SB-0735, As Passed Senate, May 29, 2018

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 735

     A bill to amend 1846 RS 65, entitled

"Of alienation by deed, and the proof and recording of conveyances,

and the canceling of mortgages,"

by amending section 48 (MCL 565.48).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 48. No A register of deeds shall not record a deed or

other instrument in writing , purporting that purports to convey an

interest in land by the survivor or survivors under a deed to joint

tenants or tenants by the entirety, shall be recorded by the

register of deeds of any county, unless, for each joint tenant or

tenant by the entirety who is therein indicated in the deed or

instrument to be deceased, a certified copy of the death

certificate or other proof of death which that is permitted by the

laws of this state to be received for record by said the register,

is shown to have been recorded in said the register's office by

liber and page reference or shall accompany such deed for record.

is filed concurrently with the deed or other instrument and

recorded as a separate document.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.