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Ex. AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS-114 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

Press release, 'Dallas County Clerk's Office Closure and Continued Service - COVID-19' (For Immediate Release, Tuesday, March 24, 2020)

Dallas County Clerk's Office Closure and Continued Service - COVID-19

Dallas County Clerk John F. Warren · Dallas County, Texas (County Clerk) (County)

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Jurisdiction
Dallas County, Texas (County Clerk) · Texas
Level
County
Authority
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code secs. 191.001 et seq., 192.001; Tex. Health & Safety Code sec. 191.001 et seq. (vital records); Dallas County 'Stay Home Stay Safe' order (Mar. 23, 2020) under Tex. Gov't Code sec. 418.108
Issued
2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24
End
'until the Stay Home Stay safe Order has been lifted' (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureCourts and public offices
Addressees
  • the public
  • title companies
  • funeral homes (vital records essential services only)
  • individuals filing assumed-name certificates
  • attorneys and self-represented litigants
  • probate and misdemeanor filers
Functions reached
  • CL recording (title companies only; individuals' documents refused)
  • OP assumed-name filings suspended for individuals
  • CT civil, probate and misdemeanor filings by e-file and mail
  • FH funeral homes (vital records essential services)
  • OF
  • CB
Character
context
Collection
State motor-vehicle offices, secretaries of state and recorders AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS

Operative words

In response to the COVID-19 crisis and the Stay Home Stay Safe Order, The Dallas County Clerk's Office will be closing all of its offices to the public. Our operations will be limited to essential services only. All transactions will be done either by electronic filing, mail, document drop off. Vital Records: We will not accept or process applications from individuals seeking copies of birth, death or issue marriage license at this time. We will only provide essential services to funeral homes. Recording Division: Will process deed records from title companies only. We encourage all title companies to submit them electronically but we will accept them by drop off in a sealed envelope. We will not accept applications for Assumed Name for Business (DBA) or personal documents from individual until the Stay Home Stay safe Order has been lifted. Civil Courts: The division is restricting face-to-face services to Temporary Restraining Order (TROs) filings, bond payments and process server citation pick-ups.... County Clerk Administration will be closed. Criminal Misdemeanor Courts: Will only accept filing online.

Enforcement

Administrative closure under the county judge's disaster order

Notes

The clearest recorder instrument retrieved: it names the divisions closed, the customers refused (individuals; new-business DBA filers) and the customers served (title companies; funeral homes), and ties the closure to the county's stay-home order.

Retrieval note

Revision of March 24, 2020 ('rev032420').

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