N.Y. C.P.L.R. 8015

§ 8015. County clerk where sheriff is a party or otherwise\ndisqualified. A county clerk is entitled for the services specified to\nthe following fees:\n 1. for performing any duty of a sheriff in an action in which the\nsheriff, for any cause, is disqualified, the same compensation to which\na sheriff is entitled for the same services; and\n 2. for confining a sheriff in a house by virtue of a mandate, and\nmaintaining him while there, two dollars for each day, to be paid by the\nsheriff, before he is entitled to be discharged.\n