Senate Bill S1490A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1490--A
     Cal. No. 985
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Judiciary  --  reported
   favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
   ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered  reprinted,  retaining
   its place in the order of third reading

 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.
              

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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.