Section 187. Armory employees; grades, employment, duties and compensation

1. Positions created  to  provide  for  the  security,  maintenance  and
  operation  of  armories,  including  the surrounding premises and public
  property located therein, notwithstanding the provisions  of  any  other
  law,  shall  be classified and allocated to salary grades for comparable
  positions in the classified service of the state as set forth in section
  one hundred thirty of the civil service law.
    2.  Subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  and  within   the
  appropriation  therefor,  the  adjutant  general  shall  employ, assign,
  transfer and discharge as many employees of each classification or grade
  as may be necessary. Subject to the approval  of  the  director  of  the
  budget,  the  adjutant  general  may classify or reclassify, allocate or
  reallocate any  position  established  under  subdivision  one  of  this
  section for the purpose of providing appropriate title, salary grade and
  rate   of   compensation   which   may  be  descriptive  of  duties  and
  responsibilities.   Notwithstanding any other  law  or  any  general  or
  special  statute  to  the  contrary,  when  salary  grades  or  rates of
  compensation for the comparable  classified  service  positions  of  the
  state  as  contained  in section one hundred thirty of the civil service
  law are amended, the salary grades or rates of compensation of positions
  authorized  by  subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall  be  adjusted
  correspondingly.
    3. Armory employees shall perform duties as prescribed by the adjutant
  general  and by the officer in charge and control of the armory in which
  they are employed.
    4. The adjutant general is hereby authorized to employ  any  incumbent
  armory  employee  appointed  pursuant  to  former  section  one  hundred
  eighty-seven of this  chapter  as  it  existed  on  March  thirty-first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-one,  in  a  position  created pursuant to this
  section but no such employee shall thereby suffer any diminution in  the
  annual amount of compensation received by him on such date.