Private Acts of 1967 Chapter 107

SECTION 1. Hereafter, all deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, subdivision plats, tract maps, and all other instruments vesting or divesting title to or in any real property located in Robertson County, Tennessee, shall be recorded in the County Tax Assessor's office prior to the time and before any of said instruments shall be recorded in the County Register's office of Robertson County, Tennessee.

That the Tax Assessor or his Deputy shall receive each of said instruments for registration, and make a permanent record of same in his office, showing the date of the instrument, consideration of the transfer, name of the grantor, name of the grantee, the trustee, the mortgagor, the mortgagee, location of property, including civil district, and a sufficient description of the property so the same can be readily identified.

SECTION 2. When any of said instruments have been registered by the Tax Assessor or his Deputy, he shall stamp on each of such instruments a notation of endorsement showing that said instrument has been properly recorded in his office.

SECTION 3. All of the necessary expenses incident to the carrying out of the provisions of this Act shall be paid out of the general fund of said county.

SECTION 4. None of the instruments herein provided for shall be received or recorded in the County Register's office until the same have first been recorded and stamped by the Tax Assessor, the transfer or conveyance shall not be effective as to the creditors of the bargainor or grantor.

Any Tax Assessor or Deputy Tax Assessor, any County Register, or any Deputy County Register, wilfully or negligently failing to comply with the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SECTION 5. This Act shall have no effect unless the same shall be submitted to the Quarterly County Court of Robertson County and approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of said Quarterly County Court. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Quarterly County Court and shall be certified by him to the Secretary of State in Nashville.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: April 20, 1967.