When any instrument or judgment, affecting the title to or possession of real property, situated in more than one county in this state, has been filed for record in either of such counties, a copy thereof, certified to by the county clerk of the county in which it has been filed for record, may be recorded in any other county in this state wherein any portion of the real property affected by such instrument or judgment is situated, and such records will have the same effect as if the original instrument or judgment had been so recorded.
Laws 1971, c. 80, § 1.