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SC Code § 30-5-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-40. Validation of certain instruments executed between May 11, 1972 and June 22, 1973.

 (1) Any deed or other instrument purporting to convey an interest in or lien upon real estate executed after May 11, 1972 and prior to June 22, 1973, which in all other respects meets the requirements of law, whether executed within or without this State, and whether or not such instrument was executed in the presence of and subscribed by two or more witnesses, as provided in Section 27-7-10, is hereby validated as to execution from the time of such execution and entitled to recordation if:  (a) The execution thereof was acknowledged in a form substantially identical to the forms set forth in Section 26-3-70, Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act; or  (b) The execution thereof was acknowledged in a form conforming substantially to the provisions of Section 30-5-30, subsection (3), as amended in 1972.  (2) The recordation of any such instrument is hereby validated and declared to have constituted legal notice from the time of such recordation, if such instrument complies with the recording of statutes of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-51.1; 1973 (58) 639.
SC Code § 30-5-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-50. Effect of failure of officer to state service serial number.

 No instrument otherwise entitled to admission to record shall be denied record on account of the failure of the officer taking the probate to state his service serial number.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-53; 1952 Code Section 60-53; 1944 (43) 1323.
SC Code § 30-5-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-60. Validity of instruments recorded without impressed seals of officers administering oaths.

 Any instrument heretofore or hereafter recorded in this State, which does not have affixed the impressed seal of the authorized officer who administered the oath or affirmation contained therein, shall be valid and constitute notice as though such impressed seal were affixed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-54; 1963 (53) 89.
SC Code § 30-5-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-70. Recording of instrument when affidavit of subscribing witness cannot be procured.

 When the affidavit of a subscribing witness cannot be had by reason of the death, insanity or absence from the State of such witness, any such instrument may be recorded upon proof of such fact and of the handwriting of the parties who signed the instrument and of the subscribing witnesses by proper affidavit, the proof in every case to be recorded with the instrument.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-55; 1952 Code Section 60-55; 1942 Code Section 3632; 1932 Code Section 3632; Civ. C. '22 Section 2176; Civ. C. '12 Section 1352; Civ. C. '02 Section 948; G. S. 768; R. S. 818; 1880 (17) 319; 1889 (20) 367; 1908 (25) 104; 1909 (26) 84; 1910 (26) 621.
SC Code § 30-5-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-80. Auditor's endorsement required before recordation of deeds.

 Before any deed of conveyance of real property, including timber deeds, timber leases and contracts of conveyance of timber, can be placed on record in the office of the register of deeds or clerk of court, it must have thereon the endorsement of the county auditor that it has been entered of record in his office.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-56; 1952 Code Section 60-56; 1942 Code Section 3634; 1932 Code Section 3634; Civ. C. '22 Section 2178; Civ. C. '12 Section 1354; Civ. C. '02 Section 949; R. S. 918; 1881 (17) 1015; 1937 (40) 105.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-90. Recordation of marriage settlements, conveyances, mortgages, and other writings.

 The register of deeds is required to record in the order of the times at which they may be brought to his office, all marriage settlements and all conveyances and mortgages, renunciations of dower and other writings concerning the titles to lands situate in his county which may be lodged with him to be recorded if the execution of any such writing shall be proved by affidavit of a subscribing witness, or otherwise, as herein provided. Every such writing shall be recorded within one month after its lodgment and the recording shall bear even date with the lodgment. On every such writing shall be endorsed a certificate, to be signed by the register or his deputy, specifying the time when and book and page where it was recorded.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-57; 1952 Code Section 60-57; 1942 Code Section 3635; 1932 Code Section 3635; Civ. C. '22 Section 2179; Civ. C. '12 Section 1355; Civ. C. '02 Section 950; G. S. 769; R. S. 820; 1839 (11) 115; 1928 (35) 1185; 1972 (57) 2632.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-100. Procedure for transfer of recording when instrument was recorded in wrong county.

 (1) When any instrument conveying an interest in real property is recorded in one county and it is subsequently determined that property described therein is in fact located in another county, a copy of the instrument certified by the clerk of court of the county of original recordation may be recorded in the county of correct property location and such recording shall thereafter constitute full legal notice according to the tenor of the instrument being recorded.  (2) When the recordation of any instrument is transferred from one county to another in the manner authorized in subsection (1), there shall be inscribed on the certified copy of the instrument a certificate of the county auditor or his counterpart that the property described in the rerecorded instrument is in fact located in the county of rerecordation.  (3) The procedures provided for in this section for the transfer of recordation of instruments shall in no way affect the existing law which permits the recording of an original instrument in more than one county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-57.2; 1973 (58) 189.
SC Code § 30-5-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-110. Memorandum of livery of seizin shall be recorded.

 When any deeds or conveyances shall be acknowledged or proved as provided in this chapter in order to their being recorded, the memorandum of delivery and seizin thereupon made in deeds of feoffment shall in like manner be acknowledged or proved and shall be recorded with the deeds. Any such memorandum proved and acknowledged as aforesaid shall be taken and deemed a sufficient livery and seizin of the land or other real estate conveyed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-58; 1952 Code Section 60-58; 1942 Code Section 8885; 1932 Code Section 8885; Civ. C. '22 Section 5316; Civ. C. '12 Section 3546; Civ. C. '02 Section 2460; G. S. 1780; R. S. 1972; 1785 (7) 233.
SC Code § 30-5-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-120. Validation of certain conveyances not endorsed by auditor.

 All conveyances of real estate which were recorded by a clerk of court or register of deeds of any of the several counties between December 14, 1876 and May 1, 1882, without the endorsement of the auditor of the county, have heretofore been declared to be as valid and binding, to all intents and purposes, as if such conveyances had been endorsed by the auditor of the county, as required by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-59; 1952 Code Section 60-59; 1942 Code Section 8883; 1932 Code Section 8883; Civ. C. '22 Section 5314; Civ. C. '12 Section 3544; Civ. C. '02 Section 2458; R. S. 1970; 1877 (16) 321.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-130. Mortgages of leaseholds and other interests in real estate.

 Mortgages of leaseholds or other interests in real estate within the State and mortgages of dwellings or structures thereon, whether in one instrument or in separate instruments, shall be deemed to be mortgages of real estate and shall be recorded in the same manner as mortgages of real estate. The notice of such record shall be the same as the notice of the record of real estate mortgages and to the same extent. And the notice of the record of all mortgages of leaseholds or other interests in real estate in the State and of dwellings and structures thereon which have heretofore been recorded in the same manner as real estate mortgages shall be the same notice as given by the record of real estate mortgages and to the same extent.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-60; 1952 Code Section 60-60; 1943 (43) 148.
SC Code § 30-5-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-140. Validation of certain recordations bearing date prior to March 1, 1909.

 The probate of any and all deeds or other instruments in writing bearing date prior to March 1, 1909, whether recorded or not on that day, which are in compliance with the requirements of Sections 30-5-30 and 30-5-70 are validated and their probate confirmed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-61; 1952 Code Section 60-61; 1942 Code Section 3632; 1932 Code Section 3632; Civ. C. '22 Section 2176; Civ. C. '12 Section 1352; Civ. C. '02 Section 948; G. S. 768; R. S. 818; 1880 (17) 319; 1889 (20) 367; 1908 (25) 104; 1909 (26) 84; 1910 (26) 621.
SC Code § 30-5-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-150. Validation of certain instruments.

 All such instruments which have been executed and the execution thereof proved by acknowledgment, as provided in 1944 Act No. 473 (1944 (43) 1323) since January 1, 1940 are hereby confirmed and ratified and the recordation of such instruments declared to be legal notice of the existence thereof as fully as if they had been duly executed and probated in conformity with the law of this State as it then existed with reference to the probate and recording of written instruments.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-62; 1952 Code Section 60-62; 1944 (43) 1323.
SC Code § 30-5-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-180. Recording United States tax commissioners' titles in Beaufort County.

 The holders of all certificates or titles issued by or under the authority of the United States direct tax commissioners for this State shall be allowed to record them in the office of the clerk of court for the county of Beaufort. When such certificates shall have been so recorded, such recording shall be deemed to be a legal notice of title to the land described in them.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-65; 1952 Code Section 60-65; 1942 Code Section 8888; 1932 Code Section 8888; Civ. C. '22 Section 5319; Civ. C. '12 Section 3549; Civ. C. '02 Section 2463; G. S. 1783; R. S. 1975; 1868 (14) 14.
SC Code § 30-5-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-190. Recordation of proceedings in bankruptcy.

 A certified copy of a petition, with schedules omitted, commencing a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Act of the United States, of the decree of adjudication in such proceeding or of the order approving the bond of the trustees appointed in such proceeding may be filed, indexed and recorded in the office of the register of deeds or clerk of court in those counties in which the office of register of deeds has been abolished in the same manner as deeds. The register of deeds or the clerk of court in those counties in which the office of register of deeds has been abolished shall file, index under the name of the bankrupt and record such certified copies filed for record in the same manner as deeds, for which services he shall be entitled to the same fees as are provided by law for filing, indexing and recording deeds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-66; 1952 Code Section 60-66; 1942 Code Section 3622-2; 1939 (41) 185.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-200. Certificate on recorded instruments.

 Whenever any instrument in writing required by law to be filed and recorded has been so recorded, the clerk or register shall endorse on such instrument a certificate showing the date and the book and page where recorded and for this certificate no fee shall be charged or collected.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-69; 1952 Code Section 60-69; 1942 Code Section 4939; 1932 Code Section 4939; Civ. C. '22 Section 5735; Civ. C. '12 Section 4216; Civ. C. '02 Section 3106; 1898 (22) 691.
SC Code § 30-5-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-210. Use of photostatic or other photographic method of recording in county with city over 70,000.

 In all counties in this State containing a city having a population of more than seventy thousand according to the official United States census in which the governing body of the county by resolution shall so provide and in which such governing body shall procure and furnish the necessary equipment therefor, the register of deeds shall record all instruments lodged for record, except deeds and mortgages of real estate, and may record all deeds and mortgages of real estate, by making two copies of them by photostatic or other photographic method of copying, one copy to be bound in an appropriate loose-leaf record book complying with the requirements of Section 30-1-170 and kept in a safe place in the office of the recording officer as a master copy and the other copy to be bound in a similar record book and made available for public use and inspection at all times. Such recording shall have all of the legal incidents and effect otherwise provided by the recording laws of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-201; 1952 Code Section 60-201; 1942 (42) 1627.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-220. Use of photostatic or photo recording in any county.

 Photostatic copies or photo-recording copies, duly authenticated by the signature of the clerk of court, or other proper official charged with the duty of recording legal papers, of any county in this State shall be sufficient compliance with the law with reference to the recording of all legal papers. Such recording shall have all of the legal incidents and effect otherwise provided by the recording laws of this State and copies of legal papers so recorded shall be admissible in evidence as such record.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-202; 1952 Code Section 60-202; 1946 (44) 1525; 1953 (48) 225.
SC Code § 30-5-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-230. Recordation of plats or copies of plats of real property.

 It shall be lawful for the owner of any real property or any interest therein or for any holder of a lien thereon to have a plat thereof, or a blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy of a plat thereof recorded in the office of the register of deeds or in the office of the clerk of court in those counties in which the office of register of deeds does not exist, of the county in which such property, or any part thereof, is situated. When any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy of such plat is affixed or filed in the book provided by any such officer for that purpose and duly indexed, it shall be deemed a recording thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-204; 1952 Code Section 60-204; 1942 Code Section 8875-3; 1934 (38) 1503; 1936 (39) 1345, 1589.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 30-5-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-240. Recordation of plats or blueprints of subdivisions.

 When real property is subdivided for the purpose of sale and is sold or offered for sale according to a plat of a survey thereof, the person first offering such property for sale shall file a plat or blueprint of such survey in the office of the clerk of court of the county in which such real estate is situate. In the event that the owner fails to comply with the above provision he shall become liable to the purchaser or to any subsequent grantee of the land, or of any portion thereof, in such sum as shall be found necessary to procure and record such plat. Such sum shall be recovered by any such grantee provided he be interested as owner of all or a portion of the subdivided property at the time of the institution of the action for the enforcement of the liability hereby created.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-207; 1952 Code Section 60-207; 1942 Code Section 8875-4; 1936 (39) 1473.
SC Code § 30-5-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-250. Effect of reference in deed or other instrument to recorded plats.

 When any recorded deed, mortgage or other instrument conveying an interest in, or creating a lien on, real property, refers to the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate delineated or shown on any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy of such plat, recorded and indexed as herein authorized, and such deed, mortgage or other instrument states the office, book and page of recordation of any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy thereof, such reference shall be equivalent to setting forth in extenso in such deed, mortgage or other instrument the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate as may be delineated or shown on any such plat or blueprint, tracing photostatic or other copy thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-208; 1952 Code Section 60-208; 1942 Code Section 8875-3; 1934 (38) 1503; 1936 (39) 1345, 1589.
SC Code § 30-5-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 5 - Recording Generally|Section 30-5-260. Validation of previous recordings of plats.

 Any and all such plats or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other such copies of such plats heretofore affixed or filed in the manner provided in Section 30-5-230 and duly indexed are declared to have been duly filed and recorded. The reference in any deed, mortgage or other instrument heretofore recorded to the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate as may be delineated or shown on any such plat or blueprint, tracing, photostatic or other copy thereof, heretofore affixed and filed in the manner provided in Section 30-5-230 and duly indexed, shall have the same effect as if the boundaries, metes, courses or distances of such real estate were set forth in extenso in such deed, mortgage or other instrument.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-209; 1952 Code Section 60-209; 1942 Code Section 8875-3; 1934 (38) 1503; 1936 (39) 1345, 1589.
SC Code § 30-6-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 6 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 30-6-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act".  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 210, Section 2, eff May 13, 2008.
SC Code § 30-6-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 30 - Public Records|Chapter 6 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 30-6-20. Definitions.

 In this chapter:  (1) "Document" means information that is:  (a) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and  (b) eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the register.  (2) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.  (3) "Electronic document" means a document that is received by the register in an electronic form.  (4) "Electronic Recording Committee" means a committee composed of seven members and charged with developing the standards to implement this chapter. The Secretary of State shall serve as the chairman of the committee and the Governor shall appoint six members as follows:  (a) one register from a county with a population greater than 100,000 according to the last decennial census, upon the recommendation of the South Carolina Clerks of Court and Registers of Deeds;  (b) one register from a county with a population greater than 33,000 and less than 100,000 according to the last decennial census, upon the recommendation of the South Carolina Clerks of Court and Registers of Deeds;  (c) one register from a county with a population less than 33,000 according to the last decennial census, upon recommendation of the South Carolina Clerks of Court and Registers of Deeds;  (d) one representative of the title insurance industry, upon the recommendation of the Palmetto Land Title Association;  (e) one real estate professional, upon the recommendation of the South Carolina Realtors Association; and  (f) one attorney whose practice includes the real estate area of the law, upon the recommendation of the South Carolina Bar Association.  (5) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.  (6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.  (7) "Register" means the official, including the register of deeds, register of mense conveyances, or clerk of court, charged with the recording and indexing duties in Chapter 5 of Title 30.  (8) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 210, Section 2, eff May 13, 2008.