Scioto County, Ohio

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SCIOTO COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE

Irene Ashley, Recorder

E-MAIL= Ashley@sciotocounty.net

Deputies:	Mary Lou Ratliff
Barb Maxey	Paul Allard
Nancy Bays	Janet Turner
Gail Alley	Scott Campbell

The County Recorder is the keeper and protector of the most vital records in the county, therefore, it is the most valuable library. One may say... what's the use, why keep records? An unknown writer once observed that "a nation which neglects and disregards the records of its past, is soon a nation that has no future to which it may look forward.

The office of the County Recorder is extremely important in the legal structure of our society. The right to own property under our system of government, is a part of the freedoms we enjoy. Without property ownership rights, all our other freedoms would soon collapse. The Recorder's records are the guardian of this precious right.

In order to own and protect land, and the right to improve or dispose of land, man early in history created a recording system.

In Ohio the Recorder, as an elected public official, not only holds trust of the people, but is charged by law with the exacting duty of keeping the record books required by law, to be kept. The Recorder and Deputies must have knowledge of more than forty different legal instruments that are recorded or filed in his care. These records are vital to every person in the county - each property owner, every business, to the State and Federal governments.

Particular stress is placed by law on the faithful and correct performance of the duties of the Recorder. Fees collected are paid into the County General Fund, through the Auditor's Office to the County Treasurer at the close of each month. Three days are allowed by law to complete this accounting.

Records kept in the Recorder's Office include deeds of all types, in part they are:

Quit Claim	Warranty
Sheriff's	Auditor's Forfeited Land
Certificate for Transfer from Court	Executor and Executrix Deeds

Other records kept are:

Mortgages		Land and Coal Contracts
Power of Attorney		Leases of all types
Armed Service Discharge		Soldier's Grave registrations
Releases		Partial Releases
Liens such as Mechanics Liens, Federal, State, Unemployment Compensation, Workman's Industrial Tax liens, Personal Property Tax, Aid for Aged Liens and 12 other kinds of liens		Cancellation or assignment of mortgages or leases
Articles of Agreement		Fence Partitions
Certificates of merger of corporations		Amendments to Article of Corporation
Limited Partnership Associations		Notice of Accounts Receivable
Easements		Rights of Way
Partnership Record		Plats of allotments
Subdivisions

Various legal papers for which the Recorder is responsible are filed in the Recorder's Office, they include:

Security Agreements

Financing Statements

Recognizance Bonds from Common Pleas and County Court

Each legal instrument recorded or filed is carefully indexed and cross indexed for ease of location and ready reference, microfilmed for security purposes.

A new state of the art computer system was installed in the Scioto County Recorder's Office on June 28, 1996.

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