Pennsylvania Act 1919-33 — SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS MADE CUSTODIAN OF DOCUMENTS

Act text

SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS MADE CUSTODIAN OF DOCUMENTS
                   Act of Apr. 4, 1919, P.L. 44, No. 33               Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     Making the Secretary of Community Affairs the custodian of all
        deeds, contracts, maps, surveys, policies of title insurance,
        abstracts of titles, and other documents or instruments
        relating to the titles to real estate owned or hereafter to
        be acquired by the Commonwealth. (Title amended July 18,
        1968, P.L.410, No.184)

        Compiler's Note:  The functions, powers and duties of the
            Secretary of Community Affairs and the Bureau of Land
            Records with regard to the custody and care of deeds and
            other instruments relating to the titles to real estate
            of the Commonwealth as set forth in this act were
            transferred to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
            Commission by Reorganization Plan No.2 of 1981.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of
     Community Affairs is hereby made the custodian of all deeds,
     contracts, maps, surveys, policies of title insurance, abstracts
     of title, and other documents or instruments relating to the
     titles to real estate owned or hereafter to be acquired by the
     Commonwealth.
        (1 amended July 18, 1968, P.L.410, No.184)

        Compiler's Note:  The Secretary of Community Affairs,
            referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 58 of
            1996 and the functions were transferred to the Secretary
            of Community and Economic Development.
        Section 2.  It is hereby made the duty of every person,
     corporation, quasi-corporation, and public officer, having in
     his possession or hereafter coming into the possession of any
     such evidences of title, to deliver the same to the Secretary of
     Community Affairs as soon as it may be done without
     inconvenience or prejudice to the interests of the
     Commonwealth,--the Secretary of Community Affairs giving his
     receipt for the same.
        (2 amended July 18, 1968, P.L.410, No.184)

        Compiler's Note:  The Secretary of Community Affairs,
            referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 58 of
            1996 and the functions were transferred to the Secretary
            of Community and Economic Development.
        Section 3.  The Secretary of Community Affairs shall, upon
     receiving such evidences of title, provide a suitable place for
     their proper care and custody in the vault of the Land Office in
     his department, and shall so arrange them, by filing, recording,
     and indexing, as to facilitate searches, examinations, and
     inspections; and he shall furnish certified copies of any such
     records to the heads or chiefs of departments of the State
     Government, upon request, for use in the furtherance of the
     business of the Commonwealth; and for the purpose of filing,
     indexing, and recording such documents, to use any clerks in the
     department available therefor, and to employ any additional
     clerks or help as he may find necessary, and fix their
     compensation.
        (3 amended July 18, 1968, P.L.410, No.184)

        Compiler's Note:  The Secretary of Community Affairs,
            referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 58 of
            1996 and the functions were transferred to the Secretary
            of Community and Economic Development.