New York Real Property Law Section 296 - Recording copies of instruments which are in secretary of state's office.

  296.  Recording  copies  of  instruments  which are in secretary of
  state's office. A copy of an instrument affecting real property,  within
  the  state,  recorded  or filed in the office of the secretary of state,
  certified in the manner required to entitle  the  same  to  be  read  in
  evidence,  may  be  recorded  with such certificate in the office of any
  recording officer of the state.

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