CHAPTER 8. RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY.RECORDING DEEDS - Indiana Statutes

IC 8-3-8
     Chapter 8. Railroad Rights-of-Way.Recording Deeds

IC 8-3-8-1
Time for recordation
     Sec. 1. Any railroad corporations, lessee or assignee or receiver, or other person or corporation, running, controlling or operating, or that may hereafter construct, build, run, control or operate, any railroad into or through this state, shall, within forty-five (45) days from the date of execution of any conveyance, lease, release or other contract affecting the right of way of any railroad hereafter constructed, record, or cause to be recorded, in the proper records in the recorder's office of the county wherein the lands are situate so conveyed, leased, released or constructed.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.152, s.1.)

IC 8-3-8-2
Necessity for recordation
     Sec. 2. Every such conveyance, lease, release, or other contract affecting any right of way of any railroad not so recorded in forty-five (45) days, as provided for in section 1 of this chapter, shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee in good faith and for a valuable consideration.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.152, s.2.) As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.29.