1. Each county recorder shall maintain two separate indexes in his or her office for the separate alphabetical recordation of the various classes of documents specified in NRS 247.120. One of the indexes must be for the grantors, defendants, mortgagors, trustors, lessors, vendors, assignors, appointors, parties releasing, judgment debtors, testators, obligors under bonds, parties against whom liens are claimed or attachments issued, mining locators, name of mine, persons filing or parties adversely affected by the document indexed, and the other index must be for the grantees, plaintiffs, mortgagees, beneficiaries, lessees, vendees, assignees, appointees, parties whose mortgages, deeds of trust, liens and similar encumbrances are released or the parties benefited by the document indexed.

2. Each of the indexes must be so arranged as to show:

(a) The names of each of the parties to each document except as otherwise provided in subsection 5.

(b) The date on which the document was recorded in the office of the county recorder.

(c) The book and page where the document is recorded, or the document number.

(d) Such other data as in the discretion of the county recorder may seem desirable.

If the index is one general series for all documents recorded, it must also show the character of the document indexed.

3. A county recorder may keep in the same volume any two or more of the indexes provided for in this section, but the indexes must be kept distinct from each other. Every volume of indexes must be distinctly marked on the outside in such a way as to show all of the indexes kept in it.

4. The first column of the several indexes for parties adversely affected and parties benefited must be arranged in alphabetical order.

5. When a conveyance is executed by a sheriff, the name of the county and the party charged in the execution must both be inserted in the indexes. When a document is recorded to which an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee is a party, the name of the executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, together with the name of the testator, intestate, or protected person, or party for whom the trust is held, must be inserted in the index, except that the name of the trustee in a deed of trust or in a partial or full deed of reconveyance need not be indexed. A trustee’s deed given upon exercise of the power of sale under any deed of trust must be indexed under the names of the original trustor and the grantee named in it. A document affecting a limited partnership is not required to be indexed under the names of the limited partners if it is indexed under the names of the partnership and the general partners.

6. In addition to the indexes required by this section, the county recorder shall keep and maintain other indexes required in the performance of his or her official duties.

7. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 8, every document deposited in the office of any county recorder for recordation, must be alphabetically indexed under the names of each party adversely affected by the document and under the names of each party benefited by the document so indexed.

8. A map of a minor county road that is recorded in the office of a county recorder must:

(a) Be recorded in the index for grantors according to the townships, ranges and sections indicated on the face of the map; and

(b) Show the character of the document as a map of a minor county road.

9. As an alternative to the method of indexing prescribed by this section, the county recorder may use in place of the index books or volumes:

(a) Card indexes with a metal-reinforced hole punched in them for rod insertion, and the card indexes must be kept in suitable metal file cabinets.

(b) A secure electronic method of indexing, including, without limitation, microfilm produced by computer or a system using computer terminals.

[3:120:1923; A 1935, 247; 1953, 164] — (NRS A 1965, 929; 1971, 844; 1973, 336; 1975, 1424; 1979, 9; 1985, 1682; 1993, 1401; 2001, 1738)