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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-15-101. Audit of accounts after expiration of term - When the term of any sheriff and ex officio collector...
§ 14-15-102. Environmental officer - (a) Each county within this state may employ an environmental...
Subchapter 2 - County Assessors
§ 14-15-201. Form of oath - On or before January 1 succeeding his or her election...
§ 14-15-202. Extension of time to take oath - Every assessor who shall have failed to take and subscribe...
§ 14-15-203. Pro rata contribution to salaries - (a) (1) It is declared to be the policy of...
§ 14-15-204. Claim for salaries and expenses - (a) The county assessor shall file an itemized claim, no...
§ 14-15-205. Professional development recognition payments - (a) (1) County assessors, full-time employees of county assessors' offices,...
Subchapter 3 - County Coroners
§ 14-15-301. Powers and duties of a coroner - When a death is reported to the coroner, he or...
§ 14-15-302. Coroner's investigation - (a) A coroner's investigation does not include criminal investigation responsibilities....
§ 14-15-303. Death certificate - If, after conducting an investigation, the law enforcement agency and...
§ 14-15-304. Confidentiality - (a) Records gathered and created during the course of a...
§ 14-15-305. Employment - County coroners may be employed by any city emergency medical...
§ 14-15-306. Disposition of prescription medication - (a) A coroner may collect and secure any prescription medication...
§ 14-15-308. Training and instruction - (a) The Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, in...
§ 14-15-309. Mass fatality resource inventory and mutual aid agreement - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Fixed assets” means...
Subchapter 4 - Recorders
§ 14-15-401. Duties generally - (a) (1) There shall be established in each county in...
§ 14-15-402. Instruments to be recorded - (a) It shall be the duty of each recorder to...
§ 14-15-403. Instruments affecting title to property - (a) No instrument by which the title to real estate...
§ 14-15-404. Effect of recording instruments affecting title to property - (a) (1) Every deed, bond, or instrument of writing affecting...
§ 14-15-405. Master Mortgage or Deed of Trust Recording Act of 1967 - (a) This section may be known and cited as the...
§ 14-15-406. Recording certified copies of bankruptcy proceedings - (a) The recorder of deeds of any county where any...
§ 14-15-407. Manner of recording - Without delay, each recorder shall record every deed, mortgage, conveyance,...
§ 14-15-408. Tender of fees required - No recorder shall be required to endorse any instrument presented...
§ 14-15-409. Entry of instruments - When any deed, mortgage, deed of trust, bond, conveyance, or...
§ 14-15-410. Receipt for instrument filed - When any deed, mortgage, deed of trust, bond, conveyance, or...
§ 14-15-411. Endorsement of filing time - (a) It shall be the duty of the recorder to...
§ 14-15-412. Certification of recording - (a) Every deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, or...
§ 14-15-413. Return of instrument - When recorded, the recorder shall deliver the deed, mortgage, conveyance,...
§ 14-15-414. Indexes to record books - (a) (1) Each recorder shall provide and keep in the...
§ 14-15-415. Destruction of chattel mortgages - Circuit clerks are authorized to destroy all chattel mortgages previously...
§ 14-15-416. Failure to perform duty - Any recorder to whom any deed or other writing proved...
§ 14-15-417. Willful neglect of duty - If any recorder willfully neglects to perform any of the...
§ 14-15-418. Action on bond - If any person shall be damaged by the conduct of...
§ 14-15-419. Seal - The seal of the circuit court shall be the seal...
§ 14-15-420. Books and accounts - Each recorder shall provide suitable books for his or her...
Subchapter 5 - Sheriffs — Generally
§ 14-15-501. Conservator of peace — Recognizances - (a) Each sheriff shall be a conservator of the peace...
§ 14-15-502. Validity of bonds - No bond entered into by a sheriff shall be deemed...
§ 14-15-503. Powers of deputies - (a) Every deputy sheriff appointed as provided by law shall...
§ 14-15-504. Additional personnel for new jails - In any county in this state in which newly constructed...
§ 14-15-505. Settlement moneys received or due - (a) It shall be the duty of a clerk of...
Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors
§ 14-15-701. Qualifications - No person shall be eligible to seek or hold the...
§ 14-15-702. Duties generally - It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to...
§ 14-15-703. Chainmen - The necessary chainmen shall be employed by the person wanting...
§ 14-15-704. Appointment of another surveyor - In all cases where the county surveyor may be interested...
§ 14-15-705. Survey of lands sold for taxes - It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to...
§ 14-15-706. Survey of public land - (a) Any person who may have entered any of the...
§ 14-15-707. Establishment of corners - For the purpose of perpetuating every survey, the surveyor shall...
§ 14-15-708. Calculating tract contents - All calculations to ascertain the content of any tract of...
§ 14-15-709. Instruments required — Record book - (a) It shall be the duty of each county surveyor...
§ 14-15-710. Delivery of records to successor - (a) It shall be the duty of the county surveyor,...
§ 14-15-711. Conclusiveness of official survey - No act or record by any county surveyor, or his...
§ 14-15-712. Admissibility of certified copy - A certified copy of the record of any county surveyor,...
Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers
§ 14-15-802. Office - County treasurers shall keep their offices at their respective county...
§ 14-15-803. Counties having two judicial districts - The treasurer shall keep in his or her office at...
§ 14-15-804. Appointment of a deputy treasurer - (a) Appointment of a deputy treasurer shall be: (1) In...
§ 14-15-805. Duties generally - It shall be the duty of each county treasurer to:...
§ 14-15-806. Neglect or refusal to pay warrant - (a) If any county treasurer shall neglect or refuse to...
§ 14-15-807. Accounting of moneys received and disbursed - (a) A county treasurer shall keep a true and just...
§ 14-15-809. Resignation, removal, or death - If he or she resigns, is removed from office, or...
§ 14-15-810. Relief from liability - In all cases where any funds in the hands of...
§ 14-15-811. Continuing education — Board and fund - (a) There is created the County Treasurer's Continuing Education Board,...
Subchapter 9 - County Clerks
§ 14-15-901. Records — Multiple judicial districts - (a) In counties having two (2) judicial districts, it shall...
Subchapter 10 - County Collectors
§ 14-15-1001. Continuing education — Board and fund - (a) There is created the County Collector's Continuing Education Board,...