N.Y. Lien Law § 246-b: Notice of lien of bail bond in criminal actions or proceedings

§ 246-b. Notice of lien of bail bond in criminal actions or

proceedings. A notice of lien of bail bond on real estate shall be

filed in the office of the recording officer of the county in which such

real estate given as security in a bail bond in a criminal action or

proceeding is located, or if such property is situated in two or more

counties the notice of lien shall be filed in the office of the

recording officer of each of such counties, the provisions of which

notice of lien shall be entered in a register kept for that purpose

showing the name of the people of the state of New York as lienors and

the names and addresses of the principal and the surety together with

the name of the owner of such real estate and its location according to

block, lot and section on the land map or other similar description and

containing a brief recital of the terms of such bail bond as provided in

article ten-b of the lien law, which said notice shall be substantially

in the following form:

NOTICE OF LIEN.

To ............................................, clerk (or register)

of the county of ................................, and all others whom

it may concern:

Please take notice that ..............................................

1. The people of the state of New York represented by

........................................., attorney general of the state

of New York, (or district attorney of the county of ...............) has

and claims a bail bond lien on the following described real property.

2. The name of the owner of the real property against whose interest

therein a lien is claimed is .......................................

and the interest of the owner so far as known to the lienors is a fee

simple absolute.

3. The name and address of the surety who entered into the undertaking

of bail with the people of the state of New York is

............................ residing at ..............................

street, in the borough of ................, city of ...................

(or town, village or county); the name and address of the principal for

whom the surety has entered into such undertaking of bail is residing at

..................... street, in the borough of ..................., city

of ...................... (or town, village or county). The type of

undertaking of bail and the amount thereof is a consolidated bail bond

in the sum of ......................

4. The criminal charge against the principal for which such

undertaking of bail is given is ............................ The date of

such undertaking and place of execution thereof are ..................

19..., at the ..................... court of the county of

..................... (or city, town or village).

5. The property subject to the lien is situated in the borough of

..............................., county of ...........................

city of ......................... It is known as number

.................... street or avenue, and is described as follows:

Description.

Dated, ..................., 19 .....................

attorney general of the state of New York

(district attorney of the county of ......)

By

assistant attorney general

(assistant district attorney or

deputy assistant district attorney).

State of New York )

) ss.:

County of )

.................................. , being duly sworn, says that he is an

assistant attorney general (or assistant district attorney, or deputy

assistant district attorney, as the case may be) in the office of the

honorable ......................, attorney general of the state of New

York (or district attorney of the county of .......................),

the claimant for the people of the state of New York mentioned in the

foregoing notice of lien. That he has read the said notice and knows the

contents thereof and that the statements contained therein are true of

his own knowledge, except as to those matters therein stated to be

alleged upon information and belief and that as to those matters he

believes them to be true.

..................................

Sworn to before me this

... day .... ...., 19...

Notary public.

..............(commissioner of deeds of the city of .................).