Assembly Bill A8851

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   8851
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2024
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules and the  administrative
   code  of  the  city  of  New  York,  in  relation  to updating the fee
   collected by county clerks for deposit  into  the  cultural  education
   account
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph b  of  paragraph  4  of  subdivision  (a)  and
 subparagraph b of paragraph 11 of subdivision (b) of section 8021 of the
 civil  practice law and rules, subparagraph b of paragraph 4 of subdivi-
 sion (a) as amended by section 2 and subparagraph b of paragraph  11  of
 subdivision  (b)  as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 83 of the
 laws of 2002, are amended to read as follows:
   b. For recording, entering, indexing and endorsing  a  certificate  on
 any  instrument, an additional fee of five dollars to be paid monthly by
 county clerks to the commissioner of education, after deducting  twenty-
 five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government records
 management  improvement  fund  and  an  additional [fifteen] TWENTY-FIVE
 dollars, after deducting [seventy-five cents] ONE DOLLAR, for deposit to
 the cultural education account.
   b. For recording any instrument required by statute to be recorded, an
 additional fee of five dollars to be paid monthly by  county  clerks  to
 the  commissioner  of  education, after deducting twenty-five cents, for
 deposit into the New York  state  local  government  records  management
 improvement  fund and an additional [fifteen] TWENTY-FIVE dollars, after
 deducting [seventy-five cents] ONE DOLLAR, for deposit to  the  cultural
 education account.
   §  2. Subdivision a of section 7-604 of the administrative code of the
 city of New York, as amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 83 of the
 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   a. The register shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the  mayor.  All
 fees  shall  be  the property of the city. All sums so received shall be
 paid to the commissioner of finance  monthly  without  deduction.    The
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 8851                             2
 
 FOLLOWING  additional  [fee  of  twenty  dollars] FEES for recording any
 instrument required by New York state statute to be recorded pursuant to
 subdivision one of section 7-614 of this code shall be [used as follows]
 COLLECTED:  five  dollars paid monthly by the commissioner of finance to
 the New York state commissioner of education,  after  deducting  twenty-
 five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government records
 management  improvement  fund  and  [fifteen] TWENTY-FIVE dollars, after
 deducting [seventy-five cents] ONE DOLLAR, for deposit to  the  cultural
 education account.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.