Title 34 Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions

34-1-404. Recording of documents.

(a) A county clerk who implements any of the functions in this section shall do so in compliance with rules promulgated by the department of enterprise technology services pursuant to W.S. 34-1-405. (b) A county clerk may: (i) Receive, index, store, archive and transmit electronic documents; (ii) Provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means; (iii) Convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form; (iv) Convert into electronic form information recorded before the county clerk began to record electronic documents; (v) Accept electronically any fee that the county clerk is authorized to collect; (vi) Agree with other officials of a state or a political subdivision thereof or of the United States on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees. (c) A county clerk who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index. (d) As used in this section, “paper document” means a document received by the county clerk in a form that is not electronic.