382.335 Certain information to be included in instruments in order for them to be

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recorded.

(1)No county clerk shall receive or permit the recording of any instrument by which

the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein or lien thereon, is

conveyed, granted, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise disposed of; nor receive any

instrument or permit any instrument, provided by law, to be recorded as evidence of

title to real estate, unless the instrument has endorsed on it, a printed, typewritten, or

stamped statement showing the name and address of the individual who prepared

the instrument, and the statement is signed by the individual. The person who

prepared the instrument may execute his or her signature by affixing a facsimile of

his or her signature on the instrument. This subsection shall not apply to any

instrument executed or acknowledged prior to July 1, 1962.

(2)No county clerk shall receive or permit the recording of any instrument by which

the title to real estate or any interest therein is conveyed, granted, assigned, or

otherwise disposed of unless the instrument contains the mailing address of the

grantee or assignee. This subsection shall not apply to any instrument executed or

acknowledged prior to July 1, 1970.

(3)This section shall not apply to wills or to statutory liens in favor of the

Commonwealth.

(4)No county clerk shall receive, or permit the recording of, any instrument by which

real estate, or any interest therein, is conveyed, granted, assigned, transferred, or

otherwise disposed of unless the instrument complies with the official indexing

system of the county. The indexing system shall have been in place for at least

twenty-four

(24)months prior to July 15, 1994 or shall be implemented for the

purpose of allowing computerized searching for the instruments of record of the

county clerk. If a county clerk requires a parcel identification number on an

instrument before recording, the clerk shall provide a computer terminal, at no

charge to the public, for use in finding the parcel identification number. The county

clerk may make reasonable rules about the use of the computer terminal, requests

for a parcel identification number, or both.

(5)The receipt for record and recording of any instrument by the county clerk without

compliance with the provisions of this section shall not prevent the record of filing

of the instrument from becoming notice as otherwise provided by law, nor impair

the admissibility of the record as evidence.