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55 ILCS 5/3-5024

(55 ILCS 5/3-5024) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-5024)

Sec. 3-5024. Certificate of time of filing.

When any instrument
in writing is recorded in the recorder's office, the recorder shall indorse
upon such instrument a certificate of the time (including the hour of the
day) when the same was received for recordation (which shall be considered
the time of recording the same), and the book and page or document number by and in which the same is
recorded. The recorder shall sign the certificate or shall affix the recorder's 
facsimile signature thereto. A physical or electronic image of the recorder's stamp satisfies the signature requirement for recorded instruments prior to, on, and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly.

The certificate, when signed by the recorder, or to which the recorder has affixed
the recorder's facsimile signature or a physical or electronic image of the recorder's stamp, shall be evidence of the facts therein stated.

(Source: P.A. 102-838, eff. 5-13-22; 103-400, eff. 1-1-24.)