Bill Text: MI SB0062 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Property; recording; recording requirements; modify to include electronic signatures, and exempt certified copy of death certificate from requirements of act. Amends sec. 3 of 1937 PA 103 (MCL 565.203).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-01 - Assigned Pa 0131'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0062 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0062-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 131

Public Acts of 2015

Approved by the Governor

September 30, 2015

Filed with the Secretary of State

September 30, 2015

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 29, 2015

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

Introduced by Senators Hertel, Bieda, O’Brien, Ananich and Schmidt

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 62

AN ACT to amend 1937 PA 103, entitled “An act to prescribe certain conditions relative to the execution of instruments entitled to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds,” by amending section 3 (MCL 565.203).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3. (1) This act does not apply to any of the following instruments:

(a) A decree, order, judgment or writ of a court.

(b) A will.

(c) A death certificate or a certified copy of a death certificate described in section 2886 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.2886.

(d) An instrument executed or acknowledged outside of this state.

(2) Section 1(a), (c), and (d) does not apply to an instrument on which the signature itself is printed, typewritten, stamped, or electronically affixed.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor