New York Laws
Article 18 - District Attorney
700 - District Attorney; Powers and Duties.

(b) In addition to the state aid provided in paragraph (a) of this
subdivision, each county, the salary of the district attorney of which
is determined pursuant to section one hundred eighty-three-a of the
judiciary law, shall be entitled to receive state aid in the amount of
forty-one percent of the difference between the amount required to be
paid to such district attorney pursuant to section one hundred
eighty-three-a of the judiciary law on and after January first, nineteen
hundred ninety-nine and the amount required to be paid pursuant to such
section immediately prior to such date, except that in the county of
Dutchess the amount shall be forty-two percent of such difference in the
county of Putnam the amount shall be forty percent of such difference in
the county of Monroe the amount shall be thirty-nine percent of such
difference and in the counties of Erie, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester
the amount shall be thirty-six percent of such difference.
(c) Commencing with the nineteen hundred eighty-seven calendar year,
the comptroller shall annually determine the amount of state aid payable
to each county pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) hereof for each
calendar year and shall pay such amount on his audit and warrant to the
chief fiscal officer of each such county during the month of September
in each such year. Where a county first becomes entitled to state aid
pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) hereof on a day other than January
first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine or January first of any other year

thereafter, the amount of state aid payable to such county in the year
it first becomes entitled to such state aid shall be prorated
accordingly.
13. In order to provide services to crime victims, witnesses, and
other persons involved in the criminal justice system, and to support
crime prevention programs, the district attorney may employ or contract
with persons licensed and registered to practice or otherwise authorized
under article one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four, or one
hundred sixty-three of the education law, or contract with entities
authorized to provide the services specified in such articles, in
connection with the provision of any services that such persons or
entities are authorized to provide and that are authorized by the
district attorney.

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