N.Y. Real Property Law § 331: Laws and decrees of foreign countries appointing agents and attorneys and recording of the same

§ 331. Laws and decrees of foreign countries appointing agents and

attorneys and recording of the same. A copy of a law of a foreign

country or of a decree of the executive power of such a country,

appointing an agent or attorney with power to execute and deliver in the

name or on behalf of such foreign country, any instrument in writing

granting, assigning, surrendering or in any manner affecting any estate

or interest of such government in real property within this state, or

assigning or discharging any lien or claim of such government upon real

property within this state, or of a law or decree revoking such an

appointment, if in English, or a translation into English of any such

law or decree, if the original thereof be in a language other than

English, when certified and recorded as hereinafter provided, shall be

presumptive evidence of the authority of such agent or attorney.

Certification of such copy or translation shall be made under the great

seal of such foreign country and shall be to the effect that the same is

a true copy or translation of such law or decree. Such copy or

translation of such law or decree, when so certified, may be recorded in

the office of the clerk or register of any county of this state, and

such copy or translation when so certified and recorded, or a certified

copy of the record thereof, shall be received as evidence in any court

of this state. The authority conferred under any instrument so recorded

shall not be deemed revoked as to property situated in any county except

by the recording in such county of a copy or translation of a law or

decree to that effect, duly certified in the manner hereinbefore

provided. Nothing in this section shall in any way affect the right or

power of a foreign country to acquire, hold or convey real property in

this state, or be construed to confer any such right or power.