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2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 309-A - Uniform Forms of Certificates of Acknowledgment or Proof Within This State.

§  309-a.    Uniform  forms of certificates of acknowledgment or proof
within this state.  1. The certificate of an acknowledgment, within this
state, of a conveyance or other instrument in respect to  real  property
situate  in this state, by a person, must conform substantially with the
following form, the blanks being properly filled:
State of New York }ss.:
County of ........}
On the .......... day of ........ in  the  year  .....  before  me,  the
undersigned,  personally  appeared  ........,  personally known to me or
proved  to  me  on  the  basis  of  satisfactory  evidence  to  be   the
individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument
and   acknowledged   to   me  that  he/she/they  executed  the  same  in
his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their  signature(s)  on
the  instrument,  the  individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which
the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument.
(Signature and office of individual taking acknowledgement.)
2. The certificate for a proof of execution by a subscribing  witness,
within  this  state,  of  a  conveyance  or other instrument made by any
person in respect to real property situate in this state,  must  conform
substantially with the following form, the blanks being properly filled:
State of New York }ss.:
County of ........}
On  the  .......  day  of  ......  in  the  year  ....  before  me,  the
undersigned, personally appeared ......, the subscribing witness to  the
foregoing  instrument,  with whom I am personally acquainted, 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  know(s)...........to
be   the   individual  described  in  and  who  executed  the  foregoing
instrument; that said subscribing  witness  was  present  and  saw  said
.......execute  the  same;  and  that  said  witness  at  the  same time
subscribed his/her/their name(s) as a witness thereto.Signature and office of individual taking proof.)
3. A certificate of an acknowledgement or proof  taken  under  section
three  hundred  of this article shall include the additional information
required by that section.
4. For the purposes of this  section,  the  term  "person"  means  any
corporation, joint stock company, estate, general partnership (including
any   registered   limited  liability  partnership  or  foreign  limited
liability  partnership),  limited   liability   company   (including   a
professional   service   limited  liability  company),  foreign  limited
liability company (including  a  foreign  professional  service  limited
liability  company), joint venture, limited partnership, natural person,
attorney in fact, real estate investment trust, business trust or  other
trust,  custodian,  nominee or any other individual or entity in its own
or any representative capacity.
2023 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
  council member, 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
  acknowledgment  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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 332 - The Record of Certain Conveyances Validated.

§ 332. The record of certain conveyances validated. 1. The record made
  prior  to  July  first, nineteen hundred fifty-five in the office of the
  recording officer of any county in this state  of  any  deed,  mortgage,
  assignment  or  satisfaction piece of a mortgage, or other conveyance or
  power  of  attorney,  otherwise  authorized  to  be  recorded   therein,
  notwithstanding  that the certificate of acknowledgment or proof did not
  set forth the place of residence  of  a  subscribing  witness  or  of  a
  corporate  officer  or director, or did not set it forth with sufficient
  particularity, and notwithstanding any other defect in the form  of  the
  certificate  of acknowledgment or proof or the failure to append thereto
  a  certificate  as  to  the  authority  of  the  person  who  took   the
  acknowledgment  or proof, to take the same, or any defect in the form of
  such certificate of authority, shall be in all  respects  as  valid  and
  effectual  as  though  such  certificate  of  acknowledgment or proof or
  certificate of authority had been in proper form or such certificate  of
  authority  had been appended to such instrument. Provided only that such
  person  was  duly  authorized  at  the  time  of  taking  the  proof  or
  acknowledgment  to  take  the same in the county where the instrument is
  recorded or in the place, whether within or without the  United  States,
  where the same was taken.
2.  All  acknowledgments or proofs of conveyance of real property made
  or taken prior to April tenth, nineteen hundred thirty, before a  judge,
  clerk,  deputy clerk or special deputy clerk of a court not of record of
  this state are confirmed.
3. All acts of the secretary of state of any state or territory of the
  United States in authenticating a certificate of acknowledgment or proof
  of a conveyance of real property  within  the  state,  performed  before
  October  first,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-five,  are  hereby confirmed,
  provided that the said certificate of  authentication  is  in  the  form
  required  by  the  laws  of  this  state on March twenty-third, nineteen
  hundred twenty-six or now required by law.
4. If an instrument is recorded hereafter notwithstanding the omission
  from the certificate of acknowledgment or proof of the street and street
  number of a subscribing witness or of a corporate  officer  or  director
  contrary to the provisions of sections three hundred four, three hundred
  nine, three hundred nine-a and three hundred nine-b of this article, the
  record  of  such  instrument  shall not be invalidated by reason of such
  omission nor shall the title founded  on  such  instrument  be  impaired
  thereby.
5.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  effect  any  pending  action or
  proceeding nor the rights of any purchaser  in  good  faith  and  for  a
  valuable  consideration  whose  conveyance shall have been duly recorded
  before this section as amended shall take effect.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 332-A - Validation of the Record, Execution and Proof or Acknowledgment of Certain Other Instruments.

§   332-a.   Validation   of   the  record,  execution  and  proof  or
  acknowledgment of certain other instruments.  The record made  prior  to
  the  day  when  this  act  takes  effect  in the office of the recording
  officer of any county in this state  or,  the  execution  and  proof  or
  acknowledgment  made prior to the day when this act takes effect, of any
  deed,  mortgage,  assignment  or  satisfaction  piece  of  a   mortgage,
  discharge  or release of part of mortgaged premises, or other conveyance
  or a power of attorney, the acknowledgment of the execution of which  by
  a  corporation was made by an officer thereof, or the execution of which
  was proven by a subscribing witness, such acknowledgment or proof having
  been taken or made before an officer or person thereto  authorized,  and
  the certificate or certification thereof or therefor being sufficient as
  to form in all respects except that it either did not state the place of
  residence  of  such  officer  of  the corporation or of such subscribing
  witness or did not state it with sufficient particularity, shall  be  in
  all  respects  as  valid  and  effectual  as  though such certificate or
  certification had contained a sufficient statement as to such  place  of
  residence;  but  this  section shall not affect any action or proceeding
  pending at the time of the taking effect thereof.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 332-B - The Record of Certain Other Conveyances Validated.

§  332-b.  The  record  of certain other conveyances validated. 1. The
  record made subsequent to February thirteenth,  nineteen  hundred  forty
  and  prior  to  the time this section shall take effect in the office of
  the recording officer of any county in this state of any deed, mortgage,
  assignment or satisfaction piece of a mortgage, or other  conveyance  or
  power   of  attorney,  otherwise  authorized  to  be  recorded  therein,
  notwithstanding  any  defect  in  the  form  of   the   certificate   of
  acknowledgment  or  proof or the failure to append thereto a certificate
  as to the authority of the person who took the acknowledgment or  proof,
  to  take  the  same,  or  any  defect in the form of such certificate of
  authority, shall be in all respects as valid  and  effectual  as  though
  such  certificate of acknowledgment or proof or certificate of authority
  had been in proper form  or  such  certificate  of  authority  had  been
  appended  to  such  instrument.  Provided only that such person was duly
  authorized at the time of taking the proof or acknowledgment to take the
  same in the county where the instrument is recorded  or  in  the  place,
  whether within or without the United States, where the same was taken.
2.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  affect  any  pending  action or
  proceeding nor the rights of any purchaser  in  good  faith  and  for  a
  valuable  consideration  whose  conveyance shall have been duly recorded
  before this section shall take effect.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 333-A - Same; Maps to Be Filed.

§  333-a.  Same;  maps to be filed.  No conveyance of real property or
  other document relating to real property,  executed  on  or  after  July
  first,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-one,  which contains a recital of or a
  reference to a map made on or after that date  or  which  has  thereunto
  attached  such  a  map, shall be received for record or recorded by such
  recording officer unless and until a duplicate of such map, prepared  in
  the  same  manner  as  prescribed for the preparation of maps in section
  three hundred and thirty-four of this chapter, shall  be  filed  in  the
  office  of such recording officer and no map, attached to any conveyance
  or other document relating to real property, shall exceed  the  standard
  legal  cap  size,  except that in the county of Putnam the size shall be
  not less than twenty by twenty inches and not more  than  thirty-six  by
  forty-eight  inches  in size and that in the counties of Westchester and
  Dutchess the size shall not  be  more  than  thirty-six  by  forty-eight
  inches. This section shall not apply to the counties of New York, Kings,
  Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Bronx, Onondaga, Erie, Monroe or Richmond.
Notwithstanding  any of the provisions of this section a conveyance of
  real property or other document relating to real property shall  not  be
  invalid  or  void  for  failure to file therewith any map referred to in
  such conveyance or document.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 333-B - Recording of Maps or Plot Plans.

§ 333-b. Recording of maps or plot plans. 1. Notwithstanding any other
  provisions  of  this  article,  a  map  or  plot  plan  showing property
  boundaries and data not relating to subdivisions and the filing  thereof
  may be recorded in the same manner as a deed, if the map or plot plan is
  attached  to  the  conveying  instrument.  A  map  or plot plan recorded
  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  clearly  delineate  and  locate   by
  dimensions  the  parcel  or  interest  conveyed in such manner that such
  parcel or interest can be located on the premises affected. Such map  or
  plot  plan  may appear on one or more pages as needed, shall be drawn on
  legal size paper and shall have lettering thereon no smaller than  elite
  type,  and  all  lines  shall be legible and of sufficient size for easy
  reading after photocopying or microfilming. The  recording  officer  may
  reject or refuse to record any map or plot plan that is unclear, crowded
  and not suitable for photocopying.
2.  If  the  property  is  situated  in a county maintaining a tax map
  department, it shall be the duty of the person, corporation or agent who
  offers such map or plot plan for recording to deliver to and leave  with
  the  recording  officer  a  duplicate copy of the map or plot plan. Such
  duplicate copy shall be transmitted to the  tax  map  department  on  or
  before  the  fifteenth  day of each month by the recording officer or by
  such other officer  or  agency  as  may  be  designated  by  the  county
  legislative body.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 333-C - Lands in Agricultural Districts; Disclosure.

§  333-c.  Lands  in  agricultural  districts; disclosure. 1. When any
  purchase and sales contract is presented  for  the  sale,  purchase,  or
  exchange  of  real  property  located  partially  or  wholly  within  an
  agricultural district established pursuant to the provisions of  article
  twenty-five-AA  of  the  agriculture  and  markets  law, the prospective
  grantor shall present to the prospective  grantee  a  disclosure  notice
  which states the following:
"It  is  the  policy  of  this  state  and this community to conserve,
  protect and encourage the development and  improvement  of  agricultural
  land  for  the  production of food, and other products, and also for its
  natural and ecological  value.  This  disclosure  notice  is  to  inform
  prospective  residents  that the property they are about to acquire lies
  partially or wholly within an agricultural  district  and  that  farming
  activities  occur  within  the  district.  Such  farming  activities may
  include, but not be limited to, activities that cause  noise,  dust  and
  odors.  Prospective  residents  are  also  informed that the location of
  property within an agricultural  district  may  impact  the  ability  to
  access  water  and/or  sewer  services  for  such property under certain
  circumstances.  Prospective purchasers are urged to contact the New York
  State  Department  of  Agriculture  and  Markets  to  obtain  additional
  information  or  clarification  regarding  their  rights and obligations
  under article 25-AA of the Agriculture and Markets Law."
2. Such disclosure notice shall be signed by the  prospective  grantor
  and  grantee  prior  to  the  sale,  purchase  or  exchange of such real
  property.
3. Failure of the seller to provide  such  information  to  the  buyer
  shall not prevent the recording officer from filing such deed.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 335-A - Easements of Necessity.

§  335-a.  Easements  of necessity. The owner of any lot, plot, block,
  site or other parcel of real estate being a subdivision  or  part  of  a
  subdivision  of any larger parcel or parcels of real property shown upon
  a map of said parcel or parcels of real property and of its  subdivision
  or  subdivisions,  filed  in  the  office  of the county clerk or of the
  register of deeds of the county where the property is situated, prior to
  the sale or conveyance of such lot, plot, block, site or  other  parcel,
  or subdivision thereof by the seller thereof, upon which map any road or
  street  is  indicated  or  shown  as giving access to or egress from any
  public road or street to such lot, plot, block, site or other parcel  of
  real  estate  thereon  indicated or to any part thereof, sold or granted
  after such filing, and the owner of any lot, plot, block, site or  other
  parcel  of  real  estate, the conveyance whereof shall specifically give
  the right of access to or egress from the same by any  private  road  or
  street  over  lands  belonging to the maker of such conveyance and which
  road or street is described in such conveyance, may, when  necessary  to
  the  enjoyment  of  the lot, plot, block or site or other parcel of real
  estate so sold or conveyed and when the same is not bounded by a  public
  road,  lay,  beneath  the roads or streets indicated and shown upon such
  map or described in such conveyance as giving access to or  egress  from
  any  public  road  to  such  property  so sold or conveyed as aforesaid,
  wires, conduits, and water lines for the purpose of supplying  the  said
  property  with electric light, telephone, and water service. Such wires,
  conduits, or lines shall be laid only  on  condition  that  the  private
  roads or streets on which the owner has the right of access to or egress
  from  such  property  shall  be  restored as nearly as possible to their
  original condition and that the person or persons entitled to the fee of
  such private roads or streets or having an easement over the same  shall
  be compensated for actual damage occasioned by the laying of such wires,
  conduits, or lines.
Nothing  in this section shall be deemed to affect in any manner lands
  acquired by the city of New York for  the  purpose  of  construction  or
  development of its water supply system.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 335-B - Recording of Solar Energy Easements.

§ 335-b. Recording of solar energy easements. 1. Any easement obtained
for the purpose of exposure of a solar energy device shall be created in
writing  and  shall  be  subject to the same conveyancing and instrument
recording requirements as other easements.
2. Any instrument creating a solar energy easement shall include,  but
the contents shall not be limited to:
(a) The vertical and horizontal angles, expressed in degrees, at which
the  solar energy easement extends over the real property subject to the
solar energy easement.
(b) Any terms or conditions or  both  under  which  the  solar  energy
easement is granted or will be terminated.
(c)  Any  provisions  for  compensation  of  the owner of the property
benefiting from the solar energy easement in the event  of  interference
with  the  enjoyment of the solar energy easement or compensation of the
owner  of  the  property  subject  to  the  solar  energy  easement  for
maintaining the solar energy easement.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 336 - Effect of Recording Demands or Requirements of Noncitizen Property Custodian.

§  336.  Effect  of  recording  demands  or requirements of noncitizen
  property custodian. The recording in any county  clerk's  or  register's
  office  of  a  demand  or  requirement  against  real property described
  therein, made by or on behalf of the noncitizen property custodian under
  and pursuant to the trading with the enemy act  adopted  by  the  United
  States  congress  and  approved  October  sixth,  nineteen  hundred  and
  seventeen, or any act amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or any
  executive order or proclamation issued in pursuance thereof,  when  duly
  indexed against the name of the person or corporation whose property has
  thereby  been demanded or required, shall have the same force and effect
  as the making of, delivery and recording of a deed of such real property
  or interest therein by such person or  corporation  to  said  noncitizen
  property  custodian.  All  recitals  contained  in  any  such  demand or
  requirement, and in any  deed  made  by  such  custodian  heretofore  or
  hereafter  recorded  of  all  facts  required or permitted by said acts,
  proclamations or executive orders to be  found  or  determined  by  said
  noncitizen  property  custodian,  and  all  recitals  of  conclusions or
  determinations  by  said  acts,  proclamations   or   executive   orders
  authorized  to  be  made by such individual, and all recitals of acts or
  things done by said custodian  or  agents  thereof  in  respect  to  the
  seizure  of  said  property shall be evidence of the facts, conclusions,
  determinations, acts and things so recited in any court of this state in
  any action or proceeding affecting the title to  or  ownership  of  such
  real  property.  Three  months  after  this section takes effect and the
  recording of the instrument containing such  recitals,  the  same  shall
  become   conclusive   evidence   of   all   such   facts,   conclusions,
  determinations, acts and things as are so recited therein in any  action
  in  any  court  affecting the title to or ownership of said land, unless
  said action shall have been commenced  before  the  expiration  of  such
  three months.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9-A - Subdivided Lands › 337 - Definitions.

§  337. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. The words "subdivided
  lands" and "subdivision" mean vacant land or lands sold or leased on the
  installment plan or offered for sale or lease  on  such  plan  and  also
  vacant  land or lands situated outside the state of New York and sold or
  leased or offered for sale or lease on the installment plan or upon  any
  and all other plans, terms and conditions of sale or lease.
2.  The  word  "subdivider"  shall  include every person, partnership,
  corporation, company or association who or  which  engages  directly  or
  through  an  agent  in  the business of selling, leasing or offering for
  sale or lease subdivided lands and subdivisions to the  public  in  this
  state.
3.  The  words  "installment  plan"  mean  any  plan,  arrangement  or
  agreement pursuant to the terms, covenants and  conditions  whereof  the
  proposed  purchaser of vacant land or lands to be acquired amortizes the
  purchase price by periodic payments and whereby the conveyance of  title
  to  the  purchaser  of  such vacant land or lands is deferred until such
  time as all said periodic payments have been made and shall also include
  the provision in a plan, arrangement or agreement or lease  requiring  a
  consideration  from the lessee in addition to the periodic payments as a
  condition precedent to the conveyance of title to the lessee.
4. The words "a lease of land or lands on the installment  plan"  mean
  and  include  a  plan,  arrangement or agreement whereunder the periodic
  payments made are designated as rent and upon  the  completion  of  such
  payments  the  lessee is entitled to a conveyance of title to the vacant
  land or lands leased.
5. The words "fraudulent practice" or "fraudulent practices" mean  any
  device, scheme or artifice employed by a subdivider to defraud or obtain
  money  or  property  by  means  of any false pretense, representation or
  promise, or that a subdivider makes or attempts to  make  fictitious  or
  pretended  purchases,  sales  or  leases  of vacant land or lands to the
  public in this state, or engages  in  or  is  about  to  engage  in  any
  practice  or transaction or course of business relating to the purchase,
  sale or lease of  vacant  land  or  lands  which  is  fraudulent  or  in
  violation  of  law  and  which  has operated or which would operate as a
  fraud  upon  the  purchaser,  or  that  any  owner  or   subdivider   as
  hereinbefore  defined  has  sold or offered for sale or is attempting to
  sell or is offering for sale any vacant land or lands  in  violation  of
  the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9-A - Subdivided Lands › 337-C - Right to Cancel.

§  337-c.   Right to cancel.  Every contract or agreement for the sale
  or lease of subdivided lands shall expressly grant to the  purchaser  or
  lessee  the  absolute  right  to cancel the contract or agreement within
  seven days following the signing of the contract or agreement, by giving
  the subdivider notice of cancellation  at  the  address  listed  in  the
  offering  statement  filed by the subdivider, by registered or certified
  mail return receipt requested.  Within ten days of  receipt  of  such  a
  notice  of  cancellation the subdivider shall return to the purchaser or
  lessee all consideration paid or delivered on account of  such  contract
  or agreement.