There is within the Department of Land Management the office of recorder. The Director of Land Management shall be ex officio the recorder. The recorder shall have and exercise all of the duties, powers and functions of such office, and is authorized to designate one or more employees of the Department of Land Management as deputy recorders who may perform any and all duties of the recorder in the name of the recorder, and the acts of such deputies be held to be acts of the recorder.

SOURCE: GC § 13100.