190.11 Railroad conveyances, how executed and filed.
(1) Every conveyance or lease, deed of trust, mortgage or satisfaction thereof made by any railroad corporation shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner in which conveyances of real estate by corporations are required to be to entitle the same to be recorded, and shall be filed with and maintained by the office of the commissioner of railroads, which shall endorse thereon “filed" and the date of filing.
(2) A record of filing under sub. (1) shall from the time of reception of the instrument have the same effect as to any property in this state described therein as the record of any similar instrument in the office of a register of deeds has as to property in his or her county, and shall be notice of the rights and interest of the grantee, lessee or mortgagee by such instrument to the same extent as if it were recorded in all of the counties in which any property therein described may be situated.
(3) The office of the commissioner of railroads shall collect a fee of $1 per page filed under sub. (1). All fees received under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.155 (2) (g).
(4) The office of the commissioner of railroads shall collect a fee at the rate under s. 77.22 and, on or before the 15th day of the month after the fee is collected, shall remit that fee to the department of administration for deposit in the general fund. Sections 77.21, 77.22 and 77.25 to 77.27 apply to the fee under this subsection.
History: 1981 c. 20; 1985 a. 29; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 412; 1995 a. 27; 2015 a. 55.
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