2006 New York Code - Deputies, Clerks, Examiners, Special Agents And Other Employees; Appointment; Compensation; Oath Of Office; Bonds; Powers Of Deputies.

 
    § 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.