Sec. 7-34a. Fees.
Sec. 7-34a. Fees. (a) Town clerks shall receive, for recording any document, ten
dollars for the first page and five dollars for each subsequent page or fractional part
thereof, a page being not more than eight and one-half by fourteen inches. Town clerks
shall receive, for recording the information contained in a certificate of registration for
the practice of any of the healing arts, five dollars. Town clerks shall receive, for recording documents conforming to, or substantially similar to, section 47-36c, which are
clearly entitled "statutory form" in the heading of such documents, as follows: For the
first page of a warranty deed, a quitclaim deed, a mortgage deed, or an assignment of
mortgage, ten dollars; for each additional page of such documents, five dollars; and
for each marginal notation of an assignment of mortgage, subsequent to the first two
assignments, one dollar. Town clerks shall receive, for recording any document with
respect to which certain data must be submitted by each town clerk to the Secretary of
the Office of Policy and Management in accordance with section 10-261b, two dollars
in addition to the regular recording fee. Any person who offers any written document
for recording in the office of any town clerk, which document fails to have legibly typed,
printed or stamped directly beneath the signatures the names of the persons who executed
such document, the names of any witnesses thereto and the name of the officer before
whom the same was acknowledged, shall pay one dollar in addition to the regular recording fee. Town clerks shall receive, for recording any deed, except a mortgage deed,
conveying title to real estate, which deed does not contain the current mailing address
of the grantee, five dollars in addition to the regular recording fee. Town clerks shall
receive, for filing any document, five dollars; for receiving and keeping a survey or
map, legally filed in the town clerk's office, five dollars; and for indexing such survey
or map, in accordance with section 7-32, five dollars, except with respect to indexing
any such survey or map pertaining to a subdivision of land as defined in section 8-18,
in which event town clerks shall receive fifteen dollars for each such indexing. Town
clerks shall receive, for a copy of any document either recorded or filed in their offices,
one dollar for each page or fractional part thereof, as the case may be; for certifying any
copy of the same, two dollars; for making a copy of any survey or map, the actual cost
thereof; and for certifying such copy of a survey or map, two dollars. Town clerks shall
receive, for recording the commission and oath of a notary public, ten dollars; and for
certifying under seal to the official character of a notary, two dollars.
(b) The fees set forth in subsection (a) of this section received by town clerks for
recording documents include therein payment for the return of each document which
shall be made by the town clerk to the designated addressee.
(c) Compensation for all services other than those enumerated in subsection (a) of
this section which town clerks are required by the general statutes to perform and for
which compensation is not fixed by statute shall be fixed and paid by the selectmen or
other governing body of the town or city in which such services are performed.
(d) In addition to the fees for recording a document under subsection (a) of this
section, town clerks shall receive a fee of three dollars for each document recorded in
the land records of the municipality. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month, town
clerks shall remit two-thirds of the fees paid pursuant to this subsection during the
previous calendar month to the State Librarian for deposit in a bank account of the State
Treasurer and crediting to the historic documents preservation account established under
section 11-8i. One-third of the amount paid for fees pursuant to this subsection shall
be retained by town clerks and used for the preservation and management of historic
documents. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any document recorded
on the land records by an employee of the state or of a municipality in conjunction with
said employee's official duties. As used in this section "municipality" includes each
town, consolidated town and city, city, consolidated town and borough, borough, district, as defined in chapter 105 or chapter 105a, and each municipal board, commission
and taxing district not previously mentioned.
(e) In addition to the fees for recording a document under subsection (a) of this
section, town clerks shall receive a fee of thirty dollars for each document recorded in
the land records of the municipality. The town clerk shall retain one dollar of any fee
paid pursuant to this subsection and three dollars of such fee shall become part of the
general revenue of the municipality and be used to pay for local capital improvement
projects, as defined in section 7-536. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month,
town clerks shall remit twenty-six dollars of the fees paid pursuant to this subsection
during the previous calendar month to the State Treasurer. Upon deposit in the General
Fund, such amount shall be credited to the land protection, affordable housing and
historic preservation account established pursuant to section 4-66aa. The provisions of
this subsection shall not apply to any document recorded on the land records by an
employee of the state or of a municipality in conjunction with such employee's official
duties. As used in this subsection, "municipality" includes each town, consolidated town
and city, city, consolidated town and borough, borough, and district, as defined in chapter
105 or 105a, any municipal corporation or department thereof created by a special act
of the General Assembly, and each municipal board, commission and taxing district not
previously mentioned.
(1963, P.A. 528, S. 1, 2; 1971, P.A. 286; 1972, P.A. 150; P.A. 74-56; P.A. 75-154; P.A. 76-271, S. 1; P.A. 77-478, S.
4, 5; 77-614, S. 139, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 81-34, S. 8, 9; P.A. 82-323, S. 1; P.A. 85-60; 85-257; 85-385,
S. 1; P.A. 89-217, S. 1, 6; P.A. 90-175, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-389, S. 2, 7; P.A. 00-92, S. 2; 00-146, S. 1, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A.
00-1, S. 25, 46; P.A. 01-79, S. 2; P.A. 05-228, S. 5; 05-288, S. 37; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 113; P.A. 06-163, S. 1;
P.A. 07-133, S. 1; 07-217, S. 13; 07-252, S. 54.)
History: 1971 act provided for $10 payment to index surveys or maps in Subsec. (a); 1972 act changed fee for indexing
surveys or maps to $5, except where subdivisions concerned fee became $15; P.A. 74-56 revised fees for recording documents using page basis rather than word basis and deleted provision re additional fees for pages exceeding 10 by 16 inches;
P.A. 75-154 deleted provisions covering character size and set flat fee for certifying copies rather than fee per page; P.A.
76-271 added fees for recording warranty and quitclaim deeds and assignments of mortgages; P.A. 77-478 added fee for
recording documents re tax commissioner; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of revenue services for
tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-34 amended Subsec. (a) by adding a fee of $10 for recording the
commission and oath of a notary public and a fee of $2 for certification of a notary, effective July 1, 1982; P.A. 82-323
increased various fees; P.A. 85-60 changed required address of grantee from last-known mailing address to current mailing
address; P.A. 85-257 inserted a new Subsec. (b) providing that the fees for recording documents include payment for the
return of each document to the designated addressee by the town clerk and redesignated former Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c);
P.A. 85-385 amended section to require $0.55 fee for each marginal notation of an assignment of mortgage subsequent to
the first two assignments; P.A. 89-217 changed the fee for recording the first page of any document from $5 to $10 and
for mortgage assignments after the first two, from $0.50 to $1; P.A. 90-175 increased recording fee for documents from
$7.50 to $10 and specified that such documents be clearly titled "statutory form"; P.A. 93-389 amended Subsec. (a) to
change the fee for making a copy of any document from "one dollar for the first page or two hundred words or fractional
part thereof, as the case may be, and $0.50 for each additional page or two hundred words or fractional part thereof, as the
case may be" to "one dollar for each page or fractional part thereof, as the case may be", effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 00-92 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute "for a copy of any document" for "for making a copy of any document"; P.A. 00-146 added new Subsec. (d) providing for an additional fee of $3 to be used for historic preservation, effective July 1, 2000;
June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-1 amended Subsec. (d) to specify its inapplicability to document recorded on land records by a state
or municipal employee in conjunction with employee's official duties and to define "municipality", effective July 1, 2000;
P.A. 01-79 amended Subsec. (d) to require remittance of fees "to the State Librarian for deposit in a bank account of the
State Treasurer and crediting to" historic documents preservation account rather than remittance "to the State Treasurer
for deposit in" said account; P.A. 05-228 added new Subsec. (e) providing for an additional fee of $30 to be used for local
capital improvement projects, land protection, affordable housing and historic preservation, effective July 1, 2005; P.A.
05-288 made technical changes in Subsec. (a), effective July 13, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 changed effective date of
P.A. 05-228 to October 1, 2005, effective June 30, 2005; P.A. 06-163 amended Subsec. (e) to include municipal corporation
or department thereof in definition of "municipality", effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 07-133 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing
the fee for certifying a copy of a document or a survey or map from $1.00 to $2.00, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 07-217
made technical changes in Subsec. (e), effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 07-252 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes
and substitute "regular recording fee" for "recording fee", effective July 1, 2007.
See Sec. 11-8i et seq. re historic documents preservation grant program for municipalities.
See Secs. 12-176 and 12-179 re fees charged in connection with municipal tax liens.
See Sec. 30-53 re filing of liquor permit with town clerk.
Former statute cited. 103 C. 424.
Subsec. (a):
Cited. 223 C. 80.