N.Y. Real Property Law § 395: Title book

§ 395. Title book. The registrar shall keep a book or books to be

known respectively as the "title book", wherein he shall enter all first

and subsequent "original" certificates of title by binding or recording

them therein, with appropriate blanks for the entry of memorials and

notations prescribed by this article. Said book shall be of about the

size of the conveyance libers, now used in county clerks' and registers'

offices. Each certificate shall constitute a separate leaf of such book.

About two inches of each leaf on the binding edge shall be kept blank on

both sides, to facilitate rebinding. At such times as may be proper, the

registrar may rebind the certificates in new volumes or title books,

containing respectively cancelled and uncancelled certificates. All

memorials and notations, that may be entered in the title book under the

terms of this article, shall be entered upon the leaf constituting the

last certificate of title of the property to which they relate. In the

county of Suffolk, if a microfilm system for retrieval and display of

the title certificates is used, libers may be stored in a location not

accessible to the public. Whenever the term "certificate of title" is

used in this article it shall be deemed as including all memorials or

notations thereupon noted.