N.Y. Judiciary Law § 316: Compensation of stenographers appointed by certain justices of supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts

§ 316. Compensation of stenographers appointed by certain justices of

supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts. Each stenographer

appointed pursuant to subdivision five of section one hundred fifty-nine

of this chapter, by a justice of the supreme court assigned to hold

special terms in the third or fourth judicial districts, shall receive a

salary, fixed by the justice making the appointment, not exceeding three

thousand dollars per annum and also a reasonable sum for actual

necessary expenses while traveling to and from said terms, and while

attending court, including stationery, equipment and supplies necessary

to the transaction of the duties of such stenographer. The salaries and

expenses of each such stenographer shall be audited by the state

comptroller and paid by the state department of taxation and finance in

equal quarterly payments when certified to such comptroller by the

justice who made the appointment or in case of his death or disability,

by any other justice of the same judicial district as such justice. Such

department shall apportion the total amount of the salaries and actual

necessary expenses of the stenographer or stenographers appointed in the

third judicial district and of the stenographer or stenographers

appointed in the fourth judicial district among the counties comprising

the third and fourth judicial districts respectively. Such counties

shall reimburse the state therefor. The time and method of such

apportionments and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as

specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.