1997 Minnesota Statutes

     508A.38 Forms of records adopted. 

    Every instrument affecting the title to land, filed with 
 the registrar pursuant to sections 508A.01 to 508A.85, shall be 
 numbered by the registrar who shall endorse upon it the number 
 of it, together with the date, hour, and minute when the same is 
 filed, and a reference to its proper CPT.  Every instrument 
 shall be retained by the registrar and regarded as registered 
 from the time of filing except that the instruments may be 
 copied or reproduced as provided by section 15.17, and the 
 copies or reproductions of them substituted for the originals 
 with the equal force and effect as they have.  The originals may 
 be then destroyed as provided by section 15.17.  When the 
 memorial of any instrument is made upon any CPT, the date, 
 number, and time of filing of it shall also be endorsed upon the 
 CPT.  All records and papers relating to registered land in the 
 office of the registrar shall be open to the inspection of the 
 public at the times and under the conditions as the court may 
 prescribe.  Duplicates of all instruments, voluntary or 
 involuntary, filed and registered with the registrar, may be 
 presented with the originals, and shall thereupon be endorsed 
 with the file number, and other memoranda on the originals, and 
 may be attested and sealed by the registrar, and returned to the 
 person presenting it.  The registrar shall furnish certified 
 copies of the instruments filed and registered in the 
 registrar's office, upon payment of a fee as provided in section 
 357.18.  The court shall adopt general forms of memorials and 
 notations to be used by the registrars in registering the common 
 forms of conveyance and other instruments. 

    HIST: 1982 c 396 s 31; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 388 art 3 s 11