US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  7-625 Block indexing after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-four.
  a.  Tax maps; block boundaries, block number designations. On and  after
  July  first,  nineteen hundred sixty-four, the tax maps for the boroughs
  of Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens shall be  substituted  for  the
  land  maps theretofore in use for the counties of New York, Bronx, Kings
  and Queens and such tax maps shall be conclusive as to location of block
  boundaries and block number designations.
    b. Block index forms.  On  and  after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-four,  new  forms  for  the  (1)  conveyance  block index, and (2)
  mortgage block index for the counties of  New  York,  Bronx,  Kings  and
  Queens  may be adopted by the register, which forms shall make provision
  for the following information:
      (1) Conveyance Block Index
          1. Name of grantor
          2. Name of grantee
          3. Date of recording
          4. Liber and page
          5. Lot number and remarks; and
      (2) Mortgage Block Index
          1. Name of mortgagor
          2. Name of mortgagee
          3. Date of recording
          4. Liber and page
          5. Lot number and remarks
          6. Date of recording  and  liber  and  page  of  certificate  of
               discharge
    c.  Indexing under new block numbers. On and after the adoption of the
  new forms for the block index, the existing block index in  use  in  the
  register's office, shall be closed and a new block index shall be opened
  for  each  block in the form as adopted by the city register. At the end
  of each block index so closed, a reference shall  be  made  to  the  new
  block  index.  On  and  after the date on which any such new block index
  shall be opened, the register shall index in such new block index, under
  the proper block numbers and in the proper index, all instruments  which
  are  presented  to the register on and after such date for recording and
  which are authorized or required by law to be recorded.
    On and after the first day of January next succeeding  the  certifying
  and  filing,  by  the  real  property  assessment  bureau, with the city
  register of a list of the numbers of new, altered or  additional  blocks
  with maps or diagrams showing such alterations or additions, the indices
  of  all  blocks  theretofore  existing  shall  be  closed except for the
  purpose of completing the indexing belonging to the  preceding  year.  A
  new  block index shall thereupon be opened for every such altered or new
  block in the prescribed form, which new index shall thenceforth be  used
  for  all  entries relating to land in such altered or new blocks. At the
  end of each block index so closed, a reference shall be made to the  new
  block index.
    d.  Daily  block  indices.  On  and after July first, nineteen hundred
  sixty-four, new forms for the daily index of conveyances and  the  daily
  index of mortgages may be adopted by the register. Such forms shall make
  provision for the following information:
          1. Names of parties
          2. Block number
          3. Serial number
          4. Liber and page
    e.  Endorsement  on  instruments  of  tax  block number and of tax lot
  numbers. On and after the adoption of the new forms for the block index,
  every instrument presented to the register and required to be indexed in

  the block index of conveyances or mortgages shall have endorsed  thereon
  every  block number and every lot number on the current tax map in which
  the land affected by the instrument is situate.
    f.  Block index to be notice. The entries made in such indices, except
  the lot number designation and the information contained in  the  column
  or  columns  headed Lot Number and Remarks, shall be deemed and taken to
  be a part of  the  record  of  the  instrument  to  which  such  entries
  respectively  refer,  and  shall  be  notice to subsequent purchasers or
  incumbrancers to the same extent and with like effect as  the  recording
  of  such  instruments  in  the  office of the register, now is or may be
  notice.
    g. Miscellaneous  instruments.  On  and  after  July  first,  nineteen
  hundred  sixty-three, any instrument entitled to be indexed and recorded
  as a miscellaneous instrument shall be indexed in a miscellaneous  index
  and recorded in a miscellaneous liber.