CHAPTER 503
S.P. 47 - L.D. 157
An Act to Impose a Surcharge on Documents Recorded in a Registry of Deeds to Fund Preservation of Registry Documents
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §752 is enacted to read:
§752. Records preservation surcharge
1. Surcharge. In addition to any other fees required by law, a register of deeds may collect a surcharge of $3 per document for all records that are recorded in the registry of deeds, except those recorded by agencies of State Government and municipalities.
2. Account. The surcharge imposed in subsection 1 must be transferred to the county treasurer who shall deposit it in a separate nonlapsing account within 30 days of receipt. Money in the account is not available for use as a general revenue of the county. Interest earned on the account must be credited to the account.
3. Expenditures from account. The money in the account established in subsection 2 must be used for the restoration, re-creation and preservation of the records recorded in the office of the register of deeds.
4. Repeal. This section is repealed January 1, 2002.
Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.
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