New York Laws
Article 5 - Department of Law
67 - Additional Counsel.

ยง 67. Additional counsel. The governor or attorney-general may
designate and employ such additional attorneys or counsel as may be
necessary to assist in the transaction of any of the legal business
mentioned in section sixty-three of this chapter and such attorneys or
counsel shall be paid a reasonable fee upon the certificate of the
governor and attorney-general, the amount thereof to be audited and
allowed by them or to be paid by the attorney-general out of costs,
penalties and judgments collected by him, prior to the payment thereof
into the state treasury as required by section one hundred twenty-one of
the state finance law.