§ 309. Acknowledgment by corporation and form of certificate. 1. The
acknowledgment of a conveyance or other instrument by a corporation,
must be made by an officer or attorney in fact duly appointed, or in
case of a dissolved corporation, by an officer, director or attorney in
fact duly appointed thereof authorized to execute the same by the board
of directors of said corporation.

2. The certificate of acknowledgment must conform substantially with
one of the following alternative forms, the blanks being properly
filled:

State of New York }ss.:

County of.........}

On the....... day of....... in the year....... before me personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a
city, include the street and street number, if any, thereof); that
he/she/they is (are) the (president or other officer or director or
attorney in fact duly appointed) of the (name of corporation), the
corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that
he/she/they know(s) the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed
to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the board of directors of said corporation, and that
he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by like authority.

(Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)

State of New York }ss.:

County of.........}

On the....... day of....... in the year....... before me personally
came....... to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he/she/they reside(s) in....... (if the place of residence is in a
city, include the street and street number, if any, thereof); that
he/she/they is (are) the (president or other officer or director or
attorney in fact duly appointed) of the (name of corporation), the
corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; and
that he/she/they signed his/her/their name(s) thereto by authority of
the board of directors of said corporation.

(Signature and office of person taking acknowledgment.)

3. Subdivision two of this section shall be inapplicable to the
acknowledgment, within this state, of a conveyance or other instrument
in respect to real property situate in this state executed on or after
the first day of September, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. A certificate
of such an acknowledgment shall be subject to the provisions of section
three hundred nine-a of this article.