§ 34-1-119 — Duties of county clerk generally

Wyoming § 34-1-119

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 34: Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions
• Ch. 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) The county clerk of each county within this state
shall receive and record at length all deeds, mortgages,
conveyances, patents, certificates and instruments left with him
for that purpose, and he shall endorse on every such instrument
the day and hour on which it was filed for record. The county
clerk shall not record any document until the address of the
grantee, mortgagee or assignee of the mortgagee is furnished to
the county clerk, but this requirement shall not affect the
validity of the recording of any instrument except to the extent
provided in W.S. 34-1-142(b). Only instruments which are the
originally signed documents, including electronic documents
recorded pursuant to the Uniform Real Property Electronic
Recording Act, W.S. 34-1-401 through 34-1-407, or properly
certified or authenticated copies thereof may be properly
recorded. A document is properly certified if in compliance with
Rule 902 of the Wyoming Rules of Evidence or other applicable
rule or statute.
(b) Whenever a transfer on death deed is filed with the
county clerk pursuant to W.S. 2-18-103, the county clerk shall
furnish the following information to the Wyoming department of
health, division of healthcare financing within fourteen (14)
days of recording the deed:
(i) The name of the grantor;
(ii) The name of the grantee;
(iii) The legal description of the property being
transferred.