Registry and Recordation – Parish Recorders
C.C. art. 3346. Place of recordation; duty of the recorder. A. An instrument creating, establishing, or relating to a mortgage or privilege over an immovable, or the pledge of the lessor’s rights in the lease of an immovable and its rents, is recorded in the mortgage records of the parish in which the immovable is located. All other instruments are recorded in the conveyance records of that parish.
B. The recorder shall maintain in the manner prescribed by law all instruments that are recorded with him.
Art. 3347. Effect of recordation arises upon filing. The effect of recordation arises when an instrument is filed with the recorder and is unaffected by subsequent errors or omissions of the recorder. An instrument is filed with a recorder when he accepts it for recordation in his office.
Art. 3348. Time of filing; determination. Upon acceptance of an instrument the recorder shall immediately write upon or stamp it with the date and time it is filed and the registry number assigned to it.
R.S. 13:103. Certified copies and their effect. A. The recorder, upon proper request, shall issue to any person a copy of a recorded instrument and certify upon it, or in a separate certificate attached to it, that it is a true and correct copy of the instrument, the time and date the instrument was recorded, and its registration number or of the place in the records where it may be found.
B. A copy of a recorded instrument certified by the recorder is entitled to the same faith and credit as the recorded instrument. It may be recorded in the mortgage or conveyance records of other parishes with the same effect as if it were the recorded instrument.
C. Certification by a recorder of a copy of an instrument that is not in authentic form or duly authenticated does not dispense with the necessity of proving the signatures of the parties.
R.S. 9:2758. Notarial certified copy of lost original. When the original title or record is no longer in being, a copy is good proof, and supplies the want of the original, when it is certified as being conformable to the record, by the notary who has received it, or by one of his successors, or by any other public officer, with whom the record was deposited and who had authority to give certified copies of it, provided the loss of the original be previously proved.
