16 P.S. § 7564 Recognizance of Sheriff and Coroner; Acknowledgment and Recording; Lien; Custody; Subrogation

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 16 P.S. § 7564

Every sheriff, whether elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, not including any coroner temporarily acting as sheriff, and every coroner, before he is commissioned or executes any duties of his respective office, shall execute and duly acknowledge before the recorder of deeds of the proper county, a proper recognizance, without any surety, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the faithful discharge of all his official duties in like amount as that of his official bond required by existing law, and in a form containing like conditions as such bond, which recognizance shall be immediately recorded in said county at the expense of said sheriff or coroner, and when so recorded, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with said recorder's certificate endorsed thereon of its having been duly recorded, and with a reference to the place of record thereof. Every such recognizance hereafter executed shall continue to be a lien on the real estate owned by the sheriff or coroner at the date of such acknowledgment, for a period of six years from that date. Every recognizance heretofore executed by any sheriff or coroner shall continue to be a lien on the real estate owned by the sheriff or coroner at the time the recognizance was dated, for a period of six years after that date, but in every case where the period of six years has already expired, the lien of such recognizance shall continue for a period of two years after the effective date of this amendment or to the end of the lien term fixed by law at the time the recognizance was executed, whichever date shall first occur. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall have and keep the custody of every such recognizance, and any copy thereof and of said endorsements certified to by said Secretary of the Commonwealth shall be competent evidence of the execution, delivery and recording thereof in any judicial proceedings, and may be relied upon by any public officer to the same extent as the original recognizance would be...