N.Y. County Law § 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.