(A) (1) If the County Recorder installs a computerized system that permits automated entry and indexing of instruments filed in his or her office, every instrument which purports to affect real property and which is thereafter filed with the Recorder’s office must have affixed thereto a permanent index number.
(2) The proper permanent index number to be affixed to a particular instrument shall be the permanent index number of the parcel of real property which the instrument purports to affect.
(B) Anyone who files an instrument at the Recorder’s office after the computerized indexing system is in operation which purports to affect real property shall affix to the particular instrument the permanent index number of the parcel of real property the instrument purports to affect.
(1980 Code, § 38.04) (Res. 89-74, passed 5-18-1989)