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SECTION 135
Extra salary or compensation prohibited
Civil Service (CVS) CHAPTER 7, ARTICLE 8, TITLE B
§ 135. Extra salary or compensation prohibited. 1. No person holding a
position or employment in any department, bureau, commission or office
to which this article applies and for which a definite salary or
compensation has been appropriated or designated, shall receive any
extra salary or compensation in addition to that so fixed except
overtime compensation as provided in section one hundred thirty-four of
this title. The requirements of this subdivision shall not apply to:

(a) clinical practice pursuant to subdivision fourteen of section two
hundred six of the public health law, or

(b) certain employees of the department of motor vehicles who receive
certain incentive payments for productivity standards pursuant to a
program established by such department since nineteen hundred
seventy-seven, or

(c) employees in the office of general services who are specified as
eligible under a labor management memorandum of understanding with the
appropriate employee representative organization to participate in
practices or programs constituting one or more pilot studies to evaluate
the effect of extra compensation on productivity, efficiency and overall
service delivery. The commissioner of general services in consultation
with the director of the governor's office of employee relations and the
director of classification and compensation in the department and with
the approval of the director of the budget is hereby authorized to
direct the payment of extra compensation to such employees. Such extra
compensation shall be paid pursuant to a specified plan developed by the
commissioner of general services which shall be effective when approved
by the director of the budget. The payment of such extra compensation
shall be in addition to and shall not be part of an employee's basic
annual salary, and shall not affect or impair any performance
advancement payments, performance awards, longevity payments or other
rights or benefits to which an employee may be entitled. Furthermore,
any additional compensation payable pursuant to this subdivision shall
not be included as compensation for retirement purposes.

(d) payments made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement
negotiated pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter or regulations
promulgated by the president pursuant to subdivision three of section
one hundred sixty-three of this chapter permitting payment to an
employee or officer in exchange for the employee's election to withdraw
from the health insurance plan established pursuant to article eleven of
this chapter. Such payments shall not be considered part of an
employee's basic annual salary and shall not be considered compensation
for the purposes of overtime calculation or retirement.

2. Any contribution by the state of food, lodging or maintenance, or
any commutation in lieu of maintenance, except traveling expenses and
field allowances, shall be considered as part of the salary established
by section one hundred thirty of this chapter. The fair value of such
food, lodging, maintenance or commutation shall be determined by the
director of the budget and may in his discretion be deducted from the
salary established by said section. No employee shall board or lodge
away from any institution or hospital which regularly furnishes food,
lodging or maintenance, without the permission of the head of the
institution or department by which he is employed. The director of the
budget may deduct from the salary of any employee who fails to obtain
such permission, the fair value of food, lodging or maintenance which
such institution or hospital has offered to furnish to such employee.
Whenever a chaplain employed in any state institution is not furnished a
residence by the state, twenty per cent of his annual salary shall be
deemed to constitute the amount to be paid to him in lieu of such
residence.