§ 99-a. Appointment of employees of appellate divisions in the third
and fourth departments. The justices of the appellate division of the
supreme court in the third and fourth departments, or a majority of
them, are authorized to appoint and at pleasure remove not more than two
additional employees, than are employed at the time this act takes
effect, to prescribe the duties and fix the salaries thereof. Except as
provided in the state finance law, such salaries shall be certified by
the appropriate presiding justice of each such appellate division to the
state comptroller who shall audit the same. The state department of
taxation and finance shall pay such salaries in equal semi-monthly
instalments, and shall apportion the total amount thereof among the
counties comprising the appropriate judicial department. Such counties
shall reimburse the state for such salaries. The time and method of such
apportionment and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as
specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.