2006 New York Code - Payment Of Salaries.

 
    §  3-308  Payment  of salaries. a. Wages and salaries may be paid upon
  payrolls, upon which each person named thereon shall separately  receipt
  for  the  amount  paid  to  such  person,  and the comptroller is hereby
  authorized and empowered, in  his  or  her  discretion,  to  direct  and
  require  that  wages  and  salaries  shall  not be paid except upon such
  receipt being individually signed by such person.
    b. The comptroller is hereby authorized in his or her  discretion,  to
  direct  and  require,  as  an  alternative  to the procedure provided in
  subdivision a hereof, that wages and salaries within any  department  or
  agency of the city or any part or unit thereof may be paid upon payrolls
  by  checks  corresponding to such payrolls without any receipt upon such
  payroll by the person receiving such check.