46:19-3 - Method of recording;  marginal or other notations

46:19-3.  Method of recording;  marginal or other notations
    The recording officer of each county shall record in the appropriate books,  without delay, and in the order in which he shall receive them, every deed or  conveyance or instrument mentioned in section 46:19-1 of this Title, with the  acknowledgments, proofs and certificates written on, or under, or annexed to  the same, and the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers therein referred  to and thereto annexed, by entering them word for word, in a legible manner,  noting at the foot of each record all the interlineations and words visibly  written on erasures, omitting, however, to enter in the record the erasures and  obliterations, or by copying them by any photostatic, photographic or other  mechanical process which produces a clear, accurate and permanent copy or  reproduction of the original and in either case mentioning in the margin or at  the foot of such record the day of the month and the year when the deed,  conveyance or other instrument was delivered to him or brought to his office to  be recorded;  provided, however, that where photographic methods are used, all  instruments presented for recording shall be typed, written or printed on paper  not to exceed 8  1/2   "   x  14 "  of sufficient quality to avoid  bleed-through, and shall be legible and clear to produce a good, clear, legible  photo recording.

    If two or more such deeds, conveyances or instruments of or affecting the same real estate or the same property shall be offered to or come to his hands,  at one and the same time, to be recorded, he shall record the same according to  the priorities of their dates.

     Amended by L.1944, c. 36, p. 92, s. 1;  L.1970, c. 44, s. 1.