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All documents pertaining to Land Evidence, which are required by state statute to be recorded, are filed in this department.
- All documents must be on record by 3:30 pm * Please note: No maps will be recorded after 3:00 pm
- Computer Index: Can be print from the computer ($1.50 per page)
- All documents from Land Evidence Book 140 to current are available and may be printed for $1.50 per page. (these books are no longer available to make copies of documents on the copy machine) Books 1 though 140 are still available and copies can be made on the public copy machine for $1.00 per page.
- History in Computer: Begins November 1888 through day indicated on screen or in paper index. **The public computers are shut down at 4:25 pm daily**
- Hard Copy: Grantor and Grantee Indexed through date in the current books
Tax Stamps
| 7/1/2002 | $4.00 |
| 7/1/2002 Mobile Homes | $2.80 |
| 7/1/1980 - 6/30/2002 | $2.80 |
| 7/1/1978 - 6/30/1989 | $2.20 |
| UP TO 6/30/78 | $1.10 |
Effective 4/1/2007 - All deeds must have the sale price on the document or language to the effect that it is not a sale.
Old recordings check both Grantee & Grantor books
Exceptions:
- UCC - in computer from January 1983
- UCC before 1983 are indexed
- RI Inheritance Tax Liens from 5/15/1986 - 1/91 in grantee
- Before that they are in the gray book which goes to 1990
- Release of RI Inheritance tax from 1991 - present in grantor
- Up to 1988 all D/mtg, A/mtg, Tax Liens, Liens in grantee
- Discharges/Assignments/Tax Liens etc: NO cross-index beginning January 1988 (before 1988 check Grantee for property owners)
Maps
Recorded Maps & Condo Maps are either in Plat Books or Hanging Files Indexed either by Recorded Plat Number or Plat Name
State Highway maps are in hanging files Highway petitions & abandonments on file
Military Discharges
Filed and in book form - Not a Public Record
Miscellaneous Information
First Town Hall
1807 Division of NK & SK - 1723 - (Book 1 Page 58)
"Shift Marriage" (Book 1 Page 79)
Slaves (Book 1 Page 202 & 205)
Probate 10/158 or so bottom - slaves in inventory Fires: 12/16/1870 (TC BK 36/277) & 12/11/1920 (TC BK 46/498)
Original deed from Indians 1686-1709 (Book 1 Page 20/21)
Recording Fees
| Recording Fees RIHRT RIGL 34-13-7 | ADD *$4.00 |
| Assignment of Mortgage | 45.00* |
| Bill of Sale | 45.00* |
| Business certificate | 45.00* |
| Deed of executor, administrator, trustees, conservator receiver or commissioner | 80.00* |
| Discharge of attachment or execution | 45.00* |
| Discharge of federal tax lien | 7.25* |
| Discharge of mortgage | 45.00* |
| Easement | 80.00* |
| Foreclosure deed under power of sale with affidavit | 80.00* |
| Federal tax lien | 7.25* |
| General assignment | 45.00* |
| Lease | 60.00* |
| Lis pendens | 80.00* |
| Maps, plats, surveys, drawings (not attached to or a part of another recordable instrument) | 45.00* |
| Mortgage | 60.00* |
| Partial release of mortgage | 45.00* |
| Power of attorney | 45.00* |
| Quitclaim deed | 80.00* |
| Warranty deed | 80.00* |
| Any other instrument not otherwise expressly provided | 45.00* |
| Additional pages per instrument per page | 1.00 |
| Account under mechanics lien law RIGL 34-13-8 | 10.00 |
| Mechanic’s lien | 10.00 |
| Writ of attachment or execution affecting title to RE | 10.00 |
| Writ of attachment or lien affecting title to Mobile Home | 2.00 |
| Tax certificate RIGL 44-7-11 | 8.00 |
| Notice of Lien or Release of RI Employment & Training (28-40-14) | $4.00 |
| Uniform Commercial Code RIGL 6A-9-525 | |
| All documents (1 or 2 pages) | 16.00 |
| (3 or more pages) | 32.00 |
| Certification of instruments RIGL 34-13-9 | 3.00 |
| Copies of instruments: photostatic per page | 1.50 |
| *RI Historical Records Trust RIGL 42-8.1-20 | 4.00 |
| Copies of recorded maps | $2.00/per map |
In the State of Rhode Island all land evidence records are recorded in the city/town where the property is located (no washington county recorder)
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