General Recording Requirements
The following information
outlines general recording requirements:
Documents must be signed and notarized
Signatures and Notaries must be original. Photocopies cannot be recorded unless they
are certified copies from another recording office. Notary seals must be legible and must
include the expiration date, if applicable. If a raised seal is used, the name must be
typed or printed below the signature line. An additional $1.00 fee will be charged if the
typed or printed name is missing.
Legal Description of Real
Property
Examples include: Lot, Block & Addition or Subdivision name. Boundaries by a metes and
bounds description including the Section, Township and Range.
Documents must be legible
The document shall be of sufficient legibility so as to produce and clear and legible
reproduction thereof. If a document is judged not to be of sufficient legibility so as to
produce a clear and legible reproduction, such document shall be accompanied by an exact
copy thereof and which shall be of sufficient legibility so as to produce a clear and
legible reproduction thereof and which shall be recorded contemporaneously with the
document and shall be counted as additional pages. The register of deeds may reject any
document which is not of sufficient legibility so as to produce a clear and legible
reproduction thereof.
Real estate documents are
recorded and returned after processing
Real estate documents are returned, in Finney County, within 24 hours. Personal
property documents are filed and kept until expired or terminated.
Fees to be paid at the time of
filing.
Fees are set by state statute. For the complete fee schedule see KSA 28-115. A
shortened version of the fee schedule is available using one of the links on this site.
Mortgage registration tax is
required to be paid when a mortgage is filed.
The tax is calculated by multiplying the principal indebtedness by $.0026. This tax is in
addition to regular filing fee.
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