Amended in Senate August 18, 2015

Amended in Senate June 25, 2015

Amended in Assembly May 18, 2015

Amended in Assembly April 20, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 679

Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen

February 25, 2015

An act to amend Section 27320 of the Government Code, relating to local government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 679, as amended, Travis Allen. Documents: recordation.

Existing law requires the recorder of each county, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, to accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by law to be recorded. Existing law further requires the recorder, when any instrument authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder’s office for record, to endorse upon the instrument in the order in which it is deposited, the year, month, day, hour, and minute of its reception, begin delete and end delete the amount of fees begin delete for recording. end delete begin insert recording, and the name of the person at whose request it is recorded. end insert

This bill begin insert would delete the requirement that the recorder endorse the name of the person at whose request an instrument is recorded and end insert would additionally require the recorder to endorse upon the instrument the number of pages of the instrument.

By imposing new duties upon the county recorder, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 27320 of the Government Code is
amended to read:

27320.  

When any instrument authorized by law to be recorded
is deposited in the recorder’s office for record, the recorder shall
endorse upon it in the order in which it is deposited, the year,
month, day, hour, and minute of its reception, its number of pages,
and the amount of fees for recording. The recorder shall record it
without delay, together with the acknowledgments, proofs,
certificates, and prior recording data written upon or annexed to
it, with the plats, surveys, schedules, and other papers thereto
annexed, and shall note on the record its identification begin delete number,
and the name of the person at whose request it is recorded. end delete begin insert number. end insert
Efforts shall be made to assign identification numbers sequentially,
but an assignment of a nonsequential number may be made if not
in violation of express recording instructions regarding a group of
concurrently recorded instruments and if, in the discretion of the
county recorder, such assignment best serves the interest of
expeditious recording.

SEC. 2.  

No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
17556 of the Government Code.