Title 18, Clerks Of Courts

(1) The county clerk has the following duties in regard to revenue:(1) [Deleted by 2023 amendment.](2) [Deleted by 2023 amendment.](3) [Deleted by 2023 amendment.](4) Perform the acts in relation to state revenue prescribed in title 8, chapter 19, title 9, chapters 2 and 3, title…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any law or public, private, special or local act to the contrary, no county clerk shall serve as clerk of a court with probate jurisdiction. In any county in which the county clerk is performing this function, the duties as to administration of estates and…

(a) The county clerk has the duty to enter in particular books, to be provided and kept for that purpose only, every guardian's first account of the guardian's ward's estate, received into the guardian's hands and possession, and each annual account of profits and disbursements a…

(a) The county clerk has the duty to take the probate or acknowledgment of all deeds and other instruments that are entitled to registration by law, and to certify the same for registration, and to demand and receive the state tax thereon, as specified in title 67, chapter 4, par…

(a) The county clerk has the following duties as to marriages:(1) To endorse on or append to the marriage license the form of the return; and(2) To register, in a well-bound book, the names of the parties, and the date of the issuance of a marriage license, and to copy immediatel…

(a) The county clerk has the duty to record in well-bound books all letters testamentary and of administration, all guardian appointments and all settlements made by the clerk with guardians and personal representatives. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a po…

The county clerk is required to perform such other duties as are, or may be, by law required of the county clerk.

(a) Whenever the county clerk is incompetent, because of interest or relationship, to do or perform any official act required by law to be done by the county clerk, it shall be lawful and is the duty of the county mayor or appropriate judge to do and perform the act. (b) When the…

The county clerks are authorized and empowered to take depositions in any legal proceeding to the same extent and after the same manner as notaries public, and in taking such depositions the clerks shall attest the depositions under their official seals, and for such services sha…

(a) (1) The county clerks are authorized and empowered to take affidavits and administer oaths for general purposes to the same extent as judges of the courts of general sessions and notaries public.(2) They shall attest the affidavits and oaths under their official seals or the …

If the office of the county clerk becomes vacant due to death, resignation or removal, the duties of the county clerk shall be temporarily discharged by the chief deputy, or deputy designated as temporary successor by the county clerk in writing, until a successor county clerk is…