Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 254 - Liens on Buildings and Land
Section 30 - Recording; Duty of Register of Deeds

Section 30. All liens for labor and notices of contract, and instruments pertaining thereto, filed as provided for in this chapter, shall be recorded by the register of deeds, who shall enter the names of the parties affected thereby in the grantor and grantee indexes.
Any notice or other instrument required or permitted to be filed or recorded by this chapter in the registry of deeds or in the land registration district of the land court that is in the form required by this chapter and executed before a notary public, justice of the peace or other officer entitled by law to take acknowledgements with respect to instruments, whether executed within or without the commonwealth, by a person purporting to hold the position of president, vice president, treasurer, clerk, secretary, or any assistant to the foregoing, principal, partner, proprietor, trustee, attorney or other similar position, of the entity entitled to record or file such instruments on behalf of such entity acting in its own capacity or as a general partner or co-venturer, or as assignee, agent or authorized representative, shall be binding upon such entity and shall be entitled to be recorded or filed, and no vote of the entity affirming such authority shall be required to permit recording or filing. A certificate of the acknowledgement or other proof of due execution shall be endorsed upon or annexed to such instrument, and filed or recorded with it.
Such notices, and all other instruments required or permitted by this chapter to be filed or recorded in the registry of deeds, affecting registered land shall be filed and registered in the manner prescribed by section seventy-eight of chapter one hundred and eighty-five. Such notices, and all other instruments required or permitted by this chapter to be filed or recorded in the registry of deeds, affecting unregistered land shall be indexed in a separate book to be kept for that purpose.
If registered land is included with unregistered land in any such notice or other instrument, an attested copy thereof shall be filed with the assistant recorder and registered.

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Massachusetts General Laws

Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases

Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases

Chapter 254 - Liens on Buildings and Land

Section 1 - Labor Performed; Limitation on Lien; Filing

Section 2 - Written Contract; Notice; Time for Filing; Form

Section 2a - Written Contract; Substantial Completion; Definitions; Notice; Filing; Form; Certified Mail

Section 2b - Termination of Written Contract; Notice; Filing; Form; Certified Mail

Section 2c - Design Professional's Lien Upon Real Property; Form and Filing of Notice

Section 2d - Subcontractor of Design Professional; Lien; Form and Filing of Notice

Section 4 - Subcontractors; Written Contract; Notice; Filing; Form; Indirect Contractual Relationship; Notice of Identification

Section 5 - Enforcement of Lien; Procedure

Section 5a - Court Order Authorizing Sale of Real Estate; Procedure

Section 6 - Public Property; Exemption

Section 7 - Mortgages; Invalidity of Subsequent Liens

Section 8 - Statement of Amount Due; Time for Filing; Dissolution of Lien

Section 9 - Notice or Statement; Public Inspection; Recording

Section 10 - Dissolution by Notice

Section 11 - Action to Enforce Lien; Time to Commence; Validity of Lien

Section 12 - Written Contract; Recording of Bond; Form; Enforcement

Section 13 - Attachments

Section 14 - Dissolution by Bond Recording; Labor and Materials; Form of Bond

Section 15 - Dissolution by Judgment

Section 15a - Application to Court for Order Ruling on or Discharging Lien

Section 17 - Claims; Allowance

Section 18 - Sale of Property

Section 19 - Notice of Sale

Section 20 - Redemption; Limitation

Section 21 - Distribution of Assets

Section 22 - Costs

Section 23 - Original Owner; Death or Conveyance of Interest; Action to Enforce Lien

Section 24 - Death of Creditor; Effect

Section 25 - Estate Less Than Fee Simple; Effect of Sale

Section 26 - Remedies

Section 27 - Written Contract; Form of Notice

Section 28 - Subcontractor; Written Contract; Notice; Filing; Form

Section 29 - Laws Applicable to Sec. 27 or 28

Section 30 - Recording; Duty of Register of Deeds

Section 31 - Apportionment; Priority; Proceedings; Public Contracts

Section 32 - Void and Unenforceable Covenants, Promises, etc.; Exceptions

Section 33 - Mortgagee's Right to Withhold Funding, Financing or Payment for Labor and Materials