§ 8021. County clerks other than as clerks of court. Whenever a county\nclerk renders a service other than in his capacity as clerk of the\nsupreme or a county court, or other than in an action pending in a court\nof which he is clerk, he is entitled to the fees specified in this\nsection, payable in advance.\n (a) Services in connection with papers or instruments relating to real\nproperty and not filed under the uniform commercial code.\n 1. For filing any paper, document or other instrument of any nature or\ndescription which is required or permitted by law to be filed in his\noffice, five dollars, except as otherwise expressly provided in this\narticle and in article twelve of the real property law.\n 2. For filing and indexing any map, ten dollars.\n 3. For affixing and indexing a notice of foreclosure of a mortgage, as\nprescribed in section fourteen hundred four of the real property actions\nand proceedings law, ten dollars.\n 4. a. (1) For recording, entering, indexing and endorsing a\ncertificate on any instrument, five dollars, and, in addition thereto,\nthree dollars for each page or portion of a page, and fifty cents for\neach additional town, city, block or other indices in which such\ninstrument is to be indexed as directed by the endorsement thereon. On\nthe assignment of a mortgage which assigns more than one mortgage or on\na release of lease which releases more than one lease, then there shall\nbe an additional fee of three dollars for every mortgage assigned or\nlease released in excess of one.\n (2) Notwithstanding clause one of this subparagraph, any county may\nopt by county law to increase the fee for recording, entering, indexing\nand endorsing a certificate on any instrument from five dollars to\ntwenty dollars and, in addition thereto, increase from three dollars to\nfive dollars for each page or portion of a page. Such increase shall\ntake effect thirty days after the county enacts such fees. For the\npurpose of determining the appropriate recording fee, the fee for any\ncover page shall be deemed an additional page of the instrument. A cover\npage shall not include any social security account number or date of\nbirth. To the extent a county clerk has placed an image of such cover\npage online, such county clerk shall make a good faith effort to redact\nsuch information.\n b. For recording, entering, indexing and endorsing a certificate on\nany instrument, an additional fee of five dollars to be paid monthly by\ncounty clerks to the commissioner of education, after deducting\ntwenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government\nrecords management improvement fund and an additional fifteen dollars,\nafter deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural\neducation account.\n 5. For re-indexing a recorded instrument, two dollars for each town,\ncity, block or other indices so re-indexed upon presentation of the\ninstrument with such additional endorsement thereon or, if the original\ninstrument is not obtainable, by request in writing sworn to by an\ninterested party, setting forth the facts.\n 6. For copying and mailing any map, such fees as may be fixed by the\ncounty clerk subject to review by the supreme court.\n 7. For entering a cross reference of the record of any instrument on\nthe margin of the record of any other instrument referred to therein by\nliber and page, fifty cents for each cross reference.\n 8. For examining the record of each assignment of mortgage or other\ninstrument recited in a certificate of discharge of mortgage, fifty\ncents.\n 9. For searching for any filed or recorded instrument, upon a written\nrequest specifying the kind of instrument, the location by town, city or\nblock if a real property instrument, and the names and period to be\nsearched, such fee as may be fixed by the county clerk subject to review\nby the supreme court.\n 10. For filing or recording a notice of pendency of action or a notice\nof attachment against real p
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