Tennessee § 10-7-202 - Register's book to be indexed, direct and reverse — Maintenance of indices by electronic means.

§ 10-7-202. Register's book to be indexed, direct and reverse — Maintenance of indices by electronic means.

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, each register not maintaining all indices required by law on a medium to be read and used by means of a computer or a word processor shall procure as provided by § 10-7-102 or other general law, two (2) or more well-bound books of suitable size, volume and grade of paper, in which the register shall make, enter, and keep a general direct and general reverse index of each and every instrument filed for record or recorded in the office of register, except that notices of completion of improvements to real estate and such other instruments that are not susceptible to direct and reverse indexation may be indexed separately using only a direct index and not entered in a reverse index. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, each register shall have discretion regarding whether to maintain separate indices for distinct books, files, or groups or combinations of records, or whether to combine all indices in a master direct and reverse index for all records maintained in the office of the county register. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, registers may maintain all indices required of the office by electronic means in compliance with the requirements found in § 10-7-121. Acts 1925, ch. 89, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 567a1; Code 1932, § 817; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 15-202; Acts 1985, ch. 212, § 1; 1988, ch. 636, § 6; 2020, ch. 798, § 1. Amendments. The 2020 amendment rewrote (b) which read: “Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, each register is authorized to maintain all indices required of the office on a medium to be read and used by means of a computer and/or word processor. If such a computer medium is used, a security copy of the medium shall be maintained and a hardcopy paper printout of the index information shall be made at least weekly in duplicate, and at least one (1) such paper copy shall be stored in a safe place other than the register's office. A computer hardcopy printout may be used in lieu of a bound book, but the register shall take due care to preserve the computer printout as a permanent record. The use of the computer hardcopy printouts by the public may be banned or restricted by each register, so long as computers or word processors are available and operable for viewing the information contained in the restricted printouts.” Effective Dates. Acts 2020, ch. 798, § 2. July 15, 2020. Law Reviews. The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).