2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 13 Courts and judicial procedure :: RS 13:844 Fees of ex officio recorders

§844.  Fees of ex officio recorders

A.  Clerks of the district courts as ex officio recorders may charge the following fees:

(1)  For filing and recording any document, twenty-five dollars per book for the first page and ten dollars for each subsequent page per book up to ten pages. All documents that exceed ten pages, twenty-five dollars for the first page and eight dollars for each subsequent page.

(2)  For indexing of all documents filed for record for each name after the first name that is required to be indexed, five dollars per name.

(3)  For notarizing acknowledgments of acts executed under private signature, with seal and certificate, five dollars.

(4)  For certificate of real estate mortgage and lien certificate with seal, for each name in which search is made, and for one definable property only, twenty dollars for the first name and ten dollars for each additional name.  There shall be an additional charge of one dollar per exception in the event that more than ten exceptions are contained on a certificate.

(5)  For canceling real estate mortgage with original note, ten dollars.

(6)  For making copies of all official documents, no more than two dollars per page.

(7)  For attesting any record or copy thereof, five dollars.

(8)  For canceling of lien for paving or installation of sewerage system, ten dollars.

B.  The funds derived by the clerk of court in the parish of Calcasieu from that portion of the fees collectable pursuant to this Subsection above the amount of such fees collectable at the rates provided by R.S. 13:844 prior to the amendment thereof at the 1981 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be expended exclusively for the payment of salaries of deputy clerks of court in that parish.

C.  In addition to the above charges, the clerks of court as ex officio notaries public may make a reasonable charge for drawing deeds, mortgages, chattel mortgages, liens or other similar instruments.

D.(1)  For purposes of establishing the filing and recording fee, every document filed for recordation shall be captioned as to type of act on the first page, and shall have on the first page a margin of two inches at the top, and one inch at the bottom and sides.  The type size shall not be less than eight point.

(2)  For any document not in compliance with Paragraph (1), there shall be an additional ten-dollar noncompliance fee per document.

E.  In addition to the fees provided in Subsection A of this Section, the clerk of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District for the parish of Jefferson may demand and receive additional fees in an amount not to exceed twenty-five percent of the fees specified in Subsection A of this Section.  The funds so derived by the clerk shall be expended exclusively for the payment of salaries of deputy clerks of court in that parish.

F.  Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 769, §2.

Amended by Acts 1964, No. 398, §1; Acts 1974, No. 541, §1; Acts 1981, No. 360, §1; Acts 1982, No. 86, §1; Acts 1984, No. 438, §1; Acts 1985, No. 749, §1; Acts 1986, No. 317, §1; Acts 1986, No. 435, §1; Acts 1988, No. 920, §3, eff. July 26, 1988; Acts 1995, No. 994, §1; Acts 2001, No. 769, §§1 and 2.

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1988, NO. 920, §§4, 5, AND 6.}}