A 8422: Updates the fee collected by county clerks and clerks for the city of New York for deposit into the cultural education account from $15 to $30; increases the amount retained by the county or city from $0.75 to $1.00.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8422 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to updating the fee collected by county clerks for deposit into the cultural education account 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) of section 2 8021 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by section 2 of 3 part B of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 4 b. For recording, entering, indexing and endorsing a certificate on 5 any instrument, an additional fee of five dollars to be paid monthly by 6 county clerks to the commissioner of education, after deducting twenty- 7 five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government records 8 management improvement fund and an additional [fifteen] twenty dollars, 9 after deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural educa- 10 tion account. 11 § 2. Subparagraph b of paragraph 11 of subdivision (b) of section 8021 12 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by section 3 of part B 13 of chapter 83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 14 b. For recording any instrument required by statute to be recorded, an 15 additional fee of five dollars to be paid monthly by county clerks to 16 the commissioner of education, after deducting twenty-five cents, for 17 deposit into the New York state local government records management 18 improvement fund and an additional [fifteen] twenty dollars, after 19 deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education 20 account. 21 § 3. Subdivision a of section 7-604 of the administrative code of the 22 city of New York, as amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 83 of the 23 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00524-02-5 
 A. 8422 2 1 a. The register shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the mayor. All 2 fees shall be the property of the city. All sums so received shall be 3 paid to the commissioner of finance monthly without deduction. The 4 following additional [fee of twenty dollars] fees for recording any 5 instrument required by New York state statute to be recorded pursuant to 6 subdivision one of section 7-614 of this [code] chapter shall be used as 7 follows: five dollars paid monthly by the commissioner of finance to the 8 New York state commissioner of education, after deducting twenty-five 9 cents, for deposit into the New York state local government records 10 management improvement fund and [fifteen] twenty dollars, after deduct- 11 ing seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education account. 12 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law.