STATE OF NEW YORK
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6295
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, SCHIMEL, ROSENTHAL, PAULIN, JAFFEE,
PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Develop-
ment
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, the arts and cultural
affairs law, the administrative code of the city of New York and the
state finance law, in relation to stabilizing the cultural education
account and the local government records management improvement fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph b of paragraph 4 of subdivision (a) and
2 subparagraph b of paragraph 11 of subdivision (b) of section 8021 of the
3 civil practice law and rules, subparagraph b of paragraph 4 of subdivi-
4 sion (a) as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 83 of the laws of
5 2002 and subparagraph b of paragraph 11 of subdivision (b) as amended by
6 section 3 of part B of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, are amended to
7 read as follows:
8 b. For recording, entering, indexing and endorsing a certificate on
9 any instrument, an additional fee of [five] seven dollars and fifty
10 cents to be paid monthly by county clerks to the commissioner of educa-
11 tion, after deducting twenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York
12 state local government records management improvement fund and an addi-
13 tional [fifteen] twenty-two dollars and fifty cents, after deducting
14 [seventy-five cents] one dollar, for deposit to the cultural education
15 account.
16 b. For recording any instrument required by statute to be recorded, an
17 additional fee of [five] seven dollars and fifty cents to be paid month-
18 ly by county clerks to the commissioner of education, after deducting
19 twenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government
20 records management improvement fund and an additional [fifteen] twenty-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 two dollars and fifty cents, after deducting [seventy-five cents] one
2 dollar, for deposit to the cultural education account.
3 § 2. Section 57.35 of the arts and cultural affairs law is amended by
4 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
5 1-a. In addition to the grants authorized pursuant to subdivision one
6 of this section, in each state fiscal year the commissioner of educa-
7 tion, subject to an appropriation for such purpose, shall be authorized
8 to award formula grants for records management improvement pursuant to
9 this subdivision to county clerks and, in the city of New York, to the
10 New York register or other officer or agency having custody of real
11 property records and any officer or agency having custody of supreme
12 court records. The amount of each grant award shall equal the product of
13 seventy-five cents and the number of transactions on which a surcharge
14 was imposed by the public officer or agency applying for a grant in the
15 prior calendar year for deposit to the New York state local government
16 records management improvement fund pursuant to paragraph three of
17 subdivision (a) of section eight thousand eighteen, subparagraph b of
18 paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eight thousand twenty-one
19 and subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of subdivision (b) of section
20 eight thousand twenty-one of the civil practice law and rules, and
21 subdivision a of section 7-604 of the administrative code of the city of
22 New York.
23 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 57.35 of the arts and cultural affairs
24 law, as added by chapter 78 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as
25 follows:
26 3. All monies received by the commissioner of education under the
27 provisions of [the third undesignated] paragraph three of subdivision
28 (a) of section eight thousand eighteen, subparagraph b of paragraph four
29 of subdivision (a) of section eight thousand twenty-one and subparagraph
30 b of paragraph eleven of subdivision (b) of section eight thousand twen-
31 ty-one of the civil practice law and rules, and subdivision a of section
32 7-604 of the administrative code of the city of New York, shall be
33 deposited by the commissioner of education to the credit of the New York
34 state local government records management improvement fund established
35 pursuant to section ninety-seven-i of the state finance law by the tenth
36 day of the month following receipt of such monies.
37 § 4. Subdivision a of section 7-604 of the administrative code of the
38 city of New York, as amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 83 of the
39 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
40 a. The register shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the mayor. All
41 fees shall be the property of the city. All sums so received shall be
42 paid to the commissioner of finance monthly without deduction. The
43 following additional [fee of twenty dollars] fees for recording any
44 instrument required by New York state statute to be recorded pursuant to
45 subdivision one of section 7-614 of this code shall be [used as follows]
46 collected: [five] seven dollars and fifty cents paid monthly by the
47 commissioner of finance to the New York state commissioner of education,
48 after deducting twenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York state
49 local government records management improvement fund and [fifteen] twen-
50 ty-two dollars and fifty cents, after deducting [seventy-five cents] one
51 dollar, for deposit to the cultural education account.
52 § 5. Subdivision 2 of section 97-zzz of the state finance law, as
53 added by section 3-a of part B of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is
54 amended to read as follows:
55 2. The comptroller is authorized and directed to receive for deposit
56 to the credit of the cultural education account revenues designated for
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1 such deposit by law including those derived from the surcharge author-
2 ized by [the third undesignated] paragraph three of subdivision (a) of
3 section eight thousand eighteen of the civil practice and law and rules,
4 subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eight
5 thousand twenty-one of such law, subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of
6 subdivision (b) of section eight thousand twenty-one of such law, [and]
7 subdivision a of section 7-604[,] and subdivision 1 of section 7-614 of
8 the administrative code of the city of New York.
9 § 6. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
