72-16-218. County clerk to check records against list -- report to department. (1) The county clerk, upon the receipt of the list of deaths provided for in 72-16-217, shall immediately check the records of his county to determine whether any of the deceased persons whose names appear upon such list may have made any transfer of property or of property rights within such county during the 3 years preceding the death of such person or whether such deceased person may have been possessed of any property in such county at the time of his death.
     (2) If he shall find that any such deceased person may have made any such transfers of property or of property rights or have died possessed of such, he shall immediately transmit such information to the department of revenue.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 186, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 10400.51, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 105, Ch. 391, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 91-4459.