§ 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.