Section 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.