N.Y. Real Property Law § 297: Certified copies may be recorded

§ 297. Certified copies may be recorded. A copy of a record, or of

any recorded instrument, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled

to be read in evidence, may be again recorded in any office where the

original would be entitled to be recorded. Such record has the same

effect as if the original were so recorded. A copy of a conveyance or

mortgage affecting separate parcels of real property situated in

different counties, or of the record of such conveyance or mortgage in

one of such counties, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled to

be read in evidence, may be recorded in any county in which any such

parcel is situated, with the same effect as if the original instrument

authenticated as required by section three hundred and ten of this

chapter were so recorded.