2010 New York Code
RPP - Real Property
Article 9 - (290 - 336) RECORDING INSTRUMENTS AFFECTING REAL PROPERTY
309-A - Uniform forms of certificates of acknowledgment or proof within this state.

§  309-a.    Uniform  forms of certificates of acknowledgment or proof
  within this state.  1. The certificate of an acknowledgment, within this
  state, of a conveyance or other instrument in respect to  real  property
  situate  in this state, by a person, must conform substantially with the
  following form, the blanks being properly filled:
  State of New York)
                                    )ss.:
  County of ............)
  On the .......... day of ........ in  the  year  .....  before  me,  the
  undersigned,  personally  appeared  ........,  personally known to me or
  proved  to  me  on  the  basis  of  satisfactory  evidence  to  be   the
  individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument
  and   acknowledged   to   me  that  he/she/they  executed  the  same  in
  his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their  signature(s)  on
  the  instrument,  the  individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which
  the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument.
  (Signature and office of individual taking acknowledgement.)
    2. The certificate for a proof of execution by a subscribing  witness,
  within  this  state,  of  a  conveyance  or other instrument made by any
  person in respect to real property situate in this state,  must  conform
  substantially with the following form, the blanks being properly filled:
  State of New York)
                                        )ss.:
  County of ........)
  On  the  .......  day  of  ......  in  the  year  ....  before  me,  the
  undersigned, personally appeared ......, the subscribing witness to  the
  foregoing  instrument,  with whom I am personally acquainted, who, being
  by me duly sworn, did depose  and  say  that  he/she/they  reside(s)  in
  ......(if  the  place  of residence is in a city, include the street and
  street number, if any, thereof); that  he/she/they  know(s)...........to
  be   the   individual  described  in  and  who  executed  the  foregoing
  instrument; that said subscribing  witness  was  present  and  saw  said
  .......execute  the  same;  and  that  said  witness  at  the  same time
  subscribed his/her/their name(s) as a witness thereto.
  (Signature and office of individual taking proof.)
    3. A certificate of an acknowledgement or proof  taken  under  section
  three  hundred  of this article shall include the additional information
  required by that section.
    4. For the purposes of this  section,  the  term  "person"  means  any
  corporation, joint stock company, estate, general partnership (including
  any   registered   limited  liability  partnership  or  foreign  limited
  liability  partnership),  limited   liability   company   (including   a
  professional   service   limited  liability  company),  foreign  limited
  liability company (including  a  foreign  professional  service  limited
  liability  company), joint venture, limited partnership, natural person,
  attorney in fact, real estate investment trust, business trust or  other
  trust,  custodian,  nominee or any other individual or entity in its own
  or any representative capacity.