ARTICLE 5. Fees

Article 5 added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.

§§ 27360–27388.2 · 28 sections

§ 27360 For services performed by the recorder’s office, the county recorder shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.
§ 27360.5 As used in this code, the word “folio” means 100 words. Each figure, character, symbol, and initial, excluding punctuation marks, shall be regarded as a word…
§ 27361 (a) The fee for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) for…
§ 27361.1 Whenever two or more instruments, papers, or notices are serially incorporated on one form or sheet, or are attached to one another, except as an exhibit…
§ 27361.2 (a) Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded that contains references to more than one previously recorded document and requires additional…
§ 27361.3 (a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the law, the fee for recording every release of lien, encumbrance, or notice executed by the state, or any…
§ 27361.4 (a) The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee of one dollar ($1) for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record, in…
§ 27361.5 (a) As used in Section 27361, a page shall be one printed side of a single piece of paper being 81/2 inches by 11 inches. (b) A sheet shall be one printed side…
§ 27361.6 Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, all documents submitted for recording shall have at least a 1/2-inch margin on the two vertical sides except…
§ 27361.7 Whenever the text of a document presented for record may be made out but is not sufficiently legible to reproduce a readable photographic record, the recorder…
§ 27361.8 (a) Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded that requires additional indexing by the county recorder to give notice required by law and does not…
§ 27361.9 The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee for filing every preliminary notice pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8214 of the…
§ 27364 The fee for each certificate under seal shall be set by the board of supervisors in an amount necessary to recover the direct and indirect costs of providing…
§ 27365 The fee for any copy of a birth, death, or marriage certificate, when the copy is made by the recorder, is the same as is payable to a state or local registrar…
§ 27366 The fee for any copy of any other record or paper on file in the office of the recorder, when the copy is made by the recorder, shall be set by the board of…
§ 27369 The fee for searching the records of his office for a birth, death, or marriage certificate is the same as is payable to a state or local registrar of vital…
§ 27371 The fee for recording each map or plat where it is copied in a book of record is ten cents ($0.10) for each course, plus ten cents ($0.10) a folio for letters…
§ 27372 The fee for recording or filing and indexing each map wherein land is subdivided in lots, tracts, or parcels is five dollars ($5) for the first page and two…
§ 27375 The fee for taking an acknowledgment of any instrument is seventy-five cents ($0.75).
§ 27379 The fee for administering and certifying each oath or affirmation is fifty cents ($0.50).
§ 27380 The fee for filing, indexing, and keeping each paper not required by law to be recorded is three dollars ($3).
§ 27381 No charge or fee shall be made for recording, indexing, or issuing certified copies of any discharge, certificate of service, certificate of satisfactory…
§ 27383 No fee shall be charged by the recorder for services rendered to the State, to any municipality, county in the State or other political subdivision thereof,…
§ 27387 In addition to any other fee, the county recorder shall collect a fee from any lienor, other than a governmental entity, for the recordation of an abstract of…
§ 27387.1 (a) In addition to any other recording fee, the recorder, pursuant to Section 27297.6, may collect a fee from the party filing a deed, quitclaim deed, deed of…
§ 27388 (a) (1) In addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, upon the adoption of a resolution by the county board of supervisors, a fee of up to…
§ 27388.1 (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2018, and except as provided in paragraph (2), in addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, a fee of…
§ 27388.2 (a) In addition to all other fees authorized by this section, a county recorder may charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for recording the first page of every real…