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County Recorder's Office
The County Recorder is the
keeper and protector of the most vital records in the county; therefore, it is
the most valuable library. One may say...what's the use, why keep records? An
unknown writer once observed that "a nation which neglects and disregards
the records of its past, is soon a nation that has no future to which it may
look forward."
The Office of the County Recorder is extremely important in
the legal structure of our society. The right to own property under our system
of government is a part of the freedoms we enjoy. Without property ownership
rights, all our other freedoms would soon collapse. The Recorder's records are
the guardian of this precious right. In order to own and protect land, and the
right to improve or dispose of land, man early in history created a recording
system.
In Ohio the Recorder, as an elected public official, not only
holds trust of the people but is charged by law with the exacting duty of
keeping the record books required by law to be kept. The Recorder and Deputies
must have the knowledge of more than forty different legal instruments that are
recorded or filed their care. These records are vital to every person in the
county - each property owner, every business, to the State and Federal Government.
Particular stress is placed by law on the faithful and
correct performance of the duties of the Recorder. Fees collected are paid into
the County General Fund, through the Auditor's Office to the County Treasurer,
each day.
Records kept in the Recorder's Office include deeds of all
types; in part, they are: Quit Claim, Warranty; Sheriff's Auditor's Forfeited
Land, Certificate of Transfer from Court; Executor and Administrator deeds.
Other records kept are mortgages, Liens, such as Mechanics Liens, Federal,
State, Unemployment Compensation, Workers Industrial Tax liens, Personal
Property tax and twelve other kinds of liens; Power of Attorney; Leases of all
types; Armed Service Discharge; Soldier's Grave Registrations; Release; Partial
Release; Cancellation or assignment of mortgages or leases. Land and Coal
Contracts; Articles of Agreement; Fence Partitions; Certificates of merger of
Corporations; Amendments to Article of Corporation; Easements; Rights of Way;
Partnership Record, Plats of allotments, subdivisions.
Various legal papers for which the Recorder is responsible
are filed in the Recorder's Office. They include Security Agreements; Financing
Statements; Recognizance Bonds from Common Pleas and County Court.
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