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Section
1

Registry Districts

Section
2

Election; Qualification; Tenure

Section
3

Oath of Office; Bond

Section
4

Assistant Registers; Appointment

Section
5

Assistant Registers in Suffolk County and Southern District of Middlesex

Section
5a

Second Assistant Register and Administrative Assistant for Norfolk County

Section
6

Assistant Registers for Districts of Southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden County

Section
7

Chief Clerk in Worcester District

Section
8

Assistant and Temporary Registers and Clerks; Powers and Duties

Section
9

Removal

Section
10

Duties of New Register as to Unrecorded Instruments

Section
11

Office Hours

Section
12

Place of Record

Section
12a

Refusal to Accept Certain Instruments for Recording Authorized

Section
13

Recording of Certified Copies of Instruments in More Than County or District

Section
13a

Plans, Rules for Filing in Registries

Section
13b

Plans; Filing in Registry of Deeds; Fees

Section
14

Registry Book; Contents of Entries; Instrument Number; Changes and Corrections

Section
14a

Certification of Historic or Archeological Site; Recording of Notice

Section
15

Method of Recording Documents; Microphotographs

Section
16

Recordation; Receipts of Federal Succession Taxes

Section
17

Duplicate Records; Attestation; Effect of Copies; Fees

Section
18

Attestation of Records by Volume

Section
18a

Illegible Signatures

Section
19

Facsimile Signatures

Section
20

Instruments Affecting Mortgages Registered in Different Counties

Section
21

Marginal References on Record of Instruments Affecting Certain Mortgages

Section
22

Instruments Affecting Interests Created by Delinquent Taxes or Assessments; Recordation

Section
23

Recordation; Certification of Book and Page Number on Instruments

Section
24

Recordation; Federal Liens; Filing Fee

Section
24a

Recordation; Petitions, Decrees or Orders in Bankruptcy

Section
24b

Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information

Section
25

Indexes; Number; Form

Section
26

Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making

Section
27

Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition

Section
28

Classified Copies of Indexes

Section
29

New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price

Section
30

Estimates of Cost of Indexing

Section
31

Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2

Section
31a

Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording

Section
32

Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare

Section
32a

Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications

Section
33

Salaries

Section
34

To 36 - Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12

Section
37

Compensation for Title Work

Section
38

Clerical Assistants; Compensation

Section
39

Fees; Recordation; Disposition

Section
40

Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers

Section
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