N.Y. County Law § 703-a: Employment of stenographer

§ 703-a. Employment of stenographer. Whenever the district attorney of

any county in the performance of his duties shall be required to

prosecute a contested criminal proceeding before a magistrate of a town

or village, unless pursuant to law a stenographer be regularly employed

by such magistrate or in the court over which he presides, said district

attorney may employ a stenographer to take the testimony on such trial.

The board of supervisors of each county shall fix the rate of

compensation to be paid to such stenographer for such services rendered;

and in addition thereto such stenographer shall be entitled to and shall

be allowed for a copy of testimony furnished to the district attorney

the same rate per folio as is now allowed to the stenographers of the

county court in their respective counties, and such stenographer shall

receive the same compensation for all copies of the evidence in excess

of three copies furnished by him to the district attorney. Such

compensation shall be a county charge, and shall be audited and paid

upon the affidavit of the stenographer and the certificate of the

district attorney specifying the number of days of actual service and

the number of folios furnished.