California Code
ARTICLE 4 - Effect of Recording, or the Want Thereof
Section 1218.

1218. A certified copy of an instrument affecting the title to real property, once recorded, or a certified copy of the record of such instrument may be recorded in any other county, and, when so recorded, the record thereof has the same force and effect as though it was of the original instrument.

(Amended by Stats. 1913, Ch. 191.)