September 19, 2006, Introduced by Senators HAMMERSTROM and BIRKHOLZ and referred to the Committee on Local, Urban and State Affairs.
A bill to amend 1867 PA 20, entitled
"An act relative to recording deeds, mortgages and instruments of
record, and to declare the effect thereof,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 565.491), as amended by 1992 PA 211.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. (1) A register of deeds, upon the payment of the
proper fee, shall record or cause to be recorded, at length, upon
the pages of the proper record books in his or her office
reproductions
pursuant to the records media act reproduction act,
1992 PA 116, MCL 24.401 to 24.406, of all deeds, mortgages, maps,
and instruments or writings authorized by law to be recorded in his
or her office, and left with him or her for that purpose. If the
register of deeds receives an instrument to be recorded, he or she
shall not deliver it to the parties, or either of them, or permit
the instrument to go out of his or her office before it is duly
entered at large upon the record.
(2) Beginning January 1, 2006, unless state or federal law,
rule, regulation, or court order or rule requires that the social
security number appear in the instrument, a register of deeds who
receives an instrument or reproduction of an instrument for
recording under subsection (1) that contains a social security
number may obscure or remove all or at least 5 digits of the social
security number from the instrument or reproduction before
recording it. This subsection does not apply after December 31,
2006.
(3) Beginning January 1, 2007, unless state or federal law,
rule, regulation, or court order or rule requires that the social
security number appear in the instrument, a register of deeds who
receives an instrument or reproduction of an instrument for
recording under subsection (1) that contains a social security
number shall obscure or remove all or at least 5 digits of the
social security number from the instrument or reproduction before
recording it.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January
1, 2007.