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Chickasaw County recorder proposes flat $10 recording fee to simplify filings
Summary
County Recorder Sheryl Trena asked the board to back a recorders’ association proposal to change recording fees from $7/$5 per page to a flat $10 per page, saying the switch would simplify transactions for attorneys and could raise roughly $11,220 for the county if enacted.
County Recorder Sheryl Trena asked the board to support a proposal from the recorders' association to replace the current $7 first-page/$5 second-page recording schedule with a flat $10 per page fee.
Trena said the change would simplify billing for attorneys and clerks and reflected current document lengths: "Iowa Land Records . . . average all the county's documents…
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