N.Y. Real Property Law § 419: Release, discharge or surrender of charge or incumbrance

§ 419. Release, discharge or surrender of charge or incumbrance. A

release, discharge or surrender of a charge or incumbrance, or any part

thereof, or of any part of the property charged or incumbered, may be

effected by the production of a release, discharge or satisfaction, duly

executed and acknowledged, made in any form authorized by law, except as

herein provided. Any tax, water rent or assessment, subject to which the

title has been registered and which has been noted on the certificate of

title as provided in section three hundred ninety of this chapter, may

be released and discharged in the same way upon a receipt therefor being

issued and duly certified by the receiver of taxes or collector of

assessments and arrears or other duly authorized officer, as the case

may require, and delivered to the registrar and filed in his office. The

receiver of taxes or collector of assessments and arrears or such other

duly authorized officer, as the case may require, upon demand of any

owner of registered property, shall execute, certify and deliver to such

owner such receipt when any such tax, water rent or assessment has been

paid upon such registered property.