§ 909. Additional general duties of county clerks. The county clerk of
each of the counties within the city of New York shall be clerk of the
supreme court within his respective county, and shall have power to
select, draw, summon and empanel grand and petit jurors in the manner
and under the conditions now or hereafter prescribed by law, and shall
have such other powers and duties as shall be prescribed from time to
time by law. The powers conferred and the duties imposed upon county
clerks by section six hundred sixty-one of this chapter shall be
exercised and performed by the county clerk of the appropriate county
and the county clerk shall, in the exercise and performance thereof, be
subject to the same liabilities and responsibilities, as are prescribed
in said section.

Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the county clerk of Kings
county from performing any duty not in conflict with the aforesaid
duties which has been or may be imposed by federal law, or from
receiving or retaining fees or other compensation provided by such law
for the performance of such duty.