WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 400

CHAPTER 400

(House Bill 250)

AN ACT concerning

Real Property - General Alphabetical Index - Dating
Changes or Corrections

FOR the purpose of requiring certain changes or corrections made
to a general alphabetical index of deeds and other
instruments to be dated; requiring date indications to be
made in a certain manner; and generally relating to dating
certain changes or corrections made to certain general
alphabetical indexes maintained by clerks of the circuit
courts.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 3-302

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1988 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Real Property

3-302.

(a)  The clerk of the circuit court of each county shall
make and maintain a full and complete general alphabetical index
of every deed, and other instrument in a well-bound book in his
office. The index shall be both in the name of each grantor,
donor, mortgagor, and assignor, and each grantee, donee,
mortgagee, or assignee. It shall include the book and page of the
recordation of every instrument designating these names. The
clerk shall index every deed or other instrument retaining a
vendor's lien both as a deed and as a vendor's lien, in the same
manner as mortgages are indexed.

(b)  In every clerk's office where land records are not
recorded in book form, the clerk shall index every assignment of
a mortgage, deed of trust, and release or partial releases of a
deed of trust, whether in long or short form, in the general
alphabetical index, and shall place an entry in the general
alphabetical index where the instrument is indexed, on the same
horizontal line, indicating the place of record of the original
instrument being assigned or released.

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