SB-0300, As Passed Senate, May 17, 2007
SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 300
A bill to amend 1867 PA 20, entitled
"An act relative to recording deeds, mortgages and instruments of
record, and to declare the effect thereof,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 565.491), as amended by 1992 PA 211.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. (1) A register of deeds, upon the payment of the
proper fee, shall record or cause to be recorded, at length, upon
the pages of the proper record books in his or her office
reproductions
pursuant to the records media act reproduction act,
1992 PA 116, MCL 24.401 to 24.406, of all deeds, mortgages, maps,
and instruments or writings authorized by law to be recorded in his
or her office, and left with him or her for that purpose. If the
register of deeds receives an instrument to be recorded, he or she
shall not deliver it to the parties, or either of them, or permit
the instrument to go out of his or her office before it is duly
entered at large upon the record.
(2) Unless state or federal law, rule, regulation, or court
order or rule requires that all or more than 4 sequential digits of
the social security number appear in the instrument, a register of
deeds shall not receive an instrument or reproduction of an
instrument for recording unless the first 5 digits of any social
security number appearing in or on the instrument or reproduction
are obscured or removed.