2012 New York Consolidated Laws
FIS - Financial Services Law
Article 3 - (301 - 310) ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROCEDURAL PROVISIONS
310 - Certificates as evidence; affirmation of documents and testimony.

 
    §   310.  Certificates  as  evidence;  affirmation  of  documents  and
  testimony. (a) Every certificate, assignment, conveyance or other  paper
  executed  by  the superintendent or one of the superintendent's deputies
  pursuant to law and sealed with the  official  seal  of  the  department
  shall  be  received  as evidence in any judicial or other proceeding and
  may be recorded in the proper recording offices.
    (b) Any charter, or any certificate or other  instrument  supplemental
  to  or  amendatory  of the charter, of any regulated person filed in the
  office of the superintendent and containing statements of fact  required
  or  permitted  by  law to be contained therein, shall be received in all
  courts, public offices and official bodies as prima  facie  evidence  of
  such facts and of the execution of such instrument.
    (c)  Whenever  by  the laws of any jurisdiction other than this state,
  any certificate by any officer in such jurisdiction or  a  copy  of  any
  instruments  certified  or  exemplified  by  any  such  officer,  may be
  received as prima facie evidence  of  the  incorporation,  existence  or
  capacity  of  any  corporation  incorporated  in  such  jurisdiction, or
  claiming so to be, such certificate when exemplified, or  such  copy  of
  such instrument when exemplified shall be received in all courts, public
  offices  and official bodies of this state, as prima facie evidence with
  the same force as in such jurisdiction. Such  certificate  or  certified
  copy of such instrument shall be so received, without being exemplified,
  if it is certified by the secretary of state, or official performing the
  equivalent function as to corporate records of such jurisdiction.
    (d)  Notwithstanding  any provision of this chapter, the insurance law
  or the banking law requiring an oath as to the proof of  a  document  or
  the  truth  of  testimony,  the  affiant may, if the affiant's religious
  beliefs cause the affiant to  object  to  giving  an  oath,  affirm  the
  document or the affiant's testimony.