Requirements for Instrument or Document Presented for Recording; Not Applicable to Certain Instruments or Documents

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Sec. 16.5. (a) This section does not apply to the following:

(1) A judgment, an order, or a writ of a court.

(2) A will or death certificate.

(3) A plat.

(4) A survey.

(b) The county recorder may receive for record an instrument or a document if:

(1) the instrument or document consists of at least one (1) individual page measuring not more than eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches by fourteen (14) inches that is not permanently bound and is not a continuous form;

(2) the instrument or document is on white paper of at least twenty (20) pound weight and has clean margins:

(A) on the first and last pages of at least two (2) inches on the top and bottom and one-half (1/2) inch on each side; and

(B) on each additional page of at least one-half (1/2) inch on the top, bottom, and each side; and

(3) the instrument or document is typewritten or computer generated in black ink in at least 10 point type.

As added by P.L.211-1996, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.80.


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