Section 357. Local veterans' service agencies

1. County veterans' service
  agencies. There shall be established a county veterans'  service  agency
  in  each  county not wholly included within a city, and there shall be a
  county director of each county veterans' service  agency.    Any  county
  director  hired  after  the  effective  date  of this statute shall be a
  veteran as defined in New York state statute.  The chairman of the board
  of  supervisors  of  a  county,  with  the  approval  of  the  board  of
  supervisors,  shall appoint and may at pleasure remove a county director
  of the county veterans' service agency for  such  county.  In  a  county
  having  a  county president, a county executive or other chief executive
  officer, such president or executive officer shall appoint  and  may  at
  pleasure remove a county director.  The county director may be paid such
  compensation  as  shall be fixed by the appointing officer and the board
  of supervisors. The county director shall appoint  such  assistants  and
  employees  as  he may deem necessary, other than those, if any, supplied
  by the state; he may prescribe the duties of those appointed by him  and
  fix  their  salaries  within  the appropriations made available for that
  purpose by the county and may at pleasure remove any such assistants  or
  employees.  The  county  director shall have jurisdiction throughout the
  territorial limits of the county, including any city therein which  does
  not  have  a  city  veterans'  service  agency,  provided that after the
  establishment of a city veterans' service agency in any such  city,  the
  county director shall not have jurisdiction within such city.
    2.  City  veterans'  service  agency.  There may be established a city
  veterans' service agency in  each  city;  and  there  shall  be  a  city
  director  of  each  city  veterans' service agency which is established.
  The mayor of such city, or the city manager in a city of less  than  one
  hundred  forty  thousand population having a city manager, shall appoint
  and may at pleasure remove the city director. A  city  director  may  be
  paid  such  compensation as shall be fixed by the mayor or city manager,
  as the case may be, empowered to appoint  the  city  director,  and  the
  governing body of the city. The city director may appoint such deputies,
  assistants  and  employees as he may deem necessary other than those, if
  any, supplied by the  state;  he  may  prescribe  the  duties  of  those
  appointed  by  him and fix their salaries within the appropriations made
  available for that purpose by the city and may at  pleasure  remove  any
  such  assistant  or  employee.  A  city director shall have jurisdiction
  throughout the territorial limits of the city.