N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 8008: Fees and expenses of officer to be paid before transmission of paper

§ 8008. Fees and expenses of officer to be paid before transmission of

paper. Each provision of law requiring a judge, clerk or other officer

to transmit a paper to another officer, for the benefit of a party, is

to be construed as requiring the transmission only at the request of the

person so to be benefited, and upon payment by him of the fees allowed

by law for the paper transmitted, or any copy or certificate connected

therewith, and the expenses specified in section sixty-eight of the

public officers law.