Duties of clerk of appellate division in each department

§ 264. Duties of clerk of appellate division in each department. 1.
The clerk of the appellate division in each department shall keep his
office at a place to be designated by the justices appointing him.

2. A term of the appellate division of the supreme court must be
attended by the clerk of the appellate division of the supreme court,
appointed for the department in which the term is held, who must act
under the direction of the court or of the presiding justice.

3. The clerk of the appellate division in any department, with whom is
filed a copy of the rules made by the justices of his department for
fixing the times and places for holding special and trial terms, and for
assigning justices to hold special and trial terms, must immediately
transmit a copy thereof, certified by him, to each of the justices of
the supreme court in such department not designated as justices of an
appellate division.

4. The clerk of each department of the appellate division, upon the
payment of the fees allowed by law, must deliver to the person admitted
to practice as an attorney and counsellor a certificate under his hand
and official seal, stating that such person has been so admitted, that
he has taken and subscribed the constitutional oath of office as
prescribed in section four hundred sixty-six of this chapter and that he
has registered with the administrative office of the courts as required
by section four hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter.