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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
April 22, 1999 - Introduced by Representatives Hubler, Klusman, Huber, Ladwig,
Ryba, Goetsch, Sykora, Musser, M. Lehman, J. Lehman, Gunderson, Olsen,
Albers, Porter, Freese, Vrakas and Montgomery, cosponsored by Senators
Jauch, Panzer, Erpenbach, Drzewiecki, Roessler, Schultz and Baumgart, by
request of Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association. Referred to Committee on
Urban and Local Affairs.
AB292,1,2
1An Act to amend 59.43 (2m) (d) 2.; and
to create 59.43 (1) (w) of the statutes;
2relating to: the filing of certain documents with a register of deeds.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law and subject to some exceptions, no document may be
recorded in the office of a register of deeds unless the first page of the document
substantially complies with a number of conditions, such as a requirement that the
name of the instrument be clear and be located not less than 0.5 inch nor more than
three inches from the top of the document. One of the current law exceptions is for
rerecorded documents. Under the bill, the exception for rerecorded documents is
limited to documents that are rerecorded because they are county documents that
have been destroyed.
The bill also provides that a register of deeds may not accept for rerecording any
document that corrects an error in a previously filed or recorded document unless the
error is corrected by the filing of an affidavit of correction.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB292, s. 1
3Section
1. 59.43 (1) (w) of the statutes is created to read:
AB292,2,3
159.43
(1) (w) Not accept for rerecording any document that corrects an error
2in a previously filed or recorded document unless the error is corrected by the filing
3of an affidavit of correction.
AB292, s. 2
4Section
2. 59.43 (2m) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB292,2,65
59.43
(2m) (d) 2.
Rerecorded documents
Documents that are rerecorded as
6provided under s. 891.43 (1).
