Section 161. Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies, ordered by state officers to be gratuitous

1.  Each  of  the  following
  officers,   to  wit:  the  secretary  of  state,  the  comptroller,  the
  commissioner of taxation and finance, the attorney general,  the  public
  service  commission,  the  commissioner  of agriculture and markets, the
  commissioner  of  transportation,  the  industrial   commissioner,   the
  chairman  of  the state labor relations board, the chairman of the state
  liquor authority, the superintendent of  banks,  the  superintendent  of
  insurance,  the  state commissioner of human rights, the commissioner of
  general services and the commissioner of housing and  community  renewal
  may require search to be made, in the office of any of the others, or of
  a  county  clerk  or  of the clerk of a court of record, for any record,
  document, or paper, where he deems it necessary for the discharge of his
  official duties, and a copy thereof, or extracts therefrom, to  be  made
  and  officially certified or exemplified, without the payment of any fee
  or charge.
    2. No salaried officer of any city, county, or court, of  this  state,
  or  any  public  officer  who  is  required  by  law to deposit the fees
  collected in his office into any  city  or  county  treasury,  shall  be
  entitled  to  receive  from  said  state officers, or from a division or
  bureau of said state officers, any fee for entering, filing,  docketing,
  registering  or  recording any paper, record or document required by law
  to be filed in the office of any such city,  county,  court,  or  public
  officer,  or  for  a certified copy, transcript or extract of any paper,
  document or record on file in such office which he deems  necessary  for
  the  discharge of his official duties, and every such officer must, upon
  application therefor, furnish to said state officers, or a  division  or
  bureau  of said state officers, for such official use, a certified copy,
  extract or transcript of any paper, record or document on file  in  such
  office  without  the  payment of the fee prescribed by law therefor; nor
  shall any court clerk demand or receive from any of said state officers,
  or from a division or bureau of said state officers, any trial  or  jury
  fee upon filing in any court in this state a note of issue or demand for
  a jury trial.
    3.  Such  salaried  officer  shall  also  furnish  the services herein
  specified to any state department or a bureau or agency  thereof  acting
  as  an  agent  of the state in the acquisition of real property, without
  the payment of any fee or charge.