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2017 Massachusetts General Laws
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
TITLE VI COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS
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 31 Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2
- 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 34 to 36 Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12
- 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
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