Sec. 3. (a) The recorder shall keep the recorder’s office in a building provided at the county seat by the county executive. The recorder shall keep the recorder’s office open for business during regular business hours on every day of the year except Sundays and legal holidays. However, the recorder may close the recorder’s office on days specified by the county executive according to the custom and practice of the county.

     (b) If a county office is closed for three (3) or more business days pursuant to an executive order issued under IC 10-14-3, the county executive and the county recorder shall provide notice to the public on an Internet web site maintained by or on behalf of the county executive and the recorder. The notice must be provided to the public within five (5) business days of the executive order being issued. The notice may include information on how the public can submit documents to the recorder’s office in paper, electronic, or digital formats and how payment must be provided for services rendered by a specific county office.

     (c) A county office’s failure to comply with subsection (b) shall not:

(1) invalidate any instrument submitted to the recorder pursuant to:

(A) IC 29-1-7-23(d);

(B) IC 32-21; or

(C) this chapter; or

(2) subject the recorder, the recorder’s office, or any county office personnel to civil liability under IC 34-13-3 or any other provision of Indiana law.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-3-2-1 part; 17-3-39-6.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.71; P.L.185-2021, SEC.64.