N.Y. Legislative Law Section 7-A
Legislative library, librarian and assistants

There shall be a legislative library to be located in the state capitol in rooms assigned by the commissioner of general services, conveniently accessible to the members of both houses of legislature, and such library shall be open throughout the year. Such library shall be suitably furnished, equipped and maintained under the direction of the legislative librarian, within the amount of any moneys available therefor by appropriation, subject to joint rules, if any, that may be adopted by the senate and assembly in relation thereto. There shall be, for such library, a legislative librarian and such assistant librarians and other employees as may be provided for in the legislative appropriation bill. Such librarian, assistant librarians and other employees shall be chosen by the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly. One of the assistant librarians shall be assigned by the legislative librarian to have charge of the legislative correspondents’ room in the capitol. The legislative librarian and assistant librarians heretofore chosen by the president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, and in office when this section as hereby amended takes effect, shall continue to serve until their successors shall be chosen. The salaries and compensation of the legislative librarian, assistant librarians and other employees shall be payable from moneys appropriated in the legislative appropriation bill. During a vacancy in the office of legislative librarian, the assistant librarian who shall have been longest in the service of the state as a legislative employee, shall be employed as acting legislative librarian with the powers and duties of such librarian, and shall receive during such period the compensation herein prescribed for the legislative librarian. Such librarian shall have charge of the legislative library, but the two houses of the legislature may, by joint rules, regulate the use of the library and prescribe the powers and duties of the legislative librarian and the assistant librarians. The legislative librarian, the assistant librarians and employees of the legislative library shall be considered to be employees of the legislature for all purposes.

Source: Section 7-A — Legislative library, librarian and assistants, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LEG/7-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 18, 2025).

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Exemption of members and officers from arrest 3
Expulsion of members 4
Contempts of either house 5
Compensation of members 5‑A
Allowances for member serving as an officer of either house of the legislature or in a special capacity therein 5‑B
Limit on outside earned income by members 6
Officers and employees of the senate 7
Officers and employees of the assembly 7‑A
Legislative library, librarian and assistants 7‑B
Legislative emergency health station 7‑C
Member of assembly defined 7‑D
Employees of the legislature 7‑E
Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing 7‑F
Assembly historian 7‑G
Senate historian 8
Appointments to be filed with the comptroller 9
Additional employees 10
Compensation of officers and employees 11
Designation of payrolls as annual, session or temporary 12
Authorization of expenditures 15
Duties of secretary and clerk 16
Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk 17
Accountability of secretary and clerk to comptroller 18
Duties of postmasters and assistants 19
Duties of official stenographers 20
Detail of officers and employees for special duties 21
Limitation of legislative expenses 22
Custody of legislative papers and documents 22‑A
Reproduction and destruction of certain records, books and papers of the senate 22‑B
Destruction and reproductions of assembly books and records 23
Appropriation bills, how referred 24
Legislative bill drafting commission 25
Duties of the commission 27
Appointment of secretaries of finance and ways and means committees 28
Compensation, expenses, employees 29
Sub-committees of finance and ways and means committees 30
Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries 31
Appearances and inquiries in respect to the budget 32
Representation of certain legislative committees during revision of the budget 32‑A
Budget 33
Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly
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Accessed:
Jan. 18, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 7-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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