N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 8019: County clerks generally

§ 8019. County clerks generally. (a) Application. The fees of a county

clerk specified in this article shall supersede the fees allowed by any

other statute for the same services, except in so far as the

administrative code of the city of New York sets forth different fees

for the city register of the city of New York and the county clerk of

Richmond, and except that such fees do not include the block fees as set

out in the Nassau county administrative code or the tax map number

verification fees on instruments presented for recording or filing as

set out in the Suffolk county administrative code, which are to be

charged in addition to the fees specified in this article. This

subdivision does not apply to the fees specified in subdivision (f) of

section 8021.

(b) Legible copies. Whenever a paper or document, presented to a

county clerk for filing or recording, is not legible or otherwise

suitable for copying or recording by the photocopying process, the

county clerk may require a legible or suitable copy thereof along with

such paper or document, and the same fees shall be payable for the copy

as are payable for the paper or document.

(c) Notice to county clerk. A county clerk need not make an entry

which is required by a court order unless proper notice is given to the

clerk by a party to the action or a person legally interested therein.

(d) Exemptions for state or city of New York. A clerk of a county

within the city of New York shall not charge or receive any fee from the

city of New York or the state of New York or from any agency or officer

of either acting in official capacity.

(e) Size of page and type. For purposes of this article, the size of

each page accepted by a county clerk for recording and indexing shall

not exceed nine inches by fourteen inches, except that in the counties

of Cattaraugus, Columbia, Delaware, Herkimer, Monroe and Otsego, the

size of the page shall not exceed eight and a half inches by fourteen

inches, and every printed portion thereof shall be plainly printed in

not smaller than eight point type. The county clerk acting as recording

officer may in special circumstances accept a page exceeding the size or

with smaller print than that prescribed herein, on such terms and at

such fee, subject to review by the supreme court, as he may deem

appropriate, but the fee for such recording and indexing shall not be

less than double the fees otherwise chargeable by law therefor.

(f) Copies of records. The following fees, up to a maximum of forty

dollars per record shall be payable to a county clerk or register for

copies of the records of the office except records filed under the

uniform commercial code:

1. to prepare a copy of any paper or record on file in the office,

except as otherwise provided, sixty-five cents per page with a minimum

fee of one dollar thirty cents;

2. to certify a prepared copy of any record or paper on file,

sixty-five cents per page with a minimum fee of five dollars twenty

cents;

3. to prepare and certify a copy of any record or paper on file, one

dollar twenty-five cents per page with a minimum fee of five dollars;

4. to prepare and certify a copy of a certificate of honorable

discharge, except as provided for in the military law, two dollars fifty

cents; and

5. to prepare a copy of any paper or record on file in the office in a

medium other than paper, the actual cost of reproducing the record in

accordance with paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-seven

of the public officers law.