Title 11, Counties

1. Any grantee or grantee's authorized agent who presents a deed in the office of the county recorder shall certify on the face of the deed one of the following: a. A statement of the full consideration paid for the property conveyed. b. A statement designating one of the exempti…

The following instruments may be recorded by the recorder without the auditor's certificate referred to in section 11-18-02: 1. A sheriff's or referee's certificate of sale on execution or on foreclosure of a mortgage. 2. A mineral deed conveying oil, gas, and other minerals in o…

The recorder shall maintain a seal and make an impression of the same upon each instrument to which the recorder attaches the recorder's official signature. The seal shall bear the following inscription: Recorder of _________________ County.

The recorder shall charge and collect the following fees: 1. For recording an instrument affecting title to real estate: a. Deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments not specifically provided for in this subsection, twenty dollars for documents containing one to six pages and s…

The recorder shall maintain an accounting record of fees for services rendered. Within three days after the close of each calendar month and also at the end of the recorder's term of office, the recorder shall file with the county auditor a statement under oath showing the fees t…

The recorder shall keep a tract index of the deeds, contracts, and other instruments that are not merely liens and a tract index of the mortgages and other liens affecting or relating to the title to real property. The indexes must be in substantially the following forms: FORM OF…

The recorder shall keep separate grantor and grantee indexes of the deeds, contracts, and other instruments not merely liens, and separate grantor and grantee indexes of the mortgages and other instruments which are liens affecting or relating to the title to real property. Such …

The recorder, when any deed, patent, mortgage, receiver's receipt, contract, notice of lis pendens, copy of decree, or other instrument affecting the title to, or creating a lien upon, any real estate within the county is filed in the recorder's office, shall write or stamp there…

The recorder shall keep a record known as "The Reception Record". The record must be ruled in parallel columns showing: 1. The document number. 2. The date of recording. 3. The name of the grantor. 4. The name of the grantee. 5. The character of the instrument. 6. The book and pa…

When an instrument affecting the title to or creating a lien upon real estate within the county is numbered and entered in the reception record and indexed, it must be recorded or filed as provided by law. The recorder shall provide recording information on the instrument as requ…

The provisions of sections 11-18-09, 11-18-10, and 11-18-11 shall not extend to, nor cover the indexing and filing of, a financing statement. Such instrument shall be indexed and filed as provided in chapter 41-09.

The recorder in each county in this state, unless otherwise earlier permitted by law, shall remove from the files in the recorder's office, and destroy, all chattel mortgages, agricultural processor's liens, agricultural supplier's liens, agister's liens, mechanic's liens, repair…

The notary seal on any document filed with a recorder may be: 1. In either a stamped or an imprinted form; or 2. An official stamp, as defined in section 44-06.1-01.

Within thirty days of the issuance of any judgment or final decision in a court action or arbitration proceeding which establishes a boundary for real property that deviates from the existing boundaries established by the United States public land surveys, surveys using the North…

The county treasurer shall establish a document preservation fund to receive the portion of the recording fees authorized by section 11-18-05. The revenue in this fund may be used only for contracting for and purchasing equipment and software for a document preservation, storage,…

1. A document that includes a social security number may not be filed or recorded with the recorder unless a law requires the social security number to be in the document in order to be filed or recorded. A document that is required to contain a social security number may be reco…