§ 334. Maps to be filed; penalty for nonfiling. 1. It shall be the\nduty of every person or corporation who, as owner or agent, subdivides\nreal property into lots, plots, blocks or sites, with or without\nstreets, for the purpose of offering such lots, plots, blocks or sites\nfor sale to the public, to cause a map thereof, together with a\ncertificate of the licensed land surveyor filing said map attached\nshowing the date of the completion of the survey by said land surveyor\nand of the making of the map by said land surveyor and the name of the\nsubdivision as stated by the owner, to be filed in the office of the\ncounty clerk or, in any county having a register of deeds, in the office\nof the register of deeds, of the county where the property is situated\nprior to the offering of any such lots, plots, blocks or sites for sale;\nand a duplicate copy of such map shall also be filed in the office of\nthe city, town or village clerk, where the property is situated, and, if\nsituated in a county maintaining a tax map department, a copy shall also\nbe filed with such department, before any such sale.\n 2. All such maps must be printed upon linen or canvas-backed paper or\ndrawn with a pen and India ink upon tracing cloth or printed on mylar,\nand must be a minimum of eight and one-half inches by eleven inches, and\na maximum of thirty-four inches by forty-four inches in size, except\nthat in the counties of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland all maps\npresented for filing must be printed or drawn with pen and ink upon\ntracing cloth or printed on mylar; except that in the counties of\nSaratoga, Otsego, Dutchess and Monroe, all maps presented for filing in\nthe office of the county clerk must be printed or drawn with pen and\nIndia ink upon transparent tracing cloth or printed on mylar or\npolyester film or be photographic copies on transparent tracing cloth or\nprinted on mylar or polyester film and further, that such maps to be\nfiled in the counties of Saratoga and Otsego shall be not less than\neight and one-half inches by fourteen inches nor more than thirty inches\nby forty-two inches in size; except that in the county of Clinton all\nmaps presented for filing in the office of the county clerk must be\nprinted or drawn with pen and ink upon tracing cloth or canvas-backed\npaper or printed on mylar and must be either eighteen inches by\ntwenty-four inches or twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches in size,\nand in the county of Putnam must be not less than twenty inches by\ntwenty inches and not more than thirty-six inches by forty-eight inches\nin size, and in the counties of Warren, Sullivan and Greene all maps\npresented for filing must be printed or drawn with pen and India ink\nupon transparent tracing cloth or polyester film or printed on mylar or\nbe photographic copies on transparent tracing cloth or polyester film or\nprinted on mylar and further, that such maps to be filed in Warren\ncounty, must be not less than eight and one-half inches by eleven inches\nnor more than twenty-two inches by thirty-four inches, in the county of\nSullivan must be not less than eight and one-half inches by eleven\ninches nor more than twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches and in the\ncounty of Greene must be not less than twelve inches by eighteen inches\nnor more than twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches and in the\ncounties of Westchester and Dutchess must be thirty-six inches by\nforty-eight inches or less in size, and that such maps to be filed in\nthe county of Monroe shall be in any one of the following sizes only:\nseventeen inches by twenty-two inches, twenty-two inches by thirty-four\ninches or thirty-four inches by forty-four inches. Every such\nsubdivision map of property in the towns of Tonawanda, Evans, West\nSeneca, Cheektowaga, Amherst, Lancaster, Grand Island, Aurora, Concord,\nCollins, Alden, Newstead, Clarence, Elma, Orchard Park and Hamburg, Erie\ncounty, located wholly or partly outside an incorporated village
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