Section 7-626. Block indexing after July first, nineteen hundred eighty-one in Richmond county

a.  Tax  maps;  block  boundaries,  block  number  designations.  On and after July first, nineteen hundred eighty-one, the
  tax map for the borough of Staten Island shall be  substituted  for  the
  land  map theretofore in use for the county of Richmond and such tax map
  shall be conclusive as to location of block boundaries and block  number
  designations.
    b.  Block  index  forms.  On  and  after  July first, nineteen hundred
  eighty-one, new forms for  the  (1)  conveyance  block  index,  and  (2)
  mortgage  block  index  for the county of Richmond may be adopted by the
  register,  which  forms  shall  make   provision   for   the   following
  information:
      (1) Conveyance Block Index
          1. Name of grantor
          2. Name of grantee
          3. Date of recording
          4. Liber and page
          5. Lot number and remarks; and
      (2) Mortgage Block Index
          1. Name of mortgagor
          2. Name of mortgagee
          3. Date of recording
          4. Liber and page
          5. Lot number and remarks
          6. Date  of  recording  and  liber  and  page  of certificate of
               discharge
    c. Indexing under new block numbers. On and after the adoption of  the
  new  forms  for  the block index, the existing block index in use in the
  register's office with respect to Richmond county, shall be closed and a
  new block index shall be opened for each block in the form as adopted by
  the city register. At the end of each block index so closed, a reference
  shall be made to the new block index. On and after the date on which any
  such new block index shall be opened with respect  to  Richmond  county,
  the register shall index in such new block index, under the proper block
  numbers  and in the proper index, all instruments which are presented to
  the register on  and  after  such  date  for  recording  and  which  are
  authorized or required by law to be recorded. On and after the first day
  of  January  next  succeeding  the  certifying  and  filing, by the real
  property assessment bureau, with the city register  of  a  list  of  the
  numbers  of  new,  altered  or  additional  blocks with maps or diagrams
  showing such  alterations  or  additions,  the  indices  of  all  blocks
  theretofore   existing  shall  be  closed  except  for  the  purpose  of
  completing the indexing belonging to the preceding  year.  A  new  block
  index  shall  thereupon be opened for every such altered or new block in
  the prescribed form, which new index shall thenceforth be used  for  all
  entries  relating  to  land in such altered or new blocks. At the end of
  each block index so closed, a reference shall be made to the  new  block
  index.
    d.  Daily  block  indices.  On  and after July first, nineteen hundred
  eighty-one, new forms for the daily index of conveyances and  the  daily
  index of mortgages may be adopted by the register. Such forms shall make
  provision for the following information:
          1. Names of parties
          2. Block number
          3. Serial number
          4. Liber and page
    e. Endorsement  on  instruments  of  tax  block  number and of tax lot
  numbers. On and after the adoption of the new forms for the block index,

  every instrument presented to the  register  with  respect  to  Richmond
  county  and  required to be indexed in the block index of conveyances or
  mortgages shall have endorsed thereon every block number and  every  lot
  number  on  the  current  tax  map  in  which  the  land affected by the
  instrument is situate.
    f. Block index to be notice. The entries made in such indices,  except
  the  lot  number designation and the information contained in the column
  or columns headed Lot Number and Remarks, shall be deemed and  taken  to
  be  a  part  of  the  record  of  the  instrument  to which such entries
  respectively refer, and shall be  notice  to  subsequent  purchasers  or
  incumbrancers  to  the same extent and with like effect as the recording
  of such instruments in the office of the register,  now  is  or  may  be
  notice.
    g.  Miscellaneous  instruments.  On  and  after  July  first, nineteen
  hundred eighty-one, any instrument entitled to be indexed  and  recorded
  as  a miscellaneous instrument shall be indexed in a miscellaneous index
  and recorded in a miscellaneous liber.