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
44-2-28. Recording of plat or copy of plat — Incorporation by reference.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
When any deed, mortgage, or other instrument conveying an interest in or creating a lien on real property refers to the boundaries, metes, courses, or distances of the real estate delineated or shown on any plat of the property or on any blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy of the plat which has been recorded as authorized in Code Section 44-2-26 and when the deed, mortgage, or other instrument states the office, book, and page of recordation of the plat or of the blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy of the plat, the reference shall be equivalent to setting forth in the deed, mortgage, or other instrument the boundaries, metes, courses, or distances of the real estate as may be delineated or shown on the plat or on the blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy thereof.
History
Ga. L. 1937, p. 746, § 3; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44; Ga. L. 2016, p. 193, § 7/HB 1004.
Amendments
The 2016 amendment, effective January 1, 2017, inserted “or digital” throughout this Code section.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, 2025 supplement, page 30; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 a165b4d6b81d.
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