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Chapter 19.--COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS


Article 12.--REGISTER OF DEEDS

     
19-1218.   Same; certification of information as to illegible, damaged
or destroyed records; fee.

Upon payment of a fee of two dollars ($2), the register of deeds of any
such county shall examine the numerical index to any tract of land in the
county and furnish to the person paying said fee a certificate showing
whether or not any portion of numerical index pertaining to such tract is
destroyed or illegible and showing whether or not any material part of the
record of any instrument shown in the numerical index for such tract is
destroyed or illegible. Such certificate shall also state the date upon
which the records were damaged or destroyed and by what event. For the
purpose of making such certificates each government quarter section or part
thereof in case of unplatted lands and each block or part thereof in the
case of platted land, shall be deemed a separate tract.

     
History:   L. 1951, ch. 236, § 3; April 2.