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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 36. — REGISTERS OF DEEDS.

Chapter 36 — Section 1. Registry districts.
Chapter 36 — Section 2. Election; qualification; tenure.
Chapter 36 — Section 3. Oath of office; bond.
Chapter 36 — Section 4. Assistant registers; appointment.
Chapter 36 — Section 5. Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex.
Chapter 36 — Section 5A. Second assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county.
Chapter 36 — Section 6. Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county.
Chapter 36 — Section 7. Chief clerk in Worcester district.
Chapter 36 — Section 8. Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties.
Chapter 36 — Section 9. Removal.
Chapter 36 — Section 10. Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments.
Chapter 36 — Section 11. Office hours.
Chapter 36 — Section 12. Place of record.
Chapter 36 — Section 12A. Refusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized.
Chapter 36 — Section 13. Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district.
Chapter 36 — Section 13A. Plans, rules for filing in registries.
Chapter 36 — Section 13B. Plans; filing in registry of deeds; fees.
Chapter 36 — Section 14. Registry book; form; entries.
Chapter 36 — Section 14A. Certification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice.
Chapter 36 — Section 15. Method of recording documents; microphotographs.
Chapter 36 — Section 16. Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes.
Chapter 36 — Section 17. Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees.
Chapter 36 — Section 18. Attestation of records by volume.
Chapter 36 — Section 18A. Illegible signatures.
Chapter 36 — Section 19. Facsimile signatures.
Chapter 36 — Section 20. Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties.
Chapter 36 — Section 21. Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages.
Chapter 36 — Section 22. Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation.
Chapter 36 — Section 23. Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments.
Chapter 36 — Section 24. Recordation; federal liens; filing fee.
Chapter 36 — Section 24A. Recordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy.
Chapter 36 — Section 24B. Records affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information.
Chapter 36 — Section 25. Indexes; number; form.
Chapter 36 — Section 26. Entries in indexes; time and manner of making.
Chapter 36 — Section 27. Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition.
Chapter 36 — Section 28. Classified copies of indexes.
Chapter 36 — Section 29. New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price.
Chapter 36 — Section 30. Estimates of cost of indexing.
Chapter 36 — Section 31. Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2.
Chapter 36 — Section 31A. Notice to commissioner of revenue; recording.
Chapter 36 — Section 32. Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare.
Chapter 36 — Section 32A. Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications.
Chapter 36 — Section 33. Salaries.
Chapter 36 — Section 34 to 36. Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12.
Chapter 36 — Section 37. Compensation for title work.
Chapter 36 — Section 38. Clerical assistants; compensation.
Chapter 36 — Section 39. Fees; recordation; disposition.
Chapter 36 — Section 40. Technology purchase's by register of deeds; compatibility with other registries.

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