§ 14-15-406 — Recording certified copies of bankruptcy proceedings

(a) The recorder of deeds of any county where any land in which a bankrupt or a debtor in any proceeding under the act of United States Congress relating to bankruptcy has any interest is located shall receive for record, and record, a certified copy of any pleading, decree, order, or other paper filed in the proceeding which any act of the United States Congress provides may be recorded in the records of such a county. (b) The record shall impart notice to all persons of the bankruptcy proceeding and of the contents of the certified copy. (c) The certified copy of the pleading, decree, order, or other paper shall be recorded and indexed in the record of deeds in the office of the recorder in the name of the bankrupt or debtor as grantor, and in the name of the trustee or receiver in bankruptcy or other person, if any, to whom the interest, or any part thereof, may pass by virtue of law or of the decree, order, or other paper as grantee. (d) The recorder shall charge and collect the same fee for filing and recording any such document as is provided by law for filing, indexing, and recording deeds.

Legislative History

Acts 1959, No. 110, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 16-120.