Chapter 36 - REGISTERS OF DEEDS
- Section 36:1 - Registry districts
- Section 36:2 - Election of registers of deeds; qualification; tenure
- Section 36:3 - Oath of office; bond
- Section 36:4 - Assistant registers; appointment
- Section 36:5 - Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex
- Section 36:5A - Second assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county
- Section 36:6 - Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county
- Section 36:7 - Chief clerk in Worcester district
- Section 36:8 - Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties
- Section 36:9 - Removal
- Section 36:10 - Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments
- Section 36:11 - Office hours
- Section 36:12 - Place of record
- Section 36:12A - Refusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized
- Section 36:13 - Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district
- Section 36:13A - Plans, rules for filing in registries
- Section 36:13B - Plans; filing in registry of deeds; fees
- Section 36:14 - Registry book; form; entries; changes and corrections
- Section 36:14A - Certification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice
- Section 36:15 - Method of recording documents; microphotographs
- Section 36:16 - Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes
- Section 36:17 - Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees
- Section 36:18 - Attestation of records by volume
- Section 36:18A - Illegible signatures
- Section 36:19 - Facsimile signatures
- Section 36:20 - Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties
- Section 36:21 - Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages
- Section 36:22 - Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation
- Section 36:23 - Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments
- Section 36:24 - Recordation; federal liens; filing fee
- Section 36:24A - Recordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy
- Section 36:24B - Records affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information
- Section 36:25 - Indexes; number; form
- Section 36:26 - Entries in indexes; time and manner of making
- Section 36:27 - Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition
- Section 36:28 - Classified copies of indexes
- Section 36:29 - New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price
- Section 36:30 - Estimates of cost of indexing
- Section 36:31A - Notice to commissioner of revenue; recording
- Section 36:32 - Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare
- Section 36:32A - Communications, documents or writings identifying husband and wife; names required
- Section 36:33 - Salaries
- Section 36:37 - Compensation for title work
- Section 36:38 - Clerical assistants; compensation
- Section 36:39 - Fees; recordation; disposition
- Section 36:40 - Technology purchases by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers
- Section 36:41 - Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge