N.Y. Judiciary Law § 255-c: Uniform transcript and certificate act

§ 255-c. Uniform transcript and certificate act. 1. Every transcript

of a judgment hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of a court

of record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk, shall be

on paper eleven inches in width by eight-and-a-half inches in length. It

shall be substantially in the following form:

TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT

JUDGMENT DEBTOR

Trade Last

Surname Given Name or Profession Known Address

________________________________________________________________________

AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT

JUDGMENT CREDITOR JUDGMENT RENDERED

Name Address Damages Court

County

Date

Hr. & Min.

Costs JUDGMENT

DOCKETED

Total Date

Hr. & Min.

________________________________________________________________________

REMARKS: DATE AND MANNER

ATTORNEY FOR JUDGMENT OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF

CREDITOR JUDGMENT

Name Address

EXECUTION SATISFIED

When Returned How and to

When Issued Unsatisfied When What Extent

________________________________________________________________________

This form is to be immediately followed by the following certification

with the appropriate words being chosen among those which appear in

brackets, except that in the event the person certifying the transcript

keeps no seal, the words "and affixed my official seal" shall be

omitted:

STATE OF NEW YORK

COUNTY OF........

(seal)

I,.................(Clerk, Judge or Justice) of the (County of.......;

or......Court, County of........), hereby certify that the above is a

correct transcript from the docket of judgments in my office.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed my

official seal this......day of.............19........

(Clerk, Judge or Justice).

Any change in the status of the judgment since the time of its

original entry on the docket of the person certifying the transcript

shall be indicated in the space provided for "REMARKS; DATE AND MANNER

OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF JUDGMENT" the same to include any assignment,

reversal, modification, discharge, and any other such disposition

affecting the judgment; satisfactions and reductions, to whatever extent

and in whatever fashion the same are affected, shall be indicated in the

space entitled "SATISFIED--WHEN, HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT."

2. Every certificate attesting to any execution on, or reduction or

full or partial satisfaction of, a judgment, or to any change in the

status of a judgment, hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of

a court of record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk,

shall be of the same size and form as for a transcript of judgment as

described and illustrated under subdivision one of the section, except

that the words "Certificate of Disposition of Judgment" shall replace

the words "Transcript of Judgment" wherever the same may appear on

either side thereof, and excepting further that between the two

sentences constituting the certification there shall be an additional

sentence, to read: "And I further certify that the above judgment has

......... " The space provided shall be of sufficient length to contain

all data relevant to the matter for which the certificate is issued.

3. In the event that the space provided for any information which must

be contained in any such transcript or certificate be insufficient, the

same may be set forth on a separate paper or papers of the same size, to

be attached to said transcript or certificate by a staple or other

equally permanent means, and in that space on the original transcript or

certificate which proved insufficient to contain the necessary matter

there shall appear a reference to the attached paper or papers,

adequately identifying the same. Each such added paper shall be

subscribed at the very end of the matter contained thereon by the same

person who certifies the transcript or certificate to which said paper

or papers shall be attached.