Effect of Map and Plat Recordation Requirements

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  6. Effect of Map and Plat Recordation Requirements

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  1. Failure to meet the requirements of Code Sections 15-6-67 and 15-6-68 or the recording of an improper plat by the clerk shall not, in and of itself, affect or invalidate any legal description or legal instrument based on such plat.
  2. Nothing in Code Sections 15-6-67 and 15-6-68 shall be deemed to invalidate any map or plat made prior to July 1, 1978, nor shall anything in those Code sections be deemed to require the clerk of the court to prepare or maintain a record of each individual land lot for any plat of survey recorded in the clerk's office prior to July 1, 1978.

(Ga. L. 1933, p. 193, §§ 3, 4; Code 1933, §§ 24-2718, 24-2719; Ga. L. 1961, p. 105, § 1; Ga. L. 1962, p. 632, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1616, §§ 4, 5.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Clerks not authorized to record photocopies of plats.

- Clerks of superior courts are not authorized under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, O.C.G.A. § 15-6-68, or O.C.G.A. § 15-6-69 to record photocopies of plats, although such a recording will not affect or invalidate any legal description or legal instrument based on such plat. 1989 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U89-4.

Maximum size of plat not limited by section.

- Former Code 1933, §§ 24-2716 through 24-2719 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 15-6-67 through15-6-69) did not prescribe a maximum uniform size of plat to be filed with the clerks of superior courts of this state which did not use microfilming procedures for the recording of plats, and the only maximum limitation on the size of plats was that the plats must be capable of being recorded in binders provided by the clerk of court without being folded in any way. 1978 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 78-80.

Plats reduced in size are acceptable.

- Clerks of superior courts may accept for recording plats which have been reduced in size if the plats comply with the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 15-6-69. 1989 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U89-4.


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