California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - Duties Generally

• Section 27201.
  (a) (1) (A) The recorder shall, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute,...
• Section 27201.5.
  (a) A notary acknowledgment shall be deemed complete for recording purposes without a photographically reproducible official seal of the notary public if the seal, as described...
• Section 27202.
  Upon the request of any officer of the United States, the county recorder shall record instruments to which the United States is a party without...
• Section 27203.
  Any recorder to whom an instrument proved or acknowledged according to law or any paper or notice which may by law be recorded is delivered...
• Section 27203.5.
  If the recorder willfully and maliciously commits any of the acts described in Section 27203 or derives a personal financial benefit from committing any of...
• Section 27204.
  Any person who receives a form from the recorder pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 27203, stating that the proffered document is unrecordable, and who...
• Section 27205.
  After two years from the date of filing in the recorder’s office of notice of completion of any building or improvement, the contract, plans, specifications...
• Section 27206.
  The county recorder may destroy federal tax liens together with any release of said liens eight years after the lien was filed in his office;...
• Section 27207.
  At the request of the county recorder, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the destruction of any or all of the filed...
• Section 27208.
  If a paper or document has been microfilmed, the county recorder may destroy or otherwise dispose of any paper or document filed with or submitted...
• Section 27210.
  The county recorder may use a printed, stamped or photographically reproduced facsimile signature in certifying to a record in the recorder’s office provided such certification...
• Section 27211.
  The recorder shall keep an official seal of the recorder’s office which shall, when embossed, stamped, impressed or affixed to a certification, show legibly.Such seal...

Last modified: October 22, 2018