N.Y. RPP Law § 297
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Certified copies may be recorded
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§ 297. Certified copies may be recorded. A copy of a record, or of\nany recorded instrument, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled\nto be read in evidence, may be again recorded in any office where the\noriginal would be entitled to be recorded. Such record has the same\neffect as if the original were so recorded. A copy of a conveyance or\nmortgage affecting separate parcels of real property situated in\ndifferent counties, or of the record of such conveyance or mortgage in\none of such counties, certified or authenticated so as to be entitled to\nbe read in evidence, may be recorded in any county in which any such\nparcel is situated, with the same effect as if the original instrument\nauthenticated as required by section three hundred and ten of this\nchapter were so recorded.\n
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