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Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds
Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds
Section 1 - Registry Districts
Section 2 - Election; Qualification; Tenure
Section 3 - Oath of Office; Bond
Section 4 - Assistant Registers; Appointment
Section 5 - Assistant Registers in Suffolk County and Southern District of Middlesex
Section 5a - Second Assistant Register and Administrative Assistant for Norfolk County
Section 6 - Assistant Registers for Districts of Southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden County
Section 7 - Chief Clerk in Worcester District
Section 8 - Assistant and Temporary Registers and Clerks; Powers and Duties
Section 9 - Removal
Section 10 - Duties of New Register as to Unrecorded Instruments
Section 11 - Office Hours
Section 12 - Place of Record
Section 12a - Refusal to Accept Certain Instruments for Recording Authorized
Section 13 - Recording of Certified Copies of Instruments in More Than County or District
Section 13a - Plans, Rules for Filing in Registries
Section 13b - Plans; Filing in Registry of Deeds; Fees
Section 14 - Registry Book; Contents of Entries; Instrument Number; Changes and Corrections
Section 14a - Certification of Historic or Archeological Site; Recording of Notice
Section 15 - Method of Recording Documents; Microphotographs
Section 16 - Recordation; Receipts of Federal Succession Taxes
Section 17 - Duplicate Records; Attestation; Effect of Copies; Fees
Section 18 - Attestation of Records by Volume
Section 18a - Illegible Signatures
Section 19 - Facsimile Signatures
Section 20 - Instruments Affecting Mortgages Registered in Different Counties
Section 21 - Marginal References on Record of Instruments Affecting Certain Mortgages
Section 22 - Instruments Affecting Interests Created by Delinquent Taxes or Assessments; Recordation
Section 23 - Recordation; Certification of Book and Page Number on Instruments
Section 24 - Recordation; Federal Liens; Filing Fee
Section 24a - Recordation; Petitions, Decrees or Orders in Bankruptcy
Section 24b - Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information
Section 25 - Indexes; Number; Form
Section 26 - Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making
Section 27 - Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition
Section 28 - Classified Copies of Indexes
Section 29 - New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price
Section 30 - Estimates of Cost of Indexing
Section 31a - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording
Section 32 - Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare
Section 32a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications
Section 33 - Salaries
Section 37 - Compensation for Title Work
Section 38 - Clerical Assistants; Compensation
Section 39 - Fees; Recordation; Disposition
Section 40 - Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers
Section 41 - Surcharge on Fees of Registers of Deeds and Assistant Recorders; Registries Under Control of County Government; Surcharge to Fund Improvements at Registries; Disposition of Surcharge