2017 New York Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property
316-B - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Registry Index.

  316-b. Inactive hazardous waste disposal site registry index. 1. On
  and after July first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three,  each  recording
  officer  must  provide,  at  the expense of his county, proper books for
  making an index of present owners of inactive hazardous  waste  disposal
  sites  contained  in  the  registry  required  by section 27-1305 of the
  environmental conservation law. The index shall contain an  alphabetical
  listing  of  all  owners  listed  in such annual report completed by the
  department of environmental conservation, together with a reference, for
  each present owner, to the page and year of the report where information
  regarding the inactive hazardous waste site may be  located.  The  index
  shall  also  contain the tax map parcel number or the section, block and
  lot number of the site.
2. (a) No recording officer shall be liable for the failure to  comply
  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  prior  to July first, nineteen
  hundred ninety-three.
(b) Any entries,  index  or  other  listing  contained  in  the  books
  required  to  be  provided by this section prior to July first, nineteen
  hundred ninety-three shall be null, void and of  no  effect,  nor  shall
  such  entries,  index  or  listing  be  considered  to provide actual or
  constructive notice of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites  for  any
  purpose.
3.  Each  recording officer shall record and index such instruments as
  may be required to be recorded pursuant to title thirteen or fourteen of
  article twenty-seven of the environmental  conservation  law,  or  title
  five  of  article  fifty-six  of  the environmental conservation law, or
  article twelve of the navigation  law,  or  any  regulation  promulgated
  pursuant thereto, or any order or agreement entered into under authority
  thereof or of any such regulations.