8008 - Fees and expenses of officer to be paid before transmission of paper.

§ 8008. Fees and expenses of officer to be paid before transmission of  paper.  Each  provision of law requiring a judge, clerk or other officer  to transmit a paper to another officer, for the benefit of a  party,  is  to be construed as requiring the transmission only at the request of the  person  so  to be benefited, and upon payment by him of the fees allowed  by law for the paper transmitted, or any copy or  certificate  connected  therewith,  and  the  expenses  specified  in section sixty-eight of the  public officers law.