Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 185

FEES OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY RECORDER

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 96, TITLE 9, DELAWARE CODE, ENTITLED "RECORDERS" IN REGARD TO THE FEES OF THE RECORDER IN NEW CASTLE COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. § 9617, Title 9, Delaware Code, is amended to read as follows:

§ 9617. Fees in New Castle County

The fees of the Recorder in New Castle County, for the services specified, shall be as follows--

For recording, comparing, and certifying an official obligation $2.00

For recording, comparing, and indexing a private Act of Assembly, deed, mortgage, release, assignment, contract of marriage, certificate of incorporation and certificate of amendment of incorporation or other paper proper to be recorded, $1.75 for each page.

For certified copy, office copy, or exemplified copy of any record, if copies are furnished to the Recorder, $.50 a page or fractional part of a page; if copies are not furnished, $3.00 a page or fractional part of a page.

For noting a satisfaction or mortgage 1.00

For certificate under hand of the date of receiving mortgage for record .25

For furnishing list of mortgages under hand

and seal of office to sheriff 1.00

Conveyance and lien searches, time consumed in making same, $1.50 for first hour and $1.00 additional for each additional hour.

For filing certificates of Prothonotary and noting

on the margin return on writ of levari facias .25

For filing, abstracting, and indexing a conditional sales agreement 2.00

For noting on margin of record of mortgage names of parties, number of writ and term in scire facias proceedings upon certificate of Prothonotary. .25

For preparing and furnishing abstract of mortgage in scire facias proceedings, $1.50 per page or fractional part of a page.

Registering deeds in Registry Bureau of the City of Wilmington and in the Board of Assessment of New Castle County, $1.00 for each property description.

For nothing on margin of record of mortgage name or names of assignees in assignment of mortgage, $1.00 for each notation.

For recording, comparing, and certifying a certificate of extension, restoration, renewal, or revival of the charter of a corporation or a certificate of change of location of the principal offices or change of resident agent or transfer of the location of any office of the agent of any corporation in any city or town of this State to another location in the same city or town or from any city or town in this State to any other town or city in this State $1.75

For noting revocation of charter on margin of corporation charter, $1.00 for each notation.

For recording, comparing, and indexing a chattel mortgage 3.00

For recording and indexing a development plot 5.00

For satisfying a mortgage of record under a power of attorney from a mortgagee to the recorder or any employee in the Recorder's office 5.00

Approved June 28, 1957.