(1) A document or a certified copy of a document may be recorded without acknowledgment if the document:
(a) was executed under law existing at the time of execution;
(b) evidences or affects title to real property; and
(c) was issued under the authority of:
(i) the United States, another state, a court of record, a foreign government, or an Indian tribe; or
(ii) the state or a political subdivision of the state and the document:
(A) was executed on or before July 1, 1988; or
(B) has affixed the Great Seal in accordance with Subsection 67-1a-2(1)(f).
(2) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(c)(ii), a document or a certified copy of a document executed under the authority of the state or a political subdivision of the state may not be recorded unless it includes a certificate of acknowledgment or jurat.