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                                  8422--A
 
                        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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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] THIRTY 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]  THIRTY  dollars,  after
 deducting  [seventy-five  cents] ONE DOLLAR, for deposit to the cultural
 education account.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00524-05-5
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   § 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
 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] THIRTY dollars, after deduct-
 ing [seventy-five cents] ONE DOLLAR, for deposit to the cultural  educa-
 tion account.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.