Purcell v. Superior Court

OPINION

CONTRERAS, Judge.

In this consolidated appeal and special action, we consider whether the Maricopa County Recorder must physically remove a document determined to be an invalid lien from the county’s official records in order to “remove” the lien from the records within the meaning of Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated (“A.R.S.”) section 33-420(B) (1990). We conclude that physical removal of the document is not required and that the county recorder need only record a subsequent document declaring the lien to be invalid in order to “remove” it from the county’s records within the meaning…