LD 1140, Page 7 - 121th Legislature, FIRST REGULAR Session

predecessor should have done if such records and certificates

had been completed by the predecessor, which certificates ~~shall~~

be are as effectual in law as if made by the predecessor; for

doing this, the minutes made by the predecessor upon such deeds

or other papers and the entries made by the predecessor in the

books required to be kept for such purposes ~~shall be~~ are

sufficient authority. If payment for such services has been made

to the predecessor, the newly appointed ~~or elected~~ register or

any successor ~~shall~~ must be paid for them out of the county

treasury, and the former register and the former register's

sureties shall refund such payments to the county treasury, to

be recovered by a civil action upon the former register's

official bond.

Sec. 19. 33 MRSA §612 is enacted to read:

§612.__Appointment of register of deeds

1.__County commissioners to appoint.__The county
commissioners shall appoint a register of deeds.

2.__Term.__The register of deeds appointed pursuant to
subsection 1 serves at the will of the county commissioners.

3.__Qualifications.__The county commissioners shall set the
professional standards and minimum qualifications for
appointed registers of deeds.__The person appointed register
of deeds by the county commissioners pursuant to subsection 1
must meet these minimum qualifications.

Sec. 20. Implementation of Act.

1. Effective date of appointments. After the effective
date of this Act and upon receipt of the minimum
qualifications established by the county commissioners, the
county commissioners for each county may appoint a county
treasurer and register of deeds, except that the elected
county treasurer or elected register of deeds who is holding
office on the effective date of this Act completes the
remainder of the elected treasurer's or elected register of
deeds's term of office. The elected district attorney who is
holding office on the effective date of this Act completes the
remainder of the elected district attorney's term of office.

2. Additional term. Any elected county treasurer who meets
the minimum qualifications established under the Maine Revised
Statutes, Title 30-A, section 157, subsection 3 or elected
register of deeds who meets the minimum qualifications
established under Title 33, section 612, subsection 3 and who
is holding office on the effective date of this Act must be
appointed by the county commissioners for a minimum of one

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