08 LC 21
9651
House
Bill 1069
By:
Representatives Williams of the
89th
and Frazier of the
123rd
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 15-6-66 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to grantor-grantee indexes, so as to provide that the clerks of the superior
courts shall include the address of the grantee in certain recorded instruments;
to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 15-6-66 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
grantor-grantee indexes, is amended by revising subsection (a) as
follows:
"(a)
The clerk of the superior court shall provide at the expense of each county a
suitable duplex index book, or a series of books, or a card index, or a
microfilm record, or an electronic data base, or any combination of one or more
of such systems, in which shall be indexed the name of the grantor and
the name and
address of the grantee of every instrument
recorded pursuant to subparagraph (a)(4)(C) of Code Section 15-6-61, such index
to include the character of the instrument, the book or location of the record,
and the date of filing and to include the time of filing if not otherwise
reflected in the record.
The address of
the grantee shall be a street address unless it is impossible or impractical to
provide such information, in which event the address shall be a mailing
address."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.