Section 269. Salary of clerks to justices of appellate division of first and second departments

1. Each of the clerks appointed pursuant to section
  ninety-six  of this chapter by the justices of the appellate division of
  the first and second departments shall receive as salary  a  sum  to  be
  fixed by the justices of each appellate division.
    2.  Except as provided in the state finance law, each of the presiding
  justices of the appellate divisions of the first and second  departments
  shall certify such salaries to the state comptroller who shall audit the
  same.  The  state  department  of  taxation  and  finance shall pay such
  salaries in equal biweekly installments, and shall apportion  the  total
  amount  of  each  department among the counties comprising each judicial
  department. Such counties shall reimburse the state therefor.  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.