2010 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Minerals, Oil and Gas
27-208 Affidavit of performance of annual work; fees

27-208. Affidavit of performance of annual work; fees

A. Before December 31 of any year in which the performance of annual labor or making improvements upon a mining claim is required, the person on whose behalf such work or improvement was made, or some person for him, knowing the facts, may make and record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the claim is located an affidavit in substance as follows:

State of Arizona, county of ____________________ ss: _________________________________, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a citizen of the United States and more than eighteen years of age, resides at ____________________, in ___________________ county, Arizona, is personally acquainted with the mining claim known as ______________________ mining claim, situated in __________________ mining district, ______________ county, Arizona, the location notice of which is recorded in the office of the county recorder of said county, in book ________________________ of records of mines, at page _________. That between the _______________ day of ________________, A.D. _______________________, and the _______________ day of ______________________, A.D. ___________________________, at least _____________________________ dollars worth of work and improvements were done and performed upon said claim, not including the location work of said claim. Such work and improvements were made by and at the expense of ___________________________, owners of said claim, for the purpose of complying with the laws of the United States pertaining to assessment or annual work, and _________________________________________ (here name the miners or persons who worked upon the claim in doing the work) were the persons employed by said owner and who labored upon said claim, did said work and improvements, the same being as follows, to wit: (Here describe the work done and add signature and verification.)

B. The affidavit when recorded shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of the labor or improvements. Any affidavit shall include, if known to the locator, the identification of the section, township and range in which the notice of location of the claim is posted.

C. When annual work is done upon one or more of a contiguous group of claims for the benefit of all, or wholly or partly outside of a contiguous group of claims for the benefit of all, all claims may be included in a single affidavit.

D. In addition to the fees required under section 11-475 for recording of documents, the county recorder shall, prior to recording the affidavit of performance, collect from the person recording the affidavit a fee in the sum of five dollars for each separate affidavit of performance recorded. The county recorder shall by the tenth day of each month forward to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund, eighty per cent of the monies collected pursuant to this subsection during the previous month.