Sponsors: Representatives Binder: Carruthers,
Foster, et al.
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Committee on Counties &
Municipalities
Caucus and COW
As Passed the House
HB 2295 establishes a property information storage and
retrieval conversion and maintenance fund in each county.
Provisions
·Establishes a fund for property information storage and
retrieval conversion and maintenance (PISRCM) in each county.
·Requires the board of supervisors to administer and, in
cooperation with the county assessor, spend the fund monies in order to defray
the cost of converting the county’s property information storage and retrieval
system to micrographics or computer animation.
·Specifies that fund monies may only be used for the purchase
of hardware and software, employee training, system maintenance, equipment
maintenance agreement purchases and system updating for the county recorder.
·Prohibits the use of fund monies for the expenses other
than for the support of the county’s automation system.
·Requires the county general fund to reimburse the
PISRCM fund for all improper and inconsistent expenditures as determined by the
auditor general.
·Allows the board of supervisors to collect a special
recording surcharge of up to four dollars for each instrument, paper or notice
filed with the county recorder, which will be deposited in the PISRCM fund.
·Requires the county recorder to submit to the board of
supervisors an annual amount of projected revenues to be raised for PISRCM
fund.
·Stipulates that the fund shall accumulate until
sufficient monies are available to pay for conversion costs.