§ 38-50-102 — Public records - original field notes and plats

(1) The board of
county commissioners for each county is authorized to employ some competent
person, at the expense of the county, to make copies of the original field notes and
plats of surveys of all lands surveyed or to be surveyed after March 14, 1877, by the
officers appointed by the federal government, within their respective counties.

(2) The board of county commissioners shall:

(a) Procure books in which the copies made pursuant to subsection (1) of this
section shall be maintained;

(b) Obtain stationery; and

(c) Fix the compensation of the person employed to procure and make copies
of field notes and plats pursuant to subsection (1) of this section whether by
contract or otherwise which shall be paid out of the county treasury in the same
manner as other expenses are paid.

(3) (a) The copies of field notes and plats made pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the proper
county and shall thereafter be a part of the public records of such county.

(b) Records or copies made and maintained pursuant to this section, when
certified by the county clerk and recorder, shall be evidence in all courts and places
in this state.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire article R&RE, p. 1512, � 46, effective July 1.