The Iowa Land Title Association Title Plant Certification Program was created in 2009 as a volunatary program to complement the ILTA Certified Land Title Professional Program and provide member and non-member title companies an opportunity to defferentiate themselves from their competition.

Member firms that have had succesfu plant inspections, per ILTA records, may enroll in the program by completing and returning a signed affidavit (and inspection fee) confirming that their plant is activiely maintained and meets all established criteria for a viable title plant.  Those firms may immediately promote their plant as Certified: 

Instruction Form         Affidavit

A firm that has not had its title plant previously inspected would not be able to promote its plant as Certified until a successful inspection has been done:  

Instruction Form

In order to retain its Certified status, a plant must be inspected every five (5) years.  A certificate will be presented to the plant's owner upon each successful inspection.

If a plant has not been inspected since January 1, 1989, then the first inspection under this program will be a 40-year inspection.  If a plant has been inspected after that date, then its first inspection under this program will be from the date of the last inspection.  Inspections will be scheduled upon return of the necessary documents.

ILTA will provide certificates for successful inspections, and provide an ILTA Certified Title Plant Logo that may be incorproated into a company's certificate page or for other marketing purposes.  Please note that this logo is trademarked by the association and may be used only by permission of the ILTA  for purposes of marketing by members successfully enrolled in the program.