19-1218. Same; certification of information as to illegible, damaged or destroyed records; fee. Upon payment of a fee of two dollars ($2), the register of deeds of any such county shall examine the numerical index to any tract of land in the county and furnish to the person paying said fee a certificate showing whether or not any portion of numerical index pertaining to such tract is destroyed or illegible and showing whether or not any material part of the record of any instrument shown in the numerical index for such tract is destroyed or illegible. Such certificate shall also state the date upon which the records were damaged or destroyed and by what event. For the purpose of making such certificates each government quarter section or part thereof in case of unplatted lands and each block or part thereof in the case of platted land, shall be deemed a separate tract.
History: L. 1951, ch. 236, ยง 3; April 2.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 19 - Counties And County Officers
Article 12 - Register Of Deeds
19-1201 Register of deeds; election, term, bond.
19-1203 Vacancy in office of register of deeds, how filled.
19-1204 Custody and recording of documents.
19-1205 General indexes; entries; notation of discharge or release of instruments.
19-1206 Receiving books; entries.
19-1209 Numerical index, when.
19-1210 Entries to be made in numerical index.
19-1211 Previous transfers first entered in numerical index.
19-1213 Comparison of instrument with record.
19-1216 Records destroyed or made illegible by fire or casualty.
19-1217 Same; reindexing and re-recording without charge.
19-1218 Same; certification of information as to illegible, damaged or destroyed records; fee.
19-1219 Same; publication service on certain persons in certain actions; judgment.