Pennsylvania § 4364 - Validity of township records and recording or transcribing of township records.

§ 4364. Validity of township records and recording or transcribing of township records.

(a) General rule.--A township record required to be recorded or transcribed shall be deemed valid if typewritten, printed, photocopied, microfilmed or electronically or digitally stored or retained by any other process that accurately reproduces the original and forms a durable medium for recording, storing and reproducing in accordance with the act of May 9, 1949 (P.L.908, No.250), entitled "An act relating to public records of political subdivisions other than cities and counties of the first class; authorizing the recording and copying of documents, plats, papers and instruments of writing by digital, photostatic, photographic, microfilm or other process, and the admissibility thereof and enlargements thereof in evidence; providing for the storage of duplicates and sale of microfilm and digital copies of official records and for the destruction of other records deemed valueless; and providing for the services of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to political subdivisions."

(b) Specifications of records in books.--If recording or transcribing in a specified book of record is required, including minutes of the proceedings of the board of commissioners, the records shall be recorded or transcribed as follows:

(1) in a mechanical post binder book capable of being permanently sealed with consecutively numbered pages with a security code printed on it and a permanent locking device with the township seal being impressed on each page; or

(2) in a bound book with pages being consecutively numbered by transcribing directly upon the pages of the book of record or by permanently attaching the records or copies to the book of record with the township seal being impressed on each page to which the record is attached, with each impression covering both a portion of the attached record and a portion of the page of the book of record to which the record is attached.

(c) Validation of previous records.--Records previously recorded or transcribed in a manner authorized by law at the time the records were recorded or transcribed are validated.