TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 6. Superior Courts, 15-6-1 through 15-6-100.

ARTICLE 2 CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURTS

15-6-68. Public access to maps, plats, and plans.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 2016 amendment, effective January 1, 2017, in subsection (a), at the end of the first sentence, substituted "maps, plats, and plans" for "maps and plats", and deleted the former second sentence, which read: "For all electronic images of plats submitted to the clerk on or after July 1, 2012, the clerk shall provide necessary equipment for printing either an entire full-size copy of each recorded plat or copies of sections of each entire recorded plat, printed in full scale."; substituted "maps, subdivision plats, condominium plats, and other plats, condominium site plans, condominium plot plans, and condominium floor plans" for "maps or plats" in the middle of subsection (b); and substituted the present provisions of subsection (d) for the former provisions, which read: "The clerk shall note the date and time of the filing of a plat for record on the face of the plat."

The 2018 amendment, effective May 8, 2018, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (d).