§ 34-13-1. Instruments eligible for recording.
Any of the following instruments shall be recorded or filed by the town clerk or recorder
of deeds, in the manner prescribed by law, on request of any person and on payment
of the lawful fees therefor:
(1) Letters of attorney.
(2) All contracts for sale of land.
(3) Bonds for title or covenants or powers concerning lands, tenements and hereditaments.
(4) All notices to be filed under the provisions of §â€‚9-4-9.
(5) All notices and process to be filed under other statutory provisions, and all decrees
in equity and judgments at law affecting the title to land.
(6) All instruments evidencing or relating to a security interest in personal property
or fixtures that may be filed pursuant to chapter 9 of title 6A.
(7) All instruments required by statute to be recorded, including deeds, mortgages and
transfers and discharges thereof, leases or memoranda thereof, and transfers and cancellations
thereof, and the covenants, conditions, agreements and powers therein contained.
(8) Instruments of defeasance.
(9) Instruments (excepting wills) creating trusts.
(10) All instruments and notices, affecting, or purporting to affect, the title to land
or any interest therein or giving or terminating the right to sever any building or
part thereof or fixture, when signed and acknowledged as required for deeds.
(11) All affidavits as to family facts, including dates of birth, marriage, and death,
which relate or purport to relate to title to land.
(12) All affidavits as to bounds and monuments of land.
(13) All certificates of the secretary of state as to change of corporate name.
(14) All original linen and/or original mylar maps, plats, surveys, and drawings, whether
or not attached to, or a part of, another recordable instrument, Provided, however,
That those requiring the approval of any council; commission, officer, or other body
by law shall not be recorded without such approval.
All survey plans received for recording shall be drawn on archival mylar or linen,
those of which shall not exceed a size of 24″ x 36″ and shall be recorded as originally
drafted. Said plans shall contain as a minimum all items set forth in the "Procedural
and Technical Standards for the practice of Land Surveying in the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations� as adopted by the Rhode Island Board of Registration of
Professional Land Surveyors effective April 1, 1994 and any amendments or modifications
thereof. Further, all plans must be able to be reproduced so that the contents of
said plans are legible.
Indexes of survey plans shall be maintained indicating (a) the title of the plan;
and (b) the street(s) or road(s) on which the subject property abuts. Such plans
shall include a separate listing, in or attached to the legend on the plan, of all
streets and roads on which the subject property abuts.
(15) All declarations of restrictions and covenants in connection with a plat of record
or to be recorded or with a tract or parcel of land which is to be subdivided.
(16) Statements of covenants, conditions, and powers of sale which are intended to be incorporated
in mortgages by reference.