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NY Real Prop L § 310 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 310 - Authentication of Acknowledgments and Proofs Made Within the State.

§  310.  Authentication  of acknowledgments and proofs made within the   state. 1. When a certificate of acknowledgment or proof is made,  within   this  state,  by  a  commissioner of deeds, a justice of the peace, town   councilman, village police justice, or a judge of any court of  inferior   local  jurisdiction, such certificate does not entitle the conveyance so   acknowledged or proved to be read in evidence or recorded in any  county   of  this  state  except  a  county  in  which  the  officer  making such   certificate is authorized to act at the time of making the same,  unless   such  certificate is authenticated by a certificate of the clerk of such   county; provided, however, that all certificates of  acknowlledgment  or   proof,  made by a commissioner of deeds of the city of New York residing   in any part therein, shall be authenticated by the clerk of  any  county   within  said city, in whose office such commissioner of deeds shall have   filed a certificate under the hand and seal of the city  clerk  of  said   city,  showing  the appointment and term of office of such commissioner;   and no other certificates shall be required from any  other  officer  to   entitle such conveyance to be read in evidence or recorded in any county   of this state.2.   Except   as   provided   in   this  section,  no  certificate  of   authentication shall be required to entitle a conveyance to be  read  in   evidence  or  recorded  in this state when acknowledged or proved before   any officer designated in  section  two  hundred  ninety-eight  of  this   article   to   take   such  acknowledgment  or  proof,  nor  shall  such   authentication be required for recording  in  the  office  of  the  city   register  of  the  city of New York of such acknowledgment or proof by a   commissioner of deeds of the city of New York.
NY Real Prop L § 313 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 313 - Notary Public.

§  313.  Notary public. The term "notary public, " as used in sections   two hundred ninety-nine, three hundred one,  three  hundred  eight,  and   three  hundred eleven, of this chapter, includes any person appointed to   perform notarial functions.
NY Real Prop L § 313-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 313-A - Deputies.

§  313-a.  Deputies. When any officer, designated by the provisions of   this article to take acknowledgments or proofs of  conveyances  of  real   estate  to  be  read  in  evidence  or  recorded  in  this  state, or to   authenticate certificates of such acknowledgment or proof, is authorized   by law to appoint a deputy, or when such officer has by  law  a  deputy,   such deputy may take such acknowledgments or proofs, or may authenticate   such certificates.
NY Real Prop L § 314 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 314 - Recording of Conveyances Acknowledged or Proved Without the State, When Parties and Certifying Officer Are Dead.

§  314.  Recording  of  conveyances acknowledged or proved without the   state, when parties and certifying officer are dead. When the  execution   of  a  conveyance  of real property within this state is acknowledged or   proved according to the laws of any other state of  the  United  States,   and  a  certificate of the acknowledgment or proof signed by the officer   taking it is annexed to or indorsed upon the instrument, if such officer   and the grantor or mortgagor be dead and the death of  all  of  them  be   proved by affidavit, sworn to in such state before an officer authorized   by  its  laws  to  administer  an oath therein, the conveyance, with the   affidavit or affidavits  annexed  thereto,  on  being  authenticated  as   required  by  this  section, may be read in evidence and recorded in the   same manner, and with like effect, as if the conveyance was acknowledged   or proved and certified as required  by  the  laws  of  this  state.  To   entitle  such  conveyance  and  affidavits  to  be  read in evidence, or   recorded, a certificate of the clerk, recorder, register or prothonotary   of the county in which the deceased officer resided, authenticating  his   signature,  and  also  certifying that the conveyance is acknowledged or   proved in all respects, as required by the laws of such state,  must  be   annexed  to  the  original  certificate;  and a like certificate of such   clerk, recorder, register or prothonotary, authenticating the  signature   of  the  officer,  before  whom  the  affidavits proving the deaths were   taken, must be annexed to  such  affidavits.  The  affidavits  on  being   recorded,  are  presumptive evidence of the matters of fact, required to   be stated therein.
NY Real Prop L § 314-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 314-A - Proof When Witnesses Are Dead.

§  314-a.  Proof  when  witnesses  are  dead.  When the witnesses to a   conveyance, authorized to be recorded, are dead, its  execution  may  be   proved  before  any  officer  authorized  to  take  within the state the   acknowledgment and proof of conveyances, other than  a  commissioner  of   deeds,  a  notary  public,  or a justice of the peace.  The proof of the   execution must be made by satisfactory evidence of the death of all  the   witnesses  thereto, and of the handwriting of such witnesses, or any one   of them, and of the grantor, which evidence, with the name and residence   of each witness examined, must be set forth by the  officer  taking  the   same,  in  his  certificate  of  proof.  A  conveyance  so  proved,  and   certified, may be  recorded  in  the  proper  office,  if  the  original   conveyance  be  at  the same time deposited in the same office, there to   remain for the inspection of all persons desiring to examine  the  same.   If  the  conveyance  affects  real  property  in two or more counties, a   certified copy of the conveyance, with the proof and  certificates,  may   be  recorded  in  each  of such counties. Such recording and deposit are   constructive  notice  of  the  execution  of  such  conveyance  to   all   purchasers of the same real property, or any part thereof, from the same   vendor,  his  heirs or assigns, subsequent to such recording, but do not   entitle the conveyance or the record thereof, or  a  transcript  of  the   record, to be read in evidence.
NY Real Prop L § 315 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 315 - Recording Books.

§  315.  Recording  books. Different sets of books must be provided by   the recording officer of each county, for the  recording  of  deeds  and   mortgages; in one of which sets he must record all conveyances and other   instruments absolute in their terms, which are not intended as mortgages   or  securities  in  the nature of mortgages, and all executory contracts   for the sale, purchase  or  exchange  of  real  property,  or  memoranda   thereof,  and  all  instruments  canceling  or extending such contracts,   which conveyances,  contracts  or  instruments  are  delivered  to  him,   pursuant  to  law,  to  be  so  recorded,  and  all  forms pertaining to   commitments of land to continued agricultural production required to  be   so recorded pursuant to section three hundred six of the agriculture and   markets  law;  and  in the other set, such mortgages and securities, and   assignments of rent, delivered to him; excepting that if  the  recording   is  by  microphotography  or  other  photographic process, the recording   officer shall not be required to maintain books for  such  records,  but   shall  provide  such  filing  equipment  as he may deem appropriate. The   recording officer may, in his discretion, record  in  consecutive  order   the  instruments received by him, and shall not be required to segregate   mortgages from deeds or other classes of instruments.
NY Real Prop L § 316 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 316 - Indexes.

§ 316. Indexes. Each recording officer must provide, at the expense of   his  county,  proper  books  for  making  general indexes of instruments   recorded in his office, and must form indexes therein, so as  to  afford   correct  and  easy reference to the records in his office. There must be   one set of  indexes  for  mortgages  or  securities  in  the  nature  of   mortgages  and  assignments of rent; and another set for conveyances and   other instruments not intended as  such  mortgages  or  securities,  and   executory  contracts for sale, purchase or exchange of real property, or   memoranda  thereof,  and  instruments  canceling   or   extending   such   contracts.  Each  set  must contain two lists in alphabetical order, one   consisting of the names of the grantors  or  mortgagors  and  assignors,   followed  by  the  names of their grantees, mortgagees or assignees, and   the other list consisting of the names of the grantees or mortgagees and   assignees, followed by the  names  of  their  grantors,  mortgagors,  or   assignors,  with  proper  blanks  in each class of names, for subsequent   entries, which entries must be made as  instruments  are  delivered  for   record.  This  section,  so  far  as  relates  to the preparation of new   indexes, shall not apply to a county where the recording officer now has   general numerical indexes.A recording officer who records  a  conveyance  of  real  property  or   assignment  of  rent,  sold  by virtue of an execution, or by a sheriff,   referee or other person, pursuant to a  judgment,  the  granting  clause   whereof  states  whose right, title or interest was sold, must insert in   the proper index, under the head, "grantors" or "assignors", the name of   the officer executing the conveyance, and of each  person  whose  right,   title or interest is so stated to have been sold.Such  indexes  shall  form  a  part  of  the record of each instrument   hereafter recorded.A  county  clerk  may  adopt   a   new   indexing   system   utilizing   electro-mechanical, electronic or any other method he deems suitable for   maintaining the indexes.
NY Real Prop L § 316-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 316-B - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Registry Index.

§  316-b. Inactive hazardous waste disposal site registry index. 1. On and after July first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three,  each  recording officer  must  provide,  at  the expense of his county, proper books for making an index of present owners of inactive hazardous  waste  disposal sites  contained  in  the  registry  required  by section 27-1305 of the environmental conservation law. The index shall contain an  alphabetical listing  of  all  owners  listed  in such annual report completed by the department of environmental conservation, together with a reference, for each present owner, to the page and year of the report where information regarding the inactive hazardous waste site may be  located.  The  index shall  also  contain the tax map parcel number or the section, block and lot number of the site.   2. (a) No recording officer shall be liable for the failure to  comply with  the  provisions  of  this  section  prior  to July first, nineteen hundred ninety-three.  (b) Any entries,  index  or  other  listing  contained  in  the  books required  to  be  provided by this section prior to July first, nineteen hundred ninety-three shall be null, void and of  no  effect,  nor  shall such  entries,  index  or  listing  be  considered  to provide actual or constructive notice of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites  for  any purpose.   3.  Each  recording officer shall record and index such instruments as may be required to be recorded pursuant to title thirteen or fourteen of article twenty-seven of the environmental  conservation  law,  or  title five  of  article  fifty-six  of  the environmental conservation law, or article twelve of the navigation  law,  or  any  regulation  promulgated pursuant thereto, or any order or agreement entered into under authority thereof or of any such regulations.
NY Real Prop L § 317 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 317 - Order of Recording.

§  317. Order of recording. Every instrument, entitled to be recorded,   must be recorded by the recording officer in the order  and  as  of  the   time  of  its  delivery  to  him  or her therefor, during business hours   maintained by the recording officer, and is considered recorded from the   time of  such  delivery;  provided,  however,  that  a  digitized  paper   document  or  an  electronic  record  shall  be considered delivered for   purposes of this section at the date and time of receipt indicated on an   electronic or other written notification which shall be provided by  the   recording officer immediately upon receipt of a digitized paper document   or electronic record.
NY Real Prop L § 318 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 318 - Certificate to Be Recorded.

§   318.   Certificate   to   be  recorded.  The  certificate  of  the   acknowledgment or proof of the  execution  of  an  instrument,  and  the   certificate  authenticating  the  signature  or  seal  of the officer so   certifying, or both, if required, must be  recorded  together  with  the   instrument  so  acknowledged  or proved; otherwise neither the record of   the instrument nor a transcript thereof can be read in evidence.
NY Real Prop L § 319 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 319 - Time of Recording.

§  319. Time of recording. The recording officer must make an entry in   the record, immediately after the copy of every instrument  recorded  by   him,  stating  the  hour, day, month and year, when it was recorded, and   must endorse upon every such instrument a certificate, stating the  time   as  aforesaid, when, and the book and page where, the same was recorded.   If the recording is by microphotography or other  photographic  process,   the  recording  officer  must  endorse  on the instrument the hour, day,   month and year when it was recorded, and the serial number or such other   designation as  will  permit  easy  reference  to  the  record  of  such   instrument,  and  he  must,  in  addition,  place  thereon a certificate   stating that the instrument has been recorded in deeds or  mortgages  as   the case may be.
NY Real Prop L § 320 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 320 - Certain Deeds Deemed Mortgages.

§ 320. Certain deeds deemed mortgages. A deed conveying real property,   which, by any other written instrument, appears to be intended only as a   security in the nature of a mortgage, although an absolute conveyance in   terms,  must  be considered a mortgage; and the person for whose benefit   such deed is made, derives no  advantage  from  the  recording  thereof,   unless  every  writing,  operating  as  a  defeasance  of  the  same, or   explanatory of its being desired to have the effect only of a  mortgage,   or conditional deed, is also recorded therewith, and at the same time.
NY Real Prop L § 321-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 321-A - Recording Discharge of Rent Assignment.

§ 321-a. Recording discharge of rent assignment. An assignment of rent   to accrue from real property, heretofore recorded, or hereafter recorded   pursuant  to  section two hundred ninety-four-a of this chapter, must be   discharged upon the record  thereof,  by  the  recording  officer,  upon   presentation  to  him of a certificate signed by the assignee, or by his   personal representative or his assignee, and acknowledged or proved  and   certified  in  like  manner  to  entitle  a  conveyance  to be recorded,   specifying that the obligation secured by the  assignment  of  rent  has   been  satisfied  or  discharged,  or  that  the  assignment  of  rent is   canceled. When so signed and acknowledged or proved and certified,  such   certificate  may  be recorded, and such certificate, the record thereof,   and a certified copy of such record may be introduced in evidence in all   courts of this state. The certificate of discharge, and the certificates   of its acknowledgment or proof,  must  be  recorded  and  filed;  and  a   reference  must  be  made to the book and page containing such record in   the minute of the discharge of such assignment  of  rent,  made  by  the   officer upon the record thereof.  After such discharge has been recorded   the  recording  officer  shall  make  and deliver to the person in whose   interest such discharge of assignment of rent is executed and  recorded,   his  certificate  setting  forth the names of the assignor and assignee,   the liber and page at which, the time when such assignment of  rent  was   recorded,  and  the  date on which said assignment of rent was satisfied   and discharged.
NY Real Prop L § 324 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 324 - Effect of Recording Assignment of Mortgage.

§ 324. Effect of recording assignment of mortgage. The recording of an   assignment of a mortgage is not in itself a notice of such assignment to   a  mortgagor,  his  heirs or personal representatives, or to an owner of   the mortgaged premises where such assignment is recorded  subsequent  to   the recording of the conveyance of such premises to such owner, so as to   invalidate  a  payment  made  by either of them to the mortgagee or to a   prior assignee of the mortgage.
NY Real Prop L § 325 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 325 - Recording of Conveyances Made by Treasurer of Connecticut.

§  325.  Recording  of conveyances made by treasurer of Connecticut. A   conveyance of real property, executed at any time since the tenth day of   March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, by the treasurer of  the  state   of  Connecticut,  acknowledged  by  him before the secretary of state of   such state, and  the  acknowledgment  of  which  is  certified  by  such   secretary  of state under the seal of such state, in the manner required   for the acknowledgment and certification of  a  conveyance  within  this   state,  may  be recorded in the proper office within this state, without   further proof thereof.
NY Real Prop L § 326 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 326 - Revocation to Be Recorded.

§  326.  Revocation  to  be  recorded.  A  power  of attorney or other   instrument, recorded pursuant to this article, is not deemed revoked  by   any  act  of  the  party  by whom it was executed, unless the instrument   containing such revocation is also recorded in the same office in  which   the instrument containing the power was recorded.
NY Real Prop L § 327 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 327 - Penalty for Using Long Forms of Covenants.

§  327.  Penalty  for  using  long  forms  of covenants. The recording   officer of any county may charge for  the  recording  of  an  instrument   containing  any  of  the  covenants mentioned in section two hundred and   fifty-three and two hundred and fifty-four of this  chapter,  at  large,   instead  of the short forms thereof, in said sections contained, the sum   of five dollars in addition to the  fees  chargeable  by  law  for  such   recording.
NY Real Prop L § 328 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 328 - Certain Acts Not Affected.

§  328.  Certain  acts not affected. Nothing contained in this article   repeals  or  affects  any  act  providing  for  recording  and  indexing   instruments  affecting  real property in the city of New York, according   to city blocks or other limited areas.
NY Real Prop L § 329 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 329 - Actions to Have Certain Instruments Canceled of Record.

§  329.  Actions  to  have  certain instruments canceled of record. An   owner of real property or of any  undivided  part  thereof  or  interest   therein  or  an  owner  of  rent  to accrue from a tenancy or subtenancy   thereof, may maintain an action  to  have  any  recorded  instrument  in   writing  relating  to such real property or interest therein, other than   those required by law to be recorded, or any recorded assignment of rent   to accrue from a tenancy or subtenancy  of  such  property  or  interest   therein declared void or invalid, or to have the same canceled of record   as  to  said  real  property,  or his undivided part thereof or interest   therein, or as to the rent to accrue therefrom belonging to him.
NY Real Prop L § 330 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 330 - Officers Guilty of Malfeasance Liable for Damages.

§  330.  Officers guilty of malfeasance liable for damages. An officer   authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance or  other   instrument, or to certify such proof or acknowledgment, or to record the   same,  who  is  guilty  of  malfeasance  or  fraudulent  practice in the   execution of any duty prescribed by law in relation thereto,  is  liable   in damages to the person injured.
NY Real Prop L § 331 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 331 - Laws and Decrees of Foreign Countries Appointing Agents and Attorneys and Recording of the Same.

§  331.  Laws  and  decrees of foreign countries appointing agents and   attorneys and recording of the same. A  copy  of  a  law  of  a  foreign   country  or  of  a  decree  of  the  executive  power of such a country,   appointing an agent or attorney with power to execute and deliver in the   name or on behalf of such foreign country,  any  instrument  in  writing   granting,  assigning, surrendering or in any manner affecting any estate   or interest of such government in real property within  this  state,  or   assigning  or discharging any lien or claim of such government upon real   property within this state, or of a  law  or  decree  revoking  such  an   appointment,  if  in  English, or a translation into English of any such   law or decree, if the original thereof  be  in  a  language  other  than   English,  when  certified and recorded as hereinafter provided, shall be   presumptive evidence  of  the  authority  of  such  agent  or  attorney.   Certification  of such copy or translation shall be made under the great   seal of such foreign country and shall be to the effect that the same is   a true copy or translation  of  such  law  or  decree.    Such  copy  or   translation of such law or decree, when so certified, may be recorded in   the  office  of  the  clerk or register of any county of this state, and   such copy or translation when so certified and recorded, or a  certified   copy  of  the record thereof, shall be received as evidence in any court   of this state. The authority conferred under any instrument so  recorded   shall not be deemed revoked as to property situated in any county except   by  the  recording  in  such county of a copy or translation of a law or   decree to  that  effect,  duly  certified  in  the  manner  hereinbefore   provided.  Nothing  in this section shall in any way affect the right or   power of a foreign country to acquire, hold or convey real  property  in   this state, or be construed to confer any such right or power.