§ 983. Surrogates; assistants and clerks; district tax attorneys. (a)\nThe commissioner of taxation and finance may, upon the recommendation of\nthe surrogate, appoint, and may at pleasure remove, assistants and\nclerks in the surrogate's offices of the following counties, and shall\nfix their salaries within the amounts appropriated for that purpose:\n (1) In New York county, a transfer and estate tax assistant; a deputy\ntransfer and estate tax assistant; a transfer and estate tax clerk; an\nassistant clerk; a recording clerk; a stenographer; and shall be\nentitled to expend not more than seven hundred fifty dollars a year in\nsuch office for the expenses necessarily incurred in the administration\nof taxes under this article and articles ten and ten-C (as such article\nten-C existed before its repeal) of this chapter.\n (2) In Kings county, a transfer and estate tax assistant; a deputy\ntransfer and estate tax assistant; two transfer and estate tax clerks;\nand shall be entitled to expend not more than five hundred dollars a\nyear for expenses necessarily incurred in the administration of taxes\nunder this article and articles ten and ten-C (as such article ten-C\nexisted before its repeal) of this chapter.\n (3) In Erie county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (4) In Westchester county, a transfer and estate tax clerk and a\ntransfer and estate tax assistant.\n (5) In Albany county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (6) In Queens county, two transfer and estate tax clerks and a typist.\n (7) In Onondaga county, a transfer and estate tax clerk; and shall be\nentitled to expend not more than two hundred dollars a year for expenses\nnecessarily incurred in the administration of taxes under this article\nand articles ten and ten-C (as such article ten-C existed before its\nrepeal) of this chapter.\n (8) In Monroe county, a transfer and estate tax clerk; and shall be\nentitled to expend not more than three hundred dollars a year for\nexpenses necessarily incurred in the administration of taxes under this\narticle and articles ten and ten-C (as such article ten-C existed before\nits repeal) of this chapter.\n (9) In Dutchess county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (10) In Oneida county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (11) In Suffolk county, two transfer and estate tax clerks.\n (12) In Ulster county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (12-a) In Otsego county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (13) In Richmond county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (14) In Nassau county, two transfer and estate tax clerks.\n (15) In Bronx county, a transfer and estate tax clerk and a transfer\nand estate tax assistant.\n (16) In Orange county, a transfer and estate tax clerk.\n (b) The positions of assistants and clerks in each surrogate's office\ndescribed in subsection (a) of this section may be filled by promotion\nfrom among officers and employees of such office. Persons occupying such\npositions of assistants and clerks in each surrogate's office may be\neligible for promotion to other positions in such office.\n (c) In each county of the state having a population of over one\nmillion, and in each county of the state having a population of over\nthree hundred thousand inhabitants, included in or adjoining a city or\ncounty containing a population of over one million inhabitants, the\nsurrogate or surrogates shall each annually receive for compensation for\nservices rendered in connection with the administration of transfer and\nestate taxes the sum of six thousand eight hundred eighty-two dollars in\naddition to the salary or compensation paid to such surrogate by the\ncounty, but such salary and compensation shall not together exceed the\nentire salary and compensation paid to a justice of the supreme court in\nthe judicial district in which the county is included. Where a city pays\nthe salary of a surrogate of a county wholly included within such city\nand such salary is equal to the entire salary and com
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