2015 New York Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law & Rules
Article 80 - (Civil Practice Law & Rules) FEES
8018 - 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: (i)
  one hundred ninety dollars; and (ii) in an action to foreclose  pursuant
  to  article  thirteen  of the real property actions and proceedings law,
  such clerk is entitled to collect  an  additional  fee  of  one  hundred
  ninety dollars. Such fees are 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.