N.Y. State Technology Law § 307: Exceptions

§ 307. Exceptions. This article shall not apply:

* 1. To any document providing for the disposition of an individual's

person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary

of an individual's person or property, including, without limitation,

wills, trusts, decisions consenting to orders not to resuscitate, and

powers of attorney, with the exception of: (a) contractual beneficiary

designations; (b) the registration of making, amending, or revoking an

anatomical gift under section forty-three hundred ten of the public

health law; (c) documents and forms authorizing or accepting funeral,

cemetery and cremation services; and (d) the execution of a valid power

of attorney for the purpose of transferring a salvage certificate of

title and the execution of an odometer and damage disclosure statement

in connection with such title whenever a loss in connection with a

private automobile is determined by an insurer to be a total loss or

constructive total loss under section three thousand four hundred twelve

of the insurance law.

* NB Effective until December 12, 2027

* 1. To any document providing for the disposition of an individual's

person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary

of an individual's person or property, including, without limitation,

wills, unless such will is executed pursuant to part six of article

three of the estates, powers and trusts law, trusts, decisions

consenting to orders not to resuscitate, and powers of attorney, with

the exception of: (a) contractual beneficiary designations; (b) the

registration of making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift under

section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law; (c) documents

and forms authorizing or accepting funeral, cemetery and cremation

services; and (d) the execution of a valid power of attorney for the

purpose of transferring a salvage certificate of title and the execution

of an odometer and damage disclosure statement in connection with such

title whenever a loss in connection with a private automobile is

determined by an insurer to be a total loss or constructive total loss

under section three thousand four hundred twelve of the insurance law.

* NB Effective December 12, 2027

2. To any negotiable instruments and other instruments of title

wherein possession of the instrument is deemed to confer title, unless

an electronic version of such record is created, stored or transferred

pursuant to this article in a manner that allows for the existence of

only one unique, identifiable and unalterable version which cannot be

copied except in a form that is readily identifiable as a copy.

3. To any other document that the electronic facilitator has

specifically excepted, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the

electronic facilitator, from the application of this article.