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    §  7-604 Register; accounting for fees.  a. The register shall be paid
  a salary to be fixed by the mayor. All fees shall be the property of the
  city. All sums so received shall be paid to the commissioner of  finance
  monthly  without  deduction.  The  additional  fee of twenty dollars for
  recording any instrument required  by  New  York  state  statute  to  be
  recorded pursuant to subdivision one of section 7-614 of this code shall
  be  used  as  follows:  five dollars paid monthly by the commissioner of
  finance to the New York state commissioner of education, after deducting
  twenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York state local  government
  records management improvement fund and fifteen dollars, after deducting
  seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education account.
    b.  It  shall  be the duty of the register to keep an exact account of
  all fees which the register or any of  the  register's  subordinates  or
  assistants  shall  be entitled to demand and receive from any person for
  any service rendered by the register or them in the register's or  their
  official  capacity,  pursuant to law. Such account shall show the nature
  of every such service performed and the fees  chargeable  therefor,  and
  shall  at  all  times  during  business hours be open to the inspection,
  without any fee or charge therefor, of all persons desiring  to  examine
  the  same, and such account shall be deemed a part of the records of the
  office in which they shall be kept, and shall be  preserved  therein  as
  are  other  records,  except  that the register may destroy such account
  upon obtaining the written consent of the comptroller  authorizing  such
  destruction.