Whenever it shall appear that the records or any material part thereof, of any county in this state, have been lost or destroyed by fire or otherwise so that a connected chain of title cannot be deduced therefrom, and are of record in any other county, or in any office maintained by the state or by the United States for recording and filing instruments, pertaining to or in any wise affecting the title, boundary or description of property situated within such county, then it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of such county, immediately to employ some responsible and experienced firm or person to transcribe or copy any part of the records, deeds, patents, certificates, maps, plats, field notes or files, from the records or files of such other county, or of any office maintained by the state or by the United States for recording and filing instruments pertaining to or in any wise affecting the title, boundary or description of property situated within the bounds of that county; and such copies or transcripts, when duly certified to by the persons employed, or officer in charge of such records shall become a part of the records in the register of deeds office of such county; and the record so made shall have the same force and effect as the record of the originals of such instruments, and the board of county commissioners shall approve, accept, and pay for the same as they are completed and delivered. The person or firm employed to do such copying or transcribing shall give the county a bond similar to bonds given by abstractors, in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).
R.L. 1910, § 7277.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§67-1. Petition to restore record by certified copy.
§67-2. What necessary when certified copies cannot be had.
§67-3. Restoration of lost probate records.
§67-4. Restoration from Supreme Court files.
§67-11. County records destroyed replaced by other records.
§67-12. County clerk authorized to rerecord without expense.
§67-13. Recording of certified copies of records of another county.
§67-14. County record supplied by court records.
§67-15. Restoration of plat or map.
§67-16. Hearing - Filing and recording.
§67-17. Costs to be taxed against county.
§67-18. Duty of county commissioners in restoring records.
§67-19. Procuring documents or copies.
§67-20. Restoration of records by means of abstracts.
§67-21. Abstract records may be purchased.
§67-22. Abstractor may petition.
§67-23. Effect of record of abstracts.
§67-24. County clerk to furnish copies - Compensation.
§67-41. Power of courts after destruction of records.
§67-42. Owner of lands may petition for confirmation of title.
§67-44. Publication of notice.
§67-45. Opposition to petition.
§67-46. Proceedings on hearing.
§67-47. Court to determine title - Liens not affected.
§67-48. Decree conclusive - Except when.
§67-61. Copy of record may be recorded.
§67-62. Legal representative may act hereunder.
§67-63. Special commissioners - Fees.
§67-81. Copies of old records for new counties.
§67-82. Custodians of records to facilitate copying.
§67-83. Obstructing copying a felony.
§67-92. Contractor's bond - Term of contract.
§67-93. Procedure in making photographic record - Place of doing work - Liability for instruments.
§67-95. Replacements - Charges.
§67-204. State Records Administrator, State Librarian - Program.
§67-205. Duties of Administrator.
§67-206. Duties of agency heads - Records exempt from act.
§67-207. Local records management.
§67-208. Records management program for legislative and judicial branches.
§67-209. Prohibition on mutilation, destruction, etc. of records.
§67-210. Disposition of records.
§67-211. Destruction of nonrecord materials - Procedure.
§67-212. Rules and regulations.
§67-213. Report to Governor by State Administrator.
§67-214. Personnel - Expenditure of funds - Contract for records management - Bond.
§67-215. Provisions cumulative.
§67-217. Transfer of state records to Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation.
§67-254. Destruction of records by state officers.
§67-302. Instruments filed for record - Microfilming - Security copies - Sale of copies.
§67-303. Court or judicial records.
§67-305. Creation - Composition - Delegation of duties - Authority - Exemptions.
§67-307. Commission - Power to require assistance.
§67-309. Microfilm - Deemed original record for all purposes.
§67-310. Termination of office or department - Records disposed of.
§67-311. Secretary - Powers - Attorney General powers.
§67-312. Equipment and supplies - Film library.
§67-315. Delivery of records for disposition - Reports for noncompliance.