SummaryOklahoma enacts the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act effective November 1, 2008, and tasks the Archives and Records Commission with creating technical standards to implement the Act.
AnalysisOklahoma becomes the nineteenth state to adopt the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. In addition, House Bill 2587 also amends a statute stating that all instruments affecting title to real property recorded in the land records must be plainly printed, typed, or handwritten or partly printed, partly typed, or partly handwritten, must be an original or a certified copy of an original instrument, and must be clearly legible in the English language by indicating that these requirements shall not prevent the electronic recordation of such documents under the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.
Read House Bill 2587.