LD 984
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LR 772
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A register shall, at the time of receiving a deed or
instrument for record, certify on the deed or instrument the
day and the hour and minute when it was received and the book
number and page number where the document is located.__If the
deed or instrument does not have sufficient room on the page
or pages for the location of the recording information so that
the register is required to add an additional page for the
placement of the recording information, the register may
charge in addition to any other fees allowed by law a fee of
$2 for each page the register is required to add.__An
instrument is considered recorded at the time when it was
received and that time must be entered on the record.__The
register shall enter that time, the names of the grantor and
grantee and the name of the town or unincorporated place as
shown by the instrument in which the property affected is
located in a record kept for that purpose and open to
inspection in business hours.__The register may not permit a
deed or instrument for the conveyance of real estate to be
altered, amended or withdrawn until it is fully recorded and
examined.__The record must be verified as a true record of the
original document by comparing the indexing record and the
copy kept for public inspection, as described in section 651,
to the original document before the original document is
allowed to leave the registry office.

 
Sec. 4. 33 MRSA §654 is amended to read:

 
§654. Miscellaneous records

 
Registers shall receive and record all certificates in
equitable proceedings, copies of judgments and decrees
certified by the clerk of courts in the county where the
complaint is pending or the judgment or decree is rendered,
certified copies of the proceedings of any court, corporation,
municipal body or other tribunal through or by which the right
of eminent domain has been or may hereafter be exercised to
affect the title to real estate, copies of portions of wills
devising real estate situated in their respective counties or
districts and all other instruments which that they are by law
required to record. They shall receive all copies of seizures
on execution and special attachments made and attested by any
officer of real property situate in their respective counties
or districts and certify on them the time when they are
received, and certificates of advertised stallions and copies
of processes against domestic corporations filed for service
by officers in the registry, keep them on file for the
inspection of parties interested and enter them in suitable
books, records properly indexed.

 
Sec. 5. 33 MRSA §654-A, as enacted by PL 1965, c. 425, §20-A, is
repealed.


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