Title GOV — California Gov. Code

If letters patent have been lost or are beyond the control of any party deraigning title from them, or if for any reason they remain unrecorded, any person claiming title thereunder may cause a transcript of the copy of such letters patent kept by the government issuing them, dul…

Unless it belongs to the class provided for in either Sections 27282 to 27286, inclusive, or Section 1202 or 1203, of the Civil Code, or is a fictitious mortgage or deed of trust as provided in Section 2952 or 2963 of the Civil Code, or is a fictitious oil and gas lease as provid…

If the instrument is an agreement for sale, lease, option agreement, deposit receipt, commission receipt, or affidavit which quotes or refers to an agreement for sale, lease, option agreement, deposit receipt, commission receipt, or lease and such instrument claims to, or affects…

All documents described in this section now or hereafter authorized by law to be recorded in the official records of a county shall contain the following information in addition to any information as may be required by law pertaining to the particular document: (a) If the documen…

Pursuant to Section 5029 of the Public Resources Code, after March 15, 1993, the county recorder shall record a certified resolution establishing an historical resources designation issued by the State Historical Resources Commission or a local agency, or unit thereof. For previo…

Whenever a notice is required by law to be recorded for any purpose, it shall be signed by the person giving notice or his agent.

An instrument proved and certified pursuant to Sections 1198 and 1199 of the Civil Code may be recorded in the proper office only if the original is at the same time deposited therein to remain for public inspection. In those counties where the photographic or microphotographic m…

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 9 of the Commercial Code or any other provision of law, a financing statement to perfect a security interest or agricultural lien may, at the election of the recorder and subject to the cond…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if an instrument, paper, or notice intended for record is executed or certified in whole or in part in a language other than English, the recorder shall not accept the instrument, paper, or notice for record. (2) (A) A tran…

In all cases the recorder shall endorse the amount of the fee for recordation on the instrument, paper, or notice recorded.

Where real property acquired by a municipality or a redevelopment agency is to be transferred in accordance with an official redevelopment plan any contract for such transfer and the official redevelopment plan (or such part or parts of such contract or plan as the municipality o…

(a) The county recorder in each county shall complete a yearly statistical report of documents, including electronically transmitted documents, recorded and filed on the form described in subdivision (b). The report shall be submitted to the office of the Insurance Commissioner. …

For purposes of this article, a certificate describing real property and any lien thereon claimed pursuant to law for the costs of abatement of a nuisance upon such property, is an instrument affecting the title to or possession of such property.

(a) Upon recordation of an abstract of judgment or other document creating an involuntary lien affecting the title to real property, unless the county recorder has received from the judgment creditor proof of service pursuant to subdivision (b) of a copy of the document being rec…

(a) Following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County Recorder may, within 30 days of recordation of a deed, quitclaim deed, or deed of trust, notify the parties executing the document by mail. The recorder …

(a) On or before January 1, 2027, each county within the state shall establish a recorder notification program, in accordance with this section, and the board of supervisors of each county shall adopt an authorizing resolution for these purposes. (b) (1) Following adoption of an …

As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Official record” means the permanent archival record of all instruments, papers, and notices as accepted for recording by a county recorder. (b) “Public record” means a record that is in an electronic …

(a) The county recorder of each county shall establish a social security number truncation program in order to create a public record version of each official record. (1) The program shall include both of the following components, which the recorder shall implement concurrently: …

(a) A county recorder shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of Section 27301 and shall not be liable for failure to truncate a social security number if he or she uses due diligence to locate social security numbers in official records and truncate social secu…

When a public record version of an official record exists, both of the following shall apply: (a) Upon a request for inspection, copying, or any other public disclosure of an official record that is not exempt from disclosure, a county recorder shall make available only the publi…

Notwithstanding Section 27303, a county recorder may provide a copy of a DD214 official record when requested by a person listed in subdivision (b) of Section 6107 and upon certification by that person that a full social security number is required to receive benefits and he or s…

(a) Each county may use funds generated by fees authorized by subdivision (d) of Section 27361 to implement a social security number truncation program required by this article. (b) No later than June 1, 2008, the county recorder of each county shall petition the board of supervi…

(a) To assist the Legislature in monitoring the progress of each county recorder’s social security number truncation program, the County Recorders Association of California, no later than January 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, shall submit to the chairpersons of the Assembly C…

A county recorder is authorized to take all actions required by this article notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 27203 or any other provision of law.

When any instrument, paper, or notice authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder’s office for record, the recorder shall endorse upon it in the order in which it is deposited, the year, month, day, hour, and minute of its reception, and the amount of fees for r…

(a) The recorder shall endorse upon each instrument, paper, or notice the identification number or book and page where it is recorded, and shall thereafter mail it to the person named in the instrument, paper, or notice for return mail, or deliver it to the party presenting it fo…

Before acceptance for recording, in addition to the address required on each document for delivery by the recorder, all of the following shall apply: (a) Every deed or instrument executed to convey fee title to real property shall have noted on the first page or sheet thereof the…

The recorder shall record by legible handwriting, by typewriting, or by photographic reproduction process, in well-bound books or by such other means as provided in this chapter, all instruments, papers and notices the recording of which is required or permitted by law.

The words “file for record” when used as a directive in any law relating to any document to be filed in the recorders office shall be deemed to mean “record” in the manner provided for in Section 27322 of this code.

A system of microphotography, optical disk, or reproduction by any other technique that does not permit additions, deletions, or changes to the original document may be used by the recorder as a photographic reproduction process to record some or all instruments, papers, and noti…

If the recorded instruments, papers, or notices or the record books in the office of the recorder have been microfilmed for preservation purposes, a type of record book may be used that will permit the removal of leaves in order that reproduction may be made in an efficient manne…

The county recorder may cause any or all files or records in his or her official custody to be microphotographed or otherwise reproduced pursuant to Section 27322.2 as in the case of original filings or recordings or both. Every reproduction shall be deemed and considered an orig…

The recorder may segregate the instruments, papers, and notices and record them in separate books, or sheets or rolls of film under titles of indices provided for in Article 2 of this chapter. In lieu thereof the recorder may record any or all of the instruments, papers, or notic…

Each instrument, paper, or notice presented for recordation shall have a title or titles indicating the kind or kinds of documents contained therein. The recorder shall be required to index only that title or titles captioned on the first page of a document immediately below the …

If any instrument, paper, or notice is presented and accepted for recordation or filing without a title or an endorsement indicating the manner of indexing, it shall be indexed as the recorder determines.

The recorder shall file and record in the record of deeds, grants, and transfers, certified copies of final judgments or decrees partitioning or affecting the title or possession of real property, any part of which is situated in his county. From the time of filing with the recor…

Any instrument, paper, or notice filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county where it is entitled to record and that is copied into a book of record other than that designated by law, but that is thereafter indexed in the proper book of indices, imparts no…

Any instrument which is filed for record with the recorder as a deed, deed of trust, mortgage, or chattel mortgage, or which is copied into any book of deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, or chattel mortgages need not be again filed for record or recorded in such office as a differ…

(a) If any record of an instrument, paper, or notice is lost, injured, or destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity, the recorder shall record any instrument, paper, or notice of writing entitled to record pursuant to this chapter that: (1) Has been previously recorded …

On or before January 1, 1968, notices of liens for internal revenue taxes payable to the United States and certificates of release, discharge, subordination or nonattachment of such liens shall be filed in the office of the county recorder of the county within which the property …

An order affecting title to or possession of real property issued by a court in an action subject to Section 12527 may be recorded in any of the indices described in Section 27232, 27233, 27248, 27249, 27250, or 27257.

All conveyances of real estate, except patents issued by the State as a party, made by any public officer pursuant to law, when recorded shall be alphabetically indexed in the “Index of Grantors,” both in the name of the officer making the sale, and in the name of the person owni…

If the name of the person in whom title to real estate is vested is changed from any cause, the recorder shall alphabetically index the conveyance in the “Index of Grantors,” both in the name by which title was acquired and the name by which it is conveyed.

In the recording of instruments of writing required or authorized by law to be recorded, the clerk, recorder, or other officer whose duty it is to make the record, shall, if the instruments have affixed to them any stamp purporting to be in accordance with any law of the United S…

County recorders shall accept form books or blanks from any incorporated water users’ association organized to secure the benefits of an act of Congress approved June 17, 1902, known as the “Reclamation Act,” to be used for the purpose of recording the following: (a) Agreements w…

(a) If any military veteran or any person authorized to receive a certified copy of a record pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 6107 requests the recordation in any county in this state of any military discharge document, including a veteran’s service form DD…

A deed, instrument, or other document related to a conveyance that is subject to Section 8560 of the Public Resources Code shall not be recorded without a certificate from the State Lands Commission.

For services performed by the recorder’s office, the county recorder shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.

As used in this code, the word “folio” means 100 words. Each figure, character, symbol, and initial, excluding punctuation marks, shall be regarded as a word for the purpose of computing fees by a recorder.

(a) The fee for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) for recording the first page and three dollars ($3) for each additional page, to reimburse the county for the costs of services…