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United States — Tennessee
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On the register’s demand, the county legislative body must obtain well-bound books for the register’s office, and the county trustee must pay the cost. Payment is made on the county mayor’s warrant after the register provides a purchase receipt and affidavit.
United States — Tennessee
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This section is repealed, effective March 7, 2018.
United States — Tennessee
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If county record books are damaged or mutilated, the county legislative body must have them transcribed by the register into a well-bound book.
United States — Tennessee
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County registers must have office books copied when the county legislative body judges them too worn or mutilated to need rebinding or copying, and county legislative bodies must appropriate money for the expense.
United States — Tennessee
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The register and deputy register must collate each transcript book and certify, by joint certificate, that the transcript matches the original record; if the original is burned or mutilated, they must add a qualifying statement.
United States — Tennessee
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If a register finds an instrument recorded on the original books without probate or acknowledgment, the register must leave enough room in the transcript to record that probate or acknowledgment.
United States — Tennessee
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A person who has a registered instrument may give it to the register during transcription or after the transcript is finished so the probate or acknowledgment can be entered of record.
United States — Tennessee
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An interested person may apply to the court clerk for a certified transcript of a probate or acknowledgment, but must first swear that the original is not in their possession, power, or control.
United States — Tennessee
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If the certificate is produced, the register as transcriber must enter the probate or acknowledgment and certificate at the foot of the deed in the register's record.
United States — Tennessee
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The register must properly index the transcript book or books.
United States — Tennessee
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The county register may appoint deputies as needed to finish the transcripts as soon as practicable.
United States — Tennessee
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The register is entitled to $1.00 per 100 words for making a transcript, collation, and index, payable by the county.
United States — Tennessee
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Original records must be deposited in the county clerk’s office.
United States — Tennessee
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If a person wants to see the original transcript, the clerk must provide a transcript from it; that transcript cannot be used as evidence unless it is shown to differ from the original in a way that changes the meaning or substance of a deed or title in litigation.
United States — Tennessee
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County records may be transcribed by order of the county legislative body when originals are mutilated, defaced, or otherwise unusable; a certified copy from the transcribed records is admissible in Tennessee courts with the same validity as a copy from the original record, subject to § 10-7-116.
United States — Tennessee
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A county legislative body may authorize the court chair to handle and send out certain record books for rebinding when they need repair.
United States — Tennessee
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When certain record books are kept out of the office for the purpose in § 10-7-119, the listed officials are released from liability for their safekeeping.
United States — Tennessee
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Government officials may keep required records on computer or removable media if public-access, retention, copying, and paper-copy rules are met; some assessment records in larger counties must be provided to the public at cost within 30 days.
United States — Tennessee
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County officials may offer remote electronic access to office records, but they must protect the records, charge only reasonable cost-recovery fees, file a statement with the comptroller before offering the service, and keep confidential records off-limits.
United States — Tennessee
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Clerks, registers, and similar public officers who keep court or county record books must keep an index for each book and list covered matters alphabetically under each party’s name.