New York Lien Release

The Lien You Are Releasing

Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.

Which county is the property in?Property addressTax parcel ID — if it is on the lienRecord owner of the property

File or case number the office gave your lien

Date the lien was recorded

This instrument says the debt is paid.

N.Y. Lien Law § 19(1) discharges the lien on satisfaction of the debt. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.

The debt secured by this lien has been paid in full.

Where this gets filed: County Clerk. The office where the notice of lien was filed — the county clerk of the county where the property is situated. The clerk then notes the filing in the lien docket opposite the docket of the lien.

None. § 19 imposes no deadline and prescribes no penalty, damages or fee-shifting. The analogy to the mortgage-satisfaction penalties in RPAPL § 1921 and RPL § 275 is unsettled, not law. § 39-a willful-exaggeration damages are a foreclosure remedy, not a failure-to-release remedy.