SB-0735, As Passed House, May 22, 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.