Exemptions from recording fees

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  • (a) The following documents are exempt from recording fees—

    • (1) evidences of indebtedness in the case of loans by the Farm Security Administration and/or the United States Government acting through its agencies; and

    • (2) all written instruments concerning or in any way connected with the Rural Electrification Project in St. Croix.

    • (3) all written instruments conveying interests from or to the United States, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, or any instrumentality thereof;

    • (4) all written instruments described above in subdivision (3) shall also be exempt from payment of fees for boundary attests by the Public Surveyor.

  • (b) The Governor shall endorse on each instrument within subsection (a)(2) of this section a statement that it is free of recording fees by virtue of this section, and such endorsement shall be sufficient to authorize the recorder of deeds to accept the instrument for recording free of charge.


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