Act No. 20

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

March 4, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 4, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Rep. Sanborn

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5024

AN ACT to amend 1879 PA 237, entitled "An act to provide for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of contracts for the sale of land," by amending section 1 (MCL 565.351), as amended by 1991 PA 140.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1. A contract for the sale of land or any interest in that land shall be executed by the vendor named in the contract, and acknowledged before any judge or before any notary public within this state, and the officer taking the acknowledgment shall endorse a certificate of the acknowledgment and the date of making the acknowledgment under his or her hand.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.