N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 187: Clerk

§ 187. Clerk. The police justice shall have a clerk of the court, who

shall be the confidential appointee of said justice, and who shall have

the power to take informations upon which warrants for the arrest of

persons charged with the commission of crimes may be issued by said

justice. The clerk shall also have the power to issue and sign

subpoenas, to administer oaths to witnesses, to make and sign

executions, commitments and certificates of conviction and to certify to

and sign copies thereof for the execution of any judgment rendered in

police court, as police justice or as a court of special sessions. The

clerk of the court shall receive all penalties and other moneys or fees

payable in such court, and shall pay the same into the city treasury

once in each week, and shall file with the comptroller, monthly, an

itemized statement of the same. The said justice shall have such other

clerical assistance as the board of estimate and apportionment may

prescribe; and, if said board creates the office of deputy clerk, then

said deputy clerk shall have the same powers as the clerk of the court.

All clerks appointed by the justice shall serve during his pleasure.

Said appointments shall be in writing and filed with the clerk of the

county in which the city is located and with the city clerk. Said clerk

and deputy, if any, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of

their respective offices shall each execute and file with the city clerk

an official undertaking in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the

common council. The police justice may appoint, and at pleasure remove,

a police court attendant, who shall perform such services as may be

required of him by the police justice and shall be subject to the order

and control of said justice and of no other person. He shall be in the

exempt class of the civil service, and shall receive such salary as

shall be fixed by the board of estimate and apportionment. The police

justice may appoint a member of the police department to said position,

and in such case said appointee shall be paid upon the certificate of

the police justice from the same fund as other police officers, and when

he shall retire from office he shall be reassigned to duty by the chief

of police to the rank from which he came.