§ 335. Filing of maps and abandonment of subdivisions in Suffolk\ncounty; penalty for nonfiling. 1. It shall be the duty of every person\nor corporation, excepting church cemetery organizations, attached to a\nreligious parish within the county of Suffolk, who as owner or agent\nsubdivides real property in Suffolk county into lots, plots, blocks or\nsites, with or without streets, for the purpose of offering such lots,\nplots, blocks or sites for sale to the public, regardless of how they\nare conveyed, to file or cause to be filed in the office of the county\nclerk of Suffolk county a map thereof together with a certificate of the\nsurveyor endorsed on the face of such map certifying same to have been\nmade from an actual survey of the property that was performed by or\nunder the direction of said surveyor and the date of the completion of\nthe survey. Said certificate shall state that stone or concrete\nmonuments have been set at not less than two corners of every street\nintersection as indicated on such map, provided, however, that where the\nplanning board or other governmental agency having jurisdiction over the\napproval of said maps has required the subdivider to deposit with the\ntown or local governing body a performance bond or bonds to secure the\ninstallation and completion of all site improvements, including setting\nstone or concrete monuments in the streets as aforesaid, and\nsimultaneously with the filing of said map the subdivider files with the\ncounty clerk a written certification from the town or local governing\nbody that such bond or bonds have been duly deposited and accepted by\nthe town or local governing body and that said bond or bonds expressly\ninclude the setting of stone or concrete monuments as aforesaid, the\nsaid surveyor's certificate may state that stone or concrete monuments\nwill be set at not less than two corners of every street intersection as\nindicated on such map upon completion of the installation of said\nstreets and that the surveyor shall execute and deliver a further\nwritten certification of the completion of such monumentation to both\nthe county clerk and the town or local governing body prior to and as a\ncondition for the release of said performance bond or bonds. All lots\nand blocks on such map shall be numbered consecutively. Said map shall\nset forth the courses, measurements and adjoining property owners with\nsufficient definiteness to determine the location of said property and\nthe name of the subdivision as stated by the owner. Said name must\ndiffer from any name already filed with the county clerk and must be\napproved by the county clerk before the acceptance of the map. At the\ntime of the filing of such map there shall also be furnished to the\ncounty clerk two copies of such map for each town and village in which\nany portion of the mapped property is located. Such copies shall be duly\ncertified by him to be true copies of the original and one certified\ncopy shall be forwarded by said county clerk to the assessor or board of\nassessors, as the case may be, of each town or village in which any\nportion of said property is located. At the time of filing such map with\nthe county clerk an abstract of title of all of the property shown on\nsaid map which shall cover a period of not less than the twenty years\nlast past the date it is submitted, certified by an attorney and\ncounselor at law of the state of New York, a title company duly\nincorporated and authorized to transact business in the state of New\nYork or a competent searcher of titles, shall be presented to said\ncounty clerk, and be filed in his office, unless the title to said\nproperty has been duly registered pursuant to the provisions of the real\nproperty law for the registration of titles to real property, in which\ncase this fact shall be set forth upon the original map together with\nthe number of the certificate of the title so registered. An index of\nsuch abstracts and registrations shall
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