N.Y. Real Property Law § 374: Deputy registrars' powers and duties

§ 374. Deputy registrars' powers and duties. In any county where the

business under this article so warrants, the registrar may appoint a

chief deputy and as many other deputies as are needed. But no one unless

he is also a deputy register or an assistant deputy register appointed

under statutory authority, or a deputy county clerk, shall be appointed

as such deputy registrar unless he has qualified as an official examiner

of title as described and required by section three hundred and

seventy-seven of this chapter.

Deputies may perform any and all duties of the registrar in the name

of the registrar, and the acts of such deputies shall be held to be the

acts of the registrar, and in case of the death of the registrar, or his

removal from office, the chief deputy shall thereupon become the acting

registrar until such vacancy shall be filled according to law, and he

shall file a like bond and be vested with the same powers and subject to

the same responsibilities and entitled to the same compensation as in

the case of the registrar.