Opn. No.

Requestor: Kenneth A. Schoetz, Esq., County Attorney County of Erie 69 Delaware Avenue — Suite 300 Buffalo, N Y 14202

Written by: Michael D. Morgan, Assistant Attorney General

You advise that the Erie County Clerk uses an electronic imaging system to record real property documents and a computerized index with respect to such documents. Paper copies of real property documents are no longer maintained. Real Property Law (hereafter, "RPL") § 321 provides that upon evidence that a mortgage has been paid or otherwise satisfied and discharged, the recording officer shall mark the record of the…