Mining claims: recording.

Existing law requires, whenever labor is performed, improvements are made, or a maintenance fee is paid on a mining claim, that a specified affidavit be recorded in the county in which the mining claim is situated. Existing law requires that affidavit to include, among other things, the names, current mailing addresses, and current residential addresses of the person who makes the proof and the owner of the claim. Existing law requires the recorder of each county to accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by law to be recorded. Existing law requires those documents, except as otherwise provided by another law or regulation, to comply with specified standards respecting margins, quality of paper, print size and color, and other related matters. This bill would no longer require the recorded mining claim affidavit to include the current residential addresses of the person who makes the proof and the owner of the claim.