Bill Text: IA SF439 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the disposal or return of certain notices and certificates filed or recorded during certain periods of time. (Formerly SSB 1100.) Effective 7-1-17.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-12 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1020. [SF439 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF439-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 439 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL
                                  GOVERNMENT

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  1100)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        Senate File 439

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE DISPOSAL OR RETURN OF CERTAIN NOTICES
    AND CERTIFICATES FILED OR RECORDED DURING CERTAIN PERIODS OF
    TIME.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 331.609, subsections 5 and 6, Code 2017,
 are amended to read as follows:
    5.  a.  Filing or recording officers with whom notices
 of federal tax liens, certificates, and notices affecting
 the liens have been filed or recorded on or before July 1,
 1970, shall, after that date, continue to maintain a file
 labeled "federal tax lien notices filed prior to July 1, 1970"
 containing notices and certificates filed in numerical order of
 receipt. If a notice of lien was filed or recorded on or before
 July 1, 1970, a certificate or notice affecting the lien shall
 be filed or recorded in the same office.
    b.  The original lien, certificate, or notice included in
 the file required to be maintained under paragraph "a" may
 be returned to the sender or disposed of by the recorder if
 the sender does not wish the instrument returned and if there
 is an official copy of the lien, certificate, or notice in
 the recorder's office or the lien, certificate, or notice is
 maintained in the recorder's office as an electronic document
 or is recorded, copied, or reproduced by any electronic,
 optical, magnetic, microfilm, or other method of storage.
    6.  a.  Filing or recording officers with whom notices of
 federal tax liens, certificates, and notices affecting the
 liens have been filed or recorded after July 1, 1970, and
 before July 1, 1989, shall, after July 1, 1989, continue to
 maintain a file labeled "federal tax lien notices filed after
 July 1, 1970, and before July 1, 1989" containing notices and
 certificates filed or recorded in numerical order of receipt.
 If a notice of lien was filed or recorded on or after July
 1, 1970, and before July 1, 1989, a certificate or notice
 affecting the lien shall be filed or recorded in the same
 office.
    b.  The original lien, certificate, or notice included in
 the file required to be maintained under paragraph "a" may
 be returned to the sender or disposed of by the recorder if
 the sender does not wish the instrument returned and if there
 is an official copy of the lien, certificate, or notice in
 the recorder's office or the lien, certificate, or notice is
 maintained in the recorder's office as an electronic document
 or is recorded, copied, or reproduced by any electronic,
 optical, magnetic, microfilm, or other method of storage.


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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