291-b. Recording conveyances of land in towns in Cattaraugus county; duties of county and town clerks. Every deed and will relating to real property in Cattaraugus county, outside the cities of Olean and Salamanca, and every judicial decree establishing the right of inheritance to real property within Cattaraugus county shall, before the same be hereafter recorded in the office of the clerk of Cattaraugus county be presented to the clerk of said county together with a carbon copy or copies of the substance thereof, equal to the number of townships of the said county in which land is conveyed by the instrument. Such copy or copies shall set forth the date, consideration, the names of the grantors and grantees, the mail address of the grantee and a description of the property conveyed as set out in the instrument of conveyance. Such copy or copies of an instrument of conveyance of land within the county of Cattaraugus, outside the cities of Olean and Salamanca, shall be retained by the clerk of the said county until the first day of the month succeeding the date on which it was received, and he thereafter shall transmit immediately all such copies received by him during the preceding month to the clerks of the towns in which such conveyances have occurred. Hereafter the clerk of Cattaraugus county or any subordinate in the office of such clerk of Cattaraugus county who shall record any instrument of conveyance of real property without receiving and transmitting to the town clerk of the town concerned, a copy thereof as provided herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. At the time a conveyance is offered for a record a fee of twenty-five cents shall be paid to the county clerk in addition to any other moneys required to be paid to entitle the deed to be recorded.
The town clerks in each of the towns of Cattaraugus county outside the cities of Olean and Salamanca, shall enter the copies of conveyances and all appurtenant data so received from the Clerk of Cattaraugus county in a record book to be provided and kept for such purpose. Such book and the records contained therein shall be open to public inspection and shall be used by the local assessors in making assessments.
Last modified: February 3, 2019