Records Water Records and Indexes Uniform Commercial Code Filings 15-1. They contain the date and character of the instrument, book and page, entry number, and legal description. MAPS These are maps of incorporated areas annexed by municipalities. These are loans which use personal property as collateral filed with the county recorder. They include the date due, lenders name and address, mortgagor's name and address, date of mortgage, amount of loan, installment payments, date of installments, contractual agreement, list of personal property held as collateral.
Chattel mortgages are obsolete.
In 1965, chattel mortgages were supplanted by the Uniform Commercial Code and in 1983 all mention of chattel mortgages was removed from the statutes of the county recorder. Mortgages created prior to 1940 may be transferred to the State Archives for permanent storage. These volumes contain verbatim copies of deeds recorded by the county recorder. They contain the book and page number, address of grantee, legal description of property. The index contains separate columns which include the names of plaintiffs in the execution, the defendants in the execution, purchaser at the sale and date of sale, and filing number of document.