REGISTER OF DEEDS

register of deeds REGISTER OF DEEDS
1.   General Provisions
2.   Recording Instruments

register of deeds 1. general provisions 1. General Provisions

Bond and oath, 59.13

County abstractor, may be, 59.58 (2)

Deputies, appointment, duties, 59.50

Duties, 59.51

Election, term, 59.12

  Term, removal, VI, 4

Electronic data processing, recording and indexing documents, 59.51 (16), 59.52 (2), 59.53 (2)

Evidence, recorded documents and copies are, 889.17

Fees:  
Generally 59.57

  Vital statistics, records, 69.22

Financing statements, duties, 59.51 (11) to (13), 409.401 to 409.410

Indexes:

  Electronic data processing, 59.53 (2)

  General index, form, 59.52

  Records index, form, 59.53

  Tract index system, 59.55

  Effect of recording in, errors, 706.08 (2)

Land record modernization funding, 59.88 (5)

Lost or destroyed records, rerecording, 891.43

Microfilming, 59.512

  Volume and page may be substituted, 59.51 (1)

Obsolete documents, destruction of, 59.51 (14)

Office, where kept, when open, 59.14

Real estate transfer fee:  
Generally 77.21 to 77.30  
For detailed analysis, see Taxation - 17. Real Estate Transfer Fee

  Register of deeds' duties, 59.51 (2)

Records and files required to be maintained:

  Attachments, 59.54

  Corporations, 59.51 (10)

  Dissolution, 182.104

  County highway register, repository for, 83.01 (7) (g)

  Cropper's contracts, file and index, 241.03

  Indigent defendants, file on legal fees paid for, 757.66

  Lis pendens, 59.54

  Motor vehicles:

  Security interest, 342.20 (4)   Transfer to transportation department 59.51 (14s)

  Streets, alleys, channels, parks, highways in populous counties; changes in, 59.56

  Volumes may be combined, 59.51 (1)

Removal by governor, 17.09

Security interest documents, see Financing statements, under this subhead

Signature and seal, file with secretary of state, 59.51 (20)

Tract index system, see Indexes, under this subhead

Vacancy:

  Deputy, to act, 59.50

  How filled, 17.21

Validating certain recordings, 59.51 (1)

Veterans:

  Free service, 45.21, 59.575

  Who died in wars, names recorded, 45.35 (7a)

Vital statistics:

  Amendment by court order, 69.12

  Amendment without court order, 69.10, 69.11

  Copies of vital records, 69.21

  Costs for collecting delinquent certificates, 69.23

  Court-ordered death certificates, 69.19

  Definitions, 69.01

  Disclosure of information from vital records, 69.20

  Duties, 59.51 (1m), 69.05, 69.07

  Fees, 69.22