N.Y. Real Property Law § 310: Authentication of acknowledgments and proofs made within the state

§ 310. Authentication of acknowledgments and proofs made within the

state. 1. When a certificate of acknowledgment or proof is made, within

this state, by a commissioner of deeds, a justice of the peace, town

council member, village police justice, or a judge of any court of

inferior local jurisdiction, such certificate does not entitle the

conveyance so acknowledged or proved to be read in evidence or recorded

in any county of this state except a county in which the officer making

such certificate is authorized to act at the time of making the same,

unless such certificate is authenticated by a certificate of the clerk

of such county; provided, however, that all certificates of

acknowledgment or proof, made by a commissioner of deeds of the city of

New York residing in any part therein, shall be authenticated by the

clerk of any county within said city, in whose office such commissioner

of deeds shall have filed a certificate under the hand and seal of the

city clerk of said city, showing the appointment and term of office of

such commissioner; and no other certificates shall be required from any

other officer to entitle such conveyance to be read in evidence or

recorded in any county of this state.

2. Except as provided in this section, no certificate of

authentication shall be required to entitle a conveyance to be read in

evidence or recorded in this state when acknowledged or proved before

any officer designated in section two hundred ninety-eight of this

article to take such acknowledgment or proof, nor shall such

authentication be required for recording in the office of the city

register of the city of New York of such acknowledgment or proof by a

commissioner of deeds of the city of New York.