N.Y. Real Property Law Section 290
Definitions

  • effect of article

1.

The term “real property,” as used in this article, includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and chattels real, except a lease for a term not exceeding three years.

2.

The term “purchaser” includes every person to whom any estate or interest in real property is conveyed for a valuable consideration, and every assignee of a mortgage, lease or other conditional estate.

3.

The term “conveyance” includes every written instrument, by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although the power be one of revocation only, and an instrument postponing or subordinating a mortgage lien; except a will, a lease for a term not exceeding three years, an executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, and an instrument containing a power to convey real property as the agent or attorney for the owner of such property.

4.

The term “recording officer” means the county clerk of the county, except in a county having a register, where it means the register of the county.

5.

“Recording” or “recorded” means the entry, at length, upon the pages of the proper record books in a plain and legible hand writing, or in print or in symbols of drawing or by photographic process or partly in writing, partly in printing, partly in symbols of drawing or partly by photographic process or by any combination of writing, printing, drawing or photography or either or any two of them, or by an electronic process by which a record or instrument affecting real property, after delivery is incorporated into the public record. “Recording” or “recorded” also means the reproduction of instruments by microphotography or other photographic process on film which is kept in appropriate files.

6.

“Electronic” means of or relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.

7.

“Electronic record” means information evidencing any act, transaction, occurrence, event or other activity, produced or stored by electronic means and capable of being accurately reproduced in forms perceptible by human sensory capabilities.

8.

“Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with an electronic record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.

9.

“Paper document” means a document in a form that is not electronic.

10.

“Digitized paper document” means a digitized image of a paper document that accurately depicts the information on the paper document in a format that cannot be altered without detection.

11.

“Wet signature” means a signature affixed in ink or pencil or other material to a paper document.

12.

This article does not apply to leases for life or lives, or for years, heretofore made, of lands in either of the counties of Albany, Ulster, Sullivan, Herkimer, Dutchess, Columbia, Delaware or Schenectady.

Source: Section 290 — Definitions; effect of article, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/RPP/290 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Mar. 23, 2024).

290
Definitions
291
Recording of conveyances
291–A
Recording conveyances of land in towns in Chautauqua county
291–B
Recording conveyances of land in towns in Cattaraugus county
291–C
Recording memoranda of leases
291–CC
Recording modifications of leases
291–D
Recording of master forms of mortgage covenants and clauses
291–E
Exceptions, reservations and recitals referring to unrecorded conveyances and contracts for sale of real property
291–F
Rights where recorded mortgage restricts landlord’s action in respect to leases
291–G
Recording insurance information
291–H
Recording of liens by the state
291–I
Validity of electronic recording
291–J
Recording of declarations by the New York state energy research and development authority
292
By whom conveyance must be acknowledged or proved
292–A
Conveyances by certain corporations executed and acknowledged by attorneys in fact entitled to recordation
293
Recording of conveyances heretofore acknowledged or proved
294
Recording executory contracts and powers of attorney
294–A
Recording assignments of rent
294–B
Recording brokers affidavit of entitlement to commission for completed brokerage services
295
Recording of letters patent
296
Recording copies of instruments which are in secretary of state’s office
297
Certified copies may be recorded
297–A
Recording of certified copies of bankruptcy papers
297–B
Recording of certified copies of judgments affecting real property
298
Acknowledgments and proofs within the state
299
Acknowledgments and proofs without the state, but within the United States or any territory, possession, or dependency thereof
299–A
Acknowledgment to conform to law of New York or of place where taken
300
Acknowledgments and proofs by persons in or with the armed forces of the United States
301
Acknowledgments and proofs in foreign countries
301–A
Acknowledgment to conform to law of New York or of foreign country
302
Acknowledgments and proofs by married women
303
Requisites of acknowledgments
304
Proof by subscribing witness
305
Compelling witnesses to testify
306
Certificate of acknowledgment or proof
307
When certificate to state time and place
308
When certificate must be under seal
309
Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate
309–A
Uniform forms of certificates of acknowledgment or proof within this state
309–B
Uniform forms of certificates of acknowledgement or proof without this state
310
Authentication of acknowledgments and proofs made within the state
311
Authentication of acknowledgments and proofs made without the state
312
Contents of certificate of authentication
313
Notary public
313–A
Deputies
314
Recording of conveyances acknowledged or proved without the state, when parties and certifying officer are dead
314–A
Proof when witnesses are dead
315
Recording books
316
Indexes
316–A
Indexing and reindexing conveyances, mortgages and other instruments
316–B
Inactive hazardous waste disposal site registry index
317
Order of recording
318
Certificate to be recorded
319
Time of recording
320
Certain deeds deemed mortgages
321
Recording discharge of mortgage
321–A
Recording discharge of rent assignment
324
Effect of recording assignment of mortgage
325
Recording of conveyances made by treasurer of Connecticut
326
Revocation to be recorded
327
Penalty for using long forms of covenants
328
Certain acts not affected
329
Actions to have certain instruments canceled of record
329–A
Lapse of oil and gas interest within Allegany state park
330
Officers guilty of malfeasance liable for damages
331
Laws and decrees of foreign countries appointing agents and attorneys and recording of the same
332
The record of certain conveyances validated
332–A
Validation of the record, execution and proof or acknowledgment of certain other instruments
332–B
The record of certain other conveyances validated
333
When conveyances of real property not to be recorded
333–A
Same
333–B
Recording of maps or plot plans
333–C
Lands in agricultural districts
334
Maps to be filed
334–A
Filing of subdivision maps in Nassau county
335
Filing of maps and abandonment of subdivisions in Suffolk county
335–A
Easements of necessity
335–B
Recording of solar energy easements
336
Effect of recording demands or requirements of noncitizen property custodian

Accessed:
Mar. 23, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 290’s source at nysenate​.gov

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