STATE OF NEW YORK
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4784--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to allowing acknowl-
edgments and proofs by any officer in active service of the armed
forces authorized to act as a notary
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 300 of the real property
2 law, as amended by chapter 977 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 The acknowledgment or proof of a conveyance of real property situate
5 in this state, if made by a person enlisted or commissioned in or serv-
6 ing in or with the armed forces of the United States or by a dependent
7 of any such person, wherever located, or by a person attached to or
8 accompanying the armed forces of the United States, whether made within
9 or without the United States, may be made before any [commissioned]
10 officer in active service of the armed forces of the United States [with
11 the rank of second lieutenant or higher in the Army, Air Force or Marine
12 Corps, or ensign or higher in the Navy or Coast Guard, or with equiv-
13 alent rank] authorized to act as a notary in any [other] component part
14 of the armed forces of the United States.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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