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Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-24-204

Authority of county register

Acts 2007, ch. 420, § 2.

(1) A county register: Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with standards established by the information systems council established under § 4-3-5501;

(2) May receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents;

(3) May provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means;

(4) Who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index;

(5) May convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form;

(6) May convert into electronic form information recorded before the county register began to record electronic documents;

(7) May accept electronically any fee or tax that the county register is authorized to collect;

(8) May agree with other officials of a state or a political subdivision of a state, or of the United States, on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees and taxes; and

(9) May refuse to record any document transmitted electronically to the county register for recording under this part on and after July 1, 2007, that does not comply with § 66-24-101.

(10) Any electronic documents or digitized images accepted by the county register prior to July 1, 2007, are deemed to be recorded properly and to impart constructive notice.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.