2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 12 - (370 - 436) REGISTERING TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY
419 - Release, discharge or surrender of charge or incumbrance.

 
    §  419.  Release,  discharge  or surrender of charge or incumbrance. A
  release, discharge or surrender of a charge or incumbrance, or any  part
  thereof,  or  of  any part of the property charged or incumbered, may be
  effected by the production of a release, discharge or satisfaction, duly
  executed and acknowledged, made in any form authorized by law, except as
  herein provided. Any tax, water rent or assessment, subject to which the
  title has been registered and which has been noted on the certificate of
  title as provided in section three hundred ninety of this  chapter,  may
  be released and discharged in the same way upon a receipt therefor being
  issued  and  duly  certified  by  the  receiver of taxes or collector of
  assessments and arrears or other duly authorized officer,  as  the  case
  may require, and delivered to the registrar and filed in his office. The
  receiver  of taxes or collector of assessments and arrears or such other
  duly authorized officer, as the case may require,  upon  demand  of  any
  owner of registered property, shall execute, certify and deliver to such
  owner  such receipt when any such tax, water rent or assessment has been
  paid upon such registered property.