The Utah Legislature is considering legislation that would require counties to maintain a system to alert property owners when a county recorder records a deed or mortgage on the owner’s property. The bill, SB 165, is being sponsored by Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Salt Lake County.
The bill would require county recorders to, beginning Jan. 1, 2025, “maintain a system that allows a property owner to receive, upon the property owner’s election, an electronic notice when the county recorder records a deed or mortgage on the property owner’s real property.”
If a property owner elects to receive electronic notices, the recorder would have to, within 30 days of recording a deed or mortgage, provide an electronic notice of the recording to each property owner.
This provision would apply only to real property for which the county treasurer provides a tax notice described in Section 59-2-1317. Tax notes provided in 2024, 2025 or 2026 would have to include a notice that the taxpayer may request the electronic notice, as well as instructions describing how to elect to receive the notice.
If adopted, the bill will take effect May 1.