New York Civil Practice Law & Rules Section 8017 - Exemption of the state and counties, and agencies and officers thereof, from fees of clerks.

 8017. Exemption of the state and counties, and agencies and officers
  thereof, from fees of clerks. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
  this article or any other general, special or local law relating to fees
  of  clerks, no clerk shall charge or collect a fee from the state, or an
  agency or officer thereof, for any service  rendered  in  an  action  in
  which  any  of them is involved, nor shall any clerk charge or collect a
  fee for filing, recording  or  indexing  any  paper,  document,  map  or
  proceeding  filed,  recorded  or indexed for the county, or an agency or
  officer thereof acting in an official capacity,  nor  for  furnishing  a
  transcript,  certification  or  copy  of  any  paper,  document,  map or
  proceeding to be used for official purposes.
(b) Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law  the  exemption  of
  subdivision  (a)  of  this section shall not apply to the fees of clerks
  where the action is on behalf of the New  York  State  Higher  Education
  Services  Corporation  to  recover money due as a result of default of a
  student loan.

Last modified: February 3, 2019