Section 5-410. Compensation, fees, expenses and allowances

The commissioners
  of  appraisal appointed in pursuance of this subchapter shall receive as
  compensation such fees and expenses as may be taxed by  the  court  upon
  notice  to  the corporation counsel who shall also furnish them with the
  necessary clerks, stenographers,  surveyors  and  other  employees.  The
  corporation  counsel  shall,  either in person, or by such assistants or
  other counsel as he or she shall designate for the purpose,  appear  for
  and  protect the interests of the city in all proceedings in court under
  this  subchapter  including  the  taxation  of  fees,  compensation  and
  expenses  and  proceedings  before  the  commissioners.  The fees of the
  commissioners and the salaries and compensation of their employees,  and
  their necessary traveling expenses, and all other necessary expenses, in
  and  about the special proceedings provided by this subchapter to be had
  for acquiring title or extinguishing claims for damages to real  estate,
  and  such  allowances  for  counsel  fees as may be made by order of the
  court shall be paid  by  the  comptroller  out  of  the  funds  provided
  therefor.  Such fees and expenses shall not be paid until they have been
  taxed before a justice of the supreme court in the judicial district  in
  which  the  lands  or  some  part  thereof are situated upon eight days'
  notice to the corporation counsel. Such  allowances  shall  in  no  case
  exceed  the  limits  prescribed  by section eight thousand three hundred
  three of the civil practice law and rules. The salaries and compensation
  of the persons employed, as provided for in this subchapter, to  prepare
  the necessary surveys, plans and estimates and for other purposes and to
  direct,  supervise  and  inspect  the work required to be done under the
  provisions of this subchapter, and such other expenses in and about  the
  same  as  are  not  herein  required  to  be  under  contracts let after
  completion, shall be paid by the comptroller on the certification of the
  commissioner of environmental protection or of such person or persons as
  the commissioner may designate. The compensation and expenses of such of
  the corporation counsel's assistants or other counsel as the corporation
  counsel may designate to represent  and  aid  the  commissioner  in  the
  performance  of  his  or  her duties under this subchapter shall also be
  paid out of the funds provided therefor, and upon the certificate of the
  corporation counsel who shall have power to appoint such  assistants  or
  other  counsel, and to fix their compensation. The various sums of money
  growing due from time to time, under the terms of the several contracts,
  made for the doing of the work and furnishing the material  required  by
  this  subchapter,  shall be paid by the comptroller on the certification
  of the commissioner  of  environmental  protection  or  such  person  or
  persons as the commissioner may from time to time designate.