2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property › 291-A - Recording Conveyances of Land in Towns in Chautauqua County; Duties of County and Town Clerks.

§  291-a. Recording conveyances of land in towns in Chautauqua county;
  duties of county and town clerks. 1. Every deed  and  will  relating  to
  real  property in Chautauqua county, outside the cities of Jamestown and
  Dunkirk, and every judicial decree establishing the right of inheritance
  to real property within Chautauqua county  shall,  before  the  same  be
  hereafter  recorded  in  the office of the clerk of Chautauqua 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 Chautauqua, outside the cities of Jamestown and Dunkirk, 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  Chautauqua  county  or   any
  subordinate  in  the office of such clerk of Chautauqua 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 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 Chautauqua county outside  the
  cities  of  Jamestown and Dunkirk, shall enter the copies of conveyances
  and all appurtenant data so received from the clerk of Chautauqua 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.
2.  Any  deed  or  instrument  of conveyance relating to real property
  within  the  towns  of  Chautauqua,  North  Harmony,  Ellicott,  Ellery,
  Westfield  and  Busti or the village of Celoron, Chautauqua county, that
  for the first time conveys an interest in a paper street located  within
  either  such  town or village to any grantee other than a not-for-profit
  corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws of this state  or  similar
  association or to a municipal corporation, notwithstanding the fact that
  such  deed  or  instrument  shall have been recorded by the clerk of the
  county of Chautauqua, shall be considered a nullity and given  no  force
  and  effect  unless accompanied by a resolution of the town board of the
  town or of the board of trustees of the village within which such  paper
  street  is located authorizing that such deed or instrument be recorded.
  For the purposes of this subdivision, a paper street shall mean a street
  that was designed in a subdivision map when originally filed  but  which
  was never subsequently developed or used as a public way.