NY Jud L § 255-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws JUD - Judiciary Article 8 - Clerks 255-C - Uniform Transcript and Certificate Act.

§  255-c. Uniform transcript and certificate act.  1. Every transcript of a judgment hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of a  court of  record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk, shall be on paper eleven inches in width by eight-and-a-half inches in length. It shall be substantially in the following form:                           TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT                             JUDGMENT DEBTOR                                        Trade               Last Surname            Given Name         or Profession       Known Address ________________________________________________________________________                                         AMOUNT OF           JUDGMENT     JUDGMENT CREDITOR                  JUDGMENT            RENDERED  Name               Address            Damages             Court                                                           County                                                           Date                                                           Hr. & Min.                                       Costs                JUDGMENT                                                            DOCKETED                                       Total               Date                                                           Hr. & Min. ________________________________________________________________________                                         REMARKS: DATE AND MANNER     ATTORNEY FOR JUDGMENT               OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF          CREDITOR                             JUDGMENT Name               Address           EXECUTION                            SATISFIED                     When Returned                          How and to When Issued         Unsatisfied       When                What Extent ________________________________________________________________________    This form is to be immediately followed by the following certification with the appropriate words being chosen  among  those  which  appear  in brackets,  except that in the event the person certifying the transcript keeps no seal, the  words  "and  affixed  my  official  seal"  shall  be omitted:  STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF........  (seal)   I,.................(Clerk, Judge or Justice) of the (County of.......; or......Court,  County  of........),  hereby certify that the above is a correct transcript from the docket of judgments in my office.   IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto  set  my  name  and  affixed  my official seal this......day of.............19........                                          Clerk, Judge or Justice).   Any  change  in  the  status  of  the  judgment  since the time of its original entry on the docket of the  person  certifying  the  transcript shall  be  indicated in the space provided for "REMARKS; DATE AND MANNER OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF JUDGMENT" the same  to  include  any  assignment, reversal,  modification,  discharge,  and  any  other  such  disposition affecting the judgment; satisfactions and reductions, to whatever extent  and in whatever fashion the same are affected, shall be indicated in the space entitled "SATISFIED--WHEN, HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT."   2.  Every  certificate  attesting to any execution on, or reduction or full or partial satisfaction of, a judgment, or to  any  change  in  the status  of a judgment, hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of a court of record or of a court not of record, or by any  county  clerk, shall  be  of  the same size and form as for a transcript of judgment as described and illustrated under subdivision one of the  section,  except that  the  words  "Certificate of Disposition of Judgment" shall replace the words "Transcript of Judgment"  wherever  the  same  may  appear  on either  side  thereof,  and  excepting  further  that  between  the  two sentences constituting the certification there shall  be  an  additional sentence,  to  read:  "And I further certify that the above judgment has ........ " The space provided shall be of sufficient length  to  contain all data relevant to the matter for which the certificate is issued.   3. In the event that the space provided for any information which must be  contained in any such transcript or certificate be insufficient, the same may be set forth on a separate paper or papers of the same size, to be attached to said transcript or  certificate  by  a  staple  or  other equally permanent means, and in that space on the original transcript or certificate  which  proved  insufficient to contain the necessary matter there shall  appear  a  reference  to  the  attached  paper  or  papers, adequately  identifying  the  same.  Each  such  added  paper  shall  be subscribed at the very end of the matter contained thereon by  the  same person  who  certifies the transcript or certificate to which said paper or papers shall be attached.