N.Y. Banking Law § 612: Certificates to be recorded and received in evidence

§ 612. Certificates to be recorded and received in evidence. The

superintendent, deputy superintendents, and the special deputy

superintendents designated under the provisions of section six hundred

eleven of this chapter, are hereby authorized to subscribe and

acknowledge written statements reciting determinations made or acts

performed pursuant to the powers vested in and duties imposed upon the

superintendent pursuant to the terms and provisions of this chapter.

Every paper so executed and acknowledged by the superintendent or a

deputy superintendent or a special deputy superintendent may be recorded

in any proper recording office in the same manner and with the same

effect as a deed regularly acknowledged and, whether or not so recorded,

shall be received in evidence in any action or proceeding now pending or

hereafter commenced, and shall be presumptive evidence of the facts

therein stated.

Any statement, similarly executed and acknowledged, setting forth an

extract from a book, record or document of any banking organization in

the possession of the superintendent or any other book, record or

document relating to the liquidation thereof, shall be received in

evidence in any action or proceeding now pending or hereafter commenced

with the same effect as the original book, record or document.