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2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages › 274 - Transfers and Mortgages of Interest in Decedents' Estates.

§  274.  Transfers  and  mortgages  of interest in decedents' estates.
  Every conveyance, assignment, or other transfer of, and  every  mortgage
  or other charge upon the interest, or any part thereof, of any person in
  the  estate  of a decedent which is situated within this state, shall be
  in writing, and shall be acknowledged or proved in the  manner  required
  to  entitle  conveyances  of  real  property  to  be  recorded. Any such
  instrument may also be recorded as hereinafter provided; and if  not  so
  recorded,  it  is  void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee of
  the same interest or any part thereof, in good faith and for a  valuable
  consideration,  whose conveyance or mortgage is first duly recorded.  If
  such interest is entirely in  the  real  property  of  a  decedent,  the
  conveyance  or mortgage shall be recorded in the office of the recording
  officer where such real property is situated. If  such  interest  is  in
  both  the personal and the real property of a decedent the conveyance or
  mortgage shall be recorded  in  the  office  of  the  surrogate  issuing
  letters   testamentary  or  letters  of  administration  upon  the  said
  decedent's estate, or if no such letters have been issued, then  in  the
  office  of the surrogate having jurisdiction to issue the same, and also
  in the office of the  said  recording  officer.  Such  a  conveyance  or
  mortgage  when  so  recorded,  shall  be  indexed  under the name of the
  decedent, in a book to  be  kept  for  the  purpose  by  each  recording
  officer.  The person presenting any such instrument for record shall pay
  to the clerk of the surrogate's court a fee of ten cents for each folio.
  Such filing or recording shall not be deemed notice of such  conveyance,
  assignment  or  other  transfer  of, or mortgage or other lien or charge
  upon the interest, or any part thereof of any person in the estate of  a
  decedent  which  is situated within the state, so as to charge the legal
  representative of the estate with liability for payment to a legatee  or
  other  beneficiary  of an estate unless and until he shall have received
  actual notice of such conveyance, assignment or other transfer.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 8 - Conveyances and Mortgages › 276 - Effect of Certain Easements on the Right to Invest in Mortgages.

§  276.  Effect  of  certain  easements  on  the  right  to  invest in
  mortgages. The existence of an easement in  real  property  acquired  or
  reserved  by  a  municipal  corporation, a railroad corporation or other
  transportation corporation, shall not be deemed an encumbrance upon such
  real property under any law relating to investments  in  mortgages  upon
  real  property  by  corporations,  trustees,  executors, administrators,
  guardians or other persons holding trust funds, but the effect  of  such
  an easement upon the real property which it affects, shall be taken into
  consideration in determining the value thereof.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 296 - Recording Copies of Instruments Which Are in Secretary of State's Office.

§  296.  Recording  copies  of  instruments  which are in secretary of
  state's office. A copy of an instrument affecting real property,  within
  the  state,  recorded  or filed in the office of the secretary of state,
  certified in the manner required to entitle  the  same  to  be  read  in
  evidence,  may  be  recorded  with such certificate in the office of any
  recording officer of the state.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 297 - Certified Copies May Be Recorded.

§  297.  Certified  copies may be recorded.  A copy of a record, or of
  any recorded instrument, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled
  to be read in evidence, may be again recorded in any  office  where  the
  original  would  be  entitled  to  be recorded. Such record has the same
  effect as if the original were so recorded. A copy of  a  conveyance  or
  mortgage  affecting  separate  parcels  of  real  property  situated  in
  different counties, or of the record of such conveyance or  mortgage  in
  one of such counties, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled to
  be  read  in  evidence,  may be recorded in any county in which any such
  parcel is situated, with the same effect as if the  original  instrument
  authenticated  as  required  by  section  three  hundred and ten of this
  chapter were so recorded.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 297-A - Recording of Certified Copies of Bankruptcy Papers; Constructive Notice.

§   297-a.   Recording  of  certified  copies  of  bankruptcy  papers;
constructive notice. 1. A copy of a  petition  in  bankruptcy  with  the
schedules  omitted,  of a decree of adjudication of bankruptcy and of an
order approving the bond of a trustee in bankruptcy, or any of them,  in
each  case  certified  in  accordance with the laws of the United States
applicable at the time of certification, may be recorded in  the  office
of  the recording officer of any county, irrespective of the location of
the United States district court having jurisdiction of  the  bankruptcy
proceeding  or in which such petition was filed or order of adjudication
or approval of the trustee's bond was made.
2. (a) Each paper, together with the certification  thereof,  recorded
pursuant   to  this  section  shall,  for  the  purposes  of  recording,
transcription, reproduction and indexing, be regarded as a deed  by  the
bankrupt  or alleged bankrupt to the trustee in bankruptcy named therein
or, if no trustee be named, to the trustee appointed, or  thereafter  to
be appointed.
(b)  In  counties  where,  under certain circumstances and pursuant to
law, deeds or  other  instruments  are  recordable  among  miscellaneous
instruments,  or  indexed  in the index of such instruments, each of the
papers shall be similarly recorded or  indexed.  In  other  counties  or
cases, it shall be recorded or indexed as a deed.
(c)  Where  the  paper  so  recorded  does  not reveal the name of the
trustee in bankruptcy, the recording officer shall substitute,  for  the
name of the grantee in the index or indices in his office where the name
of  the  grantee in a deed is required to be entered, the words "Trustee
in bankruptcy"; but any irregularity or failure of the recording officer
in compliance with  this  paragraph  shall  not  invalidate  the  record
thereof.
(d)  The  recording  of  the paper and the certification thereof shall
have the same effect as constructive notice as if it were  a  conveyance
to a named grantee, duly acknowledged or proved and recorded.
(e) The petition, decree or order referred to in subdivision 1 of this
section may be one either heretofore or hereafter filed or made pursuant
to any law of the United States relating to bankruptcy.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 297-B - Recording of Certified Copies of Judgments Affecting Real Property.

§  297-b.  Recording  of  certified copies of judgments affecting real
  property.  When a judgment, final order or decree is rendered by  a  New
  York  state  court of record or a United States district court affecting
  the title to or possession, use or enjoyment of real property, a copy of
  such judgment, order or decree, duly certified by the clerk of the court
  wherein said judgment was rendered, may be recorded in the office of the
  recording officer of the county in which such property is  situated,  in
  the  same  manner  as  a  conveyance  duly  acknowledged  or  proved and
  certified so as to entitle it to be recorded, and such recording officer
  shall upon request and on tender of the lawful fees therefor, record the
  same in his said office.
For purposes of recording and indexing such judgment, order or decree,
  the prevailing party or parties named therein shall be  deemed  grantees
  and all other persons named therein shall be deemed grantors.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 298 - Acknowledgments and Proofs Within the State.

§ 298. Acknowledgments and proofs within the state. The acknowledgment
  or proof, within this state, of a conveyance of real property situate in
  this  state  may be made: 1. At any place within the state, before (a) a
  justice of the supreme court; (b) an official examiner of title; (c)  an
  official referee; or (d) a notary public.
2.  Within  the district wherein such officer is authorized to perform
  official duties, before (a) a judge or clerk of any court of record; (b)
  a commissioner  of  deeds  outside  of  the  city  of  New  York,  or  a
  commissioner  of  deeds of the city of New York within the five counties
  comprising the city of New York; (c) the mayor or recorder  of  a  city;
  (d)  a surrogate, special surrogate, or special county judge; or (e) the
  county clerk or other recording officer of a county.
3. Before a justice of the peace, town council member, village  police
  justice or a judge of any court of inferior local jurisdiction, anywhere
  within the county containing the town, village or city in which they are
  authorized to perform official duties.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 299 - Acknowledgments and Proofs Without the State, but Within the United States or Any Territory, Possession, or Dependency Thereof.

§  299.  Acknowledgments  and proofs without the state, but within the
  United States or any territory, possession, or dependency thereof.   The
  acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance of real property situate in this
  state,  if  made (a) without the state but within the United States, (b)
  within any territory, possession, or dependency of the United States, or
  (c) within any place over which the United States, at the time when such
  acknowledgment  or  proof  is  taken,  has  or  exercises  jurisdiction,
  sovereignty,  control,  or a protectorate, may be made before any of the
  following officers acting within his territorial jurisdiction or  within
  that  of  the  court  of  which  he  is  an officer: 1. A judge or other
  presiding officer of any court having a seal,  or  the  clerk  or  other
  certifying officer thereof.
2. A mayor or other chief civil officer of any city or other political
  subdivision.
3. A notary public.
4.  A  commissioner  of  deeds  appointed pursuant to the laws of this
  state to take acknowledgments or proofs without this state.
5. Any person authorized, by  the  laws  of  the  state,  District  of
  Columbia,  territory,  possession,  dependency, or other place where the
  acknowledgment or proof is made, to take the acknowledgment or proof  of
  deeds to be recorded therein.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 300 - Acknowledgments and Proofs by Persons in or With the Armed Forces of the United States.

§  300.  Acknowledgments  and  proofs  by persons in or with the armed
  forces of the United States. The acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance
  of real property situate in this state, if made by a person enlisted  or
  commissioned  in  or  serving  in or with the armed forces of the United
  States or by a dependent of any such person, wherever located, or  by  a
  person  attached  to  or  accompanying  the  armed  forces of the United
  States, whether made within or without the United States,  may  be  made
  before  any  officer in active service of the armed forces of the United
  States authorized to act as a notary in any component part of the  armed
  forces of the United States.
In  addition  to the requirements of sections three hundred and three,
  three hundred and four, and three hundred and six of this  chapter,  the
  certificate of an acknowledgment or proof taken under this section shall
  state (a) the rank and serial number of the officer taking the same, and
  the  command  to  which  he is attached, (b) that the person making such
  acknowledgment or proof was, at the time of making the same, enlisted or
  commissioned in or serving in or with the armed  forces  of  the  United
  States  or  the  dependent  of such a person, or a person attached to or
  accompanying the armed forces of the United States, and (c)  the  serial
  number   of   the  person  who  makes,  or  whose  dependent  makes  the
  acknowledgment or proof if such person is enlisted  or  commissioned  in
  the   armed   forces   of  the  United  States.  The  place  where  such
  acknowledgment or proof is taken need not be disclosed.
No authentication of the officer's certificate  of  acknowledgment  or
  proof shall be required.
Notwithstanding   any   of   the   provisions  of  this  section,  the
  acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance of real property situate in this
  state may also be made as provided in sections two hundred ninety-eight,
  two hundred ninety-nine, two hundred ninety-nine-a, three  hundred  one,
  and three hundred one-a, of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 301 - Acknowledgments and Proofs in Foreign Countries.

§   301.   Acknowledgments   and  proofs  in  foreign  countries.  The
  acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance of real property situate in this
  state may be made in foreign  countries  before  any  of  the  following
  officers  acting  within  his territorial jurisdiction or within that of
  the court of which he is an officer: 1. An ambassador, envoy,  minister,
  charge   d'affaires,  secretary  of  legation,  consul-general,  consul,
  vice-consul,  consular  agent,  vice-consular  agent,   or   any   other
  diplomatic  or  consular  agent  or representative of the United States,
  appointed or accredited to, and residing within, the country  where  the
  acknowledgment or proof is taken.
2.  A  judge or other presiding officer of any court having a seal, or
  the clerk or other certifying officer thereof.
3. A mayor or other chief civil officer of any city or other political
  subdivision.
4. A notary public.
5. A commissioner of deeds appointed pursuant  to  the  laws  of  this
  state to take acknowledgments or proofs without this state.
6.  A  person  residing  in,  or  going  to,  the  country  where  the
  acknowledgment or proof is to be taken,  and  specially  authorized  for
  that purpose by a commission issued to him under the seal of the supreme
  court of the state of New York.
7.  Any  person  authorized,  by  the  laws  of  the country where the
  acknowledgment or proof is made, to take acknowledgments of  conveyances
  of real estate or to administer oaths in proof of the execution thereof.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 302 - Acknowledgments and Proofs by Married Women.

§ 302. Acknowledgments and proofs by married women. The acknowledgment
  or  proof  of a conveyance of real property, within the state, or of any
  other written instrument, may be made by a married woman the same as  if
  unmarried.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 304 - Proof by Subscribing Witness.

§  304.  Proof  by  subscribing  witness.  When  the  execution  of  a
  conveyance is proved by a subscribing witness, such witness  must  state
  his  own place of residence, and if his place of residence is in a city,
  the street and street number, if any  thereof,  and  that  he  knew  the
  person  described in and who executed the conveyance. The proof must not
  be taken unless the officer is personally acquainted with such  witness,
  or  has  satisfactory  evidence  that  he  is the same person, who was a
  subscribing witness to the conveyance.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 305 - Compelling Witnesses to Testify.

§  305.  Compelling  witnesses  to  testify.  On  the application of a
  grantee in a conveyance, his  heir  or  personal  representative,  or  a
  person  claiming  under  either  of  them,  verified  by the oath of the
  applicant, stating that a witness to the  conveyance,  residing  in  the
  county  where  the  application  is  made, refuses to appear and testify
  concerning its execution, and that such conveyance  can  not  be  proved
  without his testimony, any officer authorized to take, within the state,
  acknowledgment  or  proof  of  conveyance  of  real property may issue a
  subpoena, requiring such  witness  to  attend  and  testify  before  him
  concerning the execution of the conveyance. A subpoena issued under this
  section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 306 - Certificate of Acknowledgment or Proof.

§  306.  Certificate  of  acknowledgment or proof. A person taking the
  acknowledgement or proof of  a  conveyance  must  indorse  thereupon  or
  attach  thereto,  a  certificate,  signed  by  himself,  stating all the
  matters required to be done, known, or proved  on  the  taking  of  such
  acknowledgement  or  proof;  together with the name and substance of the
  testimony of each witness examined before  him,  and  if  a  subscribing
  witness, his place of residence.
Any  conveyance  which  has  heretofore  been  recorded,  or which may
  hereafter be recorded, shall be deemed to have been duly acknowledged or
  proved and properly authenticated, when ten  years  have  elapsed  since
  such  recording;  saving, however, the rights of every purchaser in good
  faith and for a valuable consideration  deriving  title  from  the  same
  vendor  or  grantor,  his heirs or devisees, to the same property or any
  portion thereof, whose conveyance shall have been duly  recorded  before
  the said period of ten years shall have elapsed.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 307 - When Certificate to State Time and Place.

§   307.   When   certificate  to  state  time  and  place.  When  the
  acknowledgment or proof is taken by a commissioner  of  deeds  appointed
  pursuant  to  the  laws  of this state to take acknowledgments or proofs
  without this state, whether within or without  the  United  States,  the
  certificate  must  also  state  the  day on which, and the city or other
  political subdivision, and the state or country or other place in which,
  the same was taken.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 308 - When Certificate Must Be Under Seal.

§  308.  When certificate must be under seal. 1. When a certificate of
  acknowledgment or proof is made without this state,  whether  within  or
  without  the  United  States,  (a) if made by a judge or other presiding
  officer of a court having a seal, or by the clerk  or  other  certifying
  officer  thereof, such certificate must be under the seal of such court;
  (b) if made by a commissioner of deeds appointed pursuant to the laws of
  this state to take acknowledgments or proofs without  this  state,  such
  certificate must be under his seal of office; (c) if made by any officer
  specified  in  subdivision  one  of  section  three  hundred one of this
  chapter, such certificate must be under the  seal  of  the  legation  or
  consulate to which such officer is attached.
2.  Any  certificate,  required  by  the  provisions  of section three
  hundred  eleven  of  this  chapter  to  be  authenticated,  must  be  so
  authenticated,  in  addition  to  being  under  seal as provided in this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 309 - Acknowledgment by Corporation and Form of Certificate.

§  309.  Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate. 1. The
acknowledgment of a conveyance or other  instrument  by  a  corporation,
must  be  made  by  an officer or attorney in fact duly appointed, or in
case of a dissolved corporation, by an officer, director or attorney  in
fact  duly appointed thereof authorized to execute the same by the board
of directors of said corporation.
2. The certificate of acknowledgment must conform  substantially  with
one  of  the  following  alternative  forms,  the  blanks being properly
filled:
State of New York }ss.:
County of.........}
On the....... day of....... in the year.......  before  me  personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that  he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a
city, include the street and  street  number,  if  any,  thereof);  that
he/she/they  is  (are)  the  (president  or other officer or director or
attorney in fact duly appointed)  of  the  (name  of  corporation),  the
corporation  described  in and which executed the above instrument; that
he/she/they know(s) the seal of said corporation; that the seal  affixed
to  said  instrument  is  such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the board  of  directors  of  said  corporation,  and  that
he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by like authority.Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)
State of New York }ss.:
County of.........}
On  the.......  day  of....... in the year....... before me personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in  a
city,  include  the  street  and  street  number, if any, thereof); that
he/she/they is (are) the (president or  other  officer  or  director  or
attorney  in  fact  duly  appointed)  of  the (name of corporation), the
corporation described in and which executed the  above  instrument;  and
that  he/she/they  signed  his/her/their name(s) thereto by authority of
the board of directors of said corporation.Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)
3. Subdivision two of  this  section  shall  be  inapplicable  to  the
acknowledgment,  within  this state, of a conveyance or other instrument
in respect to real property situate in this state executed on  or  after
the  first day of September, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. A certificate
of such an acknowledgment shall be subject to the provisions of  section
three hundred nine-a of this article.