A. No person shall conduct an abstracter's business without first entering into a bond to the state of New Mexico for the use and benefit of any person who shall sustain any loss or damage by reason of the failure of the abstracter to set out, or record, properly, any instrument, or other item of record, affecting the title to the real estate covered by the abstract.
B. The bond shall be with a surety company authorized to do business in this state and shall be in the penal sum of $7,500.00.
C. The bond shall be approved, as to the statutory amount, by the county clerk of the county in which the abstract business is to be conducted, and the county clerk shall record the bond. If an abstracter's business is to be conducted in more than one county, a separate bond, in the proper amount, shall be filed in each county.
History: 1953 Comp., § 70-2-6, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 307, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 1 Am. Jur. 2d Abstracts of Title § 1 et seq.
Liability of attorney for negligence in connection with investigation or certification of title to real estate, 59 A.L.R.3d 1176.
1 C.J.S. Abstracts of Title §§ 8, 11, 13.