N.Y. Executive Law § 161: Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies, ordered by state officers to be gratuitous

§ 161. Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies,

ordered by state officers to be gratuitous. 1. Each of the following

officers, to wit: the secretary of state, the comptroller, the

commissioner of taxation and finance, the attorney general, the public

service commission, the commissioner of agriculture and markets, the

commissioner of transportation, the industrial commissioner, the

chairman of the state labor relations board, the chairman of the state

liquor authority, the superintendent of financial services, the state

commissioner of human rights, the commissioner of general services and

the commissioner of housing and community renewal may require search to

be made, in the office of any of the others, or of a county clerk or of

the clerk of a court of record, for any record, document, or paper,

where he or she deems it necessary for the discharge of his or her

official duties, and a copy thereof, or extracts therefrom, to be made

and officially certified or exemplified, without the payment of any fee

or charge.

2. No salaried officer of any city, county, or court, of this state,

or any public officer who is required by law to deposit the fees

collected in his office into any city or county treasury, shall be

entitled to receive from said state officers, or from a division or

bureau of said state officers, any fee for entering, filing, docketing,

registering or recording any paper, record or document required by law

to be filed in the office of any such city, county, court, or public

officer, or for a certified copy, transcript or extract of any paper,

document or record on file in such office which he deems necessary for

the discharge of his official duties, and every such officer must, upon

application therefor, furnish to said state officers, or a division or

bureau of said state officers, for such official use, a certified copy,

extract or transcript of any paper, record or document on file in such

office without the payment of the fee prescribed by law therefor; nor

shall any court clerk demand or receive from any of said state officers,

or from a division or bureau of said state officers, any trial or jury

fee upon filing in any court in this state a note of issue or demand for

a jury trial.

3. Such salaried officer shall also furnish the services herein

specified to any state department or a bureau or agency thereof acting

as an agent of the state in the acquisition of real property, without

the payment of any fee or charge.