46:19-3 - Method of recording; marginal or other notations - New-jersey Statutes

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46:19-3. Method of recording; marginal or other notations
    The recording officer of each county shall record in the appropriate books, without delay, and in the order in which he shall receive them, every deed or conveyance or instrument mentioned in section 46:19-1 of this Title, with the acknowledgments, proofs and certificates written on, or under, or annexed to the same, and the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers therein referred to and thereto annexed, by entering them word for word, in a legible manner, noting at the foot of each record all the interlineations and words visibly written on erasures, omitting, however, to enter in the record the erasures and obliterations, or by copying them by any photostatic, photographic or other mechanical process which produces a clear, accurate and permanent copy or reproduction of the original and in either case mentioning in the margin or at the foot of such record the day of the month and the year when the deed, conveyance or other instrument was delivered to him or brought to his office to be recorded; provided, however, that where photographic methods are used, all instruments presented for recording shall be typed, written or printed on paper not to exceed 8 1/2   "   x 14 " of sufficient quality to avoid bleed-through, and shall be legible and clear to produce a good, clear, legible photo recording.

    If two or more such deeds, conveyances or instruments of or affecting the same real estate or the same property shall be offered to or come to his hands, at one and the same time, to be recorded, he shall record the same according to the priorities of their dates.

     Amended by L.1944, c. 36, p. 92, s. 1; L.1970, c. 44, s. 1.

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46:19-3. Method of recording; marginal or other notations
    The recording officer of each county shall record in the appropriate books, without delay, and in the order in which he shall receive them, every deed or conveyance or instrument mentioned in section 46:19-1 of this Title, with the acknowledgments, proofs and certificates written on, or under, or annexed to the same, and the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers therein referred to and thereto annexed, by entering them word for word, in a legible manner, noting at the foot of each record all the interlineations and words visibly written on erasures, omitting, however, to enter in the record the erasures and obliterations, or by copying them by any photostatic, photographic or other mechanical process which produces a clear, accurate and permanent copy or reproduction of the original and in either case mentioning in the margin or at the foot of such record the day of the month and the year when the deed, conveyance or other instrument was delivered to him or brought to his office to be recorded; provided, however, that where photographic methods are used, all instruments presented for recording shall be typed, written or printed on paper not to exceed 8 1/2   "   x 14 " of sufficient quality to avoid bleed-through, and shall be legible and clear to produce a good, clear, legible photo recording.

    If two or more such deeds, conveyances or instruments of or affecting the same real estate or the same property shall be offered to or come to his hands, at one and the same time, to be recorded, he shall record the same according to the priorities of their dates.

     Amended by L.1944, c. 36, p. 92, s. 1; L.1970, c. 44, s. 1.

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46:19-3. Method of recording; marginal or other notations
    The recording officer of each county shall record in the appropriate books, without delay, and in the order in which he shall receive them, every deed or conveyance or instrument mentioned in section 46:19-1 of this Title, with the acknowledgments, proofs and certificates written on, or under, or annexed to the same, and the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers therein referred to and thereto annexed, by entering them word for word, in a legible manner, noting at the foot of each record all the interlineations and words visibly written on erasures, omitting, however, to enter in the record the erasures and obliterations, or by copying them by any photostatic, photographic or other mechanical process which produces a clear, accurate and permanent copy or reproduction of the original and in either case mentioning in the margin or at the foot of such record the day of the month and the year when the deed, conveyance or other instrument was delivered to him or brought to his office to be recorded; provided, however, that where photographic methods are used, all instruments presented for recording shall be typed, written or printed on paper not to exceed 8 1/2   "   x 14 " of sufficient quality to avoid bleed-through, and shall be legible and clear to produce a good, clear, legible photo recording.

    If two or more such deeds, conveyances or instruments of or affecting the same real estate or the same property shall be offered to or come to his hands, at one and the same time, to be recorded, he shall record the same according to the priorities of their dates.

     Amended by L.1944, c. 36, p. 92, s. 1; L.1970, c. 44, s. 1.