S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8422
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- 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) of section
8021 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by section 2 of
part B of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is 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 dollars,
after deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural educa-
tion account.
§ 2. Subparagraph b of paragraph 11 of subdivision (b) of section 8021
of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by section 3 of part B
of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
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 dollars, after
deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education
account.
§ 3. 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:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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
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] CHAPTER shall be used as
follows: 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 dollars, after deduct-
ing seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education account.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.