SECTIONS 14769 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 14769

14769. (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Acquire" includes acquisition by gift, purchase, lease,
eminent domain, or otherwise.
(2) "Public record plant" means the plant, or any part thereof, or
any record therein, of any person engaged in the business of
searching or publishing public records or insuring or guaranteeing
titles to real property, including copies of public records and
abstracts or memoranda taken from public records, which is owned by
or in the possession of that person or which is used by that person
in his or her business.
(b) If public records of any state agency have been lost or
destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity, the director may
acquire the right to reproduce any portion of a public record plant
as is necessary for the purpose of restoring or replacing the records
or their substance.