Wyoming Statutes
Wyo. Stat. § 34-1-119 (2026)
Duties of county clerk generally.
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(a) The county clerk of each county within this state shall receive and record at length all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, patents, certificates and instruments left with him for that purpose, and he shall endorse on every such instrument the day and hour on which it was filed for record. The county clerk shall not record any document until the address of the grantee, mortgagee or assignee of the mortgagee is furnished to the county clerk, but this requirement shall not affect the validity of the recording of any instrument except to the extent provided in W.S. 34-1-142(b). Only instruments which are the originally signed documents, including electronic documents recorded pursuant to the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, W.S. 34-1-401 through 34-1-407, or properly certified or authenticated copies thereof may be properly recorded. A document is properly certified if in compliance with Rule 902 of the Wyoming Rules of Evidence or other applicable rule or statute. (b) Whenever a transfer on death deed is filed with the county clerk pursuant to W.S. 2-18-103, the county clerk shall furnish the following information to the Wyoming department of health, division of healthcare financing within fourteen (14) days of recording the deed: (i) The name of the grantor; (ii) The name of the grantee; (iii) The legal description of the property being transferred.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2005–2013 · leading case: Esterholdt v. PacifiCorp, 301 P.3d 1086 (Wyo. 2013).
Esterholdt v. PacifiCorp, 301 P.3d 1086 (Wyo. 2013). “" Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 34-1-119 (LexisNexis 2011).”
State ex rel. Bunn v. Freese, 117 P.3d 1253 (Wyo. 2005). “DISCUSSION [¶ 7] Bunn contends that the district court misconstrued Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 34-1-119 (LexisNexis 2005).”
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