2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 30 - Public Records
CHAPTER 7 - RECORDATION ESSENTIAL TO VALIDITY
Section 30-7-70. Recording and indexing of certain liens against personal property.
Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 9, Title 36 or by other applicable provisions of law, liens on personal property required to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds or clerk of court in those counties where there is no office of the register of deeds must be witnessed and probated in the manner required for the execution of deeds and must be recorded and indexed in a book entitled Miscellaneous Liens on Personal Property. A separate index showing the name of the lienor and lienee must be maintained for each separate type of lien recorded in this book. The recording officer is entitled to the same fees as are provided for recording of deeds of equal length.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 60-107; 1952 Code Section 60-107; 1942 Code Section 8875-1; 1934 (38) 1518; 1972 (57) 2634; 1988 Act No. 494, Section 8(13).
Code Commissioner's Note
1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
