§ 255-C — Uniform transcript and certificate act

§ 255-c. Uniform transcript and certificate act. 1. Every transcript\nof a judgment hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of a court\nof record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk, shall be\non paper eleven inches in width by eight-and-a-half inches in length. It\nshall be substantially in the following form:\n TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT\n JUDGMENT DEBTOR\n Trade Last\nSurname Given Name or Profession Known Address\n________________________________________________________________________\n AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT\n JUDGMENT CREDITOR JUDGMENT RENDERED\nName Address Damages Court\n County\n Date\n Hr. & Min.\n Costs JUDGMENT\n DOCKETED\n Total Date\n Hr. & Min.\n________________________________________________________________________\n REMARKS: DATE AND MANNER\n ATTORNEY FOR JUDGMENT OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF\n CREDITOR JUDGMENT\nName Address\n EXECUTION SATISFIED\n When Returned How and to\nWhen Issued Unsatisfied When What Extent\n________________________________________________________________________\n This form is to be immediately followed by the following certification\nwith the appropriate words being chosen among those which appear in\nbrackets, except that in the event the person certifying the transcript\nkeeps no seal, the words "and affixed my official seal" shall be\nomitted:\nSTATE OF NEW YORK\nCOUNTY OF........\n (seal)\n I,.................(Clerk, Judge or Justice) of the (County of.......;\nor......Court, County of........), hereby certify that the above is a\ncorrect transcript from the docket of judgments in my office.\n IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed my\nofficial seal this......day of.............19........\n (Clerk, Judge or Justice).\n Any change in the status of the judgment since the time of its\noriginal entry on the docket of the person certifying the transcript\nshall be indicated in the space provided for "REMARKS; DATE AND MANNER\nOF CHANGE OF STATUS OF JUDGMENT" the same to include any assignment,\nreversal, modification, discharge, and any other such disposition\naffecting the judgment; satisfactions and reductions, to whatever extent\nand in whatever fashion the same are affected, shall be indicated in the\nspace entitled "SATISFIED--WHEN, HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT."\n 2. Every certificate attesting to any execution on, or reduction or\nfull or partial satisfaction of, a judgment, or to any change in the\nstatus of a judgment, hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of\na court of record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk,\nshall be of the same size and form as for a transcript of judgment as\ndescribed and illustrated under subdivision one of the section, except\nthat the words "Certificate of Disposition of Judgment" shall replace\nthe words "Transcript of Judgment" wherever the same may appear on\neither side thereof, and excepting further that between the two\nsentences constituting the certification there shall be an additional\nsentence, to read: "And I further certify that the above judgment has\n......... " The space provided shall be of sufficient length to contain\nall data relevant to the matter for which the certificate is issued.\n 3. In the event that the space provided for any information which must\nbe contained in any such transcript or certificate be insufficient, the\nsame may be set forth on a separate paper or papers of the same size, to\nbe attached to said transcript or certificate by a staple or other\nequally permanent means, and in that space on the original transcript or\ncertificate which proved insufficient to contain the necessary matter\nthere shall appear a reference to the attached paper or papers,\nadequately identifying the same. Each such added paper shall be\nsubscribed at the very end of the matter contained thereon by the same\nperson who certifies the transcript or certificate to which said paper\nor papers shall be attached.\n