2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBO - Public Officers
Article 4 - (60 - 79) POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
68 - Allowance of additional fees and expenses.

 
    § 68. Allowance  of additional fees and expenses.  Where an officer or
  other person is required, in the course of a duty imposed  upon  him  by
  law,  to  take  an  oath,  to  acknowledge  an  instrument,  to cause an
  instrument to be filed or recorded, or to transmit a  paper  to  another
  officer,  he is entitled, in addition to the fees, or other compensation
  for the service, prescribed by law, to the fees necessarily paid by him,
  to the officer who administered the oath, or took the acknowledgment, or
  filed or recorded the instrument; and to the expense of transmitting the
  paper, including  postage,  where  the  transmission  is  lawfully  made
  through the post-office.