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NY Real Prop L § 277-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages 277-A - Powers of Fiduciaries and Others Holding Guaranteed Mortgages or Mortgage Investments.

§ 277-a. Powers of fiduciaries and others holding guaranteed mortgages   or mortgage investments. Trustees, executors, administrators, guardians,   committees  for incompetents, conservators of conservatees and all other   persons acting in any fiduciary capacity, including all officials of the   state or any political subdivision thereof, and  corporations  organized   under,  or subject to the provisions of the banking law or the insurance   law, who hold any mortgage  investment  or  any  wholly  owned  mortgage   guaranteed  by  a  guaranty corporation, or who hold any claim against a   guaranty  corporation,  may  assent  to  a  plan  of  reorganization  or   readjustment  of the guaranty corporation or of the business thereof, or   to any proposal, however designated, to buy any assets of such  guaranty   corporation,  which  has been or shall be approved by the supreme court;   and in  connection  therewith  may  assign  such  claims,  execute  such   instruments  and  do  such  acts  as  may  be  required  by such plan or   proposal, or as may be  necessary  or  desirable  for  the  consummation   thereof;  and  may  accept in exchange for such claims, and hold same as   legal investments, any stock,  securities  or  obligations,  secured  or   unsecured, issued pursuant to such plan or proposal; and may join in any   voting  trust agreement provided for by such plan or proposal. The terms   "mortgage investment" and "guaranty corporation" as used herein shall be   construed as said terms are defined by  section  two  of  chapter  seven   hundred  forty-five  of  the  laws  of nineteen hundred thirty-three, as   amended, and by section  three  of  chapter  nineteen  of  the  laws  of   nineteen hundred thirty-five, as amended.
NY Real Prop L § 278 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages 278 - Exchange of Mortgage Investment.

§   278.   Exchange   of  mortgage  investment.  Trustees,  executors,   administrators, guardians, committees, conservators, receivers, the town   treasurer of any town and other persons and corporations  holding  trust   funds,  corporations  and  private bankers organized under or subject to   the provisions of the  banking  law,  the  superintendent  of  financial   services  as  conservator,  liquidator  or  rehabilitator  of  any  such   corporation or  private  banker  organized  under  and  subject  to  the   provisions  of  the banking law, persons, partnerships, and corporations   organized under or subject to the provisions of the insurance  law,  the   superintendent  of  financial  services  as  conservator,  liquidator or   rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or  corporation  organized   under  or  subject  to  the  provisions  of the insurance law, and other   domestic corporations, that shall have made or shall hold an investment,   whether with or without a specified ratio of real property security,  in   a  bond  secured  by mortgage on real property or share or part thereof,   whether guaranteed or not, may, at any time  without  an  order  of  the   court  or  other  authority,  exchange, prior or subsequent to maturity,   such bond and mortgage or share  or  part  thereof  and  any  rights  in   respect   thereto,  for  bonds  of  Home  Owners'  Loan  Corporation,  a   corporation created under home owners' loan act of nineteen hundred  and   thirty-three,  and  may hold such bonds of Home Owners' Loan Corporation   as  authorized  and  lawful  investments  for  any  and  all   purposes,   notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any general or special law of this   state inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
NY Real Prop L § 278-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages 278-A - Sale or Exchange of Certain Real Property or Mortgage Investments Therein Authorized.

§  278-a.  Sale  or  exchange  of  certain  real  property or mortgage investments therein  authorized.  Trustees,  executors,  administrators, guardians,   committees,   conservators   and   all   other  persons  or corporations holding trust funds or  acting  in  a  fiduciary  capacity, corporations  and  private  bankers  organized  under  or subject to the provisions of the banking law, the superintendent of financial  services as  conservator,  liquidator or rehabilitator of any such corporation or private banker organized under and subject  to  the  provisions  of  the banking  law,  persons, partnerships and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the insurance law,  the  superintendent  of financial  services  as  conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or corporation organized under  or  subject  to the provisions of the insurance law who or which (1) own any property on which there is a building defined in the multiple dwelling law as an old law  tenement  or  who  or  which  hold a mortgage or other lien on such property, or  (2) own any property, improved or unimproved, or any mortgage or other lien thereon, within any section of a municipality  included  in  a  map showing sections containing areas for clearance, replanning and low rent housing,  adopted  by  the  planning commission of the municipality as a whole or part of the master plan, or  (3) own any property, improved or unimproved, or any mortgage or other lien thereon,  within  any  section  of  a  municipality  which  may  be designated  by  the  planning commission or the housing authority of the municipality as substandard  or  insanitary,  may  sell  such  property, mortgage  or  lien, and may, notwithstanding any other provision of law, receive and hold in exchange therefor securities issued by a corporation owning or acquiring title to such property, if  such  corporation  shall agree  in  writing  at  the  time of such sale, to reconstruct, improve, alter, repair or demolish such property or to construct a  new  building on  such  property,  or  on such property and on any contiguous property owned or to be acquired by such corporation.
NY Real Prop L § 282 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages 282 - Mortgagor's Right to Recover Attorneys' Fees in Actions or Proceedings Arising Out of Foreclosures of Residential Property.

§  282.  Mortgagor's  right  to  recover attorneys' fees in actions or   proceedings arising out of  foreclosures  of  residential  property.  1.   Whenever a covenant contained in a mortgage on residential real property   shall provide that in any action or proceeding to foreclose the mortgage   that  the mortgagee may recover attorneys' fees and/or expenses incurred   as the result of the failure of the mortgagor to perform any covenant or   agreement contained in such  mortgage,  or  that  amounts  paid  by  the   mortgagee therefor shall be paid by the mortgagor as additional payment,   there  shall  be implied in such mortgage a covenant by the mortgagee to   pay to the mortgagor the  reasonable  attorneys'  fees  and/or  expenses   incurred  by the mortgagor as the result of the failure of the mortgagee   to perform any covenant or agreement on its part to be  performed  under   the  mortgage  or  in the successful defense of any action or proceeding   commenced by the mortgagee against the  mortgagor  arising  out  of  the   contract,  and an agreement that such fees and expenses may be recovered   as provided by law in an action commenced against the  mortgagee  or  by   way  of  counterclaim  in  any  action  or  proceeding  commenced by the   mortgagee against the mortgagor. Any waiver of  this  section  shall  be   void as against public policy.2. For the purposes of this section, "residential real property" means   real property improved by a one- to four-family residence, a condominium   that is occupied by the mortgagor or a cooperative unit that is occupied   by the mortgagor.
NY Real Prop L § 291-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-B - Recording Conveyances of Land in Towns in Cattaraugus County; Duties of County and Town Clerks.

§ 291-b. Recording conveyances of land in towns in Cattaraugus county;   duties  of  county and town clerks. Every deed and will relating to real   property  in  Cattaraugus  county,  outside  the  cities  of  Olean  and   Salamanca,   and   every  judicial  decree  establishing  the  right  of   inheritance to real property within Cattaraugus county shall, before the   same be hereafter recorded in the office of  the  clerk  of  Cattaraugus   county  be  presented to the clerk of said county together with a carbon   copy or copies  of  the  substance  thereof,  equal  to  the  number  of   townships  of  the  said  county  in  which  land  is  conveyed  by  the   instrument. Such copy or copies shall set forth the date, consideration,   the names of the grantors and grantees, the mail address of the  grantee   and  a description of the property conveyed as set out in the instrument   of conveyance. Such copy or copies of an  instrument  of  conveyance  of   land  within  the county of Cattaraugus, outside the cities of Olean and   Salamanca, shall be retained by the clerk of the said county  until  the   first day of the month succeeding the date on which it was received, and   he thereafter shall transmit immediately all such copies received by him   during  the  preceding  month  to  the clerks of the towns in which such   conveyances have occurred. Hereafter the clerk of Cattaraugus county  or   any  subordinate  in  the office of such clerk of Cattaraugus county who   shall record any instrument  of  conveyance  of  real  property  without   receiving  and  transmitting  to the town clerk of the town concerned, a   copy thereof as provided herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. At the   time a conveyance is offered for a record a  fee  of  twenty-five  cents   shall  be  paid  to  the  county  clerk  in addition to any other moneys   required to be paid to entitle the deed to be recorded.The town clerks in each of the towns of Cattaraugus county outside the   cities of Olean and Salamanca, shall enter the copies of conveyances and   all appurtenant data so received from the Clerk of Cattaraugus county in   a record book to be provided and kept for such purpose.  Such  book  and   the  records  contained  therein  shall be open to public inspection and   shall be used by the local assessors in making assessments.
NY Real Prop L § 291-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-C - Recording Memoranda of Leases.

§ 291-c. Recording memoranda of leases.  In lieu of the recording of a   lease  for a term exceeding three years, pursuant to section two hundred   ninety-one of this chapter, there may be recorded  with  like  effect  a   memorandum of such lease, executed by all persons who are parties to the   lease,  and  acknowledged  or  proved,  and  certified, in the manner to   entitle a conveyance to be recorded. A memorandum of lease thus entitled   to be recorded shall contain at least  the  following  information  with   respect  to the lease: the name of the lessor and the name of the lessee   and the addresses, if any, set forth in the lease as addresses  of  such   parties;  a  reference  to  the  lease,  with  its  date of execution; a   description of the leased premises in the form contained in  the  lease;   the  term  of  the  lease, with the date of commencement and the date of   termination of such term, and if  there  is  a  right  of  extension  or   renewal,  the maximum period for which or date to which the lease may be   extended or the number of times or date to which it may be renewed,  and   the  date  or  dates  on  which  such rights of extension or renewal are   exercisable.Whenever a memorandum of lease is presented for recording,  the  lease   shall  also  be  submitted  to  the recording officer for the purpose of   examination to determine whether or not  such  memorandum  of  lease  is   subject  to  the  tax on mortgages provided by article eleven of the tax   law.
NY Real Prop L § 291-CC (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-CC - Recording Modifications of Leases.

§  291-cc.  1.  Recording  modifications  of  leases. Where a lease or   memorandum of such lease has  been  recorded,  an  unrecorded  agreement   modifying  such  lease  or  memorandum  is  void as against a subsequent   purchaser in good faith  and  for  a  valuable  consideration,  and  the   possession of the tenant shall not be deemed notice of the modification,   unless the agreement of modification or a memorandum thereof is recorded   prior  to  the  recording  of  the  instrument  by  which the subsequent   purchaser acquires his estate or interest.2. A memorandum of an agreement modifying a  lease  shall  contain  at   least the following information with respect to the agreement: the names   of  the parties and the addresses, if any, set forth in the agreement; a   reference  to  the  agreement  with  its  date  of  execution;  a  brief   description  of  the  leased premises in form sufficient to identify the   same; any changes made by the agreement in the term of the lease and the   date of the termination of the lease as modified, and any changes in the   provisions of the lease as to the rights of extension or renewal.3. For the purpose of this section the  word  "purchaser"  includes  a   person who purchases or acquires by exchange or contracts to purchase or   acquire  by  exchange  the leased premises or the real property of which   the leased premises are part or  any  estate  or  interest  therein,  or   acquires by assignment the rent to accrue from tenancies or subtenancies   thereof in existence at the time of the assignment.
NY Real Prop L § 291-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-F - Rights Where Recorded Mortgage Restricts Landlord's Action in Respect to Leases.

§ 291-f. Rights where recorded mortgage restricts landlord's action in   respect  to leases.   An agreement, referring to this section, contained   in a recorded mortgage of real property, or  in  a  recorded  instrument   relating  to  such  mortgage, restricting the right or power, as against   the holder of the mortgage without his consent,  of  the  owner  of  the   mortgaged   real   property  to  cancel,  abridge  or  otherwise  modify   tenancies, subtenancies, leases  or  subleases  of  the  mortgaged  real   property  in  existence  at  the  time  of  the  agreement, or to accept   prepayments of instalments of  rent  to  become  due  thereunder,  shall   become  binding  on  a  tenant or subtenant after written notice of such   agreement, accompanied by a copy of  the  text  thereof;  and  any  such   cancellation,  abridgement,  modification  or  prepayment  made  by such   tenant or subtenant, after such written notice, without the  consent  of   the holder of such mortgage, shall be voidable as against the holder, at   his  option.  The  recording  on  or  after July first, nineteen hundred   sixty, of any such mortgage or instrument relating thereto shall for the   purposes of this section  be  in  itself  a  sufficient  notice  of  the   restrictive  agreement  to  any  tenant  or  subtenant  who,  after such   recording,  acquires  by  assignment,  whether  the  assignment  is   by   instrument  or  by  operation of law, a leasehold estate in existence at   the time of the restrictive agreement. This section shall not apply  (1)   to  any  tenancy,  subtenancy,  lease  or  sublease  primarily  for  the   residential purposes of the owner of the leasehold estate, or (2) to any   tenancy, subtenancy, lease  or  sublease  having  at  the  time  of  the   restrictive agreement an unexpired term of less than five years.
NY Real Prop L § 291-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-G - Recording Insurance Information.

§  291-g.  Recording  insurance information. Every owner of a multiple   dwelling,  as  defined  in  subdivision  two  of  section  two   hundred   thirty-nine-a  of  this  chapter,  which  is  located  in  a city with a   population in  excess  of  one  million  persons  shall  file  with  the   department   of  housing  preservation  and  development  an  instrument   containing the name or names of the insurer  issuing  a  fire,  casualty   and/or liability insurance policy for the multiple dwelling, the address   of the insurance company and the policy number.
NY Real Prop L § 291-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-H - Recording of Liens by the State.

§  291-h.  Recording  of liens by the state. The state may cause to be   filed in the appropriate office of the city register of the city of  New   York or in the county clerk's office of the county of Richmond or in the   county  clerk's  office  of any other county of the state where the real   property is situated a notice of lien created by the application for and   receipt of state aid provided pursuant to section 41.27  of  the  mental   hygiene  law or by the application for and receipt of state aid provided   pursuant to section 25.03 of the mental hygiene law and any  regulations   promulgated in connection therewith. Such notice shall briefly state the   recipient of the state aid, conditions of the provision of the state aid   and  shall  contain  a  general  description  by  metes and bounds or by   section, block and lot number  of  the  real  property  to  be  acquired   thereby.
NY Real Prop L § 291-J (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 291-J - Recording of Declarations by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

§  291-j.  Recording  of  declarations  by  the  New York state energy   research and development authority.  Pursuant  to  subdivision  five  of   section  eighteen  hundred ninety-six of the public authorities law, the   New York state energy research and development authority shall record or   cause to be  recorded,  in  the  office  of  the  appropriate  recording   officer,  a  declaration evidencing the existence of a loan as described   therein and, upon satisfaction of such loan, such authority shall file a   declaration of repayment and full satisfaction  of  the  loan  repayment   utility   meter   charge.   The  recording  officer  shall  record  such   declarations in the same book,  provided  under  section  three  hundred   fifteen  of  the  real  property  law,  in  which such recording officer   records deeds.
NY Real Prop L § 292 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 292 - By Whom Conveyance Must Be Acknowledged or Proved.

§  292.  By whom conveyance must be acknowledged or proved.  Except as   otherwise provided by this article, such acknowledgment can be made only   by the person who executed the conveyance, and such proof  can  be  made   only  by  some  other person, who was a witness of its execution, and at   the same time subscribed his name to the conveyance as a witness.
NY Real Prop L § 292-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 292-A - Conveyances by Certain Corporations Executed and Acknowledged by Attorneys in Fact Entitled to Recordation.

§   292-a.      Conveyances   by  certain  corporations  executed  and   acknowledged by attorneys in fact entitled to recordation.  A conveyance   of real  property,  within  the  state,  or  of  any  interest  therein,   including  an instrument discharging or satisfying a lien created by any   such conveyance, executed and acknowledged by an attorney in fact of any   corporation wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by the  United  States   of  America,  or  any  other  corporation  which has so filed a power of   attorney, whether heretofore or hereafter so executed and  acknowledged,   shall  be  entitled  to  recordation under this article on tender of the   lawful fees therefor, even though the corporate seal of such corporation   be not annexed or affixed, if the power of attorney  pursuant  to  which   such attorney in fact has executed such conveyance, duly acknowledged or   proved  by  such  corporation, and certified, as required by section two   hundred ninety-four, is filed or recorded in the office of the clerk  of   the  county  where  the  real  property,  which  is  the subject of such   conveyance, is located.
NY Real Prop L § 293 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 293 - Recording of Conveyances Heretofore Acknowledged or Proved.

§  293. Recording of conveyances heretofore acknowledged or proved.  A   conveyance of real property, within the state, heretofore executed,  and   heretofore  acknowledged  or proved, and certified, so as to be entitled   to be read in evidence, or recorded, under the laws in force at the time   when so acknowledged or proved, but  which  has  not  been  recorded  is   entitled  to  be  read in evidence, and recorded in the same manner, and   with the like effect, as  if  this  chapter  had  not  been  passed.  If   heretofore executed, but not proved or acknowledged, it may be proved or   acknowledged  in  the  same manner as conveyances hereafter executed and   with like effect.
NY Real Prop L § 294-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 294-A - Recording Assignments of Rent.

§  294-a.  Recording assignments of rent.  1. An assignment of rent to   accrue  from  tenancies,  subtenancies,  leases  or  subleases  of  real   property,  irrespective  of  the term of their duration, in existence at   the time of the assignment, made, subscribed and acknowledged or proved,   and certified in a manner to entitle a conveyance to be recorded may  be   recorded  in  the office of the recording officer of any county in which   any of the real property to which the tenancies, subtenancies, leases or   subleases relate is situated, and such recording officer shall, upon the   request of any party, on tender of the lawful fees therefor, record  the   same in his said office.2.  Every such assignment not so recorded shall be void as against any   person who subsequently purchases or acquires by exchange, or  contracts   to  purchase  or  acquire  by  exchange,  the same real property, or any   portion thereof, or acquires by assignment the rent to accrue  therefrom   as  provided  in  this  section,  in  good  faith  and  for  a  valuable   consideration, from the same vendor or  assignor,  his  distributees  or   devisees,  and  whose  conveyance,  contract or assignment is first duly   recorded.3. The recording of such assignment shall not be in itself a notice of   the assignment to a lessee or tenant, his distributees or  devisees,  so   as  to  invalidate  a  payment of rent made by the lessee or tenant, his   distributees or devisees, to the assignor or a  prior  assignee  of  the   rent.
NY Real Prop L § 295 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RPP - Real Property Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property 295 - Recording of Letters Patent.

§  295.  Recording of letters patent. Letters patent, issued under the   great seal of the state, granting real property, may be recorded in  the   county where such property is situated, in the same manner and with like   effect,  as a conveyance duly acknowledged or proved and certified so as   to entitle it to be recorded.