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2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 23 - Provisions Applicable to Certain Counties › 843 - Advancing School Taxes in Suffolk County.

§ 843. Advancing school taxes in Suffolk county. In Suffolk county the
  county  treasurer  shall  advance to the several school districts within
  said county, in anticipation of the collection of the school tax  levies
  therein,  and  to  provide  funds  for  meeting the expenses in the said
  several districts prior to the receiving of moneys from  the  collection
  of  school  taxes,  from funds in his hands available, such advancements
  only to be made upon a verified copy of the annual budget voted  at  the
  preceding school meeting and verified report of the trustees or board of
  education  of  each  district  applying for such advancement showing the
  amount of moneys on hand and a list of  unpaid  current  bills  of  said
  district,  such advancements to be made in installments in the months of
  September, October, November and December, and not exceeding fifteen per
  centum in September, fifteen per centum in October, ten  per  centum  in
  November,  and  ten  per  centum in December, of the total amount of the
  annual budget of such district to which such advancement  be  made.  The
  county treasurer of Suffolk county is hereby authorized to reimburse the
  county  of  Suffolk for such advancements as soon as the funds collected
  in the various school districts are available therefor.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 23 - Provisions Applicable to Certain Counties › 844 - Hurricane or Storm Damage in Suffolk County.

§  844.  Hurricane  or  storm  damage  in Suffolk county. The board of
  supervisors of the county of Suffolk may provide for the improvement  or
  reconstruction  of  beaches  or shore front within the county, to repair
  damage caused by hurricane or storm, and to provide suitable  protection
  to  prevent  future  damage  to  lands or property by the ocean or other
  waters, including the filling in and grading necessary for such purpose,
  and including dredging material from inland waterways and  moving  earth
  material  on  the  beaches  to  fill  and close new inlets heretofore or
  hereafter formed in such beaches by a hurricane  or  storm;  purchasing,
  filling  and placing sand bags, opening up old road beds or constructing
  new traveling surfaces on the sand to permit traffic along the  beaches;
  transporting  workmen,  materials  and  equipment,  dredging material to
  construct new dunes on the beaches by embankment  alone,  purchasing  of
  material and rental of equipment to construct roadways over new fills or
  along  the beaches; to aid in transportation of materials and equipment;
  purchasing or renting  equipment  for  clearing  debris  from  navigable
  waters;  constructing  dikes,  bulkheads,  jetties  and  groins or other
  similar devices on the beaches and supplying  the  necessary  equipment,
  materials  and  labor therefor; constructing barriers filled with brush,
  wire, snow fence or any other suitable  material,  extending  along  the
  shore,   with  jetties  of  the  same  or  similar  materials  extending
  offshoreward and supplying the necessary labor, equipment and  materials
  necessary   therefor;   any  and  all  engineering  and  supervision  in
  connection with the carrying out of all work  covered  herein;  clearing
  out  roadways  to  expedite traffic, and may acquire real property or an
  interest therein for such purpose by purchase, dedication, gift,  devise
  or  bequest  or  by  condemnation  in  the  manner  provided  by law for
  acquisition of real property for highway or county road purposes.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 23 - Provisions Applicable to Certain Counties › 845 - Lake George Fish Screens in Warren County.

§  845.  Lake  George  fish  screens  in  Warren  county. The board of
  supervisors of the county of Warren may by resolution,  appropriate  and
  pay  out  such sums of money as it may deem necessary for the purpose of
  providing for and maintaining a suitable screen or screens in the outlet
  of Lake George to prevent the escape of fish from such lake.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 23 - Provisions Applicable to Certain Counties › 849 - Appropriations for Conservation Purposes in Washington County.

§  849. Appropriations for conservation purposes in Washington county.
  1.  The board of supervisors of Washington county is  hereby  authorized
  and empowered to enter into an agreement or agreements with the board of
  supervisors  of  one  or  more  adjoining counties possessing equivalent
  powers for  the  joint  construction  or  acquisition,  maintenance  and
  control  of  facilities for the promotion and conservation of fish, game
  and other natural resources, and may  annually  appropriate  and  expend
  such  sums as may be necessary pursuant to such agreement. The agreement
  may provide for  the  method  of  acquisition  or  construction  of  the
  facility, the management and operation thereof; the method of fixing the
  proportionate  share  of  each  county  and of making contributions; the
  custody of moneys; the audit of claims; the duration of  the  agreement;
  and  such  other matters as may be appropriate in the circumstances. The
  agreement  shall  have  a  maximum  duration  of  ten  years,  but  such
  limitation  shall  not  prohibit  successive  agreements. Nothing herein
  contained shall prevent the financing of the county's share of a project
  pursuant to the provisions of the local finance law.
2. The board of supervisors of Washington county is hereby  authorized
  and  empowered  to annually appropriate moneys to defray such portion of
  the cost of maintenance of a fish screen in  Ticonderoga  creek  between
  Lake   George   and  Lake  Champlain,  heretofore  constructed  and  now
  maintained by the Lake George Screen Committee,  Incorporated,  as  such
  board  may  see fit. Moneys so appropriated shall be held in the custody
  of the county treasurer and paid out by him only upon order of the board
  of supervisors after due and proper audit and allowance.   The board  of
  supervisors  is  hereby authorized to enter into such agreement with the
  Lake George Screen Committee, Incorporated, as may be  deemed  necessary
  to effectuate the provisions of this subdivision.
3.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall be deemed to supersede, alter or
  abridge the powers and duties of the department of conservation, or  any
  division,  agency  or  officer  of  said  department, or to deprive said
  department, or any division, agency or officer thereof  of  jurisdiction
  now or hereafter conferred upon it in relation to conservation matters.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 23 - Provisions Applicable to Certain Counties › 852 - Loans of Money or Credit to Hospitals or Health Related Facilities in Suffolk County.

§  852.  Loans  of  money  or  credit  to  hospitals or health related
  facilities in Suffolk county. Notwithstanding any  general,  special  or
  local  law  or charter provision to the contrary, the county legislature
  of the county of Suffolk shall have the power and is hereby  authorized,
  pursuant  to  section seven of article seventeen of the constitution, to
  lend its money or credit to or in aid of any corporation or  association
  within  its  boundaries,  regulated  by  law as to its charges, profits,
  dividends, and disposition  of  its  property  or  franchises,  for  the
  purpose of providing such health related facility or hospital facilities
  for  the  prevention,  diagnosis  or  treatment  of human disease, pain,
  injury, disability, deformity or physical condition, and for  facilities
  incidental or appurtenant thereto as may be prescribed by law.
In pursuance of the authority granted herein the county legislature of
  the county of Suffolk shall have the power and is hereby authorized from
  time  to  time  to  issue  its bonds, notes or other obligations in such
  principal amounts as it shall deem necessary, after taking into  account
  other  monies  which may be available for the purposes set forth herein.
  Such bonds, notes or obligations shall be  issued  for  the  purpose  of
  making  loans  to  such  corporations or associations which are eligible
  borrowers, paying interest on such bonds, notes  or  other  obligations;
  establishment  of  reserves  to  secure  such  notes,  bonds,  or  other
  obligations,  and  paying  all  other   obligations   and   expenditures
  incidental  to and necessary or convenient for the making of such loans.
  In connection with the making of loans and  commitments  therefore,  the
  county of Suffolk shall make and collect such fees and charges including
  but not limited to reimbursement of all costs of financing by the county
  of  Suffolk,  service  charges,  insurance premiums and other reasonable
  costs. Such bonds, notes or obligations shall be  issued  in  accordance
  with the applicable provisions of this chapter and the local finance law
  and applicable local laws.
The  county  legislature  of  the  county  of  Suffolk  shall  also be
  authorized to enact local laws governing the conditions under which such
  loans, commitments and guarantees shall be made.
The county  legislature  of  the  county  of  Suffolk  shall  also  be
  authorized  to  guaranty loans for the purposes set forth herein made by
  banking  corporations  and  lending  institutions,  in  conformity  with
  applicable laws.
The  expenditure  of funds, issuance of bonds, notes or obligations or
  guarantee of loans by the county of Suffolk pursuant to  the  provisions
  of  this act and the provisions of section seven of article seventeen of
  the constitution shall be deemed a lawful county purpose.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 900 - Devolution of Powers and Duties on the County of Bronx.

§ 900. Devolution of powers and duties on the county of Bronx.  1. The
  county  of  Bronx shall possess all the rights and be subject to all the
  obligations of the counties now included within the city  of  New  York,
  except as otherwise provided by law.
2.  All  acts  and parts of acts specially applicable to the county of
  New York or that portion of the borough of the Bronx  formerly  part  of
  the  county  of  Westchester, annexed to the city of New York by chapter
  nine hundred thirty-four of the laws of  eighteen  hundred  ninety-five,
  and  now  in  force  in  the borough of the Bronx shall continue in full
  force and effect in the county of Bronx, as though the county  had  been
  in  existence at the time of the passage of such acts, and as though the
  name of the county of Bronx had appeared in such acts and parts of  acts
  wherever the name of the county of New York or the county of Westchester
  appears in such acts or parts of acts.
3.  The surrogate, district attorney and county clerk of the county of
  Bronx shall have all the powers and perform all the duties  as  required
  by  the  constitution  and the laws of this state prescribing the duties
  and powers of such officers.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 901 - Office of the Sheriff.

§ 901. Office of the sheriff. 1. The commissioner of correction of the
  city  of  New  York  shall  have  custody of the civil jails and persons
  lawfully committed to his custody and such jails shall be kept  by  him,
  or by keepers appointed by him, for whose acts he shall be responsible.
2.  The  provisions of section two hundred eighteen and the provisions
  of article seventeen of this chapter shall apply to the sheriff,  except
  when  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of this article, the charter,
  administrative code or a local law  adopted  pursuant  thereto.  In  the
  interpretation  of  this section, a board of supervisors shall be deemed
  to mean the officer or agency vested with power under the New York  city
  charter, or by other law, to act pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 902 - Certain Office Hours.

§ 902. Certain office hours. 1. The offices of the county clerk in the
  counties  constituting  the  city  of New York shall remain open for the
  transaction of business from  nine  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  to  four
  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  every  day  except  Saturdays,  Sundays and
  holidays and except in the months of July and August when  said  offices
  shall  remain  open for the transaction of business from nine o'clock in
  the forenoon to two o'clock in the afternoon except  Saturdays,  Sundays
  and holidays.
2. Whenever the last day on which any paper shall be filed or act done
  or  performed  in  any  such  office expires on Saturday, Sunday, public
  holiday or a day when such office  is  closed  for  the  transaction  of
  business, the time therefor is hereby extended to and including the next
  business day such office is open for the transaction of business.
3. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the motor
  vehicle  section  of a county clerk's office may, by order of the mayor,
  be kept open on Saturdays during the month of January.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 903 - Official Seals and Signatures.

§  903. Official seals and signatures. 1. The seals heretofore kept by
  the respective county clerks of the counties comprising the city of  New
  York  shall  continue to be the seals of said counties. The seal kept by
  the county clerk as prescribed in the judiciary law, shall  continue  to
  be the seal of the county and must be used by him when he is required to
  use  an  official seal. The seal heretofore adopted by the county judges
  of the county of Bronx shall continue to be the official  seal  of  such
  county and of the supreme court of such county. This provision shall not
  be  applicable  in  cases where special provisions are otherwise made by
  law.
2. The signature and seal of a county  clerk  upon  a  certificate  of
  official character of a notary public or the signature of a county clerk
  upon  a  certificate  of  authentication  of the signature and acts of a
  notary public  or  commissioner  of  deeds  or  upon  a  certificate  of
  comparison  or  of  search  may  be  a  facsimile,  imprinted,  stamped,
  photographed or engraved thereon.
3. The county clerk may designate from among the permanent members  of
  his  staff,  one  or more individuals who shall be permitted to sign his
  name and affix  his  official  seal  upon  documents  of  certification,
  attestation,  and  comparison, as well as upon certificates attesting to
  the official character of notaries public and the signatures  of  public
  officers  and  upon  judgments,  orders, commissions and other documents
  requiring the official signature and seal of the county clerk.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 904 - Court and Trust Fund Register and Liability of Officers.

§  904.  Court and trust fund register and liability of officers.  The
  county clerks of the counties comprising the  city  of  New  York  shall
  perform  the  same  duties  and  shall  be subject to the same penalties
  imposed by the provisions of this chapter upon other  county  clerks  of
  the  state  with  relation  to  court  and  trust fund registers and the
  delivery of property  or  moneys  to  the  commissioner  of  finance  in
  pursuance  of any judgment, decree or order of a court of record of this
  state.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 905 - Liability of Commissioner of Finance and Surety for Loss of Court and Trust Funds.

§  905.  Liability  of  commissioner of finance and surety for loss of
  court and trust funds. The commissioner of finance of the  city  of  New
  York  and  his  surety or sureties shall be liable in the same manner as
  county treasurers are made liable under the provisions of  this  chapter
  for the loss of court and trust funds.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 906 - Liability of City of New York for Loss of Court and Trust Funds.

§  906.  Liability  of  city  of  New York for loss of court and trust
  funds. The city of New York shall be responsible  for  all  property  or
  moneys  deposited  with  the  commissioner  of  finance by virtue of any
  judgment, decree or order of a court of record in this  state  provided,
  however,  that the city shall not be held liable for any loss due to the
  depreciated value of an investment legal at the time of its purchase and
  which continued to be a legal investment during the period of the trust.
  An action to recover any loss to or of such fund may be brought  against
  the  city  by any party aggrieved or by the state comptroller in a court
  of competent jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 907 - Certain Publications in County of Bronx.

§ 907. Certain publications in county of Bronx. Every citation, order,
  proclamation,  summons  or  notice,  except  a  notice  required  to  be
  published by the provisions of the public lands law, which  is  required
  by  any provision of law to be published in any newspaper published in a
  county shall, where such publication is required  or  ordered  in  Bronx
  county,  be  published  in at least two newspapers published within such
  county. No publication  shall  be  deemed  a  compliance  with  any  law
  requiring  it  unless  such publication shall have been made in at least
  two such newspapers.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 908 - Appointment and Salary of County Clerks.

§  908.  Appointment and salary of county clerks. 1. The county clerks
  of the counties comprising the city of New York shall be  appointed  and
  removable  in  pursuance  of section thirteen of article thirteen of the
  constitution.
2. Each of the county clerks of the counties comprising  the  city  of
  New  York  shall  receive  an annual salary of not less than the minimum
  annual compensation received by a justice of the supreme  court  of  the
  state  of  New York elected from the same judicial district in which the
  county for which the county clerk serves is located.
3. Said salaries shall be in lieu  of  all  other  fees  or  forms  of
  compensation  for  services rendered in the performance of the duties of
  the office.
4. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this  section  or  of  any
  other  law,  the  salaries of any such county clerks may be increased by
  the chief administrator of the courts upon  the  recommendation  of  the
  administrative board of the courts, provided that if the salaries of any
  such county clerks are thus increased above the salaries provided for in
  this  section,  such  salaries may likewise be decreased to any salaries
  not lower than the salaries provided for in this section.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 909 - Additional General Duties of County Clerks.

§ 909. Additional general duties of county clerks. The county clerk of
  each  of  the counties within the city of New York shall be clerk of the
  supreme court within his respective county,  and  shall  have  power  to
  select,  draw,  summon  and empanel grand and petit jurors in the manner
  and under the conditions now or hereafter prescribed by law,  and  shall
  have  such  other  powers and duties as shall be prescribed from time to
  time by law. The powers conferred and the  duties  imposed  upon  county
  clerks  by  section  six  hundred  sixty-one  of  this  chapter shall be
  exercised and performed by the county clerk of  the  appropriate  county
  and  the county clerk shall, in the exercise and performance thereof, be
  subject to the same liabilities and responsibilities, as are  prescribed
  in said section.
Nothing  herein  contained  shall  prohibit  the county clerk of Kings
  county from performing any duty  not  in  conflict  with  the  aforesaid
  duties  which  has  been  or  may  be  imposed  by  federal law, or from
  receiving or retaining fees or other compensation provided by  such  law
  for the performance of such duty.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 910 - Official Undertakings of County Clerks.

§ 910. Official undertakings of county clerks. Each county clerk shall
  before  entering  upon or assuming the duties of his office, give a bond
  to the people of the state  of  New  York  in  the  sum  of  twenty-five
  thousand  dollars,  with  not  less  than two sufficient sureties, to be
  approved by the comptroller of the city of New York, conditioned that he
  will faithfully discharge the  duties  of  his  office  and  all  trusts
  imposed upon him by law by virtue of his office. In case of any official
  misconduct  or  default on the part of such clerk, or in case any person
  or  corporation  is  injured  or  damaged  by  reason  of   any   error,
  inaccuracies or mistakes in a return of a search certified as correct by
  such  clerk,  an  action  upon such bonds may be begun and prosecuted to
  judgment  by  the  attorney  general,  who  shall,  after  first  paying
  therefrom  the  expenses  of  the litigation, cause the proceeds of such
  judgment to be paid over, as shall  be  lawful  and  equitable,  to  the
  person  or corporation injured or damaged by such official misconduct or
  by reason of any such error, inaccuracy or mistake in a certified return
  of a search. Such bond shall be filed in the office of  the  comptroller
  of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 911 - Appointment and Salaries of Counsel to the County Clerks.

§  911. Appointment and salaries of counsel to the county clerks.  The
  clerk of each of the counties within the city of New York may appoint  a
  counsel who shall be an attorney and counselor-at-law with not less than
  ten  years'  experience,  and  who  shall receive an annual salary to be
  fixed by the county clerk of his county within the  amount  provided  by
  the board of estimate.
Notwithstanding  any of the provisions of this section or of any other
  law, the salaries of any counsel to such county clerks may be  increased
  by  the board of estimate of the city of New York, provided that if such
  board increases the salaries of any  such  counsel  above  the  salaries
  provided  for  in this section, such board shall likewise have the power
  to decrease any such  salaries  to  any  salaries  not  lower  than  the
  salaries provided for in this section.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 912 - Subordinate Employees in Offices of County Clerks; Salaries.

§ 912. Subordinate employees in offices of county clerks; salaries. In
  counties  within  the city of New York, the appointment of every deputy,
  assistant, clerk, employee or subordinate shall be made in  writing  and
  filed  in  the  office  of  the clerk making the appointment before such
  deputy, assistant or other person shall enter upon the discharge of  his
  duties.  The  number,  duties  and salaries of all such persons shall be
  fixed by the  clerk  of  each  such  county,  respectively,  subject  to
  revision by the board of estimate of the city of New York.
g.  Notwithstanding  any  of  the provisions of this section or of any
  other law, the number of deputy county clerks in Bronx, Kings and Queens
  counties or the salaries of any officers or employees  provided  for  in
  this  section  may  be increased by the board of estimate of the city of
  New York, provided that if such board increases  either  the  number  or
  salaries  of  any such deputy county clerks, officers or employees above
  the number or salaries provided for in this section,  such  board  shall
  likewise  have  the power to decrease any such number or salaries to any
  number or salaries not lower than the number and salaries  provided  for
  in this section.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 913 - Official Undertakings of Subordinates in Offices of County Clerks.

§  913.  Official  undertakings  of  subordinates in offices of county
  clerks. The county clerk of each  such  county  may  in  his  discretion
  require  any deputy, assistant, clerk, employee or subordinate appointed
  by him to give a bond and may determine the amount thereof.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 914 - Duties of Deputy County Clerks.

§  914.  Duties  of  deputy county clerks. The deputy county clerks of
  each of the counties comprising the city of New York shall,  subject  to
  the  provisions  of  the  public  officers  law, have all the powers and
  fulfill all the duties of the county clerk in his absence and  shall  be
  subject to the same obligations and conditions prescribed for the county
  clerk while he is performing his duties.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 915 - Fees of County Clerks.

§  915.  Fees  of county clerks. All moneys to which the clerks of the
  counties comprising the city of New York  are  entitled,  by  virtue  of
  their  office,  or  which  they  may  receive  for  any and all official
  services rendered by them,  or  by  any  of  their  assistants,  clerks,
  employees, or subordinates shall belong to and be for the benefit of the
  city  of  New  York, and shall be collected by such clerks and accounted
  for and paid over on the first day of each month into  the  treasury  of
  the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 916 - Accounts of Money to Be Kept in Offices of County Clerks.

§  916.  Accounts of money to be kept in offices of county clerks.  It
  shall be the duty of clerks of the counties comprising the city  of  New
  York  to  keep  an  exact  and  detailed  account of all moneys actually
  received by them or their subordinates  for  any  services  rendered  in
  their  official  capacity, and of all moneys which such county clerks or
  their subordinates shall be entitled to demand and receive for any  such
  services. Said county clerks shall deposit monthly with the commissioner
  of  finance  any  and  all  such sums of money so received. Such account
  shall show when every such service shall have been performed, its nature
  and the money charged therefor, and shall at all  times,  during  office
  hours, be open to the inspection, without any fee or charge therefor, of
  all  persons  desiring  to  examine the same, and such accounts shall be
  deemed a part of the records of the office in which they shall be  kept,
  and  shall  be preserved therein as other books of record are until they
  have been audited by the comptroller of the city of  New  York  and  his
  approval  given  to their destruction but in any event for not less than
  ten years.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 917 - Transcripts of Accounts in Offices of County Clerks; Violations.

§   917.   Transcripts  of  accounts  in  offices  of  county  clerks;
  violations. 1. A transcript of the account shall be made in such form as
  shall be prescribed by the comptroller of the city  of  New  York.  Such
  transcript  shall  contain  a statement of all moneys either received by
  such clerks and their subordinates or which they are entitled to  demand
  and  receive  for  services performed by them in their official capacity
  since making the last preceding transcript and  return,  specifying  the
  total  amount  received  from or charged to each person and corporation,
  and the character of the services rendered. It shall be  transmitted  to
  such  comptroller  within  ten days from the expiration of each calendar
  month, verified by the oath of such clerks or their deputies.
The verification shall  be  positive  and  not  upon  information  and
  belief.
The  comptroller  may  examine  the  county  clerks  or  any  of their
  subordinates under oath, touching the  amount  of  moneys  paid  to  and
  received  by  such  clerks  and  their  subordinates  in  their official
  capacity, and touching any statements contained in or required  by  this
  article  to  be  contained  in such certified transcript and return.  An
  order for such examination must be granted by a justice of  the  supreme
  court   whenever   an   application  shall  be  made  therefor  by  such
  comptroller, and such examination shall take place before such justice.
2. It shall be unlawful for the clerks of the counties comprising  the
  city  of  New York or any of their subordinates to receive for their own
  use any moneys belonging to the city of  New  York,  or  to  neglect  to
  render  to  the  comptroller  of  the city of New York an account of the
  moneys which they have received or are  entitled  to  receive  in  their
  official  capacity  or pay over the same as in this article required, or
  to make a false statement in the certified transcript and return  or  to
  swear falsely upon the examination by the comptroller.
3.  Any violation hereof by such clerks or any such subordinates shall
  be a misdemeanor. In addition thereto, such clerks or such  subordinates
  shall  also  forfeit  any sum that may be due them on account of salary,
  and shall be liable to the city of New York, in a civil  action  at  the
  suit of the city, for all moneys received and not accounted for and paid
  over into the treasury of such city pursuant to the requirements of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 920 - Alphabetical Indices in Offices of County Clerks.

§  920. Alphabetical indices in offices of county clerks. The clerk of
  each of the counties within the city of New York, so long as he deems it
  expedient, may continue the  alphabetical  indices  of  the  parties  to
  notices  of lis pendens, statutory notice of liens and claims upon land,
  or of the parties to either of them, and of the owners of  land  against
  which  liens  have been filed and of judgment debtors whose names appear
  on record. The particular form of such alphabetical indices shall be  as
  such  county  clerk  shall  determine,  and shall be certified by him as
  having been prepared under the authority of this article.  Such  indices
  shall  be  kept in the office of the county clerk or in such other place
  as shall be provided for them and shall be public records.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 922 - Judgment Docket in Office of County Clerk of New York County.

§  922.  Judgment docket in office of county clerk of New York county.
  1. The judgment dockets shall be kept by the county clerk  of  New  York
  county  in two separate sets of books, one set to be designated and used
  for judgments against individuals including all individual members of  a
  copartnership or of a firm doing business under a firm name or style and
  the   other  set  to  be  designated  and  used  for  judgments  against
  corporations including joint stock  companies,  copartnerships  or  firm
  names  or  styles  under which businesses are conducted; and each set of
  such judgment dockets must have a separate volume or  volumes  for  each
  letter  of  the  alphabet  and  each judgment docket book shall have its
  letters, and the year or years of its entries plainly marked on its back
  and cover and on every page.
2.  Each  volume  of  the  judgment  dockets  for  judgments   against
  individuals shall contain the names of those judgment debtors whose last
  names  begin with the letter marked on its cover. Each such volume shall
  also have an alphabetical marginal page index for a further alphabetical
  breakdown of the names included therein. The  marginal  page  index  may
  show  each letter of the alphabet in order and, in such event, a page of
  such judgment docket may contain the names  of  those  judgment  debtors
  whose  first  names  begin with the letter or whose first initial is the
  letter marked on the marginal index for that page; and there shall be at
  the back of each of such volumes blank pages  not  indexed  which  shall
  contain  the  names  of  those  judgment  debtors  whose  first names or
  initials are stated in  the  title  of  the  action  to  be  unknown  or
  fictitious.
3.   Each  volume  of  the  judgment  dockets  for  judgments  against
  corporations shall contain the names of those judgment debtors the first
  letter or initial of whose names as it appears, following  the  prefixed
  articles  "A",  "An"  or  "The", is the letter marked on its cover. Each
  such volume may have an alphabetical marginal page index for  a  further
  alphabetical breakdown of the names included therein.
4.  The  number of the action and the year in which it was begun shall
  be entered as part of the entry of every judgment.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 924 - Photo Recording.

§  924.  Photo recording. The county clerks of the counties within the
  city of New York may cause parts of documents to be separated  in  order
  to  facilitate  recording and copying by use of a photo copying process,
  provided that  such  documents  are  restored  to  their  original  form
  immediately after the completion of such process.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 925 - Certificate of Searching Records and Copies.

§  925.  Certificate of searching records and copies. The clerk of any
  of the counties comprising the city of New York, upon payment of the fee
  prescribed therefor, shall diligently search the files, papers,  records
  and  dockets  in  his  office,  when  so requested, and make one or more
  transcripts therefrom,  and  certify  to  the  correctness  thereof,  or
  certify  that  a document or paper, of which the custody legally belongs
  to him, cannot be found.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 926 - Election of District Attorneys; Term and Vacancies.

§  926.  Election of district attorneys; term and vacancies. 1.  There
  shall continue to be elected in each of the counties of New York, Kings,
  Bronx, Queens and Richmond a district attorney who shall hold office for
  the term of four years from and  including  the  first  day  of  January
  succeeding his election.
2.  There  shall  continue  to be appointed by the governor a district
  attorney in each of said counties, when a vacancy shall  occur  in  such
  office, and the person so appointed shall hold office until the last day
  of  December  succeeding  the  first  election  thereafter at which such
  vacancy can be filled by election.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 927 - General Duties of District Attorneys.

§  927.  General duties of district attorneys. It shall be the duty of
  the district attorney of the respective counties  of  New  York,  Bronx,
  Kings,  Queens  and  Richmond  to  prosecute  all  crimes  and  offenses
  cognizable by the courts of the county for  which  he  shall  have  been
  elected or appointed, except when the place of trial of an indictment is
  changed from one county to another, it shall be the duty of the district
  attorney  of  the  county  where  the indictment is found to conduct the
  trial of the indictment so removed, but  said  district  attorney  shall
  assist  in  the  trial of an indictment removed to his county for trial,
  upon request  of  the  district  attorney  of  the  county  wherein  the
  indictment  was found. He shall perform the duties prescribed in section
  seven hundred of this chapter and such other duties as are prescribed by
  law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 928 - Salary of District Attorneys.

§  928.  Salary of district attorneys.  Each of the district attorneys
  of the counties of New York, Bronx, Kings,  Queens  and  Richmond  shall
  receive an annual salary of not less than the compensation received by a
  justice  of the supreme court in the county in which he has been elected
  or is serving together with such additional allowances  or  compensation
  as shall hereafter be provided by state and/or local law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 929 - Official Undertaking of District Attorneys.

§  929.  Official  undertaking  of  district  attorneys.  Every person
  elected or appointed to the office of district attorney,  shall,  before
  he  enters  upon  the  duties  of  his  office, and if appointed, within
  fifteen days after notice thereof, execute and deliver,  to  the  county
  clerk  of his county, an official undertaking with surety or sureties in
  an amount fixed by the comptroller approved by a justice of the  supreme
  court  in  the  county  in which he has been elected or is serving. Such
  undertaking shall be to the effect that he will faithfully  account  for
  and  pay  over  according to law, or as the court may direct, all moneys
  that may come into his hands as such district attorney.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 930 - Assistant District Attorneys; Salaries.

§  930.  Assistant district attorneys; salaries. The district attorney
  of each county contained within the city of New York  is  hereby  vested
  with  the  power  to  appoint  and  at  pleasure to remove any assistant
  district attorney attached to his office. The number of  such  assistant
  district  attorneys  and  deputy  assistant district attorneys for which
  there is now provision by appropriation and the salary paid to  each  of
  them  shall  be  continued  except  as  hereinafter provided. All deputy
  assistant district attorneys shall become  and  hereafter  be  known  as
  assistant district attorneys. The number of assistant district attorneys
  and  the salary paid to any assistant district attorney may be increased
  or decreased by the mayor of the city of New York with  the  consent  of
  the district attorney.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 931 - Employees of the District Attorneys in Counties Contained Within the City of New York.

§  931.  Employees  of  the  district  attorneys in counties contained
  within the city of New  York.  The  district  attorney  of  each  county
  contained  within  the  city  of  New  York  is vested with the power to
  appoint any person to any position for which there is now  provision  by
  appropriation  or which shall hereafter be established. All positions in
  the several district attorneys' offices within the city of New York  for
  which there is now provision by appropriation shall be continued, except
  that  the  mayor  of  the  city  of New York may with the consent of the
  district attorney increase or decrease the number of positions  and  the
  term, grade, salary and compensation of any position.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 932 - Exemption of District Attorneys From Payment of Certain Fees.

§  932.  Exemption of district attorneys from payment of certain fees.
  No salaried officer of the city of New York or of the  counties  of  New
  York,  Kings,  Queens,  Richmond and Bronx, or of any court mentioned in
  the civil practice act, exercising jurisdiction within the limits of the
  city of New York, and no public  officer  who  is  required  by  law  to
  deposit  the  fees  collected by him or his office in the city treasury,
  shall be entitled to receive from the district attorney of  any  of  the
  counties  of  New  York,  Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx, any fee for
  levy, service or return of executions or  other  mandate  or  order  for
  entering,  filing, docketing, registering or recording any paper, record
  or document, required by law to be entered, filed, docketed,  registered
  or  recorded in his office and every such officer must, upon application
  therefor, furnish to the district attorney of any of the said  counties,
  a  certified  or  exemplified copy or transcript of, or extract from, or
  transcript of any writing, paper, record or document on file or recorded
  in his office, or of the return upon an  execution,  mandate  or  order,
  without the payment of any fee or charge whatsoever therefor.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 933 - Appropriations for Extraordinary Criminal Actions.

§  933. Appropriations for extraordinary criminal actions. It shall be
  lawful for the city, upon the certificate of the  district  attorney  of
  any  county  within the city of New York, to appropriate such sums as it
  may deem necessary, for the proper  conduct  of  a  criminal  action  of
  exceptional  difficulty. Such sums shall be raised pursuant to paragraph
  ten of subdivision a of section one hundred seventeen of  the  New  York
  city charter.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 934 - Cost of Removed Criminal Trials.

§  934.    Cost of removed criminal trials.  Each respective county of
  New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond in which  an  indictment  is
  found shall reimburse the county to which such indictment may be removed
  for trial for the cost and expenses of such trial, in the same manner as
  other counties are made liable under the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 935 - Disposition of Property by District Attorney of New York County.

§  935.  Disposition  of  property  by  district  attorney of New York
  county. All property delivered into the custody and held and kept by the
  district attorney of the county of New York,  for  use  as  evidence  or
  otherwise,  in  any  criminal  investigation,  action,  appeal, or other
  proceeding, shall be returned by him to its rightful owner  upon  proper
  demand  therefor  upon  the  termination of such criminal investigation,
  action, appeal or other proceeding; and if such property be not  claimed
  by  the  owner  within  one  year after the termination of such criminal
  action, appeal, or  other  proceeding,  it  may  be  sold  or  otherwise
  disposed  of  in  such manner as such district attorney may deem proper,
  and if the property is sold the proceeds of such sale shall be paid into
  the fund of the New York city employees' retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 937 - County Detectives in Counties Within City of New York.

§  937.  County detectives in counties within city of New York. 1.  In
  such counties included within the city  of  New  York  now  having  such
  detectives,  there shall continue to be appointed for such counties, two
  detectives who shall serve during  good  behavior  and  who  shall  each
  receive  as  compensation  a  sum  in such amount as may be fixed by the
  board of estimate of such city, but not less than two  thousand  dollars
  per  annum,  payable  monthly. Such salaries shall be a county charge of
  the respective counties and shall be paid in  the  same  manner  as  the
  salaries  of  the other officers attached to the county court, and their
  names shall be placed upon the payroll of such county court.
2. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this  section  or  of  any
  other  law,  the  number  of  county  detectives  in Bronx county or the
  salaries of any county detectives appointed in the counties of Bronx and
  Kings may, with the consent of the district attorney,  be  increased  or
  decreased by the board of estimate of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 938 - County Detective in Counties of Bronx and Kings.

§  938.  County  detective  in  counties  of  Bronx  and Kings, County
  detectives are hereby empowered, under the  direction  of  the  district
  attorney by whom appointed, to preserve order, to examine all papers and
  processes  issued  from  such offices, to serve all papers and processes
  issued from such office, to examine all bench  warrants  and  orders  of
  arrest  in  criminal cases, and to perform such other duties as may from
  time to time be  required  of  them  by  such  district  attorney.  Such
  officers  may  be authorized to act as deputy sheriffs by the sheriff of
  the city of New York to assist in preserving the  peace.  Such  officers
  shall hold office during the pleasure of the district attorney.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 939 - Medical Assistants in Counties of New York and Kings.

§  939.  Medical  assistants  in  counties of New York and Kings.  The
  district attorneys of the county of New York and of the county of  Kings
  are each authorized and empowered to appoint and at pleasure to remove a
  medical assistant, who shall be a physician and surgeon, resident of the
  county  in  which  he is appointed, and who shall have been for at least
  ten years duly licensed to practice medicine in this state. It shall  be
  the  duty of such medical assistant, under the supervision and direction
  of the district attorney, to examine into and report  on  all  cases  of
  suspicious, sudden and unusual death and wounding within the county, and
  to perform such duties as the district attorney may direct in connection
  with  the  official  duties of such district attorney in the enforcement
  and administration of the criminal laws. Such  medical  assistant  shall
  have  the  power  and  authority,  whenever  so directed by the district
  attorney, to dissect, perform an autopsy upon, or attend an autopsy upon
  any dead body of a human being. The salaries of the  medical  assistants
  of  the county of New York and of the county of Kings shall be fixed and
  determined by the district attorney of New York county and the board  of
  estimate, respectively, and shall be county charges.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 940 - Commissioner of Finance as Trustee of Cemetery Lots.

§  940.  Commissioner  of  finance  as trustee of cemetery lots.   The
  commissioner of finance of the city of New York shall perform the duties
  as a trustee of cemetery lots in the same manner as  imposed  on  county
  treasurers by the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City › 940-A - Food and Lodging for Certain Jurors.

§  940-a.  Food and lodging for certain jurors. When so ordered by the
  court in a county wholly included within the city of New York, the court
  shall provide food and lodging for jurors kept together pending a  trial
  and their deliberation thereon anywhere in the city of which such county
  is  a  part,  and the cost thereof, not exceeding twelve dollars per day
  per juror, shall be a county charge.