§ 45-2-220.05 — Additional Recording Fees

Alabama § 45-2-220.05

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 45: Local Laws
• Ch. 2: Baldwin County
• Art. 22: Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation
• Part 1: Baldwin County Department of Archives and History

Text

(a) In Baldwin County, there is levied an additional recording fee of three dollars ($3), and the Baldwin County Commission may impose, by resolution of the county commission, an additional recording fee not to exceed two dollars ($2), which shall be charged and collected on each instrument, unless the instrument is otherwise exempt from all fees filed for record in the office of the judge of probate. The office of the judge of probate shall not receive an instrument, unless the instrument is otherwise exempt from the payment of a filing fee, for filing unless the filing fee required by this part is paid. The fees required by this part shall be in addition to all other fees provided by law.
(b) One dollar ($1) from each three dollar ($3) additional recording fee collected shall be distributed to the Baldwin County District Attorney’s Office.
(c) The operation of Act 2019-338 shall be retroactive to June 1, 2000, and all action taken and payments made pursuant to Act 2019-338 on and after that date are ratified and confirmed.
(d) Fees collected under this part shall be audited by the Examiners of Public Accounts.

Legislative History

(Act 98-579, p. 1283, §6; Act 2000-275, p. 437, §1; Act 2019-338, §2.)