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Register of Deeds gets board approval for $35 retrieval fee after staff warns of heavy demand
Summary
The Board approved a $35 fee for electronic retrieval of old film documents requested by title companies after the Register of Deeds said staff cannot keep up with the workload caused by remote title‑plant requests and incomplete digitization.
Van Buren County commissioners voted to approve a $35 retrieval fee for the Register of Deeds on July 8 after a detailed presentation on workload and digitization limits.
Paul Leona, Register of Deeds, told the board that remote title companies increasingly request scanned copies of older documents that exist only on film and that county staff are now doing the work previously handled by title companies.…
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