7-4-2617. Procedure to record documents. (1) When any instrument, paper, or notice authorized by law to be recorded is deposited for record in the office of the county clerk, as ex officio recorder, and accompanied by the required fee, he must endorse upon the same the time it was received, noting the year, month, day, hour, and minute of its reception, and the reception of the instrument must be immediately entered in the county clerk and recorder's reception book.
     (2) If the printed, written, or typed words or numbers are considered by the clerk and recorder to be illegible and not legibly reproducible, the clerk and recorder must affix to the recorded document a statement that the document is illegible and not legibly reproducible.
     (3) The county clerk must record said instrument without delay, together with the acknowledgment, proofs, and certificates written upon or annexed to the same and with the plats, surveys, schedule, and other papers thereto annexed, in the order and as of the time when the same was received for record and must note at the foot of the record the exact time of its reception.
     (4) The county clerk must also endorse upon each instrument, paper, or notice the time when and the book and pages or document number in which it is recorded and must thereafter deliver it, upon request, to the party leaving the same for record or to his order.

     History: (1), (2)En. Sec. 4418, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3039, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4805, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 4241; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 2, L. 1929; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 27, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 4805, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 11, L. 1949; Sec. 16-2911, R.C.M. 1947; (3)En. Sec. 4419, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3040, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4806, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 4242; re-en. Sec. 4806, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 16-2912, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 16-2911(part), 16-2912; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 551, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 82, L. 1989.