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H0537...................................................by LOCAL GOVERNMENT
COUNTY RECORDS - FEES - Amends existing law to increase the fee charged by
a county recorder to record a document, to record a plat or map, and to
issue a marriage license.
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H0537
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 537
BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO FEES OF THE COUNTY RECORDER; AMENDING SECTION 31-3205, IDAHO CODE,
3 TO INCREASE THE FEE TO RECORD A DOCUMENT, TO RECORD A PLAT OR MAP AND TO
4 ISSUE A MARRIAGE LICENSE.
5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
6 SECTION 1. That Section 31-3205, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
7 amended to read as follows:
8 31-3205. RECORDER'S FEES. The county recorder is allowed, and may receive
9 for his services, the following fees, to be paid him by the party procuring
10 his services:
11 For recording every instrument, paper or notice, for each page ...........
12 $ 35.00
13 For copies of any record or paper, for each page .................. $ 1.00
14 For each certificate under seal, when required .................... $ 1.00
15 For release or assignment where more than one (1) document is released or
16 assigned in the same instrument, for each additional release or assignment....
17 ....................................................................... $ 1.00
18 For recording every town plat or map, for first one hundred (100) lots or
19 less ................................................................. $115.00
20 And for each additional lot ....................................... $ .05
21 For taking acknowledgments, including seal ........................ $ 1.00
22 For recording the location notice or amended location notice, of a mining
23 claim, or for recording and indexing each notice, for each page ...... $ 3.00
24 For recording affidavit of labor of mining claims for one (1) mining claim
25 ....................................................................... $ 4.00
26 Plus an additional charge for each claim in excess of one (1) ..... $ .50
27 For filing a survey ............................................... $ 5.00
28 For making a copy of a survey or highway right-of-way plat ........ $ 4.00
29 For issuing marriage license, filing, recording and indexing the certifi-
30 cate of marriage and taking and filing affidavits required in issuance of the
31 license .............................................................. $115.00
32 For administering an oath, including jurat ........................ $ 1.00
33 And certifying the same when required an additional sum of ........ $ 1.00
34 For comparing and certifying a prepared copy of a file or record in his
35 office, for each page ................................................. $ .50
36 For making and certifying a report of search for lien upon personal prop-
37 erty, excluding Uniform Commercial Code, for each name searched ....... $ 5.00
38 For each certificate under seal there shall be an additional fee of
39 ....................................................................... $ 1.00
40 All instruments delivered to the county recorder for record shall be
41 recorded rather than filed with the exception of plats, surveys, cornerstone
42 markers and instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code.
43 For all other services as recorder, not enumerated herein, the fee fixed
2
1 in the statute requiring the service or the same fee as allowed the clerk of
2 the district court for like service.
3 A page shall not exceed fourteen (14) inches in length nor eight and one-
4 half (8 1/2) inches in width. The recording fee to be charged for maps,
5 sketches, drawings or other instruments except plats larger than the size per-
6 mitted above for a page shall be two cents (2) per square inch.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 09796
The purpose of this bill is to provide a fee increase for recording
documents, issuing marriage licenses and recording plats or maps.
Recording fees have not been increased since 1987 while the demands for
services and expenses have increased, especially in the area of new technology.
Taking into account inflation over those thirteen years the value of the fees would
be nearly what is being proposed by this legislation.
The income to counties is user fees which will continue to minimize the
necessity of using property tax to fund that county operation.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no impact on the state general fund. There would be an increase
of nearly $2.5 million to counties.
CONTACT: Idaho Association of Counties Phone: 345-9126
Dan Chadwick, Tony Poinelli, Paul Beddoe
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL IMPACT H 537