Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 1. RECORDING · Part 1. RECORDING OF DEEDS AND OTHER REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS

44-2-26. Recording of plat or copy of plat — When and where authorized; duty of clerk.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

The owner of real property or of any interest therein or any holder of a lien thereon may file a plat of the property in the office of the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property or any part thereof is located. It shall be the duty of the clerk to record and index any plat that conforms with Code Section 15-6-67.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1937, p. 746, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 1-34/HB 665; Ga. L. 2016, p. 193, § 5/HB 1004.

Amendments

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted “digital” for “photostatic” twice in this Code section, and added “that conforms with Code Section 15-6-67” at the end of the last sentence. The 2016 amendment, effective January 1, 2017, in the first sentence, substituted “may file a plat of the property in the office of the clerk of superior court” for “may have a plat of the property or a blueprint, tracing, digital copy, or other copy of a plat of the property recorded and indexed in the office of the clerk of the superior court”, and deleted “or any blueprint, tracing, digital copy, or other copy of the plat” following “any plat” in the second sentence.

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Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 29 to 30; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 a165b4d6b81d.