Deed:

• $50.00 to record a (1) page document plus $5.00 for each additional page - TP-584 & RP 5217 required
• A cover page is generated in this office and the fee is included in the $50.00.

Required

• Date at top
• Names and addresses of grantor(s) and grantee(s)
• All signatures must be notarized
• Description of the property including the town or city name
• A return to address must appear on the document.

A "Correction Deed" must state the liber and page of the deed being corrected and include a 50¢ notation fee.
A TP-584 and RP 5217 are required.

Transfer Gains Tax Affadavit (TP-584):
(Link To NYS Taxation & Finance Forms & Instruction)

• $ 5.00 fee to file

This document is filed with all deeds and with the following documents:

• Timber Deeds
• Right of Way easements
• Release of Easements
• Water Right Easements
• Notice of Appropriations (taken by eminent domain)
• Leases (including oil and gas)
• Memorandum of Lease
• Surrender of Lease
• Lease sold by tenant
• Lease assigned by landlord (including oil and has assignment)
• Land Contracts
• Assignment of Rents(or 255 affidavit)
• Options
• Release of Options
• Cemetery Deeds
• Right of First Refusal
• Boundary Line Agreement (only if property is conveyed)
• Fence Agreement (only if property is conveyed)
• Release of Lease (unexpired)

Must have all information completed including:

• All grantor and grantee names and addresses
• All social security numbers Address and tax map number filled in
• Any boxes that apply must be checked
• In schedule C, there must be an amount of consideration filled in (even if it is zero) and the transfer tax computed at $4.00 per $1,000.00 conveyed.
• Must have at least one signature on the back.

Note: If TP-584 is signed by POA, including an attorney as power of attorney, we need a copy of the POA attached. Public Utility easements no longer need a TP-584 if the consideration is $2.00 or less and clearly stated on easement.

Real Property Transfer Report (RP 5217):
(Link To NYS Real Property Services Forms & Instruction)

• If 7A, 7B, or 7E is checked on form, $125.00 fee to file.
• If any other box is checked in Section 7, $250.00 fee to file.

This document is required with the recording of all Deeds

You must have all information Completed

Note: You must have buyer and seller signatures, not an attorneys signature, unless the property is taken by tax foreclosure, involuntary proceeding, or eminent domain, then it can be filed with only one signature - condemnor, tax district, party conveyed to, or the attorney doing the foreclosure. If it is signed by a company "as agent for" the seller, we need a signature along with the firm's name, and not just the firm name.

Mortgages:

$50.00 to record a (1) page document plus $5.00 for each additional page
The cover page is generated in this office and the fee is included in the $50.00

Required:

• Mortgagor and mortgagee names and addresses
• Amount of the mortgage
• Description of the property with town or city name
• Mortgagor(s) signature(s) notarized
• Record and return to address must appear on document

Note: Mortgage can be signed by Power of Attorney with no additional paperwork needed.

Mortgage tax is 3/4 of 1% and is calculated by rounding to the nearest $100.00 of the mortgage amount.

If a mortgage is recorded with CONSOLIDATION information anywhere in the document, we need exemption affidavits stating that there were no advances or readvances on the previously recorded mortgage.

To Assign (a mortgage): The current mortgagee must execute. Fee to record a (1) page assignment is $50.50 plus $5.00 for each additional page. The cover page is generated in this office and the fee is included in the $50.50.

Note: If more than one mortgage is listed on a single assignment, each additional mortgage after the first is $3.50.
A return address must appear on the document.

To Discharge:

The discharge must list the assignment history with recording information. Fee to record a (1) page document is $50.50 plus $5.00 for each additional page plus $.50 for each assignment. Each additional mortgage discharged after the first is $50.50 (as in the case of a consolidation). The cover page is generated in this office and the fee is included in the $50.50. A return address must appear on the document.

If the discharge is signed by Power of Attorney, the discharge must state the liber, page, and date the POA was recorded in our office.

When discharging a mortgage which is part of a consolidation agreement, all mortgages in the agreement must be recited and discharged simultaneously.

Correction Mortgage:

It must be titled "Correction Mortgage", reference the liber, page and recording date of the mortgage being corrected, and include exemption affadavits in duplicate along with a $.50 notation fee.

Affidavits:

Affidavits for Exemption - $5.00 fee in duplicate with at least one original

Affidavit for exemption of special additional mortgage tax (Mortgagee is an individual or Federal Credit Union) needs the following information:

• Mortgagor and mortgagee names
• Dollar amount of the mortgage
• Location of the property
• Basis for the exemption
• Federal Credit Union can claim exemption on any type of land, but the individual mortgagee can only claim it on a one to six family dwelling with separate cooking facilities (cannot say "To be improved").
• Must have ajurat, "sworn to before me", not an acknowledgment (unless it is signed by an attorney with the statement "being an attorney at law, licensed to practice..., makes this statement on the pains and penalties of perjury").

Affidavit for exemption of all mortgage tax (State and Federal Government agencies) on mortgages must include all information listed above.

Affidavit for exemption of all mortgage tax on supplemental mortgages must include information listed in #1 above plus all of the following:

• Date of the prior mortgage(s).
• Liber(s) and page(s) of the prior mortgage(s).
• Amount of mortgage tax paid at the time of recording said mortgages.
• Remaining balance on each mortgage.
• Amount of any further indebtedness.