Section 290. Stenographers are officers of court

Each  stenographer,
  specified in this chapter or the civil practice act,  surrogate's  court
  act,  court of claims act or New York city civil court act is an officer
  of the court or courts, for or by which he is appointed.  From and after
  the  first  day  of   September,   nineteen   hundred   and   sixty-two,
  stenographers  serving  as  such in the first judicial district who were
  transferred thereto on that date from the court of general  sessions  of
  the  county of New York shall be deemed to be stenographers specified in
  this chapter and subject to the provisions of this article nine.