N.Y. Real Property Law § 375: Compensation of registrars and deputy registrars, official examiners of title, and registration clerks

§ 375. Compensation of registrars and deputy registrars, official

examiners of title, and registration clerks. Where county clerks and

registers are salaried officials, the local authorities (county

officials who provide for county expense, in the city of New York, the

mayor) shall fix their additional compensation as registrars, also the

compensation of deputy registrars, official examiners of title, the

clerks, et cetera, needed to carry on the work under this article. Where

a county clerk or a register is compensated directly by the fees paid to

himself, his deputies and assistants, the fees paid to him as registrar

shall take the usual course and be used to compensate deputies, official

examiners of title, clerks, et cetera, at such rates as the registrar

may fix, the remainder to belong to him.