| This legislation protects "monuments", which include plaques, statues, markers, flags, banners, displays and memorials, dedicated to a historical entity, event, nation or government and that honors military service to the United States, Confederacy or several states therein. No publicly-owned monument, meant to be perminent, located on county property may be relocated, removed, concealed, obscured in any way by the county other than as necessary to preserve or protect the monument. Counties may relocate such a monument when necessary to build or expand edifices, buildings, roads and other transportation construction projects; however, the monument must be relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability and access within the county. The monument may not be relocated to a museum, cemetery or mausoleum unless it was originally placed there. |
| This legislation allows, but does not require, superior court clerks to require payment of filing fees before accepting an instrument or document for recording. It also allows the clerks to require that an instrument or document meet all filing requirements before accepting it for recording.
Current law requires the superior court clerk's office to be open from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. This legislation provides some flexibility for a lunch hour closure if the office opens at 8:00 a.m., has a lunch break from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. and closes at 5:00 p.m. |
