27-208

27-208. Affidavit of performance of annual
work; fees

A. Before December 31 of any year in which the performance of annual labor or
making improvements upon a mining claim is required, the person on whose behalf such work
or improvement was made, or some person for him, knowing the facts, may make and record
in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the claim is located an
affidavit in substance as follows:

State of Arizona, county of ____________________ ss:
_________________________________, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a
citizen of the United States and more than eighteen years of age, resides at
____________________, in ___________________ county, Arizona, is personally acquainted
with the mining claim known as ______________________ mining claim, situated in
__________________ mining district, ______________ county, Arizona, the location notice
of which is recorded in the office of the county recorder of said county, in book
________________________ of records of mines, at page _________. That between the
_______________ day of ________________, A.D. _______________________, and the
_______________ day of ______________________, A.D. ___________________________, at
least _____________________________ dollars worth of work and improvements were done and
performed upon said claim, not including the location work of said claim. Such work and
improvements were made by and at the expense of ___________________________, owners of
said claim, for the purpose of complying with the laws of the United States pertaining to
assessment or annual work, and _________________________________________ (here name the
miners or persons who worked upon the claim in doing the work) were the persons employed
by said owner and who labored upon said claim, did said work and improvements, the same
being as follows, to wit: (Here describe the work done and add signature and
verification.)

B. The affidavit when recorded shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of
the labor or improvements. Any affidavit shall include, if known to the locator, the
identification of the section, township and range in which the notice of location of the
claim is posted.

C. When annual work is done upon one or more of a contiguous group of claims for
the benefit of all, or wholly or partly outside of a contiguous group of claims for the
benefit of all, all claims may be included in a single affidavit.

D. In addition to the fees required under section 11-475 for recording of
documents, the county recorder shall, prior to recording the affidavit of performance,
collect from the person recording the affidavit a fee in the sum of five dollars for each
separate affidavit of performance recorded. The county recorder shall by the tenth day
of each month forward to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund,
eighty per cent of the monies collected pursuant to this subsection during the previous
month.