An instrument is filed by presentation at the clerk’s office. A county clerk may accept instruments by electronic filing and may record the instruments electronically if the filing or recording complies with the rules adopted by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Instruments may be filed electronically by (i) an attorney licensed in this state; (ii) a Bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union doing business under laws of the United States or this state; (iii) a federally chartered lending institution, a federal government-sponsored entity, an instrumentality of the federal government, or a person approved as a mortgagee by the United States to make federally insured loans; (iv) a person licensed to make regulated loans in this state; (v) a title insurance company or title insurance agent licensed to do business in this state; or (vi) an agency of this state. Not all counties have adopted rules on electronic filing. Check with the applicable county.