New York Laws
Article 14 - Law Reporting
435 - Qualifications of State Reporter and Deputies.

ยง 435. Qualifications of state reporter and deputies. No one shall be
appointed to the office of state reporter or of deputy state reporter
who is not an attorney and counselor of this state; provided, however,
that the limitation contained herein with respect to appointment to the
office of deputy state reporter shall not apply to any deputy supreme
court reporter or assistant supreme court reporter transferred from the
office of the supreme court reporter to the law reporting bureau in
accordance with the direction contained in section six of chapter four
hundred ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-eight.