Subdivision 1. General. To entitle any conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument affecting real estate to be recorded, it shall be legible and archivable, it shall be executed, acknowledged by the parties executing the same, and the acknowledgment certified, as required by law. All such instruments may be recorded in every county where any of the lands lie. If the conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument affecting real estate is executed out of state, it shall be entitled to record if executed as above provided or according to the laws of the place of execution so as to be entitled to record in such place.
Subd. 2. Original signatures required. (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, an instrument affecting real estate that is to be recorded as provided in this section or other applicable law must contain the original signatures of the parties who execute it and of the notary public or other officer taking an acknowledgment. However, a financing statement that is recorded as a filing pursuant to section 336.9-502(b) need not contain: (1) the signatures of the debtor or the secured party; or (2) an acknowledgment. An instrument acknowledged in a representative capacity as defined in section 358.52 on behalf of a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or trust that is otherwise entitled to be recorded shall be recorded if the acknowledgment made in a representative capacity is substantially in the form prescribed in chapter 358, without further inquiry into the authority of the person making the acknowledgment.
(b) Any electronic instruments, including signatures and seals, affecting real estate may only be recorded in conformance with standards implemented by the Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission created under the Minnesota Real Property Electronic Recording Act, sections 507.0941 to 507.0948. The Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission created under the Minnesota Real Property Electronic Recording Act may adopt or amend standards set by the task force created in Laws 2000, chapter 391, and the Electronic Real Estate Recording Task Force created under Laws 2005, chapter 156, article 2, section 41, and may set new or additional standards to the full extent permitted in section 507.0945. Documents recorded in conformity with the standards created as part of a pilot project for the electronic filing of real estate documents implemented by the task force created in Laws 2000, chapter 391, or by the Electronic Real Estate Recording Task Force created under Laws 2005, chapter 156, article 2, section 41, are deemed to meet the requirements of this section.
(c) Notices filed pursuant to section 168A.141, subdivisions 1 and 3, need not contain an acknowledgment.
(8217) RL s 3348; 1947 c 566 s 2; 1973 c 9 s 3; 1998 c 262 s 7; 2001 c 195 art 1 s 20; 2002 c 365 s 2; 2003 c 90 s 2; 2005 c 4 s 120; 2005 c 156 art 2 s 42; 2007 c 148 art 2 s 70; 2008 c 238 art 3 s 12; 2008 c 341 art 3 s 1; 2009 c 86 art 1 s 74; 2018 c 176 art 2 s 9
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests
Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances
Section 507.01 — Conveyance And Purchaser.
Section 507.02 — Conveyances By Spouses; Powers Of Attorney.
Section 507.021 — Conveyances Recorded 15 Years Validated.
Section 507.03 — Purchase-money Mortgage; Nonjoinder Of Spouse.
Section 507.04 — Conveyance Of Protected Person's Real Property.
Section 507.05 — Conveyance By Corporation; Resolution Appointing Attorney.
Section 507.06 — Quitclaim Deed Passes All Estate Of Grantor.
Section 507.061 — Words Of Inheritance Not Needed.
Section 507.07 — Warranty And Quitclaim Deeds; Forms.
Section 507.071 — Transfer On Death Deeds.
Section 507.09 — Forms Approved; Amendments.
Section 507.091 — Conveyance To Include Name And Address Of Drafter.
Section 507.092 — Conveyance To Include Name And Address Of Person To Receive Tax Statements.
Section 507.093 — Standards For Documents To Be Recorded Or Filed.
Section 507.0941 — Definitions.
Section 507.0942 — Uniformity Of Application And Construction.
Section 507.0943 — Validity And Time Of Recording Of Electronic Documents.
Section 507.0944 — Recording Of Documents.
Section 507.0945 — Administration.
Section 507.0947 — Relation To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act.
Section 507.0948 — Donations; Reimbursement.
Section 507.10 — Certified Copies Of Forms To Be Preserved.
Section 507.13 — Standard Forms Established.
Section 507.14 — Minnesota Uniform Conveyancing Blanks.
Section 507.15 — Uniform Short Form Mortgage; Equivalent Language.
Section 507.16 — No Covenants Of Title Implied.
Section 507.161 — Conveyance By Disseisee.
Section 507.17 — Conveyance Includes Abutting Vacated Public Right-of-way.
Section 507.18 — Prohibited Restrictions.
Section 507.19 — Conveyance By Tenant For Life Or Years; No Forfeiture.
Section 507.20 — Grantor To Make Known Encumbrance.
Section 507.21 — Liability Of Grantor Who Covenants Against Encumbrances.
Section 507.23 — Incomplete Conveyance, How Proven.
Section 507.235 — Filing Contracts For Deed.
Section 507.236 — Transfer Statement For Contract For Deed.
Section 507.24 — Recordable, When.
Section 507.25 — Certified Copy Of Record May Be Recorded.
Section 507.251 — Constructive Notice, When Not Affected.
Section 507.27 — Copy Of Will And Order Admitting To Probate.
Section 507.28 — Deeds Of Pews.
Section 507.29 — Affidavits As Evidence.
Section 507.31 — Railroad Lands.
Section 507.32 — Record, When Notice To Parties; Assignment Of Mortgage.
Section 507.325 — Mortgage Securing Revolving Line Of Credit; Notice.
Section 507.328 — Mortgages And Deeds Of Trust Of Pipeline Companies; Filing And Recording.
Section 507.33 — Certain Recitals Not To Constitute Notice Of Mortgage.
Section 507.331 — Certain Recitals Disregarded.
Section 507.332 — Whether Recorded Recital Of Unrecorded Mortgage Is Notice.
Section 507.34 — Unrecorded Conveyances Void In Certain Cases.
Section 507.35 — When Deed To Trustee Ineffective; Cure.
Section 507.36 — Instruments Relating To Timber, Minerals.
Section 507.38 — When Deed Not Defeated By Defeasance.
Section 507.40 — Mortgages, How Discharged.
Section 507.401 — Title Insurance Company; Mortgage Release Certificate.
Section 507.402 — Discharge Of Mortgage From Contract For Deed Seller.
Section 507.403 — Certificate Of Satisfaction; Release Or Partial Release Of Mortgage By Assignee.
Section 507.41 — Penalty For Failure To Discharge.
Section 507.411 — Corporate Change Noted In Assignment, Satisfaction, Or Release.
Section 507.412 — Satisfaction Or Release By Fewer Than All Mortgagees.
Section 507.413 — Authority Of Mortgagee Designated As Nominee Or Agent.
Section 507.42 — Certain Deeds Validated.
Section 507.421 — Estates And Trusts; Conveyances, Satisfactions, Grants, And Releases.
Section 507.422 — Certain County Conveyances Validated.
Section 507.45 — Residential Real Estate Closings.
Section 507.46 — Certificate Of Translation Of Documents In Foreign Languages.
Section 507.47 — Creation Of Servitudes By Common Owner.
Section 507.48 — Bona Fide Purchasers Protected.
Section 507.49 — Certificate Of Custodianship.
Section 507.50 — Affidavit Of Custodian In Real Property Transactions.