justice services; provided, however, that in any case where the
  fingerprints of any such person shall once have been submitted  pursuant
  to  this  section  and  are on file in the office of the sheriff, no new
  submission thereof shall be required, nor shall the sheriff be  required
  to  make  or  cause  to be made such comparison if such comparison shall
  have been made previously and certification thereof by  such  department
  is on file in his office.