Title 25, Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

The board of supervisors shall have power to re-establish any of its records that may be lost, destroyed, or stolen, in the same manner as other courts. It may, of its own motion and without petition or process, re-establish any levy for taxes or other public or legislative matte…

Whenever any outstanding bond or warrant of this state or any county, city, town, village, or levee board shall become so far mutilated as to be unfit for circulation, or shall be lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be issued by the officer authorized by law to issue such …

Such duplicate shall correspond in number, date, amount, and unpaid coupons, if any, with the original bond or warrant, and shall in all respects be a copy thereof, and shall have indorsed on its face the word “duplicate,” together with the date of its issuance.

A duplicate shall not be issued for a mutilated bond or warrant until the original shall be delivered to such officer, and not until an examination has been made by such officer and the treasurer on whom it may be drawn, or who is to pay the same, to see if it be genuine and have…

(1) A duplicate for a lost or destroyed bond shall not issue until there shall have been filed with the officer an affidavit and a bond. The affidavit must be that of some credible person knowing the facts, and it must set forth the ownership of such bond, the number of unpaid co…

(1) Any officer issuing duplicates of bonds shall keep a record showing:(a) The numbers, dates and amounts of such mutilated, lost or destroyed bonds and of the coupons thereto attached;(b) The date of the issuance of the duplicate;(c) The name of the person to whom the duplicate…

When a state warrant has been lost or destroyed before having been paid by the State Treasurer, and a photocopy of such warrant is presented for payment to the State Treasurer by a qualified state depository bank or a Federal Reserve bank, a duplicate warrant need not be issued i…

The mutilation, loss, or destruction of the registration or poll-books in any county shall be remedied as provided in the chapter on “Registration and Elections.”

(a) Whenever the record of deeds of any county, or any book or part of a book thereof shall be destroyed, stolen, or lost, the same may be remedied–(a) By the re-record of the original of whatever may have been therein recorded; or(b) By the recording of decrees adjudicating the …

A lost, stolen, or destroyed record shall not constitute constructive notice longer than three (3) years from the loss, theft, or destruction thereof, unless within that time the instrument shall be again placed on the record, or proceedings be begun to perfect the record. In all…

In any county in which the record of deeds, or any material part thereof, may be destroyed, the chancellor may examine into the matter; and if he find any abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts from said records existing after such destruction, he shall appoint two (2) persons l…

Such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or the copy thereof if so procured, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the chancery court and copies recorded and arranged in such form as the board of supervisors may direct. In case the originals have been lost or destroye…

Where any part of the court record was recorded or enrolled in a book, and the record thereof is stolen, lost or destroyed – as the record of wills, register of claims, minute-book, judgment-roll, or the like – the court shall direct its record or enrollment anew, as of the date …