SB-0300, As Passed Senate, May 17, 2007

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 300

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

order or rule requires that all or more than 4 sequential digits of

the social security number appear in the instrument, a register of

deeds shall not receive an instrument or reproduction of an

instrument for recording unless the first 5 digits of any social

security number appearing in or on the instrument or reproduction

are obscured or removed.