N.Y. County Law § 530: Court and trust fund register

§ 530. Court and trust fund register. Each county clerk shall keep a

book to be known as a court and trust fund register to be used solely as

a record of moneys and securities paid, transferred, or deposited, or

ordered to be so paid, transferred, or deposited into the courts of

which he is clerk. Upon the filing in his office of any judgment, order,

or decree directing the payment, transfer, or deposit of moneys or

securities into court, the amount thereof being stated, or determinable

upon the happening of the contingency expressed in said judgment, order

or decree; or upon the filing in his office of any report of a referee

or other person, or any receipt, or any other paper or record, from

which it appears that moneys or securities have been or should be

deposited into court pursuant to any judgment, order, or decree, or any

provision of law; or upon the receipt by any such clerk of moneys or

securities which may be deposited into court, by any provision of law,

without a court order, the clerk shall promptly enter in his court and

trust fund register (1) the name of the court directing the deposit, or

the source of the receipt if deposited without a court order, (2) the

title of the action or proceeding, (3) the amount of money or nature and

description of securities deposited or ordered to be deposited into

court, if stated, (4) a statement of any contingency expressed in the

judgment, order, or decree upon the happening of which the amount

required to be deposited shall be determinable, (5) the names of the

persons by whom and for whom the deposit is made, or ordered to be made,

if stated, and the purpose for which the deposit is made, or ordered to

be made, (6) the date and nature of each instrument, report, receipt,

record or other paper indicating moneys or securities deposited or to be

deposited into court, and the date of filing the same. Such moneys and

securities shall be paid to the county treasurer pursuant to article

twenty-six of the civil practice law and rules upon receipt being given

therefor. For failure to maintain such a register in accordance with the

provisions of this section, a county clerk shall be liable to a penalty

of two hundred fifty dollars, to be recovered by the state comptroller

in an action brought in his name as such comptroller and such penalty,

together with statutory costs, shall be paid to the state comptroller,

except that the foregoing shall apply only if the judgment, order or

decree directing payment into court shall contain, immediately following

the caption of the particular matter to which it relates, in capital

letters the words "Judgment Directs Payment Into Court" or other

appropriate language of similar import, sufficient to apprise the county

clerk or his assistant that entry in the court and trust fund register

with regard thereto is required.