California Government Code ARTICLE 3 - Documents to be Recorded

• Section 27279.
  (a) “Instrument,” as used in this chapter, means a written paper signed by a person or persons transferring the title to, or giving a lien on...
• Section 27279.1.
  (a) The recorders of San Bernardino County and Orange County may accept, in lieu of a written paper document, a digitized image of a recordable instrument...
• Section 27279.2.
  For purposes of Section 27279.1, the requester and addressee for delivery of a recorded image may record a digitized image of a recordable instrument if...
• Section 27279.3.
  (a) A requester and addressee for delivery of a recorded image may record a digitized image of a recordable instrument if the requester meets the conditions...
• Section 27279.4.
  (a) The California Attorney General shall appoint an Electronic Recordation Task Force consisting of voluntary representatives from governmental agencies and industry groups specified in subdivision (b)...
• Section 27280.
  (a) Any instrument or judgment affecting the title to or possession of real property may be recorded pursuant to this chapter.(b) Any instrument or document submitted for...
• Section 27280.5.
  The names of parties required to be indexed appearing in any instrument, paper, or notice presented for recordation shall be legibly signed, typed, or printed...
• Section 27281.
  Deeds or grants conveying any interest in or easement upon real estate to a political corporation or governmental agency for public purposes shall not be...
• Section 27281.5.
  (a) Any restriction imposed upon real property on or after January 1, 1982, which restricts either the ability of the owner of real property to convey...
• Section 27282.
  (a) The following documents may be recorded without acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgment, or further proof:(1) A judgment affecting the title to or possession of real property, authenticated...
• Section 27283.
  The record of all notices of location of mining claims made prior to March 9, 1897 in the proper office without acknowledgment, or certificate of...
• Section 27284.
  Affidavits showing work or posting of notices upon mining claims may be recorded in the recorder’s office of the county where the mining claims are...
• Section 27285.
  The following documents may be recorded without acknowledgment or further proof:(a) Letters patent from the United States or from the state, executed and authenticated pursuant to...
• Section 27286.
  If letters patent have been lost or are beyond the control of any party deraigning title from them, or if for any reason they remain...
• Section 27287.
  Unless it belongs to the class provided for in either Sections 27282 to 27286, inclusive, or Section 1202 or 1203, of the Civil Code, or...
• Section 27288.
  If the instrument is an agreement for sale, lease, option agreement, deposit receipt, commission receipt, or affidavit which quotes or refers to an agreement for...
• Section 27288.1.
  All documents described in this section now or hereafter authorized by law to be recorded in the official records of a county shall contain the...
• Section 27288.2.
  Pursuant to Section 5029 of the Public Resources Code, after March 15, 1993, the county recorder shall record a certified resolution establishing an historical resources...
• Section 27289.
  Whenever a notice is required by law to be recorded for any purpose, it shall be signed by the person giving notice or his agent.(Added...
• Section 27290.
  An instrument proved and certified pursuant to Sections 1198 and 1199 of the Civil Code may be recorded in the proper office only if the...
• Section 27291.
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 9 of the Commercial Code or any other provision of law, a financing...
• Section 27293.
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if an instrument intended for record is executed or certified in whole or in part in a language...
• Section 27294.
  In all cases the recorder shall endorse the amount of his fee for recordation on the instrument recorded.(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)
• Section 27295.
  Where real property acquired by a municipality or a redevelopment agency is to be transferred in accordance with an official redevelopment plan any contract for...
• Section 27296.
  (a) The county recorder in each county shall complete a yearly statistical report of documents, including electronically transmitted documents, recorded and filed on the form described...
• Section 27297.
  For purposes of this article, a certificate describing real property and any lien thereon claimed pursuant to law for the costs of abatement of a...
• Section 27297.5.
  (a) Upon recordation of an abstract of judgment or other document creating an involuntary lien affecting the title to real property, unless the county recorder has...
• Section 27297.6.
  (a) (1) Following adoption of an authorizing resolution by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County Recorder, or a designee or designees authorized...
• Section 27297.6.a.
  (a) Following adoption of an authorizing resolution by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County Recorder may, within 30 days of recordation...
• Section 27297.7.
  (a) Following adoption of an authorizing resolution by the board of supervisors, the county recorder may, within 30 days of recordation of a deed, quitclaim deed,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018