2006 New York Code - Index Number Fees Of County Clerks.

 
    §  8018.  Index  number fees of county clerks. (a) Amount of fee. 1. A
  county clerk is entitled, for the assignment of an index  number  to  an
  action  pending  in a court of which he or she is clerk, to a fee of one
  hundred ninety dollars, payable in advance.
    2. The filing of a transcript of judgment in the county clerk's office
  is not to be deemed an action pending in the supreme or county court  of
  the county in which it is filed, nor does it constitute the commencement
  of an action in such courts.
    3.  In  addition, a county clerk is entitled, for the assignment of an
  index number to an action pending in a court  of  which  he  or  she  is
  clerk,  to  the  following  fee:  an additional five dollars, to be paid
  monthly by the county clerk to  the  commissioner  of  education,  after
  deducting  twenty-five  cents, for deposit into the New York state local
  government records management improvement fund and an additional fifteen
  dollars, after deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural
  education account.
    (b) Exemptions from index number fee. No fee shall be charged for  the
  assignment of an index number:
    1.  upon  the  filing of an order of the appellate term of the supreme
  court or of an order or  certificate  of  commitment  under  the  mental
  hygiene law; or
    2.  upon  the  transfer  of  papers from the clerk of any other court,
  pursuant to an order for change of venue; or
    3. to a criminal case or to any action at  the  request  of  a  public
  agency, officer or poor person entitled by law to exemption from payment
  of fees to a county clerk; or
    4. to any case in a county court on appeal from a judgment or order of
  the district court or a town, village or city court; or
    5.  to  a  civil  cause of action in which a city, town, village, fire
  district, district corporation, school district or board of  cooperative
  educational services is the plaintiff.
    (c)  Endorsement  of  index number on papers. No paper in an action in
  the supreme or a  county  court,  other  than  an  order  submitted  for
  signature to a judge out of court, shall be submitted for any purpose to
  the  supreme  or  county  court  or  to  a clerk thereof unless there is
  endorsed on such paper the index number of the action  assigned  by  the
  clerk of the county.
    (d)  Additional  services  without  fee where index number assigned. A
  county clerk who has assigned an index number shall  charge  no  further
  fee in the action to which the index number is assigned:
    1.  for  the  filing,  entering,  indexing,  or  docketing, and in the
  counties within the city of New York,  for  recording,  as  required  by
  statute,  of any and all papers in the action, or preliminary thereto or
  supplementary to judgment;
    2. for furnishing an extract of minutes for filing with the  clerk  of
  the  court,  for  affixing  a  certificate  to a filed paper, for taxing
  costs, for sealing writs, for issuing commissions, for certifying a copy
  of the clerk's minutes to accompany papers transmitted upon entry of  an
  order for change of venue, or for entering a judgment in the action;
    3.  for  docketing  of  a  satisfaction,  a  partial  satisfaction, an
  assignment, a reversal, a modification, an amendment, a cancellation  or
  a  continuance of a previous entry or docket of a previously filed paper
  in the action;
    4. for certifying a copy of an order  of  an  appellate  term  of  the
  supreme court for transmittal to the civil court of the city of New York
  or  a  city, municipal or district court, or for certifying a copy of an
  order for use in a division of the clerk's office or for transmittal  to
  a city or county treasurer;
    5.  for  docketing of a return of execution, satisfied, unsatisfied or
  partially satisfied;
    6.  for  filing a notice or order continuing or cancelling a notice of
  pendency of action or a notice of attachment against real property; and
    7. for discharging a judgment of record by deposit with the clerk.