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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: CHAPTER I. IN GENERAL

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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CHAPTER I.
IN GENERAL

Sec. A14-1. Survey monument preservation fund established.

Pursuant to Government Code § 27584, there is hereby established a survey monument preservation fund to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the County Surveyor in any retracement or remonument survey of major historical land division lines upon which later surveys are based, such as, but not limited to, government section lines, rancho lines, grant lines, rancho section lines, acreage subdivision lot lines, and subdivision boundary lines within Santa Clara County.

(Ord. No. NS-300.266, § 1, 11-6-78; Ord. No. NS-300.276, 1, 1-29-79)

Sec. A14-2. Collection of fees.

For the limited purpose of financing the survey monument preservation fund, there is hereby imposed a fee of $10.00 which shall be charged and collected by the County Recorder, over and above any other fees required by law, as a condition precedent to the filing or recording of any grant deed conveying a fee interest in real property.

(Ord. No. NS-300.266, § 2, 11-6-78; Ord. No. NS-300.276, § 2, 1-29-79)

Sec. A14-3. Exemptions.

Grants deeds conveying entire lots created by recorded tract maps shall be exempt from the fee. A fee shall not be imposed on the State, any county, city, district or other political subdivision, whenever such entity is the grantee of the conveyance of a fee interest in real property.

(Ord. No. NS-300.266, § 3, 11-6-78; Ord. No. NS-300.276, § 3, 1-29-79)

Sec. A14-4. Forwarding of fees.

The County Recorder shall forward all fees collected each month to the County Treasurer for deposit in the County survey monument preservation fund to be used only for the purposes set forth in Section A14-1.

(Ord. No. NS-300.266, § 4, 11-6-78; Ord. No. NS-300.276, § 4, 1-29-79; Ord. No. NS-300.431, § 1, 3-1-88)

Sec. A14-5. Effect of failure to collect fees; subsequent collection.

The failure of the County Recorder to collect any fee required in the preceding sections of the time of recordation of a document shall not affect the validity of such recordation, and shall not prevent the County from subsequently collecting the fee.

(Ord. No. NS-300.266, § 5, 11-6-78; Ord. No. NS-300.276, § 5, 1-29-79)

Secs. A14-6--A14-10. Reserved.

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