NY Real Prop L § 290 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 290 - Definitions; Effect of Article.

§ 290. Definitions; effect of article. 1. The term "real property," as   used  in  this  article, includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and   chattels real, except a lease for a term not exceeding three years.2. The term "purchaser" includes every person to whom  any  estate  or   interest  in real property is conveyed for a valuable consideration, and   every assignee of a mortgage, lease or other conditional estate.3. The term "conveyance" includes every written instrument,  by  which   any  estate  or  interest  in  real  property  is  created, transferred,   mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be   affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although  the   power  be  one  of  revocation  only,  and  an  instrument postponing or   subordinating a mortgage lien; except a will, a lease  for  a  term  not   exceeding three years, an executory contract for the sale or purchase of   lands,  and  an instrument containing a power to convey real property as   the agent or attorney for the owner of such property.4. The term "recording officer" means the county clerk of the  county,   except in a county having a register, where it means the register of the   county.5.  "Recording"  or  "recorded"  means  the entry, at length, upon the   pages of the proper record books in a plain and legible hand writing, or   in print or in symbols of drawing or by photographic process  or  partly   in  writing,  partly in printing, partly in symbols of drawing or partly   by photographic process or by  any  combination  of  writing,  printing,   drawing or photography or either or any two of them, or by an electronic   process  by  which a record or instrument affecting real property, after   delivery  is  incorporated  into  the  public  record.  "Recording"   or   "recorded"    also    means   the   reproduction   of   instruments   by   microphotography or other photographic process on film which is kept  in   appropriate files.6.  "Electronic" means of or relating to technology having electrical,   digital,  magnetic,  wireless,  optical,  electromagnetic   or   similar   capabilities.7.   "Electronic   record"   means  information  evidencing  any  act,   transaction, occurrence, event or other activity, produced or stored  by   electronic  means  and  capable  of being accurately reproduced in forms   perceptible by human sensory capabilities.8. "Electronic  signature"  means  an  electronic  sound,  symbol,  or   process,  attached  to or logically associated with an electronic record   and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.9. "Paper document" means a document in a form that is not electronic.10. "Digitized paper document" means a  digitized  image  of  a  paper   document  that  accurately depicts the information on the paper document   in a format that cannot be altered without detection.11. "Wet signature" means a signature affixed  in  ink  or  pencil  or   other material to a paper document.12.  This  article  does not apply to leases for life or lives, or for   years, heretofore made, of lands in either of the  counties  of  Albany,   Ulster, Sullivan, Herkimer, Dutchess, Columbia, Delaware or Schenectady.