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Chapter 36

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 36

Registers of Deeds

1Registry districts 2Election; qualification; tenure 3Oath of office; bond 4Assistant registers; appointment 5Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex 5ASecond assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county 6Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county 7Chief clerk in Worcester district 8Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties 9Removal 10Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments 11Office hours 12Place of record 12ARefusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized 13Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district 13APlans, rules for filing in registries 13BPlans; filing in registry of deeds; fees 14Registry book; contents of entries; instrument number; changes and corrections 14ACertification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice 15Method of recording documents; microphotographs 16Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes 17Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees 18Attestation of records by volume 18AIllegible signatures 19Facsimile signatures 20Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties 21Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages 22Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation 23Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments 24Recordation; federal liens; filing fee 24ARecordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy 24BRecords affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information 25Indexes; number; form 26Entries in indexes; time and manner of making 27Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition 28Classified copies of indexes 29New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price 30Estimates of cost of indexing 31ANotice to commissioner of revenue; recording 32Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare 32AIdentification of husbands and wives in documents and communications 33Salaries 37Compensation for title work 38Clerical assistants; compensation 39Fees; recordation; disposition 40Technology purchase's by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers 41Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge