N.Y. Legislative Law § 7-a: Legislative library, librarian and assistants

§ 7-a. Legislative library, librarian and assistants. There shall be a

legislative library to be located in the state capitol in rooms assigned

by the commissioner of general services, conveniently accessible to the

members of both houses of legislature, and such library shall be open

throughout the year.

Such library shall be suitably furnished, equipped and maintained

under the direction of the legislative librarian, within the amount of

any moneys available therefor by appropriation, subject to joint rules,

if any, that may be adopted by the senate and assembly in relation

thereto. There shall be, for such library, a legislative librarian and

such assistant librarians and other employees as may be provided for in

the legislative appropriation bill. Such librarian, assistant librarians

and other employees shall be chosen by the temporary president of the

senate and speaker of the assembly. One of the assistant librarians

shall be assigned by the legislative librarian to have charge of the

legislative correspondents' room in the capitol. The legislative

librarian and assistant librarians heretofore chosen by the president of

the senate and speaker of the assembly, and in office when this section

as hereby amended takes effect, shall continue to serve until their

successors shall be chosen. The salaries and compensation of the

legislative librarian, assistant librarians and other employees shall be

payable from moneys appropriated in the legislative appropriation bill.

During a vacancy in the office of legislative librarian, the assistant

librarian who shall have been longest in the service of the state as a

legislative employee, shall be employed as acting legislative librarian

with the powers and duties of such librarian, and shall receive during

such period the compensation herein prescribed for the legislative

librarian. Such librarian shall have charge of the legislative library,

but the two houses of the legislature may, by joint rules, regulate the

use of the library and prescribe the powers and duties of the

legislative librarian and the assistant librarians.

The legislative librarian, the assistant librarians and employees of

the legislative library shall be considered to be employees of the

legislature for all purposes.