Duties & Responsibilities
The Recorder’s Office is responsible for:
- Recording deeds, mortgages and approximately 400 different real estate documents, all of which are imaged and microfilmed in house and making sure each document meets certain requirements
- Originating Certificates of Title conveying land under the Torrens Land System
- Providing searches on liens
- Recording military service discharges and issuing certified copies
- Filing county officials bonds, oaths of office, and federal and state tax liens
- Filing government corners
- Accepting passport applications