HB-4515, As Passed House, May 29, 2007

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 4515

     A bill to amend 1836 PA 25, entitled

"An act concerning the records of deeds and other conveyances of

land,"

by amending section 1 (MCL 565.581).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 1. (1) That By majority vote, the board of supervisors or

a majority of them, of all such an organized counties as have been

county that is attached to other counties another county for

judicial purposes , are hereby authorized to may direct the

register of deeds of their the board's county, either in person or

by deputy, to provide a good and sufficient book or books, and

procure and record therein in those books a complete copy of all

such deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, or other instruments

relating to the title of land as may belong belonging to their the

board's county and on record in the county to which it had been so

is attached; and it shall be is the duty of said that register or

deputy under his or her oath of office to certify each and every

copy so taken to be a true copy of the original record; and such

each copy so certified shall be received as evidence in all courts

of justice in this state, in the same manner and for the same

purposes as the original record would be received.

     (2) Unless state or federal law, rule, regulation, or court

order or rule requires that the social security number appear in

the instrument or copies of the instrument, if a register of deeds

provides a person a copy of an instrument from a book of records

that contains a social security number, the register of deeds may

obscure or remove the first 5 digits of the social security number

from the copy before providing it.

     (3) An individual whose social security number is contained in

1 or more instruments in a county's books of record may request

that the register of deeds of that county obscure or remove the

first 5 digits of his or her social security number from copies

made of those instruments by recording an affidavit identifying the

liber and page of those instruments.

     (4) As used in this act, "books" includes a computerized

recording system for instruments relating to the title of land.