N.Y. Military Law § 187: Armory employees; grades, employment, duties and compensation

§ 187. Armory employees; grades, employment, duties and compensation.

1. Positions created to provide for the security, maintenance and

operation of armories, including the surrounding premises and public

property located therein, notwithstanding the provisions of any other

law, shall be classified and allocated to salary grades for comparable

positions in the classified service of the state as set forth in section

one hundred thirty of the civil service law.

2. Subject to the provisions of this chapter and within the

appropriation therefor, the adjutant general shall employ, assign,

transfer and discharge as many employees of each classification or grade

as may be necessary. Subject to the approval of the director of the

budget, the adjutant general may classify or reclassify, allocate or

reallocate any position established under subdivision one of this

section for the purpose of providing appropriate title, salary grade and

rate of compensation which may be descriptive of duties and

responsibilities. Notwithstanding any other law or any general or

special statute to the contrary, when salary grades or rates of

compensation for the comparable classified service positions of the

state as contained in section one hundred thirty of the civil service

law are amended, the salary grades or rates of compensation of positions

authorized by subdivision one of this section shall be adjusted

correspondingly.

3. Armory employees shall perform duties as prescribed by the adjutant

general and by the officer in charge and control of the armory in which

they are employed.

4. The adjutant general is hereby authorized to employ any incumbent

armory employee appointed pursuant to former section one hundred

eighty-seven of this chapter as it existed on March thirty-first,

nineteen hundred sixty-one, in a position created pursuant to this

section but no such employee shall thereby suffer any diminution in the

annual amount of compensation received by him on such date.