Oklahoma § 67-18 - Duty of county commissioners in restoring records

§ 67-18. Duty of county commissioners in restoring records

Whenever it shall appear that the records or any material part

thereof, of any county in this state, have been lost or destroyed by

fire or otherwise so that a connected chain of title cannot be

deduced therefrom, and are of record in any other county, or in any

office maintained by the state or by the United States for recording

and filing instruments, pertaining to or in any wise affecting the

title, boundary or description of property situated within such

county, then it shall be the duty of the board of county

commissioners of such county, immediately to employ some responsible

and experienced firm or person to transcribe or copy any part of the

records, deeds, patents, certificates, maps, plats, field notes or

files, from the records or files of such other county, or of any

office maintained by the state or by the United States for recording

and filing instruments pertaining to or in any wise affecting the

title, boundary or description of property situated within the

bounds of that county; and such copies or transcripts, when duly

certified to by the persons employed, or officer in charge of such

records shall become a part of the records in the register of deeds

office of such county; and the record so made shall have the same

force and effect as the record of the originals of such instruments,

and the board of county commissioners shall approve, accept, and pay

for the same as they are completed and delivered. The person or

firm employed to do such copying or transcribing shall give the

county a bond similar to bonds given by abstractors, in the sum of

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).

R.L. 1910, § 7277.