66-24-204 - Authority of county register. - Tennessee Statutes

66-24-204. Authority of county register.

(a)  A county register:

     (1)  Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with standards established by the information systems council established under § 4-3-5501;

     (2)  May receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents;

     (3)  May provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means;

     (4)  Who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index;

     (5)  May convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form;

     (6)  May convert into electronic form information recorded before the county register began to record electronic documents;

     (7)  May accept electronically any fee or tax that the county register is authorized to collect;

     (8)  May agree with other officials of a state or a political subdivision of a state, or of the United States, on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees and taxes; and

     (9)  May refuse to record any document transmitted electronically to the county register for recording under this part on and after July 1, 2007, that does not comply with § 66-24-101.

(b)  Any electronic documents or digitized images accepted by the county register prior to July 1, 2007, are deemed to be recorded properly and to impart constructive notice.

[Acts 2007, ch. 420, § 2.]