§ 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.