BILL NUMBER: AB 679	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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

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,  and  the amount of fees
 for recording.   recording, and the name of the
person at whose request it is recorded. 
   This bill  would delete the requirement that the recorder
endorse the name of the person at whose request an instrument is
recorded and  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 
number, and the name of the person at whose request it is recorded.
  number.  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.