22A:4-12. Searches

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Fees for the services enumerated herein shall be as follows:

In Superior Court

The clerk shall receive for a search for judgments and all other records which may become a lien upon real estate, for each name, each year, each book, six cents ($0.06).

For stating a judgment, five cents ($0.05).

For every other search, for each name, each year, each book, two cents ($0.02).

For drawing certificate and seal, twelve cents ($0.12).

For copies or abstracts of judgments or other records included in such certificate, for each folio, eight cents ($0.08).

The fee for a search and certificate shall in no case be less than twenty-five cents ($0.25).

County Clerks and Registers of Deeds and Mortgages

County clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages shall receive for a search of all records except those enumerated hereunder, for each name, each year, each book, four cents ($0.04).

For a search of the records of assignments of mortgages, for each name, each year, each book, five cents ($0.05).

For a search of mechanic's lien claims, for each name, each book, each year, six cents ($0.06).

For a search of the records of registered mortgages, for each name, each year, each book, seven cents ($0.07).

For each search of the records of physician's lien claims, which shall include cost of search and certificate thereof, fifty cents ($0.50).

For each search of the records of hospital lien claims which shall include cost of search and certificate thereof, fifty cents ($0.50).

For copies of abstracts of all deeds, mortgages, judgments or other records included in a search certificate, for each folio, eight cents ($0.08).

For drawing a certificate and seal for a search, twenty cents ($0.20).

L.1953, c. 22, p. 437, s. 11.