<section number="57-3-105"><effdate>11/6/2025</effdate><histories><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025S1">16</modchap>, 2025 Special Session 1</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Legal description of real property and names and addresses required in documents.</catchline><subsection number="57-3-105(1)">Except as otherwise provided by statute, if a document for recording does not conform to this section, a person may not present the document to the office of the recorder of the county for recording.</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(2)">A document executed after July 1, 2022, is entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property described in the document is located only if the document contains a legal description of the real property in accordance with Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(4)" start="0">(4)</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(3)"><subsection number="57-3-105(3)(a)">A document conveying title to real property presented for recording after July 1, 2022, is entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property described in the document is located only if the document:<subsection number="57-3-105(3)(a)(i)">names the grantees and recites a mailing address to be used for assessment and taxation; and</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(3)(a)(ii)">includes a legal description of the real property in accordance with Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(4)" start="0">(4)</xref>.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(3)(b)">The address of the management committee may be used as the mailing address of a grantee as required in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(3)(a)" start="0">(3)(a)</xref> if the interest conveyed is a timeshare interest as defined by Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="57-19-2" start="0">57-19-2</xref>.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)">A legal description required under this section and Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="17-71-402">17-71-402</xref> shall include a description of the real property by:<subsection number="57-3-105(4)(a)">metes and bounds;</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(b)">a government survey that:<subsection number="57-3-105(4)(b)(i)">references the Public Land Survey System; and</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(b)(ii)">specifies the township, range, base and meridian, and section, with aliquot part or government lot, if applicable, of the real property;</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(c)">if the real property consists of a mining claim:<subsection number="57-3-105(4)(c)(i)">the claim name; and</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(c)(ii)">if available, a state or federal agency serial number; or</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)"><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(i)">a lot, block, tract, parcel, or unit within a previously recorded plat or map;</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(ii)">station and offset with reference to centerline;</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(iii)">a centerline described using:<subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(iii)(A)">a bearing and distance; or</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(iii)(B)">at least three elements of curve data;</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(iv)">a point referenced to a corner of the Public Land Survey System or other controlling corner; or</subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(4)(d)(v)">a type of legal description not described in Subsections <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(4)(d)(i)" start="0">(4)(d)(i)</xref> through <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(4)(d)(iv)" start="0">(iv)</xref> that meets the requirements described in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="57-10-4" start="0">57-10-4</xref> for a legal and satisfactory description of a land boundary.</subsection></subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-3-105(5)">Notwithstanding Subsections <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(2)" start="0">(2)</xref>, <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(3)" start="0">(3)</xref>, and <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(4)" start="0">(4)</xref>, a master form, as defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="57-3-201" start="0">57-3-201</xref>, that does not meet the requirements of Subsections <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(2)" start="0">(2)</xref> and <xref depth="4" refnumber="57-3-105(3)" start="0">(3)</xref> is entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property described in the master form is located if the master form complies with <xref depth="2" refnumber="57-3-2" start="2">Part 2, Master Mortgage and Trust Deeds</xref>.</subsection></section>