Printable Format58-2224. Recordation of instruments, papers or documents; making of photographic or microphotographed copies deemed recording and record books, when. Wherever the statutes require court records, deeds, patents, plats, charters of corporations, certificates of decrease of capital stock or other instruments, papers, or documents, to be recorded by any city, county or state officer, the making of photographic copies of such instruments, papers or documents, or the making of microphotographed copies shall be deemed recording. Photographic copies may be bound, paged and indexed wherever it is so provided for instruments, papers, or documents, recorded by hand, and such photographic copies when bound together shall be deemed record books. Microphotographed copies shall be placed in conveniently accessible files with provisions made for their preservation, examination and ready use by those persons lawfully entitled to view them and when such conditions are met they shall be deemed record books. This act shall be supplemental to existing statutes.
History: L. 1915, ch. 286, § 1; R.S. 1923, 67-224; L. 1970, ch. 218, § 1; July 1.
Cross References to Related Sections:
Reproduction of records of municipalities on film, see 12-122.
Filing and recordation of corporate instruments, see 17-6003.
Recordation and preservation of county records, see 19-250 et seq.
Method of recording public records, see 45-501.
Authentication of copies of records for evidentiary purposes, see 60-465.
Documentary originals as best evidence, see 60-467.
Photographic copies to prove content of business and public records, see 60-469.
Reproduction of school records on film, see 72-1631 through 72-1633.
Reproduction of state records, papers or documents on film, see 75-3506.
Attorney General's Opinions:
Register of deeds; custody and recordation of documents; computerization of records. 84-42.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Presumption that recorded instrument speaks truth; presumption rebuttable. Jackman v. Development Co., 106 Kan. 59, 64, 187 P. 258.
2. Admissibility of exhibit in evidence questioned; conviction of driving automobile while license suspended (dissenting opinion). State v. Harkness, 189 Kan. 581, 585, 370 P.2d 100.