2004 Minnesota Statutes

     386.03 Reception books. 

    Every county recorder shall keep two books, to be 
 denominated, respectively, the grantor's and grantee's reception 
 book, each page of which shall be divided into seven columns, in 
 the following forms: 

  
 Date of                           To Whom           Book
 Reception,               Where    Delivered  Fees   and
 Year,   Grantor Grantee Situated    after  Received Page
 Day,                              Record            Record-
 Hour                                                ed and
 and Minute                                          Kind of
                                                     Instru-
                                                     ment
 Date of                           To Whom           Book
 Reception,              Where     Delivered  Fees   and
 Year,   Grantee Grantor Situated    after  Received Page
 Day,                              Record            Record-
 Hour                                                ed and
 and Minute                                          Kind of
                                                     Instru-
                                                     ment

    The recorder shall enter in each book, in the order and 
 manner aforesaid, as soon as the same are received, all deeds 
 and other instruments left, and all copies left, as cautions or 
 notices of liens, authorized by law to be recorded.  The pages 
 of each of the reception books shall be lettered in alphabetical 
 order, a convenient number of consecutive pages being allotted 
 to each letter of the alphabet, and every entry made therein 
 shall be made in the grantor's reception book under the initial 
 letter of the grantor's surname, and in the grantee's reception 
 book under the grantee's surname, and all such entries shall 
 appear therein consecutively and in the order as to time in 
 which the instruments were received.  The recorder shall make an 
 entry in the record immediately after the copy of each 
 instrument recorded specifying the time of the day, month, and 
 year when the same was recorded. 

    HIST: (875) RL s 533; 1907 c 442 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 
 444