40-1-8 - Vacancy and removal -- County recorder to receive records. - Utah Statutes

40-1-8. Vacancy and removal -- County recorder to receive records.
(1) If there is a vacancy in the office of recorder of any mining district, or if there is noperson in the mining district authorized to retain the custody and give certified copies of therecords, the person having custody of the records shall deposit them in the office of the countyrecorder of the county in which the mining district, or the greater part of the mining district, issituated.
(2) That county recorder shall take possession of the records and may make and certifycopies from the records, including any other copies of records and papers in the recorder's officepertaining to mining claims.
(3) Those certified copies shall be receivable in evidence in all courts and before allofficers and tribunals.
(4) The production of a certified copy shall be, without further proof, evidence that therecords were properly in the custody of the county recorder.

Amended by Chapter 85, 1999 General Session