N.Y. Real Property Law 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.
Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Law 291-B
- conveyance: includes every written instrument, by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although the power be one of revocation only, and an instrument postponing or subordinating a mortgage lien; except a will, a lease for a term not exceeding three years, an executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, and an instrument containing a power to convey real property as the agent or attorney for the owner of such property. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: as used in this article , includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and chattels real, except a lease for a term not exceeding three years. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
- recorded: means the entry, at length, upon the pages of the proper record books in a plain and legible hand writing, or in print or in symbols of drawing or by photographic process or partly in writing, partly in printing, partly in symbols of drawing or partly by photographic process or by any combination of writing, printing, drawing or photography or either or any two of them, or by an electronic process by which a record or instrument affecting real property, after delivery is incorporated into the public record. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
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.