2006 Minnesota Statutes

600.23 RECORDERS AND COURT ADMINISTRATORS.
    Subdivision 1. Deposit of papers. Every county recorder, upon being paid the legal fees
therefor, shall receive and deposit in the office any instruments or papers which shall be offered
for that purpose and, if required, shall give to the person depositing the same a receipt therefor.
    Subd. 2. Endorsed and filed. Such instruments or papers shall be filed by the officer
receiving the same, and so endorsed as to indicate their general nature, the names of the parties
thereto, and time when received, and shall be deposited and kept by the officer and successors in
office in the same manner as the officer's official papers, but in a place separate therefrom.
    Subd. 3. Withdrawal. Papers and instruments so deposited shall not be made public or
withdrawn from the office except upon the written order of the person depositing the same, or the
person's executors or administrators, or on the order of some court for the purpose of being read
in the court, and then to be returned to the office.
    Subd. 4. Certificate that instrument cannot be found. The certificate of any officer to
whom the legal custody of any instrument belongs, stating that the officer has made diligent
search for such instrument and that it cannot be found, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact so
certified to in all cases, matters, and proceedings.
History: (9865,9866,9867,9868) RL s 4711,4712,4713,4714; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1980 c 603 s
30; 1986 c 444; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82; 1994 c 636 art 8 s 13