O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-2-26 (2019)

Recording of plat or copy of plat - When and where authorized; duty of clerk

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The owner of real property or of any interest therein or any holder of a lien thereon may have a plat of the property or a blueprint, tracing, photostatic copy, or other copy of a plat of the property recorded and indexed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the property or any part thereof is located. It shall be the duty of the clerk to record and index any plat or any blueprint, tracing, photostatic copy, or other copy of the plat.

History

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 746, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS prevail over that of an attached sketch or plat when they differ in describing the premises. Duke v. Wilder, 212 Ga. 26, 90 S.E.2d 12 (1955). Cited in Conyers v. Fulton County, 117 Ga. App. 649, 161 S.E.2d 347 (1968).

Unofficial plat is admissible in evidence if proven to be correct. Mickle v. Moore, 188 Ga. 444, 4 S.E.2d 217 (1939). Description in lease prevails over that in plat. - When a lease describes the premises by metes and bounds, such a description will

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL courts are not authorized under O.C.G.A. §§ 15-6-67 to 15-6-69 to record photocopies of plats, although such a recording will not affect or invalidate any legal description or legal instrument based on such plat. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U89-4.

Plats reduced in size. - Clerks of superior courts may accept for recording plats which have been reduced in size if the plats comply with the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 44-2-26. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U89-4. Photocopies of plats. - Clerks of superior

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1997–2004 · leading case: Reidling v. Holcomb, 483 S.E.2d 624 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).

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Reidling v. Holcomb, 483 S.E.2d 624 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “OCGA §§ 44-2-26; 44-2-27; and 44-2-28 provide that survey plats can be recorded in the records of the clerk of the superior court and can be incorporated by reference into any deed as the legal description of the property, as if set forth in the deed itself.”

Sec. Union Title Ins. v. RC Acres, Inc., 604 S.E.2d 547 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “OCGA §§ 44-2-26; 44-2-28; 44-2-29; Hood v.”

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