N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1942: Petition in special proceeding to quiet title

§ 1942. Petition in special proceeding to quiet title. 1. A person or

persons, desiring to institute a proceeding under section nineteen

hundred forty-one, must present a petition to the supreme court at a

special term to be held in the judicial district in which the real

property is situated, setting forth the facts proving to the

satisfaction of the court, that the case is one of those specified in

that section, and must describe the property with common certainty, and

state what, if any, liens or incumbrances exist thereon, and the names

of the persons, if any, besides the petitioners, who have been in the

actual possession of the property during the past ten years claiming

title as owners thereof in fee, and how such title was derived, and

shall also annex to said petition a duly certified copy of the sheriff's

or referee's deed recorded ten years since under which petitioners claim

title.

2. In case the property described in said sheriff's or referee's deed

shall have been subdivided, the owner or owners of the several parcels

thereof may unite in the same petition and proceeding.