California Government Code ARTICLE 5 - Fees

  • Section 27360.
    For services performed by the recorder’s office, the county recorder shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 269,...
  • Section 27360.5.
    As used in this code, the word “folio” means 100 words. Each figure, character, symbol, and initial, excluding punctuation marks, shall be regarded as a...
  • Section 27361.
    (a) The fee for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded shall not exceed ten dollars ($10)...
  • Section 27361.1.
    Whenever two or more instruments, papers, or notices are serially incorporated on one form or sheet, or are attached to one another, except as an...
  • Section 27361.2.
    Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded which contains references to more than one previously recorded document and which requires additional indexing by the...
  • Section 27361.3.
    Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the law, the fee for recording every release of lien, encumbrance, or notice executed by the state, or any municipality,...
  • Section 27361.4.
    (a) The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee of one dollar ($1) for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for...
  • Section 27361.5.
    (a) As used in Section 27361, a page shall be one printed side of a single piece of paper being 81/2 inches by 11 inches. (b) A...
  • Section 27361.6.
    Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, all documents submitted for recording shall have at least a 1/2-inch margin on the two vertical sides...
  • Section 27361.7.
    Whenever the text of a document presented for record may be made out but is not sufficiently legible to reproduce a readable photographic record, the...
  • Section 27361.8.
    Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded which requires additional indexing by the county recorder to give notice required by law and does not...
  • Section 27361.9.
    The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee for filing every preliminary notice pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8214...
  • Section 27364.
    The fee for each certificate under seal shall be set by the board of supervisors in an amount necessary to recover the direct and indirect...
  • Section 27365.
    The fee for any copy of a birth, death, or marriage certificate, when the copy is made by the recorder, is the same as is...
  • Section 27366.
    The fee for any copy of any other record or paper on file in the office of the recorder, when the copy is made by...
  • Section 27369.
    The fee for searching the records of his office for a birth, death, or marriage certificate is the same as is payable to a state...
  • Section 27371.
    The fee for recording each map or plat where it is copied in a book of record is ten cents ($0.10) for each course, plus...
  • Section 27372.
    The fee for recording or filing and indexing each map wherein land is subdivided in lots, tracts, or parcels is five dollars ($5) for the...
  • Section 27375.
    The fee for taking an acknowledgment of any instrument is seventy-five cents ($0.75).(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 869.)
  • Section 27379.
    The fee for administering and certifying each oath or affirmation is fifty cents ($0.50).(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)
  • Section 27380.
    The fee for filing, indexing, and keeping each paper not required by law to be recorded is three dollars ($3).(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 59.)
  • Section 27381.
    No charge or fee shall be made for recording, indexing, or issuing certified copies of any discharge, certificate of service, certificate of satisfactory service, report...
  • Section 27383.
    No fee shall be charged by the recorder for services rendered to the State, to any municipality, county in the State or other political subdivision...
  • Section 27387.
    In addition to any other fee, the county recorder shall collect a fee from any lienor, other than a governmental entity, for the recordation of...
  • Section 27387.1.
    (a) In addition to any other recording fee, the recorder, pursuant to Section 27297.6, may collect a fee from the party filing a deed, quitclaim deed,...
  • Section 27387.1.a.
    (a) In addition to any other recording fee, the recorder may collect a fee from the party filing a deed, quitclaim deed, or deed of trust,...
  • Section 27388.
    (a) (1) In addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, upon the adoption of a resolution by the county board of supervisors, a fee...
  • Section 27388.1.
    (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2018, and except as provided in paragraph (2), in addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, a fee of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018