HB-5293, As Passed House, October 27, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 5293

 

October 12, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Caul, Nitz, Elsenheimer, Vander Veen, Proos, Hansen, Brown, Caswell, Gonzales, Gosselin, Moore, Emmons, Booher, Moolenaar and Meyer and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1915 PA 123, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the recording and use in evidence of

affidavits affecting real property; and to provide a penalty for

the making of false affidavits,"

 

(MCL 565.451 to 565.453) by adding section 1d.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1d. An affidavit to correct errors or omissions in

 

previously recorded documents, including errors relating to the

 

proper place of recording and scrivener's errors or omissions, may

 

be recorded in the office of register of deeds for the county where

 

the real property that is the subject of the affidavit is located.

 

An affidavit described in this section shall meet the requirements

 

of sections 1b and 1c. An affidavit under this section is not

 

necessary if a new document indicating corrective changes and

 

making reference to the errant recording by liber and page number

 


is recorded.