Land Records Fees (Sec. 7-34a)

The Town Clerk's office is responsible for the filing of 180 different types of documents. The land record fees are as follows.

Recording documents

• $70  first page
• $5 each subsequent page or portion.

Recording Nominee documents

•  $160 flat fee: Assignments and Releases of Mortgage where the Nominee is the Grantor.
•  $160 for first page, $5 each additional page for all other documents types except Nominee as Grantor of Assignments and Releases.

• The Town Clerk's Office accepts E-Recordings for many Land Record documents. E-Recordings are accepted 9 am — 3:30 pm EST Monday — Friday. Closed Holidays.
  
  
  • Simplifile                                    www.simplifile.com                     800-460-5657
  • CSC                                             www.erecording.com                  866-652-0111
  • ePN                                             www.erecordingpartners.net     888-325-3365
  • Indecomm Global Services     www.indecomm.net                    651-766-2350

Surcharges

• $2 each transfer with conveyance reportable to State

Copies, certified copies of land records and maps

• Copies of documents - $1 each page
• For certified copies - $2
• Copies of maps-  $1
• Engineer/Blue line $5
• Certifying a map - $2 each

Conveyance Tax (Sec. 12-494)

• State and Local Conveyance taxes are paid at the time of recording deeds. The Town Clerk forwards the State Tax to the Department of Revenue Services.
• Conveyance tax forms (OP-236) are available from the Department of Revenue Services 
• Residential property up to $800,000 and unimproved land - .0075 x consideration.
• Residential dwelling for the portion exceeding $800,000 up to and including $2,500,000- x .0125.
• Residential dwelling for the portion that exceeds $2,500,000 x .0225.
• Non-residential except unimproved land - .0125 x consideration

Local

• All categories - .0025 x consideration

Maps 

• Any map - $20
• Maps of subdivisions of 3 or more parcels - $30