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Section 1 | Filing with clerk of district court -- Recording with county recorder -- Effect. |
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38-5-1. Filing with clerk of district court -- Recording with county recorder --
Effect. (1) (a) A person may file in the office of the clerk of a state district court a transcript of a judgment or decree rendered in the district court of the United States within the state. (b) A decree or judgment filed in accordance with Subsection (1)(a) has the same force and effect as a judgment rendered in a state district court. (2) Except as provided in Subsection (3), if a person records a judgment or an abstract of judgment or decree under Subsection (1) in the office of the county recorder, that judgment or decree becomes a lien in accordance with Section 78B-5-202. (3) A state agency is exempt from the recording requirement of Subsection (2). (4) (a) To release, assign, renew, or extend a lien created by a judgment recorded in the office of a county recorder, a person shall, in the office of the county recorder of each county in which an instrument creating the lien is recorded, record a document releasing, assigning, renewing, or extending the lien. (b) The document described in Subsection (4)(a) shall include: (i) the date of the release, assignment, renewal, or extension; (ii) the name of any judgment creditor, debtor, assignor, or assignee; and (iii) for the county in which the document is recorded in accordance with Subsection (4)(a): (A) the date on which the instrument creating the lien was recorded in that county's office of the county recorder; and (B) in accordance with Section 57-3-106, that county recorder's entry number and book and page of the recorded instrument creating the judgment lien.
Amended by Chapter 88, 2011 General Session |
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