N.Y. CPLR § 8019

NEW YORK CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES (CPLR) New York State | For Informational Purposes Only CPLR § 8019 County clerks generally § 8019. County clerks generally. (a) Application. The fees of a countyclerk specified in this article shall supersede the fees allowed by anyother statute for the same services, except in so far as theadministrative code of the city of New York sets forth different feesfor the city register of the city of New York and the county clerk ofRichmond, and except that such fees do not include the block fees as setout in the Nassau county administrative code or the tax map numberverification fees on instruments presented for recording or filing asset out in the Suffolk county administrative code, which are to becharged in addition to the fees specified in this article. Thissubdivision does not apply to the fees specified in subdivision (f) ofsection 8021.(b) Legible copies. Whenever a paper or document, presented to acounty clerk for filing or recording, is not legible or otherwisesuitable for copying or recording by the photocopying process, thecounty clerk may require a legible or suitable copy thereof along withsuch paper or document, and the same fees shall be payable for the copyas are payable for the paper or document.(c) Notice to county clerk. A county clerk need not make an entrywhich is required by a court order unless proper notice is given to theclerk by a party to the action or a person legally interested therein.(d) Exemptions for state or city of New York. A clerk of a countywithin the city of New York shall not charge or receive any fee from thecity of New York or the state of New York or from any agency or officerof either acting in official capacity.(e) Size of page and type. For purposes of this article, the size ofeach page accepted by a county clerk for recording and indexing shallnot exceed nine inches by four g in official capacity.(e) Size of page and type. For purposes of this article, the size ofeach page accepted by a county clerk for recording and indexing shallnot exceed nine inches by fourteen inches, except that in the countiesof Cattaraugus, Columbia, Delaware, Herkimer, Monroe and Otsego, thesize of the page shall not exceed eight and a half inches by fourteeninches, and every printed portion thereof shall be plainly printed innot smaller than eight point type. The county clerk acting as recordingofficer may in special circumstances accept a page exceeding the size orwith smaller print than that prescribed herein, on such terms and atsuch fee, subject to review by the supreme court, as he may deeappropriate, but the fee for such recording and indexing shall not beless than double the fees otherwise chargeable by law therefor.(f) Copies of records. The following fees, up to a maximum of fortydollars per record shall be payable to a county clerk or register forcopies of the records of the office except records filed under theuniform commercial code:1. to prepare a copy of any paper or record on file in the office,except as otherwise provided, sixty-five cents per page with a minimumfee of one dollar thirty cents;2. to certify a prepared copy of any record or paper on file,sixty-five cents per page with a minimum fee of five dollars twentycents;3. to prepare and certify a copy of any record or paper on file, onedollar twenty-five cents per page with a minimum fee of five dollars;4. to prepare and certify a copy of a certificate of honorabledischarge, except as provided for in the military law, two dollars fiftycents; and5. to prepare a copy of any paper or record on file in the office in amedium other than paper, the actual cost of reproducing the record inaccordance with paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-sevenof the public officers law.