2022 New York Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 9 - Recording Instruments Affecting Real Property
309 - Acknowledgment by Corporation and Form of Certificate.

§  309.  Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate. 1. The
acknowledgment of a conveyance or other  instrument  by  a  corporation,
must  be  made  by  an officer or attorney in fact duly appointed, or in
case of a dissolved corporation, by an officer, director or attorney  in
fact  duly appointed thereof authorized to execute the same by the board
of directors of said corporation.
  2. The certificate of acknowledgment must conform  substantially  with
one  of  the  following  alternative  forms,  the  blanks being properly
filled:
  State of New York }ss.:
  County of.........}
  On the....... day of....... in the year.......  before  me  personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that  he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a
city, include the street and  street  number,  if  any,  thereof);  that
he/she/they  is  (are)  the  (president  or other officer or director or
attorney in fact duly appointed)  of  the  (name  of  corporation),  the
corporation  described  in and which executed the above instrument; that
he/she/they know(s) the seal of said corporation; that the seal  affixed
to  said  instrument  is  such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the board  of  directors  of  said  corporation,  and  that
he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by like authority.Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)
  State of New York }ss.:
  County of.........}
  On  the.......  day  of....... in the year....... before me personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in  a
city,  include  the  street  and  street  number, if any, thereof); that
he/she/they is (are) the (president or  other  officer  or  director  or
attorney  in  fact  duly  appointed)  of  the (name of corporation), the
corporation described in and which executed the  above  instrument;  and
that  he/she/they  signed  his/her/their name(s) thereto by authority of
the board of directors of said corporation.Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)
  3. Subdivision two of  this  section  shall  be  inapplicable  to  the
acknowledgment,  within  this state, of a conveyance or other instrument
in respect to real property situate in this state executed on  or  after
the  first day of September, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. A certificate
of such an acknowledgment shall be subject to the provisions of  section
three hundred nine-a of this article.