§ 7-604 Register; accounting for fees.
AC § 7-604
a. The register shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the mayor. All fees shall be the property of the city. All sums so received shall be paid to the commissioner of finance monthly without deduction. The additional fee of twenty dollars for recording any instrument required by New York state statute to be recorded pursuant to subdivision one of section 7-614 of this code shall be used as follows: five dollars paid monthly by the commissioner of finance to the New York state commissioner of education, after deducting twenty-five cents, for deposit into the New York state local government records management improvement fund and fifteen dollars, after deducting seventy-five cents, for deposit to the cultural education account. b. It shall be the duty of the register to keep an exact account of all fees which the register or any of the register's subordinates or assistants shall be entitled to demand and receive from any person for any service rendered by the register or them in the register's or their official capacity, pursuant to law. Such account shall show the nature of every such service performed and the fees chargeable therefor, and shall at all times during business hours be open to the inspection, without any fee or charge therefor, of all persons desiring to examine the same, and such account shall be deemed a part of the records of the office in which they shall be kept, and shall be preserved therein as are other records, except that the register may destroy such account upon obtaining the written consent of the comptroller authorizing such destruction.
