15 - Deputies, clerks, examiners, special agents and other employees; appointment; compensation; oath of office; bonds; powers of deputies. - New York Statutes

§ 15. Deputies, clerks, examiners, special agents and other employees; appointment; compensation; oath of office; bonds; powers of deputies. 1. The superintendent may appoint five deputies, and shall employ from time to time such clerks, examiners, special agents and other employees, under such titles as he may assign to them, as he may need to discharge in the proper manner the duties imposed upon him by law. They shall perform such duties as the superintendent shall assign to them. The superintendent shall fix their compensation. 2. Every deputy, within fifteen days after notice of his appointment, shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and file such oath in the department of state. Every examiner, before entering upon his duties as such examiner, shall take and subscribe such oath and file it with the secretary of state. 3. If any deputy who, prior to appointment as deputy, has served as examiner for a period of three years or more, is removed by the superintendent from such position as deputy he must be restored to the position of examiner and as such shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges to which he would have been entitled had he continued as examiner and shall receive full credit for his service as deputy and be entitled to receive a salary at least equal to that paid to him as deputy, upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller as provided in section seventeen of this article, if he shall have served as deputy continuously for more than one year or, if he shall have served as deputy for one year or less, at least equal to that paid to him as examiner immediately preceding his appointment as deputy. The superintendent may, in his discretion, appoint as an examiner for a term of not more than six months any person who shall have served in such capacity for at least three years, and shall have left the department voluntarily and in good standing. 4. Any action which the superintendent is required or authorized hereinafter by this chapter to take may be taken by a deputy to whom the duty of taking such action has been assigned by the superintendent.