§ 333-a. Same; maps to be filed. No conveyance of real property or other document relating to real property, executed on or after July first, nineteen hundred thirty-one, which contains a recital of or a reference to a map made on or after that date or which has thereunto attached such a map, shall be received for record or recorded by such recording officer unless and until a duplicate of such map, prepared in the same manner as prescribed for the preparation of maps in section three hundred and thirty-four of this chapter, shall be filed in the office of such recording officer and no map, attached to any conveyance or other document relating to real property, shall exceed the standard legal cap size, except that in the county of Putnam the size shall be not less than twenty by twenty inches and not more than thirty-six by forty-eight inches in size and that in the counties of Westchester and Dutchess the size shall not be more than thirty-six by forty-eight inches. This section shall not apply to the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Bronx, Onondaga, Erie, Monroe or Richmond.

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Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Law 333-A

  • conveyance: includes every written instrument, by which any estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, including an instrument in execution of a power, although the power be one of revocation only, and an instrument postponing or subordinating a mortgage lien; except a will, a lease for a term not exceeding three years, an executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, and an instrument containing a power to convey real property as the agent or attorney for the owner of such property. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: as used in this article , includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and chattels real, except a lease for a term not exceeding three years. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
  • recorded: means the entry, at length, upon the pages of the proper record books in a plain and legible hand writing, or in print or in symbols of drawing or by photographic process or partly in writing, partly in printing, partly in symbols of drawing or partly by photographic process or by any combination of writing, printing, drawing or photography or either or any two of them, or by an electronic process by which a record or instrument affecting real property, after delivery is incorporated into the public record. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290
  • recording officer: means the county clerk of the county, except in a county having a register, where it means the register of the county. See N.Y. Real Property Law 290

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this section a conveyance of real property or other document relating to real property shall not be invalid or void for failure to file therewith any map referred to in such conveyance or document.