Section 101. Power of justices of appellate division of second department to appoint clerical and other personnel of the appellate term

The justices
  of the appellate division of the supreme court in the second department,
  or  a  majority  of them, are authorized to appoint in their discretion,
  and to remove at pleasure, for the appellate term of the  supreme  court
  in the second department, a chief clerk, one deputy clerk, one assistant
  deputy  clerk,  and all necessary other assistants and personnel in said
  court, and to prescribe the duties and fix the salaries thereof.  Except
  as  provided  in  the  state  finance  law,  such salaries and all other
  necessary expenses of such appellate term, shall be paid  by  the  state
  comptroller  out  of  moneys  appropriated  therefor by law.   The state
  department of taxation and finance shall  pay  such  salaries  in  equal
  biweekly  installments  and  shall  apportion  the  total amount of such
  salaries and expenses among the counties comprising the second  judicial
  department.  Such  counties  shall reimburse the state for such salaries
  and expenses. The time and method of  such  reimbursement  shall  be  as
  specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.