§ 36-2-11-3 — Location of office; business hours and days; state of emergency

(a) The recorder shall keep the recorder's office
in a building provided at the county seat by the county executive. The
recorder shall keep the recorder's office open for business during
regular business hours on every day of the year except Sundays and
legal holidays. However, the recorder may close the recorder's office
on days specified by the county executive according to the custom and
practice of the county.
(b) If a county office is closed for three (3) or more business days
pursuant to an executive order issued under IC 10-14-3, the county
executive and the county recorder shall provide notice to the public on
an Internet web site maintained by or on behalf of the county executive
and the recorder. The notice must be provided to the public within five
(5) business days of the executive order being issued. The notice may
include information on how the public can submit documents to the
recorder's office in paper, electronic, or digital formats and how
payment must be provided for services rendered by a specific county
office.
(c) A county office's failure to comply with subsection (b) shall not:
(1) invalidate any instrument submitted to the recorder pursuant
to:
(A) IC 29-1-7-23(d);
(B) IC 32-21; or
(C) this chapter; or
(2) subject the recorder, the recorder's office, or any county office
personnel to civil liability under IC 34-13-3 or any other provision
of Indiana law.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-3-2-1
part; 17-3-39-6.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1. Amended by
P.L.127-2017, SEC.71; P.L.185-2021, SEC.64.