Ala. Code § 45-59-83.62: Installation and Maintenance of Improved Indexing and Recording System.

The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved indexing and recording system in the probate offices of the county. The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall include the following:

(1) The acquisition of the equipment provided for in the definition hereinabove set forth of an improved indexing and recording system.

(2) The establishment of procedures for the continued indexing, recording, and filing of all instruments and records that, after the effective installation date, shall constitute a part of the improved indexing and recording system.

(3) The initial installation of the improved indexing and recording system shall be performed by a person or persons, firm, or corporation engaged in records management business and experienced in setting up county records; and the initial installation shall be supervised and inspected by a person who is experienced in handling records pertaining to abstracts and title. Following its installation in the county, the improved indexing and recording system shall be thereafter maintained in the county and all real property instruments, general property instruments, and personal property instruments and other documents and records herein provided to constitute a part of the system, that may be thereafter filed for record in the probate office of the county shall be in accordance with the aforesaid improved indexing and recording system. Each real property instrument and each personal property instrument shall be operative as a record from the time of its delivery to the judge of probate of the county, in accordance with existing law, including particularly Section 12–13–43.