Section 95. Appointment of clerical and other assistants of appellate division in second department

The justices of the appellate division of
  the supreme court in the second judicial department, or  a  majority  of
  them, are authorized to appoint and at pleasure remove deputy clerks and
  other  necessary  assistants and attendants, and to prescribe the duties
  and fix the salaries thereof. Except as provided in  the  state  finance
  law,  such  salaries shall be certified by the presiding justice of such
  appellate division to the state comptroller who shall  audit  the  same.
  The  state department of taxation and finance shall pay such salaries in
  equal semi-monthly instalments, and shall  apportion  the  total  amount
  thereof  among  the  counties comprising the second judicial department.
  Such counties shall reimburse the state for such salaries. The time  and
  method   of   such  apportionment  and  the  time  and  method  of  such
  reimbursement shall be as specified  in  section  seventy-four  of  this
  chapter.