Georgia § 15-6-68 - Public access to maps, plats, and plans.
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§ 15-6-68. Public access to maps, plats, and plans.
The clerk of each superior court shall provide books, binders, or any other alternative system, either manual or electronic, for providing public access to maps, plats, and plans. The clerk of superior court shall provide an electronic, computer-based indexing system in which shall be indexed all maps, subdivision plats, condominium plats, and other plats, condominium site plans, condominium plot plans, and condominium floor plans under the caption or name of the subdivision, if any, under the name of the owner or owners of the property mapped or platted, and also under the land lot number and district number if the land lies in that portion of the state which has been surveyed into land lots and districts. In counties of this state that are divided into land lots, the clerk of superior court shall provide an electronic, computer-based system for maintaining and searching a record for each land lot and land district by listing all surveys made for each lot and where they are recorded. The clerk shall electronically note the filing date, book, and page numbers on the image and shall electronically transmit a copy of the map, plat, or plan with such filing information to the e-mail address of the person filing the same for record. (Ga. L. 1933, p. 193, § 2; Code 1933, § 24-2717; Ga. L. 1961, p. 105, § 1; Ga. L. 1962, p. 632, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1616, § 2; Ga. L. 1989, p. 395, § 4; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 1-14/HB 665; Ga. L. 2016, p. 193, § 2/HB 1004; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 15/SB 365.) The 2018 amendment, effective May 8, 2018, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (d).
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