Massachusetts General Laws
Title VI - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds

Section 1 - Registry Districts - Section 1. The counties of Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Middlesex and...

Section 2 - Election; Qualification; Tenure - Section 2. In each such district and in each county...

Section 3 - Oath of Office; Bond - Section 3. Each register of deeds shall be sworn before...

Section 4 - Assistant Registers; Appointment - Section 4. Each register, with the approval of the superior...

Section 5 - Assistant Registers in Suffolk County and Southern District of Middlesex - Section 5. The registers of deeds for Suffolk county and...

Section 5a - Second Assistant Register and Administrative Assistant for Norfolk County - Section 5A. The register of deeds for Norfolk county may,...

Section 6 - Assistant Registers for Districts of Southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden County - Section 6. The registers for the southern district of Essex,...

Section 7 - Chief Clerk in Worcester District - Section 7. The register for the Worcester district may, by...

Section 8 - Assistant and Temporary Registers and Clerks; Powers and Duties - Section 8. During the disability of a register, or if...

Section 9 - Removal - Section 9. If a register, upon presentment of the grand...

Section 10 - Duties of New Register as to Unrecorded Instruments - Section 10. If, upon the death, removal or expiration of...

Section 11 - Office Hours - Section 11. Every register shall keep in his registry all...

Section 12 - Place of Record - Section 12. Every deed and other instrument required to be...

Section 12a - Refusal to Accept Certain Instruments for Recording Authorized - Section 12A. A register of deeds may refuse to accept...

Section 13 - Recording of Certified Copies of Instruments in More Than County or District - Section 13. If a deed or other writing affecting land...

Section 13a - Plans, Rules for Filing in Registries - Section 13A. The registers of deeds, or a majority of...

Section 13b - Plans; Filing in Registry of Deeds; Fees - Section 13B. A plan, the original of which was prepared...

Section 14 - Registry Book; Contents of Entries; Instrument Number; Changes and Corrections - Section 14. (a) Each register shall keep a record, in...

Section 14a - Certification of Historic or Archeological Site; Recording of Notice - Section 14A. A notice of certification of an historic or...

Section 15 - Method of Recording Documents; Microphotographs - Section 15. He shall record all instruments upon the pages...

Section 16 - Recordation; Receipts of Federal Succession Taxes - Section 16. He shall record receipts of federal revenue collectors...

Section 17 - Duplicate Records; Attestation; Effect of Copies; Fees - Section 17. The register shall, at the expense of the...

Section 18 - Attestation of Records by Volume - Section 18. He may attest the records by the volume,...

Section 18a - Illegible Signatures - Section 18A. The register or an assistant register may print...

Section 19 - Facsimile Signatures - Section 19. A facsimile of the signature of any register,...

Section 20 - Instruments Affecting Mortgages Registered in Different Counties - Section 20. If an assignment, extension, partial release, release or...

Section 21 - Marginal References on Record of Instruments Affecting Certain Mortgages - Section 21. When an instrument described in the preceding section...

Section 22 - Instruments Affecting Interests Created by Delinquent Taxes or Assessments; Recordation - Section 22. If an assignment, release, partial release, discharge or...

Section 23 - Recordation; Certification of Book and Page Number on Instruments - Section 23. He shall certify upon every instrument recorded by...

Section 24 - Recordation; Federal Liens; Filing Fee - Section 24. Notice of a federal tax lien which may...

Section 24a - Recordation; Petitions, Decrees or Orders in Bankruptcy - Section 24A. At any time after a petition in bankruptcy...

Section 24b - Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information - Section 24B. The register, or said register as the assistant...

Section 25 - Indexes; Number; Form - Section 25. He shall keep two indexes, each divided into...

Section 26 - Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making - Section 26. He shall, within twenty-four hours after a deed...

Section 27 - Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition - Section 27. When an instrument by which a person transfers...

Section 28 - Classified Copies of Indexes - Section 28. Each register shall annually, at the expense of...

Section 29 - New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price - Section 29. A register may, with the consent of the...

Section 30 - Estimates of Cost of Indexing - Section 30. Each register, except in Suffolk county, shall annually,...

Section 31a - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording - Section 31A. Within sixty days after the recording of any...

Section 32 - Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare - Section 32. Whenever there is filed for record in a...

Section 32a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications - Section 32A. Whenever the register, in any communication, document or...

Section 33 - Salaries - Section 33. The salaries of registers of deeds and all...

Section 37 - Compensation for Title Work - Section 37. No register or assistant register shall demand or...

Section 38 - Clerical Assistants; Compensation - Section 38. Registers shall annually be allowed for clerical assistance...

Section 39 - Fees; Recordation; Disposition - Section 39. Each register shall enter in a cash book,...

Section 40 - Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers - Section 40. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

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 - Section 41. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...