NY CPLR § 5020 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 50 - Judgments Generally 5020 - Satisfaction-Piece.

§  5020.  Satisfaction-piece. (a) Generally. When a person entitled to enforce a judgment receives satisfaction or partial satisfaction of  the judgment,  he  shall  execute and file with the proper clerk pursuant to subdivision  (a)  of  section  5021,  a  satisfaction-piece  or  partial satisfaction-piece  acknowledged  in the form required to entitle a deed to be recorded, which shall set  forth  the  book  and  page  where  the judgment  is  docketed.  A  copy  of  the  satisfaction-piece or partial satisfaction-piece filed with the clerk shall be mailed to the  judgment debtor  by  the  person entitled to enforce the judgment within ten days after the date of filing.  (b) Attorney of record. Within ten years after the entry of a judgment the attorney of record or the attorney  named  on  the  docket  for  the judgment   creditor  may  execute  a  satisfaction-piece  or  a  partial satisfaction-piece, but if his  authority  was  revoked  before  it  was executed, the judgment may nevertheless be enforced against a person who had actual notice of the revocation before a payment on the judgment was made or a purchase of property bound by it was effected.  (c)  When  a  judgment  for  less  than five thousand dollars is fully satisfied, if the person required to execute and file  with  the  proper clerk  pursuant  to  subdivisions  (a)  and (d) of this section fails or refuses to do so within twenty days after receiving  full  satisfaction, then  the judgment creditor shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars  recoverable  by  the  judgment  debtor  pursuant   to   section seventy-two  hundred  two  of this chapter or article eighteen of either the New York City civil court act, uniform district court act or uniform city court act. When a judgment for five thousand  dollars  or  more  is fully  satisfied,  if  the  person required to execute and file with the proper clerk pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (d) of this section  fails or   refuses   to   do  so  within  twenty  days  after  receiving  full satisfaction, then the judgment creditor shall be subject to  a  penalty of  five  hundred dollars recoverable by the judgment debtor pursuant to section seventy-two hundred two of this chapter or article  eighteen  of either  the New York city civil court act, uniform district court act or uniform city court act; provided, however, that such penalties shall not be recoverable when a city with a population greater  than  one  million persons  is  the  judgment creditor, unless such judgment creditor shall fail to execute and file a  satisfaction-piece  with  the  proper  clerk pursuant  to subdivisions (a) and (d) of this section within twenty days after having been served by the judgment debtor with  a  written  demand therefor by certified mail, return receipt requested.  (d)  Where  a transcript of the docket of a judgment has been docketed in any other county of the state pursuant to subdivision (a) of  section 5018,  the  person  required  to  execute and file with the proper clerk pursuant  to  subdivision  (a)  hereof  shall,   upon   receiving   full satisfaction, file a certificate of the clerk of the county in which the judgment  was  entered,  in  accordance  with subdivision (c) of section 5021, with the clerks of all other counties in which such  judgment  has been docketed.