2023 Utah Code › Title 17 - Counties › Chapter 21 - Recorder › Section 20 - Recording required -- Recorder may impose requirements on documents to be recorded -- Prerequisites -- Additional fee for noncomplying documents -- Recorder may require tax serial number -- Exceptions -- Requirements for recording final local entity plat.

Effective 7/1/2022
17-21-20.
Recording required -- Recorder may impose requirements on documents to be recorded -- Prerequisites -- Additional fee for noncomplying documents -- Recorder may require tax serial number -- Exceptions -- Requirements for recording final local entity plat.
(1) Subject to Subsections (2), (3), and (4), a county recorder shall record each paper, notice, and instrument required by law to be recorded in the office of the county recorder unless otherwise provided.
(2) Subject to Chapter 21a, Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, each document that is submitted for recording to a county recorder's office shall:
(a) unless otherwise provided by law, be an original or certified copy of the document;
(b) be in English or be accompanied by an accurate English translation of the document;
(c) contain a brief title, heading, or caption on the first page stating the nature of the document;
(d) except as otherwise provided by statute, contain the legal description of the property that is the subject of the document in accordance with Subsection 57-3-105(4);
(e) comply with the requirements of Section 17-21-25 and Subsections 57-3-105(1) and (2);
(f) except as otherwise provided by statute, be notarized with the notary stamp with the seal legible; and
(g) have original signatures.
(3)
(a) Subject to Chapter 21a, Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, a county recorder may require that each paper, notice, and instrument submitted for recording in the county recorder's office:
(i) be on white paper that is 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches in size;
(ii) have a margin of one inch on the left and right sides and at the bottom of each page;
(iii) have a space of 2-1/2 inches down and 4-1/2 inches across the upper right corner of the first page and a margin of one inch at the top of each succeeding page;
(iv) not be on sheets of paper that are continuously bound together at the side, top, or bottom;
(v) not contain printed material on more than one side of each page;
(vi) be printed in black ink and not have text smaller than seven lines of text per vertical inch; and
(vii) be sufficiently legible to make certified copies.
(b) A county recorder who intends to establish requirements under Subsection (3)(a) shall first:
(i) provide formal notice of the requirements; and
(ii) establish and publish an effective date for the requirements that is at least three months after the formal notice under Subsection (3)(b)(i).
(4)
(a) To facilitate the abstracting of an instrument to which a tax identification number is assigned, a county recorder may require that the applicable tax identification number of each parcel described in the instrument be noted on the instrument before the county recorder accepts the instrument for recording.
(b) If a county recorder requires the applicable tax identification number to be on an instrument before the instrument may be recorded:
(i) the county recorder shall post a notice of that requirement in a conspicuous place at the recorder's office;
(ii) the tax identification number may not be considered to be part of the legal description and may be indicated on the margin of the instrument; and
(iii) an error in the tax identification number does not affect the validity of the instrument or effectiveness of the recording.
(5) Subsections (2), (3), and (4) do not apply to:
(a) a map or plat;
(b) a certificate or affidavit of death that a government agency issues;
(c) a military discharge or other record that a branch of the United States military service issues;
(d) a document regarding taxes that is issued by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury;
(e) a document submitted for recording that has been filed with a court and conforms to the formatting requirements established by the court; or
(f) a document submitted for recording that is in a form required by law.
(6)
(a) As used in this Subsection (6):
(i) "Boundary action" has the same meaning as defined in Section 17-23-20.
(ii) "Local entity" has the same meaning as defined in Section 67-1a-6.5.
(b) A person may not submit to a county recorder for recording a plat depicting the boundary of a local entity as the boundary exists as a result of a boundary action, unless:
(i) the plat has been approved under Section 17-23-20 by the county surveyor as a final local entity plat, as defined in Section 17-23-20; and
(ii) the person also submits for recording:
(A) the original notice of an impending boundary action, as defined in Section 67-1a-6.5, for the boundary action for which the plat is submitted for recording;
(B) the original applicable certificate, as defined in Section 67-1a-6.5, issued by the lieutenant governor under Section 67-1a-6.5 for the boundary action for which the plat is submitted for recording; and
(C) each other document required by statute to be submitted for recording with the notice of an impending boundary action and applicable certificate.
(c) Promptly after recording the documents described in Subsection (6)(b) relating to a boundary action, but no later than 10 days after recording, the county recorder shall send a copy of all those documents to the State Tax Commission.
Amended by Chapter 420, 2022 General Session