N.Y. RPP Law § 394

§ 394. Certificate of title. The registrar shall make, in the form\nprescribed by section four hundred and thirty-five of this chapter, an\noriginal certificate of title of every title, right or interest\nregistered by him pursuant to this article. Said certificate shall bear\nthe date of its issue (the day and year), and be under the hand and\nofficial seal of the registrar, and be numbered in the order of its\nissue. If the owner is a minor, it shall state his age; if he is under\nany other disability, it shall state the nature of such disability. The\nregistrar shall make proper memorials or notations on the certificate,\nshowing in such manner as to set forth and preserve their priorities,\nthe particulars of all the estates, mortgages, trusts, liens and\ncharges, to which such owner's title is subject. No such memorial or\nnotation shall be more than one folio (one hundred words), in length;\nbut it may refer to covenants, restrictions, trusts and forms recorded\nin the "book of covenants, restrictions, trusts and forms" provided for\nby this article. The form of the first certificate of title, as set\nforth in section four hundred and thirty-five of this article, shall be\nsubject to such changes as may be required in any case. All subsequent\ncertificates shall be in like form, except that in place of the words\n"first certificate," et cetera, shall be the words "transfer from number\n.........." (the number of the next previous certificate); also the words\n"first registered .........." (date of first registration). On the back\nor reverse side of every certificate shall be printed, in plain legible\ntype, the whole of section four hundred of this chapter.\n