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Section 1Registry districts
Section 2Election; qualification; tenure
Section 3Oath of office; bond
Section 4Assistant registers; appointment
Section 5Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex
Section 5ASecond assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county
Section 6Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county
Section 7Chief clerk in Worcester district
Section 8Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties
Section 9Removal
Section 10Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments
Section 11Office hours
Section 12Place of record
Section 12ARefusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized
Section 13Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district
Section 13APlans, rules for filing in registries
Section 13BPlans; filing in registry of deeds; fees
Section 14Registry book; contents of entries; instrument number; changes and corrections
Section 14ACertification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice
Section 15Method of recording documents; microphotographs
Section 16Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes
Section 17Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees
Section 18Attestation of records by volume
Section 18AIllegible signatures
Section 19Facsimile signatures
Section 20Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties
Section 21Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages
Section 22Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation
Section 23Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments
Section 24Recordation; federal liens; filing fee
Section 24ARecordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy
Section 24BRecords affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information
Section 25Indexes; number; form
Section 26Entries in indexes; time and manner of making
Section 27Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition
Section 28Classified copies of indexes
Section 29New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price
Section 30Estimates of cost of indexing
Section 31Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2
Section 31ANotice to commissioner of revenue; recording
Section 32Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare
Section 32AIdentification of husbands and wives in documents and communications
Section 33Salaries
Section 34 to 36Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12
Section 37Compensation for title work
Section 38Clerical assistants; compensation
Section 39Fees; recordation; disposition
Section 40Technology purchase’s by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers
Section 41Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge