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19 O.S. Section 261:
all instruments filed for
record in the Office of any County Clerk within the State of Oklahoma shall,
under the signature affixed to said instrument, bear the printed or typed name
of the signer thereof.
19
O.S. Section 298:
·Shall be an
original or certified copy of an original instrument.
- Shall be clearly legible,
in the English language, using xerographically reproducible dark ink, on
paper of a color that is xerographically reproducible by the copying
equipment in use by the county clerk.
- Shall describe the property by
its specific legal description, and provide such information as is necessary
for indexing.
- Shall on each instrument be
listed the mailing address of the grantee, mortgage, assignee or other
designated party to which the instrument is to be delivered after recording.
- If the instrument contains more
than twenty-five legal descriptions requiring separate entries in the
indexes, the descriptions shall be sorted by addition, block, and lot if
platted property, or by township, range, and section if described by
governmental survey description. Any
instrument offered for recording containing more than twenty-five legal
descriptions per page, shall be accompanied by an additional filing fee of
one dollar ($1.00) per legal description in excess of twenty-five legal
descriptions per page.
- Unless otherwise provided by
law, such documents shall measure no larger than eight and one-half (8 ½)
inches by fourteen (14) inches.
- All documents shall provide an
area free of printed information sufficient in size to accommodate
affixation of the documentary stamps required, any certification of payment
of mortgage taxes, and the recording information affixed by the county clerk
upon acceptance of a document for recordation.
- If an instrument submitted to
the county clerk for recording does not contain sufficient space for the
affixation of such stamps and recording information without covering
language contained in the instrument, the county clerk may attach an
additional page to the document to provide for the affixation of such stamps
and recording information.
- The top margin of all documents
shall be at least one (1) inch and all other margins shall be at least
one-half (1/2) inch.
- Despite any provision in this
section to the contrary, the county clerk shall accept for filing any
document that fails to meet the requirement of this section if:
- The document is an original
or a certified copy of an original;
- The document is legible
without the aid of magnification or other enhancement of the text;
- The document is
xerographically reproducible by the copying equipment in use by the
county clerk;
- The document meets all other
statutory requirements for recordation; and
- The person offering the
instrument for recording pays the additional fee provided in
Section 32 of Title 28 of the Oklahoma Statutes for nonconforming
documents.
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