N.Y. County Law § 525

§ 525. County clerk; duties. 1. The county clerk shall perform the\nduties prescribed by law as register, and be the clerk of the supreme\ncourt and clerk of the county court within his county. He shall perform\nsuch additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and\ndirected by the board of supervisors.\n 2. He shall provide at the expense of the county, all books, files and\nother necessary equipment for the filing, recording and depositing of\ndocuments, maps, papers in actions and special proceedings of both civil\nand criminal nature, judgment and lien dockets and books for the\nindexing of the same as directed or authorized by law.\n