The County Recorders office is responsible for many different duties including:

Recording of any instrument submitted for recording; providing it meets essential requirements.

Recording of Deeds, Mortgages, Assignments, Releases, Powers of Attorney, Real Estate Contracts, Annexations, Trustee Elections, Affidavits, Final Decrees, Surveys, Federal Tax Liens, Mechanics Liens, Military Discharges, Articles of Incorporation, Cemetery Deeds, Bonds, Plats, Condominiums, Firms Doing Business Under Assumed Names, Delinquent Sewer Liens, and Miscellaneous Instruments. 

Filing of the Uniform Commercial Code instruments.

Supplies copies of any instrument and certifies to those recorded upon request.

ESSENTIAL RECORDING REQUIREMENTS

Acknowledgements:  To entitle any conveyance, mortgage, or instrument of writing to be recorded.

Legibility of Names:  Typed or printed under each signature exactly as signed.

Name of Person Preparing Instrument:  Each document affecting real estate.

Notarized Documents: requires County of residence of notary and commission expiration date.

Transfer of Deeds for Taxation:  Endorsement of Auditor before recording.

Release of Satisfaction of Liens:  May be executed by President, Vice President, Cashier, Secretary, Treasurer, General Manager, or Attorney-in-Fact only.

Per I.C 36-2-7-10 (b) (11) and P.L. 151-99 a supplemental fee of not more than $3.00 is charged to record a single document.  Effective July 1, 1997, this fee was added to this county’s fee schedule.

As of January 1, 2006, the Declaration concerning Social Security Numbers IC 36-2-7.5-5 (a) needs to be attached to each document.