New York Laws
Article 12 - 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.

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