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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Hadwick</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Sections 27201, 27361, 27361.4, and 27388.2 of, and to repeal Sections 27361.2 and 27361.8 of, the Government Code, relating to local government. </ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law establishes the office of county recorder and requires the county recorder to accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required to be recorded, subject to the collection of specified fees.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the county recorder to provide access to a true copy of the public record for each recorded instrument, paper, or notice, as specified. By imposing new duties on county recorders, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law prohibits the fee for recording and indexing an instrument, paper, or notice from exceeding $10 for recording the first page and $3 for each additional page, which charges are to reimburse the county for the costs of services rendered. Existing law requires the county recorder to impose additional
recording fees of $1 per page for nonconforming print spacing and $3 per page for nonconforming page dimensions. Existing law requires $1 of each $3 fee for each additional page to be deposited in the county general fund.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would, instead, set the fee for recording and indexing at $15 for recording the first page and $4 for each additional page, and would prohibit the fees from exceeding the reasonable costs of the county recorder’s office for providing these services. The bill would delete the provisions requiring $1 and $3 fees for nonconforming spacing and page dimensions, and $1 of each $3 fee for each additional page to be deposited in the county general fund. The bill would require the county recorder collecting a prescribed fee to implement an electronic recording delivery system, and would provide that various other fees are restricted, as prescribed, or solely for the county recorder’s office, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law authorizes a county recorder to charge an additional fee of $1 for specified documents requiring additional indexing based on the number of names listed and for each reference to a previously recorded document, other than the first such reference, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would repeal these provisions.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law authorizes the county board of supervisors to provide for an additional fee of $1 for each instrument, paper, or notice of record to order to defray the cost of converting the county recorder’s document storage system to micrographics. Existing law provides for that, upon completing this conversation and payment of costs, this fee would no longer be imposed.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would, instead, specify the above-described $1 fee is to defray the cost of archiving as determined by the county recorder, and would delete the above
described provisions related to micrographics conversion, thereby extending this fee indefinitely.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would include related legislative findings concerning county recorders and county recorder fees.</html:p>
<html:p>By imposing new duties on counties relative to recording fees, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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(a)
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The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(1)
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County recorders serve as the official archivist for vital and official records, including real property documents, maps, and other essential filings. These records provide constructive notice as required by statute to protect California’s legal, financial, housing systems, and property ownership. Records of birth, death, or marriage events are necessary to obtain medical, financial, or survivor benefits and are necessary to meet federal security standards. The integrity, accessibility, and timely processing of these records are essential to the public, the state’s real estate industry, and financial institutions.
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(2)
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County recorders maintain daily operations to provide the public with consistent access to official records and strive to provide a seamless recording for California homebuyers and the general public, while meeting recording statutory requirements.
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(3)
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The county recorder is a fee for service department where fees charged are intended to cover the cost of services provided to the public.
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(b)
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It is the intent of the Legislature to adjust recording fees to increase transparency for the public and to ensure the effective delivery of government services by requiring all of the following:
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(1)
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Electronic recording throughout California.
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(2)
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The elimination of fees no longer necessary due to
technological advances.
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(3)
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The standardization of the fee structure to promote greater clarity to the public, expedite the recording process, and decrease the frequency of recording rejections.
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Section 27201 of the
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(a)
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(1)
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(A)
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The recorder shall, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute, or court order to be recorded, or authorized or required to be recorded by a local ordinance that relates to the recordation of any instrument, paper, or notice that relates to real property, if the instrument, paper, or notice contains sufficient information to be indexed as provided by statute, meets recording requirements of state statutes and local ordinances, and is photographically reproducible. The county recorder shall not refuse to record any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute, court order, or local ordinance that relates to the recordation of any instrument, paper, or notice
that relates to real property to be recorded on the basis of its lack of legal sufficiency.
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(B)
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“Photographically reproducible,” for purposes of this division, means all instruments, papers, or notices that comply with standards as recommended by the American National Standards Institute or the Association for Information and Image Management for recording of records.
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(2)
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(A)
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A person of or related to the record may request that the recorder correct the information contained in an index of a record. The request shall identify the exact location of an error within a specifically identified index entry.
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(B)
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If the person making the request provides sufficient evidence to the recorder to determine that there is an error in the index that needs to be corrected, the recorder shall correct that index
entry within 30 business days of receiving the request.
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(C)
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The corrected index entry shall be entered into the public index to reflect both the error and the correction. The recorder shall note that an index entry has been corrected in accordance with local policy.
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(b)
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(1)
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Each instrument, paper, or notice shall contain an original signature or signatures, except as otherwise provided by law, or be a certified copy of the original.
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(2)
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A facsimile signature shall be accepted on a lien recorded by a governmental agency when that facsimile signature has been officially adopted by that agency. The lien shall have noted on its face a statement to that effect. The officially adopted facsimile signature shall be provided to the county recorder by a letter from the agency. A facsimile signature shall
continue to be valid until the agency notifies the county recorder that the facsimile signature has been revoked.
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(c)
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(1)
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Each instrument, paper, or notice that is rerecorded shall be executed and acknowledged or verified as a new document, in addition to any previous execution and acknowledgment or verification, unless any of the following apply:
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(A)
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The instrument, paper, or notice is otherwise exempted by Section 27287 or any other law.
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(B)
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The instrument, paper, or notice is presented solely to correct a recording sequence. The intent of the parties with regard to the priority of recorded documents shall be controlling regardless of the sequence of recording by a county recorder or the sequence of recording specified in instructions given by a submitter to a county recorder. This
subparagraph is declaratory of existing law, and any rerecording of documents to change the sequential numbers assigned to a document by the recorder shall not require the document to be executed and acknowledged or verified as a new document.
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(C)
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(i)
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The instrument, paper, or notice is presented solely to make a minor correction with a corrective affidavit. The corrective affidavit shall satisfy all of the following:
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(I)
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Be attached to the original recorded instrument, paper, or notice.
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(II)
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Set out the information corrected.
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(III)
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Be certified by the party submitting the affidavit under penalty of perjury.
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(IV)
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Be acknowledged pursuant to Section 27287.
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(ii)
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For purposes of this subparagraph, “minor correction” includes any of the following:
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(I)
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An incorrect or missing address of the party to which the instrument, paper, or notice is to be returned following recording pursuant to Section 27361.6.
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(II)
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A clarification of illegible text pursuant to Section 27361.7.
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(III)
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An incorrect or missing printed or typed name of an individual or entity near the signature pursuant to Section 27280.5.
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(IV)
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An incorrect or missing documentary transfer tax amount due pursuant to Section 11932 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
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(2)
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Each rerecorded instrument, paper, or notice shall include a
cover sheet that complies with Section 27361.6 and shall state the reason for rerecording on the cover sheet.
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(d)
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The recorder shall provide access to a true copy of the public record for each instrument, paper, or notice, recorded in the office of the recorder, to facilitate public inspection.
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Section 27361 of the
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(a)
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(1)
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The fee for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded shall be fifteen dollars ($15) for recording the first page and
four dollars ($4) for each additional page, to reimburse the county for the costs of services rendered pursuant to this subdivision.
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(2)
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The county recorder collecting the fee pursuant to paragraph (1) shall implement an electronic recording delivery system, pursuant to Electronic Recording Delivery Act of 2004, Article 6 (commencing with Section 27390) of Chapter 6 of Part 3 of Division 2 of Title 3, on or before January 1, 2028.
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(3)
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Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the fees imposed by paragraph (1) shall not exceed the reasonable costs of the county recorder’s office for providing these services.
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(b)
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Notwithstanding Section 68085, one dollar ($1) for recording the first page and one dollar ($1) for each additional page shall be restricted
and available solely to support, maintain, improve, and provide for the full operation for modernized creation, retention, and retrieval of information in each county’s system of recorded documents.
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(c)
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(1)
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In addition to all other fees authorized by this section, a county recorder may charge a fee of one dollar ($1) for recording the first page of every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded, as authorized by each county’s board of supervisors. The funds generated by this fee shall be restricted and
used only by the county recorder collecting the fee for the purpose of implementing a social security number truncation program pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 27300).
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(2)
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A county recorder shall not charge the fee described in paragraph (1) after December 31, 2017, unless the county recorder has received reauthorization by the county’s board of supervisors. A county recorder shall not seek reauthorization of the fee by the board before June 1, 2017, or after December 31, 2017. In determining the additional period of authorization, the board shall consider the review described in paragraph (4).
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(3)
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), a county recorder who, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 27304, secures a revenue anticipation loan, or other outside source of funding, for the implementation of a social security number truncation program, may be authorized to
charge the fee described in paragraph (1) for a period not to exceed the term of repayment of the loan or other outside source of funding.
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(4)
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A county board of supervisors that authorizes the fee described in this subdivision shall require the county auditor to conduct two reviews to verify that the funds generated by this fee are used only for the purpose of the program, as described in Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 27300) and for conducting these reviews. The reviews shall state the progress of the county recorder in truncating recorded documents pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 27301, and shall estimate any ongoing costs to the county recorder of complying with subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 27301. The board shall require that the first review be completed not before June 1, 2012, or after December 31, 2013, and that the second review be completed not before June 1, 2017, or after December 31, 2017. The reviews shall
adhere to generally accepted accounting standards, and the review results shall be made available to the public.
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(d)
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Except as provided in subdivision (g) of Section 6103.8, the fee authorized by this section shall not be charged to those entities exempted from the payment of recording fees under Section 6103 or 27383.
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(e)
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Unless otherwise specified, all fees collected pursuant to this section shall be restricted, dedicated to, and solely utilized for, the recorder’s office.
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Section 27361.2 of the
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Section 27361.3 of the
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(a)
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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, county, city, district, or other political subdivision shall be two times the fee charged to record the first page of a lien, encumbrance, or notice under subdivision (a) of Section 27361, on January 1 of the year the release is recorded if the original lien, encumbrance, or notice was recorded without fee as provided by Section 27383.
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(b)
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No fee shall be charged for recording a release of lien, encumbrance, or notice which was recorded in error by the state, or any municipality, county, city, district, or other political subdivision if there is noted on the face of the release of lien, encumbrance,
or notice a statement to that effect.
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(c)
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Two dollars ($2) for recording each release of lien pursuant to this section shall be restricted and available solely to support, maintain, improve, and provide for the full operation for modernized creation, retention, and retrieval of information in each county’s system of recorded documents.
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Section 27361.4 of the
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, as amended by Section 17 of Chapter 77 of the Statutes of 2021, is amended to
read:
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(a)
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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 record, in order to defray the cost of archiving as determined by the county recorder.
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(b)
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The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee, other than the fees authorized in subdivisions (a) and (c), of one dollar ($1)
for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record provided that the resolution providing for the additional fee establishes the days of operation of the county recorder’s offices as every business day except for legal holidays and those holidays designated as judicial holidays pursuant to Section 135 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
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(c)
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The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee, other than the fees authorized in subdivisions (a) and (b), of one dollar ($1) for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record provided that the resolution providing for the additional fee requires that the instrument, paper, or notice be indexed within two business days after the date of recordation.
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(d)
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Except as provided in subdivision (g) of Section 6103.8, the fees authorized by this section shall not be charged to those entities exempted from the payment
of recording fees under Section 6103 or 27383.
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<ns0:Num>SEC. 7.</ns0:Num>
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Section 27361.8 of the
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<ns0:Num>SEC. 8.</ns0:Num>
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Section 27388.2 of the
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is amended to read:
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(a)
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In addition to all other fees authorized by this section, a county recorder may charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for recording the first page of every real estate instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded per each single transaction per parcel of real property, except those expressly exempted from payment of recording fees, as authorized by each county’s board of supervisors and in accordance with applicable constitutional requirements. The funds generated by this fee shall be restricted and used only by the county recorder collecting the fee for the purpose of implementing a restrictive covenant program pursuant to Section 12956.3. “Real estate instrument, paper, or notice” means a
document relating to real property, including, but not limited to, the following: deed, grant deed, trustee’s deed, deed of trust, reconveyance, quit claim deed, fictitious deed of trust, assignment of deed of trust, request for notice of default, abstract of judgment, subordination agreement, declaration of homestead, abandonment of homestead, notice of default, release or discharge, easement, notice of trustee sale, notice of completion, UCC financing statement, mechanic’s lien, maps, and covenants, conditions, and restrictions.
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(b)
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The fee described in subdivision (a) shall not be imposed on any of the following documents:
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(1)
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Any real estate instrument, paper, or notice recorded in connection with a transfer subject to the imposition of a documentary transfer tax, as defined in Section 11911 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
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(2)
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Any real estate instrument, paper, or notice recorded in connection with a transfer of real property that is a residential dwelling to an owner-occupier.
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(3)
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Any real estate instrument, paper, or notice executed or recorded by the federal government in accordance with the Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act (Title 7 (commencing with Section 2100) of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure).
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(4)
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Any real estate instrument, paper, or notice executed or recorded by the state or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state.
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(c)
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A county recorder shall not charge the fee described in this section after December 31, 2027, unless the county recorder has received reauthorization by the county’s board of supervisors. A county recorder shall not seek reauthorization of the fee by the
board before June 1, 2027, or after December 31, 2027. Any reauthorization period shall not exceed five years.
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<ns0:Num>SEC. 9.</ns0:Num>
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.
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