2007 Minnesota Statutes

508.38 FORMS OF RECORDS ADOPTED.
Instruments affecting the title to land, filed with the registrar, shall be numbered by the
registrar consecutively, to the extent practicable and the registrar shall endorse upon each
instrument over the registrar's official name, OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR OF TITLES, ...
COUNTY, MINNESOTA, CERTIFIED FILED ON, together with the date, hour, and minute
when the instrument is filed, the document number thereof, and a reference to the proper certificate
of title. Instruments shall be copied or reproduced as provided by section 15.17, as amended.
Instruments shall then be returned in person or by mail to the party who presented the instruments
for filing or to any other party to whom the registrar is directed to deliver the instruments. When
the memorial of any instrument is made upon any certificate, the date, number, and time of filing
thereof shall also be endorsed upon the certificate. All records and papers relating to registered
land in the office of the registrar, shall be open to the inspection of the public at such times and
under such 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 the same. 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 508.82.
History: (8284) RL s 3406; 1905 c 305 s 37; 1961 c 12 s 1; 1978 c 500 s 1; 1986 c 444;
1994 c 388 art 3 s 10; 1998 c 314 s 8; 1999 c 11 art 1 s 18; 2005 c 4 s 123