N.Y. Real Property Law § 309: Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate

§ 309. Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate. 1. The

acknowledgment of a conveyance or other instrument by a corporation,

must be made by an officer or attorney in fact duly appointed, or in

case of a dissolved corporation, by an officer, director or attorney in

fact duly appointed thereof authorized to execute the same by the board

of directors of said corporation.

2. The certificate of acknowledgment must conform substantially with

one of the following alternative forms, the blanks being properly

filled:

State of New York }ss.:

County of.........}

On the....... day of....... in the year....... before me personally

came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say

that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a

city, include the street and street number, if any, thereof); that

he/she/they is (are) the (president or other officer or director or

attorney in fact duly appointed) of the (name of corporation), the

corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that

he/she/they know(s) the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed

to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by

authority of the board of directors of said corporation, and that

he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by like authority.

(Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)

State of New York }ss.:

County of.........}

On the....... day of....... in the year....... before me personally

came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say

that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a

city, include the street and street number, if any, thereof); that

he/she/they is (are) the (president or other officer or director or

attorney in fact duly appointed) of the (name of corporation), the

corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; and

that he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by authority of

the board of directors of said corporation.

(Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)

3. Subdivision two of this section shall be inapplicable to the

acknowledgment, within this state, of a conveyance or other instrument

in respect to real property situate in this state executed on or after

the first day of September, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. A certificate

of such an acknowledgment shall be subject to the provisions of section

three hundred nine-a of this article.